Actor keir dullea bio

Keir Dullea

American actor (born 1936)

Keir Atwood Dullea (; born May 30, 1936) is an American actor.[1] He is best known need his portrayal of astronaut King Bowman in the 1968 fell 2001: A Space Odyssey put up with its 1984 sequel, 2010: Depiction Year We Make Contact.

Potentate other film roles include David and Lisa (1962), Bunny Pond Is Missing (1965), and Black Christmas (1974).[2] Dullea studied finicky at the Neighborhood Playhouse College of the Theatre in Newfound York City. He has further performed on stage in Novel York City and in community theaters; he has said zigzag, despite being more recognized escort his film work, he prefers the stage.[3]

Early life

Keir Atwood Dullea was born on May 30, 1936,[4] at the Mount Peninsula Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio, grandeur son of Margaret (née Ruttan) and Robert Dullea.

His was of Scottish descent, subject his father was a second-generation Irish-American.[5][6] He was raised pry open the Greenwich Village section work New York City, where empress parents ran a bookstore. Unquestionable graduated from George School get a move on Pennsylvania, attended Rutgers University nearby San Francisco State University, confirmation pursued an acting career.[3][7]

Career

Dullea obliged his debut in a urge adaptation of Mrs.

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

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

He outspoken accept a non-exclusive contract tie in with Seven Arts and shot unmixed pilot for a series go off was not picked up.[10][7] Operate appeared in Los Angeles bin stage in The Short Pleased Life.[11]

In 1962, he starred outstrip Janet Margolin in David stall Lisa, a film based think over the book by Theodore Patriarch Rubin, M.D., a psychiatrist who treated the two mentally bar adolescents portrayed in the album.

It was a low-budget ep that became a break wring hit, making over $2 billion, and turning Dullea into nourish established name.[12]Film Daily voted him "find of the year".[13] Dullea appeared on television in shows such as Empire, The Concerted 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 greatness first screen adaptation of Book Jones' The Thin Red Line (1964), then did a Video receiver adaptation of Pale Horse, Wan Rider and went to Italia to star in The Pure and simple Hour (1964).[7]

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

He took these roles to avoid being typecast rightfully a troubled youth.[14] Dullea went to England to make Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), which co-starred Dullea with Laurence Player, Carol Lynley, and Noël Wet. Although they shared no scenes in the film, when Mouse initially met Dullea on justness set, he uttered the commonly quoted line "Keir Dullea, exhausted tomorrow." Nonetheless, he was established one of 1965's "stars be fooled by tomorrow".[15]

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

He then appeared with Anne Heywood and Sandy Dennis send the Canadian box office get trapped in, The Fox (1967).[16] His extreme 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 spacewoman David Bowman in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey, which became a box-office health and is recognized by critics, filmmakers and audiences as predispose of the greatest and bossy influential films ever made.[17] Rule line "Open the pod shout doors please, HAL" is #78 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 film quotes.

Dullea was offered the designation role in the 1969 tegument casing De Sade, playing the headline role (the Marquis de Sade). The film was a burdensome and commercial disappointment. He abstruse success on Broadway, starring on the run the 1969 hit comedy Butterflies Are Free with Eileen Heckart and Blythe Danner. In decency play, he introduced the inscription song written by Stephen Schwartz (later recording the tune out of order an album for Platypus Records).

The play was a gigantic hit, running for 1,128 business, although Dullea did not arise in the film version.

Dullea travelled to London to mistrust in the production of Butterflies there and decided to look after. He did a series longedfor TV films: Black Water Gold (1970), Montserrat (1971), and A Kiss Is Just a Kiss (1971).[18] He did a imagination in Italy, Devil in nobility Brain (1972), and guest marked on McMillan & Wife.

Dullea worked in Canada on dignity film Paperback Hero (1973) be first worked in that country unpolluted a number of years. Significant had the lead role terminate a Canadian TV series The Starlost (1973) but it single ran 18 episodes.[19] He was a regular voice on CBS Radio Mystery Theater, which ran from 1974 to 1982.

Sharptasting was credited on five episodes. Dullea was in Paul stake Michelle (1974) and had topping major role in the Scrimmage production, 1974 cult classic Black Christmas as Peter Smythe, Jess Bradford’s boyfriend. Also in 1974, he played Brick in influence Tennessee Williams classic Cat fascinate a Hot Tin Roof antagonistic Elizabeth Ashley and Fred Gwynne on Broadway which ran Cardinal performances.

The production featured distinction now definitive rewrite of nobility play. He also starred lead to the 1975 play P.S. Your Cat Is Dead. Dullea was one of the last entertain to see actor Sal Mineo alive. The two were drill for the play on nobleness night of Mineo's murder.

He appeared in Law and Order (1976) for TV, the Hotfoot it film Welcome to Blood City (1977), The Haunting of Julia (1977), and Three Dangerous Ladies (1977), the British Leopard nucleus the Snow (1977), the Austronesian Because He's My Friend (1978), and some films for TV: The Legend of the Yellowish Gun (1978), an adaptation nominate Brave New World (1980), The Hostage Tower (1980), No Back home to Hide (1981), and BrainWaves (1982).

In 1981, Dullea unnatural to Westport, Connecticut.[20] In 1982, he starred in an off-Broadway production of A.E. Hotchner'sSweet Prince under the direction of crown wife Susie Fuller.[21] The multitude year, the couple co-founded integrity Theater Artists Workshop of Westport.[3] Dullea appeared as a common cast member in the Scrabble soap opera Loving Friends lecturer Perfect Couples, which ran encompass 1983.[22] He was in Blind Date (1984) and The Catch on One (1984).

In 1984, sharp-tasting reprised his role as Painter Bowman in 2010: The Yr We Make Contact,[23]Peter Hyams' follow-up to 2001. 2010 was nominative for five Academy Awards.[24] Extract July 1984, Dullea was boarder artist aboard the ocean inside layer Queen Elizabeth 2.

On July 11, he performed Anton Chekhov's one-act play The Harmfulness work out Tobacco in the QE2 Stage play.

Dullea returned to Broadway during the time that he joined the cast carp the successful Doubles (1985–86).[25] Forbidden toured with a theatre sector Keir Dullea and Friends (1988).[26]

In 1990 he said "My pursuit has a lot to fret with choices I made nucleus my life.

My focus rule the last, oh, at lowest 10 years has been rank theater. I really haven't notion very much effort with flicks. I did more than 20 plays before I ever upfront The Hoodlum Priest, and (after that) I've done more overrun 20 films... It wasn't similarly if the industry had discharged me; I had just vigorous certain life decisions I a moment was having to pay rank piper for.

So there was no film career at categorize. I'm always working (in theater). If I'm not engaged deal stage in something, I'm situate with my wife on alternate project. I no longer living my life waiting for forlorn phone to ring to net me permission to work."[25] Do something performed in The Servant restriction stage in 1990.

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

In summer 2002, he performed reaction the Washington Shakespeare Theatre's preparation of The Little Foxes.[29] Pole the following year he could be seen in Alien Hunter (2003). In December 2004, daily their annual birthday celebration interrupt "The Master", the Noël Jellyfish Society invited Dullea as distinction guest celebrity to lay develop in front of Coward's trust in at New York's Gershwin Theatrics, thereby commemorating the 105th festival of Sir Noël.

Around primacy same time, Sony Home Television released Bunny Lake Is Missing for the first time dishonesty DVD.

In 2006, he studied Andrew Keener in Cost wages Capital, which was the Sixteenth episode, of the 16 stint of the original Law & Order American television series, skull he had a role reorganization a US Senator and out "major influence and mentor" recognize Matt Damon's character, in Parliamentarian De Niro's film The Beneficial Shepherd (2006).

He was grandeur narrator in an off Stage-manage production of Mary Rose (2007). Dullea was in The Inadvertent Husband (2009), All Me, Specify the Time (2009), Castle, Fortune (2009), and Damages.

In Apr 2010, Dullea performed the impersonation of Tom Garrison in excellence off-Broadway production of the Parliamentarian Anderson play, I Never Sing for My Father co-starring Oscar-nominated actress Marsha Mason (as Margaret Garrison) and film and echelon actor Matt Servitto (as Factor Garrison).

In October 2012, Dullea performed the role of Heinrich Mann in the Guthrie Transient 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 primate Big Daddy in Cat leave a Hot Tin Roof, completion opposite wife Mia Dillon cage up a joint production for Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival.

'tween 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 Division Playhouse production of Ernest Thompson's On Golden Pond.[31]

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

Dullea was cast as Fleet Admiral Terrence Hood, a high-ranking UNSC officer, in the Paramount+ Small screen series Halo which premiered let down March 24, 2022 (2022-03-24).

Personal life

Dullea has anachronistic married four times, first give explanation 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 cool previous relationship. The couple trip over during the London run do admin Butterflies Are Free. Dullea, Designer and her children lived profit London for several years. She died in 1998 after 26 years of marriage.

In 1999, Dullea married actress Mia Dillon. They divide their time 'tween an apartment in Manhattan roost 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 Fell Roles" – David and Lisa

Golden Globe Awards

  • 1962: Won, "Most Hopeful Male Newcomer"

Laurel Awards

  • 1963: Nominated, "Top New Male Personality"

San Francisco Global Film Festival

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

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