After World War II, the slow collapse of the studio system gave actors (and directors) more power to benefit themselves in contract negotiations. This not only made Tinseltown’s celebrity ...

By Anita Gates Richard Chamberlain, who rose to fame as the heartthrob star of the television series “Dr. Kildare” in the early 1960s, proved his mettle by becoming a serious stage actor and ...

Richard Chamberlain smiles at the premiere of I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry at the Gibson amphitheater in Universal City ...

"He was the original Shogun. He was the original Jason Bourne. He was the quintessential heartthrob of a generation," his friend and fellow actor David Havasi said on X. With his boyish ...