“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,” ...

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, the veteran Canadian stage actor who provided the soft and gentle voice of the rogue HAL computer for Stanley Kubrick's classic '2001: A Space Odyssey' and its sequel, has died. He was ...