Posted on 05/30/2016 5:11:04 PM PDT by EveningStar
American actor Keir Dullea turns 80 today.
He is best known for his role of David Bowman in "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "2010: The Year We Make Contact" as well as his role as David Clemens in the 1962 film "David and Lisa" which also starred Janet Margolin and Howard Da Silva. He also appeared in the 1974 cult film, "Black Christmas."
In television, he made guest appearances in many shows. Also, science fiction fans might remember him as Devon in the short-lived series, "The Starlost."
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Those were Cinerama screens. Multiple cameras filming and multiple projectors. I saw Grand Prix in Cinerama in the summer of ‘67.
Interesting that Dullea didn’t have more of a career.
Without question the ending of that movie made it the greatest tearjerker in the history of movies.
Without question the ending of that movie made it the greatest tearjerker in the history of movies.
A more recent Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood discussing the movie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2c_rSLXq6U
HAL singing Daisy Bell was a reference to the Bell Laboratories work on computer text to speech. They used a 1950s era IBM mainframe that had vacuum tubes.
Went to see the movie 12 times in Japan, lost a prospective girl friend over it. After returning to the states, I spent two years of high school with the woman Keir would marry, Mia Dillon.
The Starlost actually had some great potential. Created by the great science fiction writer Harlan Ellison, it had some serious production problems, and Ellison left before the first episode aired. It also had Ben Bova as its science advisor.
Most everything was green screened. But they also had some good set pieces. Their spaceship miniature was recycled from the Bruce Dern science fiction movie Silent Running.
Open the pod bay door, HAL.
Went to see 2001 with my high school class.....I was the only one who understood the movie because I had read the book, so I had to explain it to everyone.
I was a senior in high school when 2001 came out. We drove up to Hollywood and saw it at the Cinerama Dome with the huge screen and astounding audio. So intense it deserved to be called something more than just a movie.
If you shift each letter in HAL one character to the right = IBM
The film actually preceded the book.
As a straight guy, I though Dullea was the most beautiful man I had ever seen. Even years later he is still very good looking.
Okay, that’ll be enough of that
“I’m afraid that I can’t read this, Dave.”
LOL. I really don’t thwing both ways.
“If you shift each letter in HAL one character to the right = IBM”
That was already debunked by Clarke himself, and even Kubrick. It was just one of those urban legends (according to both). ...maybe.
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