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 landmark 1968 film, “2001: A Space Odyssey” — died on Sunday in St. Marys, Ontario. He was 90.
Douglas Rain as King Henry IV in “Henry IV, Part 2,” at the Stratford Festival in Ontario in 1979.
Keir Dullea, as an astronaut, dismantling the HAL 9000 computer in “2001.” As voiced by Mr. Rain, the computer went from being cool to coldly malevolent.
Source: mudwerks