Meggie Actress Rachel Ward Found True Love on "The Thorn Birds" Set. Chamberlain's counterpart Meggie was portrayed by then 25-year-old actress Rachel Ward.

“The Thorn Birds,” published in 1977, is set against the sweeping panorama of Colleen McCullough’s native Australia and was described often in the U.S. news media as an Australian “Gone ...

Colleen McCullough, the Australian author of the best-selling novel "The Thorn Birds," an epic story of illicit love in the outback that became one of the most successful television miniseries ...

John Garfield was a terrific actor, and one of the screen's great anti-heroes. He was part of New York's famous Group Theater before heading for Hollywood to star in movies. Garfield was known as ...

Father Ralph de Bricassart, turn in your grave. This week, it was announced that The Thorn Birds, the epic saga of priestly passion, is to be staged as a musical, 30 years after Colleen McCullough ...

Set weather. Back To Main Menu Close. Quick Look- ... King of the TV miniseries actor who starred in ‘The Thorn Birds’ and ‘Shogun’ dies at 90. Published: Mar. 31, 2025, 8:10 a.m.

Priestly passions: Richard Chamberlain and Rachel Ward in a still from The Thorn Birds The 76-year-old actor was on the set of the film We Are the Hartmans at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York.

The actor, who died at 90, was the most compelling face of a maximalist, soapy television era. By James Poniewozik James Poniewozik is the chief TV critic for The Times. When mini-series ruled ...