Posted on 11/12/2018 4:17:17 AM PST by xp38
The Stratford Festival says it is mourning the loss of a “rare artist” and one of its pioneers, Douglas Rain, who died at the age of 90 on Sunday morning.
“Canadian theatre has lost one of its greatest talents and a guiding light in its development,” the festival’s artistic director, Antoni Cimolino, said in a press release Sunday.
“Douglas Rain was that rare artist: an actor deeply admired by other actors.”
The festival said Rain died of natural causes in Stratford, Ont., where he built his career as an actor.
Before his death, Rain was one of few surviving members who founded the company in 1952, the festival said. He performed at the theatre for 32 years between 1953 and 1998, becoming one of its “most respected leading men,” it said.
Rain played a range of roles at the theatre including Malvolio in “Twelfth Night”, the title role in “King John” and Prince Hal in “Henry IV, Part 1.”
The festival said Rain “made an indelible mark on popular culture” as the voice of the computer, known as Hal 9000, in Stanley Kubrick’s film “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 humour,” said Cimolino.
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hehehehe ....
WOW! RIP Sir. Your talents were amazing - both Stratford AND HAL? Shakespeare AND Kubrick? Wow.
Well, his voice is definitely a part of modern culture, isn’t it?
LOL, nearly everyone I know can at least do some kind of imitation of it...
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