Comments on: Dave… is that you, Dave?

By: susan Cinoman

susan Cinoman — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:22:27 +0000

Keir Dullea stars this summer in “All Me, All the Time” with his wife, Mia Dillon and daughter of Shirley Maclaine, Sachi Parker. A comedy about divorce and the empty nest on the edge.

By: rhsmith

rhsmith — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:46:46 +0000

I'm in agreement with you on this, Stephanie. 2001 is a subtle tour de force for the actor. And there's a lot of humor in his performance that I don't think he gets credit for. Viva Dullea!

By: stephanie

stephanie — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:10:35 +0000

I think Keir Dullea is underrated and incredibly gifted. I just watched him in Hoodlum Priest tonight, and he was marvelous. There was absolutely NOTHING cold or aloof about his ex-convict, clutching a gun and terrified for his life. Oh, and the great line toward the end of the film, “I wish I was being born.” He was amazing. From an actor’s perspective, his performance in 2001 was subtle, restrained and intense – so different from Billy facing his mortality in Hoodlum Priest (shaking, screaming). The kind of performance Keir gave in 2001 is INCREDIBLY difficult to play convincingly. He did it beautifully and is one of two primary reasons 2001 is considered a masterpiece (the other reason being of course Kubrick’s brilliant direction). I really wish he had been given more opportunities as a film actor.

By: Athena

Athena — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:43:25 +0000

Kier duella is a pretty good actor. iv seen clips on the internet.

By: Bernardo Gonz�lez

Bernardo Gonz�lez — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:56:42 +0000

All is very good, and thank you for this website

By: RHS

RHS — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:15:08 +0000

We shouldn't forget that Dullea grew up in Greenwich Village; he was 20 or 21 when Jack Kerouac's On the Road was published and I'd bet the Beats had some influence on his upbringing. It's just that he had a square look that worked for Camelot America (and which of course served him very well in 2001). So I'll bet it was a hoot for him to do Paperback Hero and play something of an iconoclast.

By: Brent

Brent — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:18:58 +0000

I think Kerr Dullea's wildest role was in "Paperback Hero", a loony Canadian movie from 1973. He's the macho star of an industrial-league hockey team in a tiny town out west His entire life revolves around women, beer and westerns (he's actually nicknamed "Marshall"). This is KERI DULLEA? The intellectual underplayer? The funny thing is, he nails the character. It's difficult for an intelligent man to play a buckethead, but Dullea is so convincing that when he get's arrested – and uses his one phone call to order Chinese food – you're not surprised. (P.S. this is the movie that the song "If You Could Read My Mind" came from).

By: Jeffrey Allen Rydell

Jeffrey Allen Rydell — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 19:44:52 +0000

I always found Dullea's role in BLACK CHRISTMAS disquieting because of the character's quite coincidental (and ultimately superficial) resemblance to Ted Bundy.There's, of course, no intentional resemblance - Bundy wasn't yet so much as a suspect in the murders being investigated. Nonetheless, he was at the height of his activity at the time the film was made, and could have had some impact on the conception of the film – his crimes were extremely unusual for the time, and made headlines up in Canada for sure. Dullea's mask-like handsomeness, his barely-subsumed rage, his (common) turtle-necked fashion sense, the snowy climes and collegiate milieu all put me in mind of Bundy. If you've ever read anything on the case, it's hard to avoid the comparison.Add to this, that a few years later, Bundy escaped custody, broke into a sorority house in the dead of night, and attacked and/or killed several coeds, and the retroactive resemblance just gets more uncomfortable.

By: Mel

Mel — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 14:48:42 +0000

"Don't touch, touch can kill!" David and Lisa is my favorite Dullea performance because it's his most emotional. Generally though he's a cold fish and I can't separate the characters he plays from the actor. You're right. He was positioned as a leading man but he always behaved like a character actor. And despite the pretty boy looks there was always something odd about that face…those icy eyes, a blankness that was hiding possibly insanity or something worse. That's why I always suspected him as the psychopathic killer in the original Black Christmas. 2001 always amused me because Hal and Dave are kindred spirits. They're both robotic. I should probably catch The Good Shepherd to see if all the intervening years have added a touch of humaness to his persona.