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.

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Talk about a bad computer day. Hundreds of millions of miles from the nearest help desk, a crewman bound for Jupiter in "2001: A Space Odyssey" discovers his ship's computer, HAL 9000, is trying ...

2001 's HAL 9000, a sentient, rogue computer in a film written in collaboration with science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, is widely regarded as Kubrick's cinematic masterpiece.