Welcome to ODYSSEY ~ KEIR DULLEA ONLINE @keirdullea.org a site dedicated to the career of actor Keir Dullea. Best known for his role as Commander Dave Bowman in Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey. In a career that has spanned five decades, Keir has worked in film and television including Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Castle, Damages, The Hoodlum Priest, Bunny Lake Is Missing, The Fox, Paperback Hero, David & Lisa, Madame X, Isn't It Delicious, and the sequel to 2001, 2010: Odyssey Two. Keir's favourite medium is the stage where he's starred in such projects as the original production of Butterflies Are Free, On Golden Pond, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof, P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, Doubles, Dr. Cook's Garden, I Never Sang for My Father, The Shawshank Redemption, Tales from Hollywood, The Cherry Orchard and many other workshop productions.
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Due to some stupid deletions on the Facebook group, I’ve added the stills and posters I have from Keir’s film DESADE from 1969 where he played the controversial Marquis. The film though good, is not a direct biopic of Sade. The film Quills starring Geoffrey Rush was a closer telling of Sade’s life from within Charenton Asylum in France. Keir’s film while definitely showing Sade’s debauchery, does not go deeper into the mindset of the man. If anyone would like to read a good biography on Sade, there is an excellent one I can recommend written by the late Maurice Lever titled Sade. I’ll provide a link to the Amazon listing for you should you wish to get your hands on it. I’m sure for those with an e-reader or Kindle, there might be a version available.
Keir’s series THE PATH has been renewed by Hulu. This is great news, now if only Keir were in it more. I think as Keir’s fans we should contact Hulu and tell them how much we love Keir and want to see him more. They have a gift in his talent and presence and I think we need to tell them we want to see more of him and to actually see him walking and talking. They’ve got Dave Bowman for crying out loud! So here are the addresses to write to get him on more and to keep him on. I think it just might help.
By Matt Porter Hulu has renewed The Path for a second season, and The Mindy Project for Season 5.
The Path, starring Aaron Paul, Hugh Dancy, and Michelle Monaghan, premiered in March this year. It focuses on a family who are involved in a fictional cult called Meyerism. The first season finale will air on May 25.
Hulu SVP and Head of Content Craig Erwich also announced today The Mindy Project will be getting a fifth season. FOX cancelled the show back in 2015, however Hulu picked it up for Season 4, which will end on July 5.
In addition, there will be a second election special from Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog, after the first one came to Hulu in March. Robert Smigel will return as the voice actor, and the new special will air just in time for this year’s election.
I found this two part video on that bastion of video watching…. Yeah, you know. It’s a comparison between the Arthur C. Clarke book and Stanley Kubrick’s epic film. Enjoy.
I’ve finally gotten around to screencapping Keir’s role as Murray Stuart in the film INFINITELY, POLAR BEAR where Keir played the part of Mark Ruffalo’s father Murray Stuart. Keir was quite funny in this role and I loved his chemistry with the always wonderful Ruffalo.
I just found this on that bastion of video…. And may I say it’s one of the best discussions I’ve had the pleasure to listen to on 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY. The video was from a discussion held in England back in April of this year where Keir, Gary (Frank Poole), scientist and astrophysicist Dr. Brian Cox, film historian Christopher Frayling and moderator Matthew Sweet talked about the film for the BFI (British Film Institute) film series. A fascinating talk where we get a more tunneled look into the film and Stanley Kubrick’s motivations, plus some interesting insights about Arthur C. Clarke’s view on the film. We are once again treated to Keir’s favourite parts of the film in the scientific gobbeldy gook, as Keir calls it, he had to memorize for the one scene that was cut. Then his story of coming back into the Discovery via the air lock and the circus roustabout who had the rope, plus his cute way of imitating Derek Cracknell’s version of the HAL-9000’s voice as being a pseudo Michael Caine. I loved what they all said about the longevity of the film. My only wish is they’d gotten a little bit into Keir’s reprisal of the part of Dave Bowman for the Peter Hyams film 2010: ODYSSEY TWO where the symbiosis of HAL and Dave was at the core of the film.
