Richard Chamberlain has no regrets over remaining in hiding during most of his career I spent a great deal of my life pretending to be someone else 19 NOVEMBER 2014 | BY GREG HERNANDEZ Actor Richard Chamberlain was nearly 70 when in 2003 he publicly acknowledged that he was gay. By that time, he had been a major star for more than four decades and the leading man in the classic TV miniseries The Thorn Birds and Shogun as well as the hit 60s television series Dr. Kildare. Now 80, Chamberlain says he has no regrets over his decision to stay in the closet. Remaining in hiding was a totally valuable part of my life, he says in the current issue of Out Magazine. I was a romantic lead in films at a tome before some of the new relaxations and new diminishment of total ignorance. While he has always worked steadily in television, Chamberlains film career peaked in the 1970s with such movies as The Three Musketeers, The Towering Inferno and The Count of Monte Cristo. If I were ever outed, my career - which was my entire life, for the longest time - wouldnt have happened. I spent a great deal of my life pretending to be someone else. Even though such openly gay actors as Ian McKellen, Zachary Quinto, Matt Bomer, Neil Patrick Harris are getting film roles, Hollywood has yet to embrace any of them as a romantic lead who carries a film. Chamberlain continues to act on television and has even played gay men on Brothers & Sisters, Desperate Housewives and Nip/Tuck. - See more at: gaystarnews/article/richard-chamberlain-has-no-regrets-over-remaining-hiding-during-most-his-career191114#sthash.TKzpkviV.dpuf https://youtube/watch?v=GnOiSSXoS5o
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