Biography
Keir Atwood Dullea (born May 30, 1936) is an American actor best known for the character of astronaut David Bowman, whom he portrayed in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and in 1984's 2010: The Year We Make Contact, as well as his roles in the films Bunny Lake is Missing (1965) and Black Christmas (1974).
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Complete Filmography

2001: Creating Kubrick’s Space Odyssey
2024
as Himself
2001: CREATING KUBRICK’S SPACE ODYSSEY chronicles the creation of one of the most influential films in the history of cinema. This new documentary exa...

April Flowers
2020
as Mr. X
After discovering an anonymous journal, April begins her quest to return the book, all-the-while building a fantasy in her head that may compromise th...

Valley of the Gods
2020
as Ulim
A mix of fantasy and sci-fi, the film entwines Navajo lore with a reclusive trillionaire and his would-be biographer, creating a fascinating, mysterio...

Gatsby in Connecticut: The Untold Story
2020
as Self
The summer Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived in Connecticut inspired one of the world's most beloved novels: The Great Gatsby. We know the book, we kno...

Fahrenheit 451
2018
as Historian
In an oppressive future, a 'fireman' whose duty is to destroy all books begins to question his task.

2001: Sparks in the Dark
2018
as Stanley Kubrick
A recreation of the interview with Stanley Kubrick that Playboy magazine published in its September 1968 issue and that has become essential when appr...

Kubrick Remembered
2014
as Self
An 83-minute candid look into the life of Kubrick, including interviews with his widow, family, coworkers and actors, and featuring a tour of the Arch...

Space Station 76
2014
as Mr. Marlowe
A comedic drama about a group of people (and several robots) living on a space station in a 1970s-version of the future. When a new Assistant Captain ...

Infinitely Polar Bear
2014
as Murray Stuart
A manic-depressive mess of a father tries to win back his wife by attempting to take full responsibility of their two young, spirited daughters, who d...

Isn't It Delicious
2013
as Bill Weldon
When Joan Weldon discovers she is dying of lung cancer, she sets out to reconcile her dysfunctional relationships with her three children, her husband...

HENRi
2013
as Henri (voice)
Powerful short film, which explores human existence at the most fundamental, personal level - what it means to be a conscious individual. Set hundreds...
Immersive Cocoon
2011
as Unnamed
Keir Dullea encounters a mysterious object, in a scenario reminiscent of the penultimate scene from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey that he ap...
Fortune
2009
as Jonah Pryce
Two lives collide and then change forever when a suicidal psychiatrist is interrupted mid-attempt by the ambitious son of his wealthiest patient- a yo...

The Accidental Husband
2008
as Mr. Carl Bollenbecker
Emma, a radio host, is about to be married to Richard, her perfect match. But right before her wedding, she learns she's already married to Patrick, a...

'2001: A Space Odyssey' – What Is Out There?
2007
as Self
Keir Dullea, interspersed with archive clips of Arthur C. Clarke, discusses the probability of extraterrestrial life.

The Good Shepherd
2006
as Senator John Russell, Sr.
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young ...
A Lonely Sky
2006
as Stan Curtis
In 1947, a test pilot who will risk his life to break the sound barrier, is forced to question his reasons and abilities by a strange yet familiar man...

Alien Hunter
2003
as Secretary Bayer
Government agents find evidence of extraterrestrial life at the South Pole.

Black Christmas Revisited
2002
A featurette hosted by Art Hindle and Lynne Griffin, who revisit the original house from the movie 'Black Christmas'.

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
2001
as Self
With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this documentary looks at Stanley Kubrick's life and films....

2001: The Making of a Myth
2001
as Self
The making of Stanley Kubrick's classic space epic, presented by James Cameron, including unseen footage.

2001 and Beyond
2001
as Self
Author Arthur C. Clarke and the cast and crew of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 masterpiece "2001: A Space Odyssey" star in this documentary, released in the ...

Songs In Ordinary Time
2000
as Sam Fermoyle
Based on Mary McGarry Morris' best-selling novel! A struggling mother takes in a mysterious stranger. Is she opening her heart to love ... or harborin...

The Audrey Hepburn Story
2000
as Joseph Hepburn
The film spans from Hepburn's early childhood to the 1950s which details her life as a Dutch ballerina, coming to grips with her parents' divorce, and...

Oh, What a Night
1992
as Thorvald
During the summer of 1955, seventeen-year-old Eric Hansen embarks on a journey in his new town, a journey which will change his life forever.

Night of 100 Stars III
1990
as Self
A celebrity benefit for The Actors' Fund of America, featuring music, songs, dance and comedy.

2010
1984
as Dr. David Bowman
While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvou...

The Time Traveller
1984
as Glenn / The Next One
An astronaut's widow and her young son meet a stranger from the future on a Greek island.

Blind Date
1984
as Dr. Steiger
A man goes blind when remembering his lost girlfriend, but the doctors can't find anything wrong with his eyes. They fit him with an experimental devi...

2010 : The Odyssey Continues
1984
as Himself
This promotional short for 2010 (1984) shows moviegoers how some of the film's visual effects were created. This includes makeup for Keir Dullea's cha...

BrainWaves
1983
as Julian Bedford
After a traffic accident Kaylie is in coma for months and her doctors want to try a new procedure on her. To regain her consciousness, they stimulate ...

No Place to Hide
1981
as Cliff Letterman
A young art student frantically tries to prove that she is being stalked by a mysterious man who has threatened her life, and finds her sanity questio...

The Hostage Tower
1980
as Mr. Smith
A flamboyant master criminal and several specialists stage an audacious scheme to capture the Eiffel Tower and hold as hostage one of its visitors, th...

Brave New World
1980
as Thomas Grambell
A man who grew up in a primitive society educating himself by reading Shakespeare is allowed to join the futuristic society where his parents are from...
The Starlost: The Alien Oro
1980
as Devon
The alien, Oro, seeks to seize control of huge spaceship bearing Earth's last survivors.

The Starlost: The Beginning
1980
as Devon
Three farmers in Cypress Corners discover that farm life is not so simple. Discovering a hidden door in the earth, they break through it, discovering ...

The Legend of the Golden Gun
1979
as General Custer
In Kansas during the middle of the Civil War, John Golden is left for dead and his family has been killed by the ruthless Confederate outlaw William Q...

Leopard in the Snow
1979
as Dominic Lyall
A tender romance develops between an attractive young woman and a famous race car driver who lives incognito after supposedly being killed in an auto ...

Because He's My Friend
1978
as Eric
An American military man moves his family to Australia to undergo training in submarine warfare, providing new challenges for his wife and their devel...

Full Circle
1978
as Magnus Lofting
After the death of her daughter, wealthy housewife Julia Lofting abruptly leaves her husband and moves into an old Victorian home in London to re-star...

Welcome to Blood City
1977
as Lewis
Five strangers awake, finding themselves with no memory in a world resembling the wild west. Their task is to become exempt from being killed - what t...

Three Dangerous Ladies
1977
as Dr. David Priestly
Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with t...

The Mannikin
1977
as Dr. David Priestly
A singer is possessed by a demonic spirit. From the book by Robert Bloch (Psycho).

Law and Order
1976
as Johnny Morrison
Story follows three generations of a family in the New York City Police Department.

Black Christmas
1974
as Peter
As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone ...

Paul and Michelle
1974
as Garry
Taking place approximately three years after the events in Friends, Paul and Michelle follows the family of Paul Harrison and Michelle Latour-Harrison...

Paperback Hero
1973
as Rick Dylan
A hockey player in a small town begins to lose his grip on reality and starts to believe that he is a gunslinger in the Old West.

Pope Joan
1972
as Dr. Stevens
Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is...

Devil in the Brain
1972
as Oscar Minno
Oscar is trying to re-establish an affair with Sandra, a disturbed young woman. Having found her husband Fabrizio shot dead and her young son Ricky s...

Montserrat
1971
as Montserrat
The story is set during the South American Wars of Independence. Simón Bolivar, the liberator, has escaped from Spanish custody with the aid of an ide...

A Primer for '2001: A Space Odyssey'
1970
Primer on the meaning, techniques and background of Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey." Keir Dullea, who starred in the film as astro...

Black Water Gold
1970
as Christofer Perdeger
A scuba team, a marine archaeologist and a Mexican historian join forces to reach the wreck of an historic Spanish galleon before a well-armed commerc...

De Sade
1969
as Marquis de Sade
The 18th-century French marquis recalls his sadomasochistic experiments and goes to jail for lewd behavior.

2001: A Space Odyssey
1968
as Dr. David Bowman
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advan...

The Fox
1967
as Paul Grenfell
Jill Banford and Ellen March have built a good life together on a hardscrabble Canadian farm. Then handsome Paul Grenfell enters their isolated world,...

Madame X
1966
as Clay Anderson Jr.
A woman married to a wealthy socialite, is compromised by the accidental death of a man who had been romantically pursuing her, and is forced by her m...

2001: A Space Odyssey - A Look Behind the Future
1966
as Self
A short documentary about the making of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and its impact on the '60s view of the future.

Bunny Lake Is Missing
1965
as Stephen Lake
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.

Le ore nude
1964
as Aldo
In this sex-charged character study, a woman's husband persuades her to share in his predilection for group sex. Later, she meets a student and has a ...

The Thin Red Line
1964
as Pvt. Doll
Set during the Allied invasion of the island of Guadalcanal in the Pacific theater during WWII, this film is based on the novel by James Jones. Keir D...

Mail Order Bride
1964
as Lee Carey
Elderly Will Lane arranges marriage of wild son of dead friend to tame him.

David and Lisa
1962
as David Clemens
Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbeari...

The Hoodlum Priest
1961
as Billy Lee Jackson
Venturing into some of the roughest slums of St. Louis, Jesuit priest Rev. Charles Dismas Clark dedicates himself to helping young ex-convicts who are...
Give Us Barabbas!
1961
as Elisha

Mrs. Miniver
1960
as German Pilot
A British housewife faces up to the harsh realities of the Second World War.