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 ...

Douglas Rain, who performed for 32 seasons with the Stratford Festival in Ontario but was perhaps most famous for one faceless movie role — the voice of the HAL 9000 computer in Stanley Kubrick’s ...

“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,” ...

When the world first witnessed the supercomputer HAL 9000 calmly refuse to help astronaut Dave Bowman in Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi epic 2001: A Space Odyssey, no one could have predicted the legacy of ...

Canadian actor Douglas Rain — a veteran of the theater but perhaps best known for lending his voice to the artificially intelligent computer HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 classic 2001: A Space ...