![]() Rain was the voice of the computer in Woody Allen’s “Sleeper” in 1973. He was also seen in numerous television shows and several other movies, including “2010: The Year We Made Contact,” a sequel to “2001” in which he reprised the role of HAL. His performance in “Vivat! Vivat Regina!” in 1972 earned him a Tony Award nomination as best featured actor in a play. Rain, in the role of Henry, Prince of Wales, “performs with a youthful dash in the early scenes and then turns gallant in the later ones with equal fervor.” Howard Taubman, reviewing “Henry IV, Part 1” at Stratford in 1965 for The New York Times, said that Mr. His readings were cool to the point of being chilling, especially as the story moved along and HAL became malevolent. Rain’s rendition of the lines (“I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that”) was dispassionate in a way that was both soothing and unsettling. ![]() Kubrick, who died in 1999, explaining the scenes to him and giving him only the sparsest of directorial notes. Rain recorded his lines in a day and a half, with Mr. They met at a recording studio outside London. Kubrick, not satisfied with any of those, sought out Mr. Kubrick had an assistant director, also British, do it. During filming, the British actor Nigel Davenport read the lines off-camera for a time for the benefit of Keir Dullea and Gary Lockwood, who played the astronauts, and then Mr. The actor Martin Balsam recorded HAL’s lines but was deemed not quite right. ![]() At one point the computer was envisioned as female. “2001” had already been shot, and various concepts for the voice of HAL had been tried. And when he was having trouble finding a voice that he liked for HAL 9000 - the onboard computer on a spaceship carrying astronauts on a mysterious mission - he thought of the documentary’s narration. ![]() Kubrick’s attention he is said to have watched it scores of times. Rain narrated a Canadian documentary about astronomy and space called “Universe.” It caught Mr. What turned out to be, in a sense, a career-making job came along in 1960, when Mr. ![]()
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