Trivia

One of the last people to see Sal Mineo alive. They had just finished rehearsing for a play, sometime before Mineo's murder.

Best known as Dave Bowman in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), a role he revisited in 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984). He didn't even have to audition for the role. After his performance in Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), 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 (1969). This was an add-on scene to the film: Keir didn't 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 (1962). She was going up a flight of stairs in the background of a scene between Keir and Janet Margolin.

He plays the father of the murder victim in Flowers for Your Grave (2009), the series premiere of Castle (2009). The series later paid homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), the film for which he is most famous, in The Wrong Stuff (2015).

He was portrayed by actor Jim Parrack in the biopic of Sal Mineo titled Sal (2011), 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.

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.

He was considered for the role of Tom Hagen in The Godfather (1972) before Robert Duvall was cast.

In 1983, Keir Dullea, with then wife Susie Fuller Dullea, founded the Theater Artists Workshop of Westport.

His name is pronounced as "Keer Doo-lay". It is often mispronounced in various ways.

Along with Douglas Rain, he is one of only two actors to appear in both 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984).

Rumor had it that Paramount's 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.

Ex-wife Susan Lessans was married to former pro football great Don Meredith.

Apt. New York & Home in Conn.

Appearing in NYC at the Vineyard Theater as "The Narrator" in "Mary Rose" a play by J.M. Barrie. (February 2007)