#VOICE OF HAL 9000 COMPUTER MOVIE#

“But those of us lucky enough to have worked with Douglas soon solved his riddle and discovered that at the center of his mystery lay warmth and humanity, evidenced in his care for the young members of our profession,” he said. “The voice of HAL in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey,’ Douglas shared many of the same qualities as Kubrick’s iconic creation precision, strength of steel, enigma and infinite intelligence, as well as a wicked sense of humor,” Antoni Cimolino, artistic director of the Stratford Festival, said in a statement reported by The London Free Press, the local newspaper. The letters H, A and L precede I, B and M in the alphabet.

#VOICE OF HAL 9000 COMPUTER MOVIE#

He ended up being cast as the character most central to the movie - HAL, which was short for “Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer” and wasn’t, Clarke insisted for the rest of his life, a joke at IBM’s expense. In 1953, he became a member of the first repertory cast of the Stratford Festival and performed in 32 seasons with the company.Īccording to Vincent Lobrutto’s 1997 study “Stanley Kubrick: A Biography,” Rain was initially contracted to narrate “2001” after Kubrick heard his narration of the short documentary “Universe,” which was released by the National Film Board of Canada in 1960. In 1972, he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Supporting or Featured Actor in a Drama for his performance as William Cecil in “Vivat! Vivat Regina!” on Broadway. Rain was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and trained at the Old Vic Theatre in London. “The thing that captured the audience’s imagination back then more even than a chatty computer decades before Siri and Alexa was that unnervingly, HAL had a mind of his own,” the NPR critic Bob Mondello wrote in April on the 50th anniversary of the film’s release.Ī survey by the American Film Institute ranked HAL as the 13th-greatest villain in movie history.

“This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it,” HAL quietly tells astronaut Dave Bowman before proceeding to explain matter-of-factly that it had learned of Bowman’s and Poole’s plans to disconnect it by reading their lips.

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