So sad, RIP Hal9000/Douglas Rain #Repost @disco_infernal ・・・ RIP to #DouglasRain – best known as the voice of the sentient HAL 9000 computer in #2001ASpaceOdyssey an absolutely chilling, (mostly) emotionless and iconic performance! A post shared by muthur9000 YUTANI.BLOG&PODCAST (@muthur9000) on Nov 12, 2018 at 3:10am PST I was just adding a HAL 9000 emote to my discord when I heard the news. Sad to find out Douglas Rain passed away on the morning of the 11th November 2018 at St. Marys Memorial Hospital. He died of natural causes at age 90 and is survived by his two sons, daughter, granddaughter and daughter-in-law. "Dave, this conversation can serve no purpose anymore. My nickname @muthur9000 is a combination of my two favourite science fiction portrayals of Artificial Intelligence, MU/TH/UR from the Alien Universe and HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. This Saturday I will be attending an exclusive screening of 2001 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary, and they will be a Q and A with Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood. It will be a beautiful but sombre screening for me. It's the second time I will be watching it in the 70mm "Unrestored" print showcasing its original format. Douglas Rain also co-founded the Stratford Festival, The festival's director mentioned his passing in a media release. "Canadian theatre has lost one of its greatest talents and a guiding light in its development.

Douglas Rain, a Shakespeare actor who provided the eerie, calmly homicidal voice of HAL in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, has died at the age of 90. The Canadian actor died Sunday morning, according to the Stratford Festival, where Rain spent 32 seasons acting in such roles such as Othello's Iago and Twelfth Night's Malvolio. He was also a founding member of the company. The Winnipeg-born actor had dozens of theater, film and television credits. However, Rain's biggest mark on pop culture was less Shakespearean, but perhaps just as much a classic: as 2001's HAL 9000, a sentient, rogue computer in a film written in collaboration with science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke and widely regarded as Kubrick's masterpiece.

Actor Douglas Rain, who was the voice of the sinister computer Hal in sci-fi film 2001: A Space Odyssey, has died, the organisers of a theatre festival he founded have said. Rain died at the age of 90, according to the Stratford Festival in Canada. The actor performed for 32 seasons at the Shakespearean festival and was nominated for a Tony Award in 1972. But he will be best remembered as the voice of Hal 9000, the AI computer in Stanley Kubrick's landmark 1968 film. Today we lost Douglas Rain, a member of our founding company and a hugely esteemed presence on our stages for 32 seasons. He will be greatly missed.

This, the 50th-anniversary summer of Arthur C. Clarke's and Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey," is arguably the beginning of big-budget Hollywood science fiction as we now know it. Without "2001," the "Star Wars," "Alien," and the "Star Trek" film franchises might not be the force they are today. For this decidedly serious and sometimes ponderous 1968 film opus proved that science fiction could be both profitable and profound. "Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke and the Making of a Masterpiece," is author Michael Benson's recently-published, fascinating and extraordinarily detailed take on the pair's four-year collaboration. The film's principal photography began on a U.K. sound stage at Shepperton Studios outside London on December 30, 1965. Benson writes "2001: A Space Odyssey" encompassed four million years of human evolution, from pre-human Australopithecine man-apes struggling to survive in southern Africa, through to twenty-first-century space-faring Homo sapiens, then on to the death and rebirth of their Odysseus astronaut, Dave Bowman, as an eerily posthuman "star child."