Douglas Rain, who died Sunday, was not a familiar face. But he was sure a familiar voice. "Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave." That was the voice of Douglas Rain.

For a romantic comedy about seeing beyond fat to a person's inner beauty, "Shallow Hal" could use a little extra comic poundage. The Farrelly brothers' latest sees the team tapping a sweeter, milder ...

Anyone who has seen Stanley Kubrick’s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey knows how absolutely terrifying HAL 9000 can be. The advanced A.I. serves as a true menace in the film. So it’s kind of weird to see ...

Douglas Rain, the Canadian actor who provided the voice to the HAL 9000 computer in Stanley Kubrick‘s classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, died Sunday at the age of 90. The Stratford Festival in Ontario, ...

Rain was 90 years old when he passed at the St. Mary’s Memorial Hospital near Stratford, Ontario, as announced by local theater fest the Stratford Festival. He reportedly died of natural causes. The ...

HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s classic film 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the least cuddly computers in all of science fiction. However, this 10.5-inch plush changes all that. Not only is HAL ...

The astronauts of "2001: A Space Odyssey" hide in a pod to discuss the troubling behavior of their spacecraft's artificial intelligence, HAL 9000. In the background, HAL is able to read their lips.

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, ...

NEW YORK – Canadian actor Douglas Rain, who played some of Shakespeare's most intriguing characters onstage but is perhaps best known for supplying the creepily calm voice of the computer HAL in ...

Rain's sinuous, detached reading of HAL's lines made the computer's murders of four astronauts all the more shocking. Douglas Rain, the acclaimed Shakespearean actor whose chilling performance as the ...