Douglas Rain

...way to an orbiting spacecraft in a ravishing and much-noted graphic match, then to the supercomputer HAL-9000 (voiced by the inimitable Douglas Rain), who-during the film's most plot-driven sequences-captures our ambitions and foibles as he...

In this article: Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, DVD, God, HAL, Dave Bowman, Arthur C. Clarke, Gary Lockwood, and Keir Dullea

Shortly after the novel was released, Tom Hanks expressed great interest in producing a film adaptation, with himself cast in the role of Floyd, and Keir Dullea and Douglas Rain reprising their roles as David Bowman and HAL 9000. These...

In this article: Heywood Floyd, David Bowman, Europa, Lucifer, Jupiter, and 2061: Odyssey Three

...Trumbull, and editor Ray Lovejoy (that Dawn of Man sequence, outstanding). And let's not forget one man behind the curtain, Douglas Rain as the voice of HAL 9000. (While listening to Anthony Hopkins playing Hannibal Lecter in "The Silence...

In this article: Dave Bowman, HAL, Stanley Kubrick, God, Arthur C. Clarke, HAL 9000, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Silence of the Lambs, Brazil, and DVD

.... Bowman and Poole watch a BBC television story about the mission, in which the TV audience is introduced to the ship's on-board computer HAL 9000 (voiced by Douglas Rain), which they address as "Hal", who runs most of the ship's operations.

In this article: HAL, David Bowman, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick, Heywood R. Floyd, Frank Poole, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, MGM, and Daisy Bell

...of the film that included the more colloquial-sounding version of HAL 9000, as originally voiced by actor Martin Balsam before Douglas Rain took over. In addition, the comic narrative captions describe the characters' thoughts and feelings, a...

In this article: Jack Kirby, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick, Machine Man, Beast, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Fantastic Four, and Impossible Man