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.

“I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that.” The deadpan, emotionless response from supercomputer HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 sci-fi classic “2001: A Space Odyssey” sets the tone for what is ...

Director Stanley's Kubrick's extremely prescient 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey" was at the time a resoundingly successful cinematic flight of fancy. A computer smarter than we are? What a hoot.

Canadian actor Douglas Rain, who played some of Shakespeare’s most intriguing characters onstage but perhaps is best known for the creepily calm voice of the computer HAL in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A ...

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Take a look inside some of the most interesting details behind the making of the 1968 futuristic classic '2001: A Space Odyssey,' created by famed science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, with ...

by Shane McGlaun — Sunday, March 11, 2018, 10:46 AM EDT Fans of the strange, yet classic flick 2001: A Space Odyssey will most certainly remember the rogue computer AI named HAL-900 that eventually ...

Douglas Rain, the actor who provided the creepy, chilling voice of the HAL computer in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," died Sunday in Stratford, Ontario, the BBC reported. He was 90. >> Read more ...

Douglas Rain, the actor who provided the creepy, chilling voice of the HAL computer in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," died Sunday in Stratford, Ontario, the BBC reported. He was 90. Rain was a ...

Actor Douglas Rain died on Sunday from natural causes in Ontario. He was 90 and is best known for the voice of HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, which came out 50 years ago this year. Fifty years ago, ...