Dan Richter on Playing the Ape in ‘2001’, Life With John and Yoko (flag)

nymag.com — Photo: danrichter.com , Warner Bros. As Moonwatcher, the man-ape who discovers the bone in "The Dawn of Man," the opening act of Stanley Kubrick's seminal 2001: A Space Odyssey , Dan Richter was at the center of one of the most influential and important sequences in film history. But he was more than an actor; Richter, who had been working as a mime when he was tapped by Kubrick, actually ...

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2001 vs. Planet of the Apes
SpoutBlog — ... receiving a special award for make-up — consider someone associated with that production may have stolen from or attempted to sabotage the ape wardrobe of Kubrick’s film. In a Vulture blog interview with 2001 ape performer and choreographer Dan Richter, the former mime implies something to that affect: ...

"It's been axiomatic that documentaries are incapable of presenting the entire truth since the Lumière brothers..."
IFC: Indie Eye — ...        —Dan Richter on playing the ape with the bone at the beginning of "2001: A Space Odyssey," at New York ...

Get Your Hands Off Stanley Kubrick's Prosthesis, You Damned Dirty Ape [Monkey Business]
Gawker: Defamer — ... A startling revelation from the '60s emerged this week when Dan Richter, who played the contemplative ape in the prologue of 2001: A Space Odyssey, acknowledged a top-level, primate-swiping security breach on Stanley Kubrick's set. It all started with the embittered recollection of losing a special 1968 Make-Up Oscar to Planet of the Apes — and then, like a slo-mo bone in the prehistoric sky, the conspiracy theories flew: ...

The view: Expelled makes monkeys of us all
Film: Film blog | guardian.co.uk — ... ), it's looking increasingly like the true believers might finally have found their very own Michael Moore. Lord help us. Elsewhere this week, it can surely only be cosmic coincidence that as American movie-goers line up to throw rocks at evolution, New York Magazine's Vulture Blog featured a fascinating interview with Dan Richter , the mime who played the proto-human ape " ...