Keir Dullea Filmography

The Good Shepherd

Actors: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Alec Baldwin, Tammy Blanchard

Synopsis: One man bears witness to the secret history of America during the Cold War in this drama directed by celebrated actor Robert De Niro. In 1939, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) is a young man with a bright future ahead of him -- he's a top student at Yale and the protégé of one of the school's leading Read More

Alien Hunter

Actors: John Lynch, Leslie Stefanson, James Spader, Janine Eser

Synopsis: James Spader stars in the made-for-TV movie Alien Hunter. Berkley professor Dr. Julian Rome (Spader) is a former code-reader for the government project known as Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. His skills are needed to assist Dr. Alexi Gierach (Nikolai Binev) in the Antarctic, where Read More

2001: A Space Odyssey

Actors: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester, Daniel Richter, Douglas Rain

Synopsis: A mind-bending sci-fi symphony, Stanley Kubrick's landmark 1968 epic pushed the limits of narrative and special effects toward a meditation on technology and humanity. Based on Arthur C. Clarke's story The Sentinel, Kubrick and Clarke's screenplay is structured in four movements. At the "Dawn of Read More

Law & Order: Hubris

Synopsis: Four people are cold-bloodedly killed in a jewelry store. The suspect, a most charming and persuasive young man, insists upon representing himself in course. Thanks to his emotional display of regret and contrition, the accused murderer may well be able to sway the jury -- or at least one of the Read More

Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures

Actors: Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Jack Nicholson

Synopsis: Stanley Kubrick was one of the most acclaimed and controversial filmmakers of his generation, but he was also an intensely private man who rarely gave interviews and produced most of his films under a shroud of secrecy, which tended to foster a great deal of rumor and speculation about his working Read More

The Audrey Hepburn Story

Actors: Keir Dullea, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Frances Fisher, Eric McCormack

Synopsis: Jennifer Love Hewitt stars in this made-for-TV biography of screen legend Audrey Hepburn, following her from her troubled youth as she grows up in Europe during WWII to her success as one of Hollywood's most sophisticated leading ladies. The Audrey Hepburn Story also features re-creations of Read More

Oh, What a Night

Actors: Corey Haim, Barbara Williams, Keir Dullea, Geneviève Bujold, Andrew Miller, Robbie Coltrane

Synopsis: A young man who fantasizes about an older woman discovers his daydreams may be turning into realities in this coming-of-age comedy-drama. Eric (Corey Haim) and Donald (Andrew Miller) are two teenage boys growing up in a small farming community in Canada in the mid-1950's. Eric and Donald are at Read More

Murder, She Wrote: Test of Wills

Synopsis: Jessica (Angela Lansbury) is summoned to the island retreat of her friend Henry Reynard (Gene Barry), a millionaire lumberman. Someone has threatened Henry's life, and he is convinced that the "someone" is a relative anxious to get his or her hands on the old man's millions. Upon her arrival Read More

2010

Actors: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea

Synopsis: This belated sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) is directed by Peter Hyams. Roy Scheider plays the astronaut/skipper of a U.S.-Soviet space mission, sent to find out what happened to the missing Discovery flight that carried Keir Dullea into the beyond in the original 2001 Read More

Blind Date

Actors: Kirstie Alley, Joseph Bottoms, James Daughton, Lana Clarkson, Keir Dullea

Synopsis: Co-writer and director Nico Mastorakis filmed this unusual low-budget thriller in his native Athens, Greece. Timothy Bottoms stars as Jonathan Ratcliff, an American advertising executive who has lost his sight, although the specialist he consults, Dr. Steiger (Keir Dullea), feels that the cause is Read More

No Place to Hide

Brainwaves

Actors: Keir Dullea, Suzanna Love, Vera Miles, Percy Rodrigues, Tony Curtis

Synopsis: When his wife Suzanna Love is seriously injured in a car accident, Keir Dullea agrees to a radical and revolutionary surgical procedure to save the life of the comatose woman. Love undergoes a brain transplant-and, miracle of miracles, survives. Unfortunately, the brain donor was a murdered woman Read More

Time Traveller

Actors: Keir Dullea, Adrienne Barbeau, Jeremy Licht, Peter Hobbs, Phaedon Georgitsis

Synopsis: In this standard sci-fi romance, the widow Andrea (Adrienne Barbeau) lives on a Greek island with her son Timmy (Jeremy Licht) and, like the other islanders, is amazed when a stranger Keir Dullea washes up on shore during a magnetic storm. She brings the apparently injured man home to help him Read More

No Place to Hide

Synopsis: In this taut made-for-television psychological thriller, a young woman has never been able to overcome the guilt she feels about her father's accidental death. She nearly goes insane when a stalker begins watching her every move and she becomes convinced that it is the ghost of her late dad. Read More

Brave New World

Actors: Julie Cobb, Keir Dullea, Kristoffer Tabori, Dick Anthony Williams, Bud Cort

Synopsis: This 3-hour TV adaptation of the 1932 Aldous Huxley novel is set 600 years in the future. In this "well- ordered" society, the citizens are required to take mind-controlling drugs, sex without love is compulsory, and test-tube babies are commonplace because of a ban on pregnancy. Keir Dullea heads Read More

The Hostage Tower

Actors: Celia Johnson, Peter Fonda

Synopsis: Suspense novelist Alistair MacLean wrote Hostage Tower directly for television. A master criminal takes over the Eiffel Tower, holding the mother of the President of the United States hostage. The criminal demands a $30 million ransom or the tower will be blasted into oblivion. The cast is quite Read More

Legend of the Golden Gun

Actors: Keir Dullea, Jeff Osterhage, Hal Holbrook, Carl Franklin

Synopsis: Westerns may have been dead at the box-office in the late 1970s, but the TV-movie market still kept grinding them out. Legend of the Golden Gun includes elements of fantasy in its formula tale of a young man (Jeffrey Osterhage) who becomes the protege of an aging gunman (Hal Holbrook) The plotline Read More

Because He's My Friend

Actors: Keir Dullea, Karen Black

Synopsis: Because He's My Friend was directed for Australian television by American TV veteran Ralph Nelson. Karen Black and Keir Dullea play the parents of a mentally retarded teenager (superbly played by Warwick Poulson). The boy's condition effects the marriage both adversely and positively. The film Read More

Leopard in the Snow

Synopsis: The Harlequin Romance Publishing company produced this weeper about an English lass (Susan Penhaligon) who falls for a reclusive former race car driver (Keir Dullea). ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Mannikin

Synopsis: Did some clumsy oaf in the film lab misspell the title Mannikin? No, the misspelling was a deliberate device of author Robert (Psycho) Bloch, calculated to unsettle the audience from the start. Ronee Blakely of Nashville fame and Keir Dullea star in this terrifying mood piece. She's a singer, he's Read More

Welcome to Blood City

Actors: Jack Palance, Keir Dullea, Samantha Eggar, Barry Morse, Hollis McLaren

Synopsis: In this film, an unusual western town sports a population that awards status based on the number of people one can kill. When Lewis (Keir Dullea) is mysteriously transported there, he must struggle to stay alive and out of the way of Sheriff Frendlander (Jack Palance), the local hero who has Read More

Full Circle

Actors: Mia Farrow, Keir Dullea, Tom Conti, Jill Bennett, Robin Gammell

Synopsis: The British/Canadian Full Circle is better known by its American title, The Haunting of Julia. The eponymous Julia, played by Mia Farrow, is driven to near-madness by the death of her daughter. Things don't get much better when Julia and her husband move into a forbidding old mansion. The events Read More

Law and Order

Actors: Art Hindle

Synopsis: Former policewoman Dorothy Uhnak wrote the book upon which this 150-minute TV movie was based. The central characters of Law and Order are the male members of an Irish-American family--three generations of police officers. The bulk of the drama concerns the conflicts between Deputy Chief of Public Read More

Paul and Michelle

Actors: Lucy Arnold, Guy Harly, Sara Stout, Carine Vogel

Synopsis: English Paul and French Michelle come together again in this sequel to the 1971 film Friends. Several years have passed since they had their adolescent adventure in baby-making. Paul has just finished his fancy British school while Michelle, her baby and an American live together in France. Paul Read More

Black Christmas

Actors: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, Andrea Martin, John Saxon

Synopsis: Although this Canadian production saw its widest U.S. cable TV distribution in the early '80s (primarily under the title Stranger in the House) to capitalize on the phenomenal success of Halloween and its offspring, this effective suspense-thriller actually predates John Carpenter's film by four Read More

Paperback Hero

Actors: Elizabeth Ashley, John Beck, Keir Dullea, Dayle Haddon

Synopsis: A small-time athlete is suddenly confronted by the real world in this thoughtful comedy drama from Canada. Rick (Keir Dullea) is the star player on a semi-pro hockey team in a small town on the Canadian prairie. While Rick has to hold down a job in a hardware store to pay his rent, his skills on Read More

Paul Et Michele

Actors: Sean Bury, Anicée Alvina, Keir Dullea, Catherine Allegret

The Starlost: The Invasion

Synopsis: Directed by George McCowan, this feature length film is actually a compilation of two episodes from The Starlost, a 1970's Canadian sci-fi television series. The film takes place in the year 2790; by this time, the earth has been condemned, and the remaining survivors exist inside of a biosphere Read More

The Starlost: The Deception

Synopsis: In this sci-fi entry from the Starlost TV series, members of the crew find themselves captured and imprisoned by a mad ruler in an intergalactic dome on an Earthship Ark. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Starlost: The Return

Synopsis: In this sci-fi episode from The Starlost TV series, the Earthship Ark endures a mutiny when an exploratory craft returns from 400 years in a time warp. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Starlost: The Alien Oro

Synopsis: Alien Oro is an expansion of an episode from the Canadian sci-fi TV series The Starlost. Walter Koenig of Star Trek fame guest-stars as Oro, an extraterrestrial who comes upon "space outcast" Ydana (Alexandra Bastedo). Unable to survive outside her own environment, Ydana is doomed to a horrible Read More

The Starlost: The Beginning

Synopsis: The Beginning consists of two hour-long episodes from the weekly TV series Starlost. Created by Harlan Ellison (who later disowned the project), this science fiction effort is set in the 28th century. Keir Dullea stars as a postapocalyptic youth who has been sentenced to prison for speaking his Read More

The Invasion

Synopsis: The crew of the Earthship Ark is threatened by a deranged space commander who wishes to experiment with their brains. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Pope Joan

Actors: John Arineri, Neville Aurelius, Lorain Bertorelli, Ion Grafini, Sheelah Wilcocks, Liv Ullmann, Trevor Howard, Lesley-Anne Down, Franco Nero, Olivia de Havilland

Synopsis: Liv Ullman portrays a female pope -- based on a long-held rumor that the papacy was held by a woman between the reigns of Leo IV and Benedict III -- in this rambling saga directed by Michael Anderson. The British version of the film has been cut, not only removing twenty-one minutes of the film Read More

De Sade

Actors: Keir Dullea, Senta Berger, Lilli Palmer, Anna Massey, Sonja Ziemann

Synopsis: Keir Dullea dives into a bevy of babes with an open wine bottle as the notorious Marquis de Sade in this low-budget debauch from American International Pictures -- purveyors of fine entertainment morsels for the connoisseur. The film takes place as an extended flashback after de Sade has escaped Read More

Black Water Gold

Actors: Keir Dullea, Bradford Dillman, France Nuyen, Aron Kincaid, Ricardo Montalban

Synopsis: Black Water Gold stars Aron Kincaid as a self-styled "scuba bum" living in Nassau. Kincaid teams up with marine archaeologist Keir Dullea and historian Ricardo Montalban in seeking out a gold-laden sunken Spanish galleon. With so many veteran movie villains involved, there has to be some dirty Read More

The Fox

Actors: Sandy Dennis, Keir Dullea, Anne Heywood, Glyn Morris

Synopsis: Based on a novella by D.H. Lawrence, this drama concerns Jill (Sandy Dennis) and Ellen (Anne Heywood), a lesbian couple who live in a remote, snowbound cabin. While Ellen dominates the relationship, she has also grown dissatisfied and is no longer sure she wants to stay with Jill. When Paul (Keir Dullea Read More

Madame X

Actors: Lana Turner, John Forsythe, Ricardo Montalban, Burgess Meredith, Constance Bennett

Synopsis: Lana Turner takes the lead in the seventh film version of Alexandre Bisson's glossy soap opera. Holly Parker (Turner) is married to respected diplomat Clay Anderson (John Forsythe), but his busy schedule prevents them from seeing each other very often. Distracted and lonely, Holly allows her head Read More

Bunny Lake Is Missing

Actors: Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Laurence Olivier, Noël Coward, Martita Hunt

Synopsis: Based on the mystery novel by Marryam Modell (using the pseudonym Evelyn Piper), Bunny Lake Is Missing is a bizarre study in motherhood, kindness, enigma, and insanity. Ann Lake (Carol Lynley), an American freshly relocated to England, wishes to drop off her daughter Bunny for the girl's first day Read More

Le Ore Nude

Actors: Keir Dullea, Rossana Podestà, Philippe Leroy, Odoardo Spadaro

Synopsis: 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 one-day affair with him. ~ Steve Huey, All Movie Guide Read More

The Thin Red Line

Actors: Keir Dullea, Jack Warden, James Philbrook, Ray Daley, Bob Kanter

Synopsis: 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 Dullea is Private Doll, who dreads the invasion and steals a pistol to help him protect himself. Sergeant Welsh (Jack Warden), a caustic Read More

Mail Order Bride

Actors: Buddy Ebsen, Lois Nettleton, Warren Oates, Barbara Luna

Synopsis: Many viewers avoided Mail Order Bride upon its first release, assuming (thanks to MGM's shoddy promotional campaign) that the picture had been slapped together to capitalize on the popularity of Beverly Hillbillies star Buddy Ebsen. In truth, the film is an engaging and involving western drama Read More

Bonanza: Elegy for a Hangman

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker

Synopsis: Ben Cartwright plays host to Judge Whitaker (Otto Kruger), better known to one and all as "Hanging Harry." Among those sentenced to death by Whitaker was the father of Bob Jolley (Keir Dullea), who, believing his dad was innocent, now relentlessly dogs Whitaker's trail, trying to goad the Judge Read More

Alcoa Premiere Theater: The Broken Year

Naked City: The Apple Falls Not Far From the Tree

David and Lisa

Actors: Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin, Howard Da Silva, Neva Patterson, Clifton James

Synopsis: This stark and spare look at the world of the mentally disturbed was one of the beacons of the new American independent film movement. Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin star as two adolescents who make contact with each other in a home for disturbed youngsters. Dullea is David Clemens, who is placed Read More

The Hoodlum Priest

Actors: Don Murray, Larry Gates, Cindi Wood, Keir Dullea, Logan Ramsey

Synopsis: Director Irvin Kershner, better known for his big-budget films like The Empire Strikes Back, joins with scripters and lead Don Murray to create this moving and effective docudrama. The story is based on the experiences of real-life Rev. Charles Dismas Clark (played here by Murray), a Jesuit priest Read More

Naked City: Murder is a Face I Know