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, ...

Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 masterpiece, 2001: A Space Odyssey, is a hardcore sci-fi epic. However, the film has an underlying horror element that lingers throughout the plot, but not in a traditional ...

“I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that.” Even if you’venever seen the movie, you know the voice. Other WRAL Top Stories HAL 9000, the seemingly omniscient computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” ...

Douglas Rain, who voiced the soft-spoken HAL 9000 robot that went rogue in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” has died. He was 90. The Stratford Festival, which Rain, who was a dedicated ...