“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 ...

Malevolent robot stories used to be more about brawn than brain — so it was a genuine shock for audiences in 1968 when the sentient HAL-9000 computer calmly said, "I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't ...