He beat out other actors for the gig, including Martin Balsam and Nigel Davenport. His final stage appearance at Stratford, a world-renowned repertory theater festival, was in 1998 for “A Man for All Seasons.”Īll of Rain’s voiceover work for “Space Odyssey” was done in post-production. In 1972, Rain received a Tony Award nomination for his role in Robert Bolt’s production of “Vivat! Vivat Regina!” He was Alec Guinness’ understudy for the title role. Rain, who studied at the Old Vic theater in London, played Marquis of Dorset and Tyrrell in Shakepseare’s “Richard III” in 1953, the first year of the festival.
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His career included more than a hundred television and movie roles, voice work and radio plays, CTV said. Rain was born in Winnipeg in 1928 and started off as a child radio actor. “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.”
“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,” Cimolino said. Rain spent the bulk of his career as a Shakespearean actor but was best known as the eerily soft voice of HAL 9000 in Stanley Kubrick’s cinematic classic. “Canadian theater has lost one of its greatest talents and a guiding light in its development,” the festival’s artistic director, Antoni Cimolino, said in a statement. His death was announced Sunday at the Stratford Festival in Ontario, which Rain co-founded in 1952 and where he performed for 32 seasons. Treat Williams' final projects revealed after actor's deathĭouglas Rain, the Canadian actor behind the voice of computer-gone-rogue HAL 9000 in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” has died.
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