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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This film sort of slipped in under the wire, though I know all us Keir Dullea fans knew of it. SPACE STATION 76 is a farcical look at the space opera. It pulls from various sources including most of the science fiction films and television series of the era including my favourite show Space: 1999, Buck Rogers, Star Wars, and likely even Keir’s films 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and 2010: ODYSSEY TWO where he played the part of Commander Dave Bowman. Here Keir’s part is largely a cameo playing Liv Tyler’s father, Mr. Marlowe. His scene comes about forty minutes into the film where he’s only seen on a small monitor attached to a contemporary touch-tone phone. It’s really kind of funny. And the part that gets me is his appearance is reminiscent of his first scene in the Peter Hyams aforementioned film 2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT. Yeah, I know I called it Odyssey Two, but that’s the title I like to call it by. Below is a side-by-side comparison of Keir then and now.
Keir appeared in a BBC series called THE REAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION talking about 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and Stanly Kubrick. So far he’s done two episodes and I’m not sure if he’ll be in the rest or if there will be a series two. Considering his age Keir is looking mighty fine. The only thing I’d change is that beard! It looks like a small animal ate his face. His features are far too fine for that kind of beardage. Though if he’s still performing in CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF, then it’s understandable. Either way Keir is still compelling to watch and compelling to listen to.
[317] SCREENCAPS: THE REAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION – PT 1 ROBOTS
[286] SCREENCAPS: THE REAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION – PT 2 SPACE
I screwed up on the stills album for 2010: ODYSSEY TWO and had to reupload them to the gallery. Of course Keir reprised his iconic role of Commander Dave Bowman in this Peter Hyams directed sequel to the 1968 classic. I know the release title for the film was 2010: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT, but I really liked Arthur C. Clarke’s title for it better and thought I’d post that title. The film also starred Roy Scheider as Dr. Heywood Floyd taking over for William Sylvester, Helen Mirren as Tanya Kirbuk, John Lithgow as Dr. Walter Curnow, Bob Balaban as Dr. Chandra, and the return of Douglas Rain as the voice of the HAL-9000. This comes to the end of the additions for today. Whew!
I’m gradually acquiring some images I’ve been eying for a while now, though they’re not cheap, that I’ve added to the gallery. Expect some more event images to come. These images I’ve added are stills from Keir’s turns as Commander Dave Bowman from Stanley Kubrick’s monumental film 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and its sequel directed by Peter Hyams, 2001: THE YEAR WE MAKE CONTACT or as I like to call it 2010: ODYSSEY TWO. One request: If you want to repost someplace else or blog on Tumblr or some other social networking site, please don’t. These were really hard to acquire and as taken me a couple of weeks of hard negotiations to get them due to how old they are. I’ve also decided not to tag them because of how nice they are. Please don’t make me sorry. I’m hoping to get more up soon. Watch this space.
I finally have some things from Keir’s film HENRi. According to Keir the film is about an artificial intelligence wanting to be human. Keir also says that HENRi is the better side of the HAL-9000 from Keir’s films 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and 2001: ODYSSEY TWO. Here are some screencaps and a couple of videos. Check out the HENRi media channel on ODYSSEY MEDIA. I’m going to feature the Behind the Scenes video where Keir talks about the film and his character.
