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

SpoutBlog found this 4/23/2008 on 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 ...