Sunday, June 29, 2008

Keir Today...


HANDSOME KIER DULLEA, WHEN HE WAS APPEARING ON BROADWAY IN BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE

Unsettlingly blond and handsome, Keir Dullea's almost delicate beauty carried a sinister quality with it; not surprisingly, he specialized in roles calling for psycho-erotic tension. His first starring role was as a disturbed youth in David & Lisa (1962); a few years later, he gained cult fame as Carol Lynley's off-kilter, possibly incestuous brother in Bunny Lake is Missing (1965). The Fox (1967) found him romancing Anne Heywood, much to the dismay of her lesbian lover, Sandy Dennis; and he even got to portray the depraved Marquis in De Sade (1969).









Dullea is of course best known for 2001: A Space Oddysey (1968), which effectively overshadowed his past and future work; but we feel it's a shame to relegate Mr. Dullea's legacy to one film. Especially when his others include perverts, psychos, lesbians and Carol Lynley.


KIER DULLEA AS DAVID BOWMAN IN 2001: A SPACE ODDYSEY (1968)

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