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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Just got this in. Keir and Gary will be on Alec Baldwin’s new talk show on MSNBC this coming Friday (01 November 2013) at 10:00 PM discussing 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY and it’s impact. Keir has is Big Daddy beard and Gary is looking as bored as always. Here is the information. I’ll have the screencaps and clip up after it airs.
Alec Baldwin stays up late with ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ stars
To mark the 45th anniversary of the genre-defining classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, Alec Baldwin sat down with the film’s stars, Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, for his new MSNBC talk show, Up Late With Alec Baldwin.
In the clip below from Friday’s episode, Dullea talks about how director Stanley Kubrick couldn’t decide on the voice of HAL, the computer in control of the spaceship, and the solution he came up with while filming.
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!
Just when I think I’m done with 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, it pulls me back in! I’ve been the lucky inheritor of a lot of photos from the film. There are quite a few of Keir as Dave Bowman, but I’ve also decided to include the other images I’ve acquired. Some are of Gary Lockwood (Frank Poole), William Sylvester (Heywood Floyd), Heather Downham and Penny Brahms who played stewardesses, and a few shots of the Discovery, life pods and Clavius Moonbase, and the dig zone where the monolith (TMA 1) was found. There are also included a few production stills of Keir with Gary and director Stanley Kubrick on location inside the ferriswheel, plus some original artwork posters from the film. I’m not entirely sure I’m completely done with 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, that will depend on if I find anymore. I hope you like the high quality of the photos, though some are the original negatives.
Some more goodies for you. I was able to get a hold of some HQ stills from the film for you of Keir from THE FOX. This was an interesting film co-starring Sandy Dennis and Anne Heywood from the novel of the same name by D. H. Lawrence. Keir looked so Mephistophelian as Paul Renfield, the proverbial fox in the hen house. While a totally misogynistic and wholly homophobic piece, it’s a film of its time. What got me was how calculating Keir was in his role. One could see his slow manipulation of Ellen March (Heywood) to the total lack of empathy for Jill Banford (Dennis.) I’ve read reviews that call Paul a deviant. I’d have to agree with that description. Paul certainly had no care for Jill, and I’m not convinced he actually loved March. I’m not really sure if I were March I’d have not reacted the same way. Yeah I swoon. Who wouldn’t?
I have 24 production stills from Keir’s television film BLACK WATER GOLD for you tonight. These HQ ones were hard to get so I’m so happy to bring them to you. I have as yet to see this film but I’m looking for it. If anyone knows where I might be able to find it, please post. Thanks.
