[13] Dullea went to England to make Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965), which co-starred Dullea with Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, and Noël Coward. [8], The performance was well received. He was the narrator in an off Broadway production of Mary Rose (2007). Mia Dillon and Keir Dullea have been married for 21 years. Dullea has been married four times, first to stage and film Actress Margot Bennett from 1960 until their divorce in 1968. Keir Dullea. Keir Dullea. Dullea was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the son of Margaret (née Ruttan) and Robert Dullea. Dullea was offered the title role in movie De Sade (1969), playing the title role (the Marquis de Sade). Hotchner's Sweet Prince under the direction of his wife Susie Fuller. Both his parents have appeared in his movies. Official Sites. [25], In 1990 he said " My career has a lot to do with choices I made in my life. [9][6] He appeared in Los Angeles on stage in The Short Happy Life. Of his love for the theater: "It is a greater challenge for the actor in me. In 1972, Dullea married Susie Fuller, who had two daughters from a previous relationship. I'm gonna say that we have yet to see an accurate and brilliant film based on the Marquis de sade. The couple met during the London run of Butterflies Are Free. 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. However, their marriage did not last long and the pair decided to split after 8 years of their married in 1968. Dullea has also had a long and successful career on stage in New York City and in regional theaters; he has stated that, despite being more recognized for his film work, he prefers the stage. On July 11, he performed Anton Chekhov's one-act play The Harmfulness of Tobacco in the QE2 Theatre. PHOTO FRONT PHOTO BACK In 1981 Dullea moved to Westport, Connecticut. In the play, he introduced the title song written by Stephen Schwartz (later recording the tune on an album for Platypus Records). 1969 Press Photo Actor Keir Dullea and wife in their worldly decorated home This is an original press photo. He did a thriller in Italy, Devil in the Brain (1972), and guest starred on McMillan & Wife. Mia Dillon (born July 9, 1955) is an American actress.. Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Dillon graduated from Marple-Newtown Senior High School in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania.She made her Broadway debut in Hugh Leonard's Da in 1978. Dillon is married to Keir Dullea… Dullea travelled to London to be in the production of Butterflies there and decided to stay. Dullea had success on Broadway, starring in the 1969 hit comedy Butterflies Are Free with Eileen Heckart and Blythe Danner. He was married from 1969 to 1970 to Susan Lessons. He was raised in the Greenwich Village section of New York City, where his parents ran a bookstore. Margot Bennett Born Muriel Eisenberg February 19, 1935 Woodmere, New … Paired beautifully with Janet Margolin's schizophrenic Lisa, Dullea won the Golden Globe Award for "Most Promising Male Newcomer. Barrie. Keir also costarred as the mysterious intruder who inserts an emotional wedge between gay lovers Anne Heywood and Sandy Dennis in the ground-breaking film about homosexuals, The Fox (1967).Topping that off, Dullea played the salacious Marquis De Sade himself in a relatively tame, internationally flavored production of De Sade (1969). My focus over the last, oh, at least 10 years has been the theater. He graduated from George School in Pennsylvania, attended Rutgers University and San Francisco State University, then pursued an acting career. His cinematic roles since 1970 have included another "mysterious stranger" in The Next One (1984), and he also reprised his "David Bowman" role in 2010 (1984), the sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey." 2001 Space O. I no longer live my life waiting for my phone to ring to give me permission to work. Dullea was second billed in Mail Order Bride (1964), written and directed by Burt Kennedy. He appeared in Law and Order (1976) for TV, the Canadian movies Welcome to Blood City (1977), The Haunting of Julia (1977), and Three Dangerous Ladies (1977), the British Leopard in the Snow (1977), the Australian Because He's My Friend (1978), and some films for TV: The Legend of the Golden Gun (1978), an adaptation of Brave New World (1980), The Hostage Tower (1980), No Place to Hide (1981), and BrainWaves (1982). (1961) and an adaptation of All Summer Long (1961).[7]. On TV he was seen in such popular programs as "Law & Order," "Castle" and "Damages." He continued to show his odd-man-out appeal on the Broadway stage as "Brick" in 1970, and in the Broadway revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" in 1974, acting along with Elizabeth Ashley as "Maggie," and in the black comedy "P.S. His mother was of Scottish descent, and his father was a second-generation Irish-American. 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. Gary Brumburgh / gr-home@pacbell.net, Other Works In 1983, Keir Dullea, with then wife Susie Fuller Dullea, founded the Theater Artists Workshop of Westport. - IMDb Mini Biography By: It wasn't as if the industry had fired me; I had just made certain life decisions I suddenly was having to pay the piper for. Nonetheless he was voted one of 1965's "stars of tomorrow". She died in 1998 after 26 years of marriage. American actors Keir Dullea on a black cub, with Jane Hilder, Nicola Martin and Alison Wonder, UK, 13th February 1971. I always jokily say that films pay the pocket book and theatre pays the soul ... " --Keir Dullea in Empire, April 1998. She is best known for her appearances in the films O Lucky Man! Mia Dillon is an actress who played five different characters in Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. 1969 Press Photo Actor Keir Dullea & wife having a pillow fight - mjc32808 This is an original press photo. [20] The following year, the couple co-founded the Theater Artists Workshop of Westport.[3]. He starred in the first screen adaptation of James Jones' The Thin Red Line (1964), then did a TV adaptation of Pale Horse, Pale Rider and went to Italy to star in The Naked Hour (1964). "Keir Dullea, gone tomorrow" was Noel Coward's famously cutting remark about one of the hottest young actors of the 1960s. He was in Isn't It Delicious (2013) with his wife Mia Dillon, Infinitely Polar Bear (2014), Space Station 76 (2014), and April Flowers (2017).[29]. With Rock Hudson, Susan Saint James, John Schuck, Nancy Walker. He did a series of TV movies, Black Water Gold (1970), Montserrat (1971), and A Kiss Is Just a Kiss (1971).[17]. "[24], He was in Oh, What a Night (1992) and played F. Scott Fitzgerald off Broadway in The Other Side of Paradise (1992).[26]. Your Cat Is Dead. View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro, The Most Impressive Genre or Sub-Genre Icon, (March 1969 - and was seen in the recurring role of a religious cult leader in the fascinating series The Path (2016). During August and September 2013, Keir Dullea starred as Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, playing opposite wife Mia Dillon in a joint production for Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater and Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival. If I'm not engaged on stage in something, I'm working with my wife on another project. [11] Film Daily voted him "find of the year".[12]. His line "Open the pod bay doors please, HAL" is #78 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 movie quotes. His character also pursues love with a free-spirited girl, played by Blythe Danner, in the play "Butterflies Are Free." His mother was of Scottish descent, and his father was a second-generation Irish-American. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Disney offered long-term contracts (roles in Two Weeks in Another Town and Bon Voyage) but Dullea turned both down. Keir Dullea did a pretty good job playing the Marquis. Films pay the pocketbook, and theater pays the soul. In 1968, he appeared as astronaut David Bowman in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey,[16] which became a box-office success and is recognized by critics, filmmakers, and audiences as one of the greatest and most influential films ever made. They were dating for 1 year after getting together in 1998 and were married in 1999. The young actor's characters from then on seemed to walk a dangerous tight-rope of emotions, and his apparent versatility at such a young age led him to a number of other psychologically scarred portrayals. The production featured the now definitive rewrite of the play. Tending to play men younger than he really was, none were more disturbed than his haphephobic adolescent David (Dullea was twenty-six at the time) in the deeply felt love story David and Lisa (1962). [21] He was in Blind Date (1984) and The Next One (1984). The Dullea's enjoy an occasional pillow fight. He graduated from George School in Pennsylvania and attended both Rutgers and San Francisco State before deciding to pursue summer stock and regional theatre. The magical interaction between actor and audience is something you can't get with film. one year later.In the years since then, Dullea has acted steadily on the stage in New York City, and in U.S. regional theatres, in productions of "Sweet Prince," "The Seagull" and "The Little Foxes,"among others. His journalism career helped him to earn both name and fame. He shot a pilot for a series that was not picked up. |  In 2002 he performed in The Little Foxes on stage.[28]. A composer/pianist whose latest work is dedicated to Sally is stabbed in his apartment which contains items that point to a relationship with her, although she had not met him previously. Dullea has had four wives: his first was actress Margot Bennett, and he and his third wife, Susie Fuller (whom he met during the British performances of "Butterflies are Free" in London), cofounded the Theater Artists Workshop of Westport in 1983. Dullea has had four wives: his first was actress Margot Bennett, and he and his third wife, Susie Fuller (whom he met during the British performances of "Butterflies are Free" in London), cofounded the Theater Artists Workshop of Westport in 1983. He had a regular role in The Path (2014–16) and could be seen in Fahrenheit 451 (2018). After Fuller's death in 1998, Dullea married for the fourth time in 1999 to actress Mia Dillon, who is best known for portraying the character "Babe" in in the play, "Crimes of the Heart" in New York City. The movie was a critical and commercial disappointment despite a cast that included John Huston. 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. [4][5] He was raised in the Greenwich Village section of New York City, where his parents ran a bookstore. Dullea has been married four times, first to stage and film actress Margot Bennett from 1960 until their divorce in 1968. In 1974, he played Brick in the Tennessee Williams classic Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opposite Elizabeth Ashley and Fred Gwynne on Broadway which ran 160 performances. Publicity Listings I really haven't made very much effort with films. -- Kallimgmt TODAY'S MOVIE CHALLENGE: Top 10 Keir Dullea performances, go. Dullea was in Paul and Michelle (1974) and had a major role in the Canadian production, 1974 cult classic Black Christmas. His first big break came with the pilot program of the Route 66 (1960) series, and he proceeded to find other TV roles in Naked City (1958), Checkmate (1960) and various dramatic programs.Following stage work in "Season of Choice" (1959) and "A Short Happy Life" (1961), Dullea made an auspicious film debut in a leading role with The Hoodlum Priest (1961), playing a troubled street gang member who crosses paths with Don Murray's determined minister. They divide their time between an apartment in Manhattan and a house in Connecticut. [citation needed]. and (especially) the stage in a career now surpassing five decades.Dullea, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, is the son of two book-store owners, and he was raised in New York's Greenwich Village section. Just a few weeks later they appeared together in the play "Deathtrap. Real-life husband and wife Keir Dullea and Mia Dillon will play Big Daddy and Big Mama in Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning play Cat on a Hot … He was married from 1969 to 1970 to Susan Lessons. Quotes Films pay the pocketbook, and theater pays the soul. [19], In 1982, Dullea starred in an off-Broadway production of A.E. Dullea made a film in Canada, Paperback Hero (1973) and worked in that country for a number of years. He was a regular vocal performer on CBS Radio Mystery Theater, which ran from 1974 to 1982. He had the lead role in a Canadian TV series The Starlost (1973) but it only ran 18 episodes.[18]. In April 2010, Dullea performed the role of Tom Garrison in the off-Broadway production of the Robert Anderson play, I Never Sang for My Father co-starring Oscar-nominated actress Marsha Mason (as Margaret Garrison) and film and stage actor Matt Servitto (as Gene Garrison). He returned to Broadway when he joined the cast of the successful Doubles (1985–86). Dullea, Fuller and her two children resided in London for quite a while. Dullea, Fuller and her children lived in London for several years. He was also in the TV movies Give Us Barabbas! Historic Images Part Number: mjc32808 PHOTO FRONT PHOTO BACK. Dullea, Fuller and her two children resided in … Buzz Aldrin and Keir Dullea during Paris 2006 Jules Verne Awards Aventure Films Festival - Cocktail Party at La Suite Club in Paris, France.