In “Shogun,” Chamberlain played John Blackthorne, an English navigator taken prisoner in feudal Japan; in the melodrama “The Thorn Birds,” his priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart ...
Chamberlain was a very familiar face to Australian audiences as the lead in the landmark miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983) and its sequel, The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years (1996), which were ...