Date of Birth : May 30th 1936
American actor perhaps best known for the character of astronaut David Bowman he portrayed in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and in 1984’s 2010: The Year We Make Contact, as well as his role in the cult film Bunny Lake is Missing.
Dullea made his film debut in 1961’s Hoodlum Priest, in which he played a juvenile delinquent, though he had an earlier role as the German pilot in a 1960 television adaptation of Mrs. Miniver starring Maureen O’Hara. He played a number of emotionally disturbed youths in films such as David and Lisa (1962), the first screen adaptation of James Jones’ The Thin Red Line (1964), and Bunny Lake is Missing (1965), as well as on television in shows such as Naked City, a police drama about New York City, The Eleventh Hour a medical drama about psychiatry, and Channing, a drama about life on a college campus starring Jason Evers and Henry Jones. He appeared with John Huston in the movie De Sade (1969), playing the title role (the Marquis de Sade). He also appeared with Anne Heywood and Sandy Dennis in the 1967 film The Fox.
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Black Christmas ( 1975 )
Infinitely Polar Bear ( 1970 )
2001: A Space Odyssey ( 1968 )
The Fox ( 1967 )