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Patrick Duffy
Honoree 2018
Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr.
Honorees 2017
Bob Eubanks and Stephanie Edwards
Honorees 2015
Larry King
Honoree 2012
Florence Henderson
Honoree 2011
Eric Braeden
Honoree 2007
Peter Falk
Honoree 2006
Vin Scully
Honoree 2008
Art Gilmore
Honoree 2005
Michael Feinstein
Honoree 2013
Tom Bosley
Honoree 2003
Orson Bean
Honoree 2001
Mary Hart
Honoree 2016
Beverly Garland
Honoree 2001
Pat Harrington
Honoree 2000
Wink Martindale
Honoree 2005
Richard Chamberlain
Honoree 2019
Neil Sedakka
Honoree 2013
Lily Tomlin
Honoree 2012
James Darren
Honoree 2007
Buzz Aldrin
Honoree 2009
Joseph Campanella
Honoree 2005
Loni Anderson
Honoree 2018
Johnny Mathis
Honoree 2013
Don Knotts
Honoree 2000
Jaime Jarrin
Honoree 2014
Chad Everett
Honoree 2011
Loretta Swit
Honoree 2008
Gill Stratton
Honoree 2002
Rona Barrett
Honoree 2010
Mickey Rooney
Honoree 2004
Bill Dana
Honoree 2006
Art Laboe
Honoree 2019
Bob Banner
Honoree 2010
A C Lyles
Honoree 2006
Barbara Eden
Honoree 2016
Andy Williams
Honoree 2010
Mike Connors
Honoree 2001
Dick Cavett
Honoree 2014
Alan Thicke
Honoree 2008
Jo Anne Worley
Honoree 2005
Carl Reiner
Honoree 2003 & 2014
Donna Mills
ebruary 2018
Anne Jeffries
Honoree 2001
Ray Charles
Honoree 2012
Robert Wagner
Honoree 2009
Leonard Maltin
Honoree 2007
James Bacon
Honoree 2004
Rick Dees
Honoree 2015
Frank Gorshin
Honoree 2004
Jack Jones
Honoree 2011
Jaime Farr
Honoree 2002





NEXT LUNCHEON


A PIONEER BROADCASTER
will be honored





NEXT LUNCHEON:
Hollywood Media Professionals
Hollywood Media ProfessionalsHonoring A Pioneer Broadcaster

We honor a Broadcasting Pioneer at every luncheon, held at the Hilton Hotel, Woodland Hills.
Anyone with the Broadcast experience necessary to qualify for membership in PPB is invited to attend ... see "An Invitation" below.




LAST LUNCHEON NOV. 15, 2019LAST LUNCHEON NOV. 15, 2019
Richard Chamberlain Honoree: Richard Chamberlain

George Richard Chamberlain (born March 31, 1934) is an American stage and screen actor and singer, 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 Shogun (1980) and The Thorn Birds (1983), and was the first actor to play Jason Bourne (in the 1988 film The Bourne Identity). Chamberlain has also performed classical stage roles and worked in musical theatre.

Chamberlain gained widespread fame as the young intern, Dr. Kildare, in the NBC/MGM television series of the same name, co-starring with Raymond Massey. Dr. Kildare ended in 1966, after which Chamberlain began performing on the theatre circuit. In 1966, he was cast opposite Mary Tyler Moore in the ill-fated Broadway musical Breakfast at Tiffany's, which, after an out-of-town tryout period, closed after only four previews. Decades later he returned to Broadway in revivals of My Fair Lady and The Sound of Music.

At the end of the 1960s, Chamberlain spent a period of time in England where he starred opposite Katharine Hepburn in the film The Madwoman of Chaillot. While in England, he became the first American to play the role of Hamlet since John Barrymore in 1925. He reprised the role for television in 1970 for the Hallmark Hall of Fame.

In the 1970s, Chamberlain enjoyed success as a leading man in films: Lady Caroline Lamb (playing Lord Byron, 1973), The Three Musketeers (1973), The Towering Inferno (in a villainous turn as a dishonest engineer, 1974), and The Count of Monte Cristo (1975). In The Slipper and the Rose (1976), a musical version of the Cinderella story, and once again got to display his talent as a singer.

Chamberlain later appeared in several popular television mini-series (earning him a nickname of "King of the Mini-series") including Centennial (1978-79), Shogun (1980), and The Thorn Birds (1983) as Father Ralph de Bricassart and in the 1980s, he appeared as leading man in King Solomon's Mines (1985) opposite newcomer Sharon Stone, and also played Jason Bourne/David Webb in the television film version The Bourne Identity.

Since the 1990s, Chamberlain has appeared mainly in television movies, on stage, and as a guest star on such series as ABC's The Drew Carey Show and Will & Grace. He starred as Henry Higgins in the 1993-1994 Broadway revival of My Fair Lady and as King Arthur in the national tour of Monty Python's Spamalot. In 2012, Chamberlain appeared on stage at the Pasadena Playhouse as Dr. Sloper in the play, The Heiress.

Richard is also an accomplished artist and his amazing art can be seen on his art website (www.richard-chamberlain.com)




RICHARD CHAMBERLAIN LUNCHEON

Pictured below are some of HMP/PPB's officers and Board of Directors members who attended the November 15 celebrity luncheon. Seated, left to right: Bill DeFoi, President "Shotgun Tom" Kelly, Honoree Richard Chamberlain with his HMP Hall of Fame Award, Randy West and Executive Vice President Ron Alexenburg. Standing, left to right: Carson Schreiber, Past President Chuck Street, Lois Travalena, Roberta Kent and Senior Vice President Bianca Pino. (Roxanne Schorbach photo)
An InvitationAN INVITATION

Would you like to join the PPB and attend the next Celebrity Luncheon on ? If you have worked in Broadcasting or in any related field for 10 years or more, please e-mail our Membership Committee with your request to join us to honor a Broadcast Pioneer. Please include your name and daytime telephone numbers.

PPB Members receive their Luncheon Notice and Reservation Form by mail before the date of each luncheon, and send in their request for table seating along with their check.

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