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Actor Born: May 30, 1936 in Cleveland, OH Biography:Cleveland-born Keir Dullea found himself in the thick of Manhattan's intellectual scene when his parents took over the management of a Greenwich Village bookstore. Dullea attended Rutgers and San Francisco State, then launched his acting career in regional theater. He made a spectacular film debut in "The Hoodlum Priest" (1961), playing a born-to-hang juvenile delinquent. He was more sympathetic but no less emotionally disturbed in 1962's "David and Lisa"; as late as 1965, he was still playing mentally unstable youths in films like "Bunny Lake is Missing". The biggest film hit with which Dullea was associated was "2001: A Space Odyssey" (1968) in which he played the time-and-space-travelling astronaut Bowman. He repeated this characterization (and answered several of the questions posed by "2001") in the 1984 sequel "2010". Though he'd been active on the New York stage in the 1950s, Keir Dullea did not... Full Biography
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