Tall, slim, remote and boyishly handsome, one of Keir Dullea's most arresting features is his pale blue eyes, which featured in a number of watershed films of the 1960s. A major, up-and-coming film star from the "Camelot" years straight through the turbulent era of the U.S.-Viet Nam War, he never quite reached international fame. His shining star may have suffered a power outage into the next decade, but he persevered quite well on T.V. and .
In 1983, Keir Dullea, with then wife Susie Fuller Dullea, founded the Theater Artists Workshop of Westport.
Rumor had it that Paramounts planned production of "Dear and Glorious Physician" would star Keir Dullea in the lead role of St. Luke, but the cost of such a movie, coupled with fears that the Biblical "epic" had gone out of style, prompted Paramount to abandon the project in the mid-1960s.
Best known as Dave Bowman in 2001: A Space Odyssey , a role he revisited in 2010 . He didnt even have to audition for the role. After his performance in Bunny Lake Is Missing , Stanley Kubrick simply asked him if he would play the role and Kier said yes.
Both his parents have appeared in his movies. Father Robert Dullea appeared as the aged Marquis De Sade in the final scene of De Sade . This was an add-on scene to the film: Keir didnt want to go through the old-age makeup, so he suggested they hire his father for the scene. This was done, Robert Dullea went to Germany, did the scene, and according to Keir, enjoyed the whole experience. Mother Margaret Ruttain Dullea appeared in a non-speaking role in David and Lisa . She was going up a flight of stairs in the background of a scene between Keir and Janet Margolin.
Ex-wife Susan Lessans is married to former pro football great Don Meredith.
One of the last people to see Sal Mineo alive. They had just finished rehearsing for a play, sometime before Mineos murder.
He was portrayed by actor Jim Parrack in the biopic of Sal Mineo titled Sal (2011/I) , directed by James Franco. Dullea and Mineo were in rehearsal for the play, "P.S. Your Cat is Dead", shortly before Mineo was murdered in 1976.
Along with Douglas Rain , he is one of only two actors to appear in both 2001: A Space Odyssey and 2010 .
(February 2007) Appearing in NYC at the Vineyard Theater as "The Narrator" in "Mary Rose" a play by J.M. Barrie.
Apt. New York & Home in Conn.
He was considered for the role of Tom Hagen in The Godfather before Robert Duvall was cast.
He plays the father of the murder victim in "Castle" {Flowers for Your Grave } , the series premiere of "Castle" . The series later paid homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey , the film for which he is most famous, in "Castle" {The Wrong Stuff (#7.16)} .
During their Westport years he and his wife presented several revivals and 4 new plays one of which, Doubles had a long run on Braoadway.
Films pay the pocketbook, and theater pays the soul. .
