The American actor Richard Chamberlainwho gave life to the father Ralph of BRISCART In the famous series of the 80s “The bird sings to die”he died at 90. The actor died during the early hours of Sunday in Hawaii, where he lived years ago. The causes of death, as it transpired, were due to complications after a stroke. The artist was also recognized by his historic roles in the series “Dr. Korne” and “Shogun”.

The news was confirmed by its representative the American magazine Variety, who also explained that Chamberlain was in Waimanalo, Hawaii, at the time of death. “Our beloved Richard is already with Los Angeles”

“It is free and rises to their loved ones. What lucky we had to meet such a wonderful and loving soul. Love never dies. And our love is under its wings, driving it towards its next great adventure,” Rabbett added.

Who was Richard Chamberlain

Actor Richard Chamberlain, who jumped to world fame after his emblematic interpretation of the priest of “The bird sings to die”I would have fulfilled This Monday, March 31, 91 years old.

During his career years, he resisted being pigeonholed under the nickname of Galán that they endorsed so many years ago and that he knew how to grow thanks to his aposture and the other roles in which he also shone, such as “Shogun” or “Dr. Kitare.”

Born in Beverly Hills, he had a careful education. After finishing his secondary education at the Beverly Hills High School, he enrolled at Pomona College University. He decided on the performance for the success he had interpreting different works in his student stage.

In 2003, with 69 years, he decided to publish an autobiographical writing, “Shattered Love” (spoiled love, in Spanish), in which he revealed that he was homosexual. His two known couples were the actor and producer Wesley Eure (72) and also the interpreter Martin Rabbet (70), the only person he dryed. They began the relationship in 1977 and exchanged the votes in 1984, to divorce in 2010.

His first recognitions arrived in 1961 with the successful “Dr. Issue” series, which allowed him to win his first Golden Globe as best television actor. Over the years, Chamberlain became a character interpreter – with a remarkable physical attractiveness – and consolidated his fame thanks to films such as Hell in the tower, the man in the iron mask and the count of Montecristo, in addition to miniseries such as Hamlet, Centenario and the three Mosqueteroswhere he interpreted with a mastery the role of Aramis, the most womanizer of the gentlemen created by the French writer Alejandro Dumas.

But when he believed the time to tell that it was Gay took the opportunity to deny the fame of Galán that had created the papers he played and the specialized press.

“When I was young, being gay, effeminate or anything like that was prohibited (…). The best of all is that I am no longer a gallant, so I do not need to give that image,” he said at that time from his home in Hawaii, where he lived together with the producer and director Martín Rabbett, his partner for three decades.

What is “El Pájaro sings to death”, the series that led Richard Chamberlain to fame

“The bird sings to die” (The Thorn Birds, in English) It is an American miniseries originally exhibited by ABC between March 27 and 30, 1983. It is based on the Best Seller of Colleen McCullough, an Australian novel published in 1977 whose sales exceeded thirty -three million specimens, being the maximum success of a novel in Australia.

Her huge success made her one of the most important miniseries in television history, being the second most seen after Roots (1977). The producer of both works is David L. Wolper, also responsible for other successes in that format such as North and South (1985). The protagonists of The bird sings to die They are Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Wardbut accompanied by an important cast of young actors and true legends of the classic Hollywood.

Even today, many remember the book, which was a sales success, but there is no comparison with the rage that produced this miniseries in almost everyone that was a real event at the time. The prohibited love story, the themes that dealt and how they treated them marked a generation.

For those years, the story was very strong and controversial. Even today there are several strong scenes, beyond that they would be lost in the multitude of fictions that any person can see today in any streaming service and at any time. But attention, and here is an important point: The bird sings to die It was not one of those ephemeral successes that are usually commented today and tomorrow they forget. If there was something that television offered it was just offering a real impact that compromised viewers in a way that the series do not do today.

The series passes mostly in Australia and that is where the action begins in 1920. Ralph of BRISART (Richard Chamberlain) is a young Catholic cure, handsome and ambitiouslinked to a livestock clan led with strong hand by matriarch Mary Carson (Barbara Stanwyck). She drives him to have a career to become the first Australian cardinal at the same time as, in private, he wants it sexually. Attempts to specify that desire do not find echo in the priest, which by its celibacy refuses flatly. In spite of that, the link between them continues, with the support of the woman rich to the career of the young father.

The Irish relatives of Mary Carson, the marriage of Richard and Fee Cleary (Richard Kiley and Jean Simmons) and their five children, the four men and the only girl, Meggie (interpreted that part of the miniseries by Sydney Penny, who would then work in The pale ridernext to Clint Eastwood). Between Ralph and Meggie an instantaneous connection arises that becomes a quick friendship, product of the lack of attention that the mother has for her being the little woman of the ranch. Ralph does everything possible to give him the best education and see her grow with a bright young woman full of passion.

Ralph’s career of Briccasart will be taken by Rome, where he will be promoted in his church career, but in one of his returns to Australia, with Meggie already adult (performed from that moment by Rachel Ward) he discovers that that innocent love has become something else. For the priest, the tension between his genuine love for God and his love for a woman, will be the maximum challenge of his life. For Meggie, accepting this and resigning your happiness or forgetting it and making another life, it will also become a regret over the years.

In addition to this love and desire story, the life of the family is developing, with its tragedies and their joys, always remembering that it is a melodrama in its purest form, without shyness and without mercy. The leading couple is not the only one who suffers in the almost fifty years that covers the story.