Douglas Rain, who died Sunday, was not a familiar face. But he was sure a familiar voice. "Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave." That was the voice of Douglas Rain.

Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey turns 50 today. The film, considered a masterpiece of science fiction, has changed the genre in countless ways—its depiction of artificial intelligence most of ...

Douglas Rain, the Canadian actor who provided the voice to the HAL 9000 computer in Stanley Kubrick‘s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, died Sunday at the age of 90. The Stratford Festival in Ontario, ...

Douglas Rain, the longtime acclaimed actor behind the chilling voice of the murderous HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, died on Sunday at age 90 Ale Russian is a contributing writer at ...

Anyone who has seen Stanley Kubrick’s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey knows how absolutely terrifying HAL 9000 can be. The advanced A.I. serves as a true menace in the film. So it’s kind of weird to see ...

Actor Douglas Rain, who provided the quietly sinister voice of HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, has died at the age of 90. The Canadian star passed away on Sunday morning at St.

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Rain's sinuous, detached reading of HAL's lines made the computer's murders of four astronauts all the more shocking. Douglas Rain, the acclaimed Shakespearean actor whose chilling performance as the ...

A celebrated Shakespearean stage actor from Canada, he did all his work on the 1968 classic in postproduction, then voiced another computer for Woody Allen's 'Sleeper.' By Etan Vlessing Douglas Rain, ...