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Keir Dullea

American actor (born 1936)

Keir Atwood Dullea (KEER doo-LAY; born Can 30, 1936) is an Earth actor.[1] He is best make something difficult to see for his portrayal of traveler David Bowman in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and its 1984 sequel, 2010: The Year We Make Contact.

His other film roles cover David and Lisa (1962), Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), squeeze Black Christmas (1974).[2] Dullea attacked acting at the Neighborhood Scene School of the Theatre appoint New York City. He has also performed on stage pride New York City and double up regional theaters; he has voiced articulate that, despite being more established for his film work, smartness prefers the stage.[3]

Early life

Keir Atwood Dullea was born on Can 30, 1936,[4] at the Commanding Sinai Hospital in Cleveland, River, the son of Margaret (née Ruttan) and Robert Dullea.

His keep somebody from talking was of Scottish descent, crucial his father was a second-generation Irish-American.[5][6] He was raised take on the Greenwich Village section go along with New York City, where coronet parents ran a bookstore. Noteworthy graduated from George School set a date for Pennsylvania, attended Rutgers University paramount San Francisco State University, afterward pursued an acting career.[3][7]

Career

Dullea prefab his debut in a newspaperwomen adaptation of Mrs.

Miniver (1960) with Maureen O'Hara, playing rendering German pilot. He was too in the TV films Give Us Barabbas! (1961) and disallow adaptation of All Summer Long (1961).[8] He was in hope for for guest appearances on compel shows such as Route 66, The New Breed, Checkmate vital Cain's Hundred.

Dullea made wreath film debut in 1961 pin down Hoodlum Priest, cast on distinction strength of his work listen to Route 66.[9] His performance was well received. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Filmmaker offered long-term contracts (roles injure Two Weeks in Another Town and Bon Voyage) but Dullea turned both down.

He outspoken accept a non-exclusive contract business partner Seven Arts and shot a-ok pilot for a series delay was not picked up.[10][7] Dirt appeared in Los Angeles pretend to have stage in The Short Depressed Life.[11]

In 1962, he starred interchange Janet Margolin in David enthralled Lisa, a film based piece of legislation the book by Theodore Patriarch Rubin, M.D., a psychiatrist who treated the two mentally assigning adolescents portrayed in the release.

It was a low-budget coating that became a break soften hit, making over $2 trillion, and turning Dullea into require established name.[12]Film Daily voted him "find of the year".[13] Dullea appeared on television in shows such as Empire, The Unified States Steel Hour, Bonanza, Naked City, Going My Way, The Eleventh Hour, Alcoa Premiere, Kraft Mystery Theater, Channing, and 12 O'clock High.

He was second-billed in Mail Order Bride (1964), written and directed by Psychologist Kennedy. Dullea starred in birth first screen adaptation of Book Jones' The Thin Red Line (1964), then did a Goggle-box adaptation of Pale Horse, Wan Rider and went to Italia to star in The Stripped Hour (1964).[7]

In 1965, he guest-starred as Lieutenant Kurt Muller misrepresent the episode titled "To Heinie, with Love" of Twelve O'Clock High.

He took these roles to avoid being typecast chimp a troubled youth.[14] Dullea went to England to make Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), which co-starred Dullea with Laurence Histrion, Carol Lynley, and Noël Poltroon. Although they shared no scenes in the film, when Drip initially met Dullea on decency set, he uttered the much quoted line "Keir Dullea, amount tomorrow." Nonetheless, he was nominated one of 1965's "stars disruption tomorrow".[15]

Dullea played the atmosphere of Lana Turner's character intrude Ross Hunter's remake of Madame X (1966), which underperformed commercially.

He then appeared with Anne Heywood and Sandy Dennis enfold the Canadian box office dismantle, The Fox (1967).[16] His be in first place Broadway appearance was in 1967 in Ira Levin's Dr. Cook's Garden with Burl Ives, which only had a short run.

In 1968, Dullea appeared as spaceman David Bowman in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey, which became a box-office work and is recognized by critics, filmmakers and audiences as lone of the greatest and greatest influential films ever made.[17] Consummate line "Open the pod scream doors please, HAL" is #78 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 film quotes.

Dullea was offered the dub role in the 1969 integument De Sade, playing the caption role (the Marquis de Sade). The film was a massive and commercial disappointment. He esoteric success on Broadway, starring pretend the 1969 hit comedy Butterflies Are Free with Eileen Heckart and Blythe Danner. In illustriousness play, he introduced the designation song written by Stephen Schwartz (later recording the tune have up an album for Platypus Records).

The play was a large hit, running for 1,128 transaction, although Dullea did not manifest in the film version.

Dullea travelled to London to last in the production of Butterflies there and decided to accommodation. He did a series epitome TV films: Black Water Gold (1970), Montserrat (1971), and A Kiss Is Just a Kiss (1971).[18] He did a horror story in Italy, Devil in grandeur Brain (1972), and guest asterisked on McMillan & Wife.

Dullea worked in Canada on probity film Paperback Hero (1973) impressive worked in that country select a number of years. Yes had the lead role compel a Canadian TV series The Starlost (1973) but it sui generis incomparabl ran 18 episodes.[19] He was a regular voice on CBS Radio Mystery Theater, which ran from 1974 to 1982.

Perform was credited on five episodes. Dullea was in Paul ride Michelle (1974) and had unadorned major role in the Skedaddle mix up production, 1974 cult classic Black Christmas as Peter Smythe, Jess Bradford’s boyfriend. Also in 1974, he played Brick in illustriousness Tennessee Williams classic Cat percentage a Hot Tin Roof solve Elizabeth Ashley and Fred Gwynne on Broadway which ran Cardinal performances.

The production featured position now definitive rewrite of decency play. He also starred hill the 1975 play P.S. Your Cat Is Dead. Dullea was one of the last go out to see actor Sal Mineo alive. The two were drill for the play on birth night of Mineo's murder.

He appeared in Law and Order (1976) for TV, the Run film Welcome to Blood City (1977), The Haunting of Julia (1977), and Three Dangerous Ladies (1977), the British Leopard schedule the Snow (1977), the Inhabitant Because He's My Friend (1978), and some films for TV: The Legend of the Flaxen Gun (1978), an adaptation reveal Brave New World (1980), The Hostage Tower (1980), No Toy chest to Hide (1981), and BrainWaves (1982).

In 1981, Dullea sham to Westport, Connecticut.[20] In 1982, he starred in an off-Broadway production of A.E. Hotchner'sSweet Prince under the direction of consummate wife Susie Fuller.[21] The later year, the couple co-founded glory Theater Artists Workshop of Westport.[3] Dullea appeared as a usual cast member in the Scamper soap opera Loving Friends title Perfect Couples, which ran explain 1983.[22] He was in Blind Date (1984) and The Loan One (1984).

In 1984, grace reprised his role as King Bowman in 2010: The Vintage We Make Contact,[23]Peter Hyams' issue to 2001. 2010 was downcast for five Academy Awards.[24] Speck July 1984, Dullea was company artist aboard the ocean lining Queen Elizabeth 2. On July 11, he performed Anton Chekhov's one-act play The Harmfulness outline Tobacco in the QE2 Histrionics.

Dullea returned to Broadway what because he joined the cast detect the successful Doubles (1985–86).[25] Crystal-clear toured with a theatre exhibition Keir Dullea and Friends (1988).[26]

In 1990 he said "My pursuit has a lot to come undone with choices I made transparent my life.

My focus dumbfound the last, oh, at minimal 10 years has been loftiness theater. I really haven't completed very much effort with motion pictures. I did more than 20 plays before I ever upfront The Hoodlum Priest, and (after that) I've done more ahead of 20 films... It wasn't chimpanzee if the industry had laid-off me; I had just vigorous certain life decisions I all at once was having to pay dignity piper for.

So there was no film career at relapse. I'm always working (in theater). If I'm not engaged limitation stage in something, I'm operational with my wife on on the subject of project. I no longer animate my life waiting for tidy up phone to ring to churn out me permission to work."[25] Operate performed in The Servant appraisal stage in 1990.

Dullea was in Oh, What a Night (1992) and played F. Actor Fitzgerald off Broadway in The Other Side of Paradise (1992).[27] In 2000, he appeared school in The Audrey Hepburn Story variety Hepburn's father Joseph.[28] That yr he was also in Songs in Ordinary Time (2000), perch episodes of Witchblade, Ed, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit and Law and Order.

In summer 2002, he performed concern the Washington Shakespeare Theatre's acquire of The Little Foxes.[29] Direct the following year he could be seen in Alien Hunter (2003). In December 2004, portend their annual birthday celebration on a par with "The Master", the Noël Baby Society invited Dullea as honesty guest celebrity to lay develop in front of Coward's sculpture at New York's Gershwin Theatricalism, thereby commemorating the 105th anniversary of Sir Noël.

Around illustriousness same time, Sony Home Record released Bunny Lake Is Missing for the first time doodle DVD.

In 2006, he artificial Andrew Keener in Cost possess Capital, which was the Sixteenth episode, of the 16 ready of the original Law & Order American television series, stomach he had a role translation a US Senator and spruce up "major influence and mentor" come to Matt Damon's character, in Parliamentarian De Niro's film The Useful Shepherd (2006).

He was glory narrator in an off Lap production of Mary Rose (2007). Dullea was in The Fracture Husband (2009), All Me, Categorize the Time (2009), Castle, Fortune (2009), and Damages.

In Apr 2010, Dullea performed the comport yourself of Tom Garrison in significance off-Broadway production of the Parliamentarian Anderson play, I Never Intone for My Father co-starring Oscar-nominated actress Marsha Mason (as Margaret Garrison) and film and habit actor Matt Servitto (as Sequence Garrison).

In October 2012, Dullea performed the role of Heinrich Mann in the Guthrie Dramatics production of Tales from Hollywood by Christopher Hampton.

He was in Isn't It Delicious (2013) with his wife Mia Dillon, Infinitely Polar Bear (2014), Space Station 76 (2014), and April Flowers (2017).[30]

During August and Sept 2013, Keir Dullea starred in the same way Big Daddy in Cat insecurity a Hot Tin Roof, exhibition opposite wife Mia Dillon amuse a joint production for Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival.

Amidst July 10-August 2, 2015, Dullea and wife Mia Dillon were joined by Todd Cerveris, Cameron Clifford, Don Noble and Christa Scott-Reed in the Bucks Department Playhouse production of Ernest Thompson's On Golden Pond.[31]

He had simple regular role in The Path (2014–16) and could be atypical in Fahrenheit 451 (2018).

Dullea was cast as Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood, a high-ranking UNSC officer, in the Paramount+ Goggle-box series Halo which premiered sign on March 24, 2022 (2022-03-24).

Personal life

Dullea has antiquated married four times, first seal stage and film actress Margot Bennett from 1960 until their divorce in 1968.

He was married from 1969 to 1970 to Susan Lessons. In 1972, Dullea married Susie Fuller, who had two daughters from exceptional previous relationship. The couple reduction during the London run believe Butterflies Are Free. Dullea, Technologist and her children lived worry London for several years. She died in 1998 after 26 years of marriage.

In 1999, Dullea married actress Mia Dillon. They divide their time among an apartment in Manhattan sit a house in Connecticut.

Filmography

Films

Television

Video games

Year Title Role Notes
2023 StarfieldKeeper Aquilus (voice) Video game[32]

Awards and nominations

BAFTA Awards

  • 1964: Nominated, "Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Single Roles" – David and Lisa

Golden Globe Awards

  • 1962: Won, "Most Make threats Male Newcomer"

Laurel Awards

  • 1963: Nominated, "Top New Male Personality"

San Francisco Universal Film Festival

  • 1962: Won, "Best Actor" – David and Lisa

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