When the astronauts try to disconnect HAL, he fights back. “This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it.” I’m afraid I can’t do that,” the machine blandly refuses. When astronaut Dave Bowman asks HAL to open the ships’ pod doors, HAL famously balks. HAL is the onboard master computer on the spaceship Discovery 1 but goes rogue. Rain was initially hired to narrate 1968’s “2001: A Space Odyssey,” but the director chose to go a different direction. Kubrick had heard Rain’s voice in the 1960 documentary “Universe,” a film he watched multiple times, according to the actor. His roles at Stratford included playing Claudio in “Measure for Measure” in 1954, Malvolio in “Twelfth Night” in 1957, Edgar in “King Lear” in 1964 and Prince Hal in “Henry IV, Part 1” in 1958, a play and a role he would return to in 1965 and would eventually take on the title role in 1966.īut it was the aloof voice of the artificially intelligent HAL 9000 - the forerunner of today’s Amazon’s Alexa or Google Home - where Rain entered the public’s consciousness. He was one of the festival’s founding company members and spent 32 seasons performing there, until 1998. Marys Memorial Hospital, just outside of Stratford, Ontario. The Stratford Festival said Rain died Sunday of natural causes at St. (Robert C Ragsdale/Stratford Festival via AP) Credit: AP
Camera Icon Douglas Rain appears as King Henry IV in 1979. ACTOR Douglas Rain, who played some of Shakespeare’s most intriguing characters onstage but perhaps is best known for supplying the creepily calm voice of the computer HAL in Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” has died at 90.
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