Douglas Rain, a Shakespeare actor who provided the eerie, calmly homicidal voice of HAL in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, has died at the age of 90. Kubrick wasreportedly inspired to cast ...

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 ...

Douglas Rain, a Canadian actor best known for voicing the HAL 9000 computer in Stanley Kubrick's classic film "2001: A Space Odyssey," died on Sunday. He was 90. The Stratford Festival in Ontario, ...

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Making a PC generate sounds that resemble human speech is relatively simple. But making a machine sound convincingly human is very tricky. Yet IBM claims to have coded a synthetic voice that is the ...

Sci-fi fans rejoice: You can now talk to your very own replica of the iconic HAL-9000 computer from Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke's seminal film, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Master Replicas Group has ...

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 ...

The man behind one of film's creepiest voices has died at the age of 90. Canadian Douglas Rain was the voice of HAL, the sinister computer in cult classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Born in Winnipeg, Rain ...

Douglas Rain, the longtime acclaimed actor behind the chilling voice of the murderous HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey, died on Sunday at age 90 Ale Russian is a contributing writer at ...