WRAL

Douglas Rain, Chilly Voice of a Computer Named HAL, Dies at 90

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 ...
WRAL

HAL 9000 Wasn’t Always So Eerily Calm

“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,” ...
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Douglas Rain, voice of HAL from ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ dead at 90

Douglas Rain, the actor who provided the creepy, chilling voice of the HAL computer in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," died Sunday in Stratford, Ontario, the BBC reported. He was 90. Rain was a ...
nerdist

Douglas Rain, the Voice of HAL in 2001, Has Died

In a science-fiction movie mostly sparse with dialogue and deapan in the face of discovery, a talking computer had the most lines and arguably the most humanity of anything onscreen. HAL 9000, an ...
Business Insider

Douglas Rain, who supplied HAL's voice in '2001,' dies at 90

NEW YORK (AP) — A Canadian actor who played some of Shakespeare's most intriguing characters onstage but perhaps is best known for supplying the creepily calm voice of the rogue computer HAL in ...