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Keir Dullea’s Milestones
| Acted in stock productions at the John Drew Theatre, Totem Pole Playhouse, Hedgerow Theatre and Berkshire Playhouse | |
| Grew up in NYC's Greenwich Village | |
| Head of The Theatre Artists Workshop of Westport, a professional workshop for actors, writers and directors, with director-wife Susan Fuller | |
| Hitchhiked to San Francisco where he worked as a carpenter before enrolling at San Francisco State College | |
| Topped a cast which included Walter Koenig ("Star Trek") in syndicated sci-fi series "The Starlost" | |
| 1939 | Family moved to New York when Dullea was three |
| 1956 | First appearance on New York stage in the revue "Sticks and Stones" |
| 1959 | Off-Broadway debut in "Season of Choice" |
| 1960 | TV debut on special, "Mrs. Miniver" |
| 1961 | Made impressive film debut as a confused juvenile delinquent in "The Hoodlum Priest" |
| 1963 - 1964 | Had a regular role as a university student in the ABC series "Channing" |
| 1963 | Portrayed emotionally disturbed youth in "David and Lisa" |
| 1967 | Broadway debut opposite Burl Ives in Ira Levin's "Dr Cook's Garden" |
| 1968 | Achieved greatest film succes as astronaut Dave Bowman, the lead in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" |
| 1969 | Created the role of the blind boy in Broadway production of "Butterflies Are Free" |
| 1974 | Played Brick opposite Elizabeth Ashley's Maggie the Cat in Broadway revival of "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" |
| 1978 | Portrayed General George Armstrong Custer in NBC movie "The Legend of the Golden Gun" |
| 1980 | Appeared as a flamboyant master criminal in CBS movie "The Hostage Tower" |
| 1982 | Left Hollywood for good |
| 1984 | Made cameo appearance in the sequel "2010" |
| 1985 | Returned to Broadway in "Doubles" |
| 1989 | Acted in "Test of Wills" episode of "Murder She Wrote" (CBS) |
| 1992 | Last film to date, "Oh, What a Night" |
| 1992 | Starred Off-Broadway in "The Other Side of Paradise", a one-man show about F Scott Fitzgerald |
| 1997 | Returned to stage acting, appearing in a production of "Molly Sweeney" at the Playmakers Repertory Company in North Carolina |
| 2000 | Appeared opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt in the Fox TV-movie "The Audrey Hepburn Story," as Hepburn's father Joseph |
| 2006 | Acted in Robert De Niro's long-anticipated "The Good Shepherd" |
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