- He is the first actor to play the role of Jason Bourne, the title character of the television miniseries The Bourne Identity (1988).
- Has appeared in film adaptations of all three of Alexandre Dumas' Musketeer novels. He played Aramis in The Three Musketeers (1973), The Four Musketeers: Milady's Revenge (1974) and The Return of the Musketeers (1989), and played Louis and Phillippe in The Man in the Iron Mask (1977). The latter film eliminates the three original Musketeers from the book; including his character of Aramis; and includes only d'Artagnan.
- Shares two roles with Gérard Depardieu: Edmond Dantes from "The Count of Monte Cristo", and Cyrano de Bergerac. He preceded Depardieu in both roles, playing them both in English. Depardieu played both roles in their original French.
- Ranked #7 in TV Guide's list of "TV's 25 Greatest Teen Idols" (23 January 2005 issue).
- Has served as honorary chair of the advisory board of Hawaii Public Television Foundation.
- Resided in West Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. After residing in Hawaii for many years, he moved back to Southern California in order to pursue more acting roles, as an older actor who is also an out, and proud, gay man. (October 2010)
- Attended and graduated from Pomona College in Claremont, California (1956).
- He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 7020 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on February 29, 2000.
- Played Cyrano on stage in 1973, the same year that The Three Musketeers (1973) was released. This makes him the first actor to play both Cyrano and a Musketeer. Jean-Pierre Cassel, who played King Louis XIII in "The Three Musketeers", returned in the sequel The Return of the Musketeers (1989) to play Cyrano, having previously played d'Artagnan in Cyrano et d'Artagnan (1964). José Ferrer played Athos in The Fifth Musketeer (1979), while Gérard Depardieu played Porthos in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998).
- He was awarded the 1973 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Performance for the play, "Cyrano De Bergac", at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
- Resided in Honolulu, Hawaii, where he concentrated on painting particularly bizarre seascapes. (2009)
- Had an older brother, William "Bill" Hayes Chamberlain, who was born on November 5, 1927.
- He was the first singer to record "They Long to Be Close to You" in 1963 and it was issued on the B-side of "Blue Guitar". The song has since become a standard but Burt Bacharach was said to be less than impressed with Richard's version.
- Born on the same date as Shirley Jones.
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