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Richard Chamberlain
3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1968–1973
Born 31 March 1934 · Beverly Hills, California, USA · died 29 March 2025
George Richard Chamberlain was an American actor of stage and screen who became a teen idol in the title role of the television show Dr. Kildare (1961–1966). He subsequently appeared in several TV mini-series, such as Shōgun (1980) and The Thorn Birds (1983) and was the first to play Jason Bourne in the 1988 made for TV movie "The Bourne Identity". Chamberlain has also performed classical stage roles and worked in musical theatre.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 195 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1968–1973
- Sitges Film Festival Best Actor award1982
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
- Steiger Award
How their films are shot
Measured across 195 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Richard takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 48% of their frames are day, 41% natural — the look of the work Richard takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 195 frames from Richard Chamberlain's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.