Richard Chamberlain
Father Ralph de Bricassart
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Cast
- Rachel WardMeggie Cleary
- Barbara StanwyckMary Carson
- Christopher PlummerArchbishop Vittorio Contini-Verchese
- Jean SimmonsFiona "Fee" Cleary
- Stephanie FaracyJudy
- Richard KileyPaddy Cleary
- Barry CorbinPete
- Ken HowardRainer Hartheim
- Piper LaurieAnne Mueller
John de LancieAlastair MacQueen- Earl HollimanLuddie Mueller
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The Thorn Birds (TV Mini Series 1983) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
The Thorn Birds: With Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Christopher Plummer, Bryan Brown. In the arid 1920s Australian Outback, a Catholic priest and the beautiful niece of a vast sheep station owner stand powerless before God's will, tormented by desire.
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- 1983-03-27
- Drama, Romance
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The Thorn Birds is an American television miniseries broadcast on ABC from March 27 to 30, 1983. It starred Richard Chamberlain, Rachel Ward, Barbara Stanwyck, Christopher Plummer, Piper Laurie, Jean Simmons, Richard Kiley, Bryan Brown, Mare Winningham and Philip Anglim.
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Find out who starred in the 1983 miniseries adaptation of Colleen McCullough's novel, The Thorn Birds, set in the Australian Outback. See the names and roles of the actors, directors, writers, composers and more.
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The story based on a novel by Colleen McCullough focuses on three generations of the Cleary family living on a sheep station in the Australian outback.
The novel was also adapted into an eponymous television miniseries; during its 27–30 March 1983 run, it became the United States' second-highest rated miniseries of all time, behind Roots. Subsequently, a 1996 miniseries entitled The Thorn Birds: The Missing Years filled in a gap of 19 years in the middle of the novel.
This mini series covers 60 years in the lives of the Cleary family, brought from New Zealand to Australia to run their aunt Mary Carson's ranch. The story centers on their daughter, Meggie, and her love for the family's priest, Father Ralph de Bricassart.
