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2001: A Space Odyssey
The ultimate trip.
Humanity finds a mysterious object buried beneath the lunar surface and sets off to find its origins with the help of HAL 9000, the world's most advanced super computer.
  • Released on 04/02/1968 (Movie)
  • 8.071 out of 10 (11349 votes on TMDB)
  • Science Fiction / Mystery / Adventure
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Keir Dullea

Character's name: "Dr. David Bowman"
Birthday: 05/30/1936
Birthplace: Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Biography:
Keir Atwood Dullea (born May 30, 1936) is an American actor best known for the character of astronaut David Bowman, whom he portrayed in the 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey and in 1984's 2010: The Year We Make Contact, as well as his roles in the films Bunny Lake is Missing (1965) and Black Christmas (1974).

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Gary Lockwood

Character's name: "Dr. Frank Poole"
Birthday: 02/21/1937
Birthplace: Van Nuys, California, USA
Biography:
Gary Lockwood (born February 21, 1937) is an American actor perhaps best known for his iconic 1968 role as the astronaut Dr. Frank Poole in 2001: A Space Odyssey. He is father of the actress Samantha Lockwood. Both currently live in Los Angeles.

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William Sylvester

Character's name: "Dr. Heywood Floyd"
Birthday: 01/31/1922
Date of Death: 01/25/1995
Birthplace: Oakland, California, USA
Biography:
William Sylvester (January 31, 1922 – January 25, 1995) was an American TV and film actor. His most famous film credit was Dr. Heywood Floyd in Stanley Kubrick's 2001 A Space Odyssey (1968). Born in Oakland, California and married at one time to the British actress Veronica Hurst, he moved to England after the Second World War and became a staple of British B films at a time when American and Canadian actors were much in demand in order to give indigenous films some appeal in the US. As a result, he gained top billing in one of his very first films, House of Blackmail (1953), directed by the veteran filmmaker Maurice Elvey, for whom he also made What Every Woman Wants the following year. He also starred in such minor films as The Stranger Came Home (1954, for Hammer), Dublin Nightmare (1958), Offbeat (1960), Information Received (1961), Incident at Midnight, Ring of Spies and Blind Corner (all 1963). There were also lead roles in four British horror films: Gorgo (1960), Devil Doll (1963), Devils of Darkness (1964) and The Hand of Night (1966). Among his many TV credits were a 1959 BBC version of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (playing Mark Antony), The Saint, The Baron, The High Chaparral, Harry O and The Six Million Dollar Man. His later films included You Only Live Twice (1967) and, back in the USA after his prominent role for Kubrick, Busting (1973), The Hindenburg (1975) and Heaven Can Wait (1978). He died in Sacramento, California in 1995, aged 72.

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Douglas Rain

Character's name: "HAL 9000 (voice)"
Birthday: 03/13/1928
Date of Death: 11/11/2018
Birthplace: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Biography:
Douglas Rain (March 13, 1928 - November 11, 2018) was a Canadian actor and narrator. He was primarily a stage actor, but his best known film role was as the voice of the HAL 9000 computer in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and its sequel 2010 (1984). Rain was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He studied acting at the Banff School of Fine Arts in Banff, Alberta as well as in London at the Old Vic School. As a stage actor, his long association with the Stratford Festival of Canada that spans more than four decades. He has performed in many diverse roles on stage, most notably recognized for his performance at Stratford, Ontario in Henry V which was made into a television production in 1966. Rain was also nominated for Broadway's 1972 Tony Award as Best Supporting or Featured Actor (Dramatic) for his performance in Vivat! Vivat Regina!

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Daniel Richter

Character's name: "Moonwatcher"
Birthday: 06/15/1939
Birthplace: Darien, Connecticut, USA

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Leonard Rossiter

Character's name: "Dr. Andrei Smyslov"
Birthday: 10/21/1926
Date of Death: 10/05/1984
Birthplace: Wavertree, Liverpool, England, UK
Biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Leonard Rossiter (21 October 1926 – 5 October 1984) was an English actor known for his roles as Rupert Rigsby, in the British comedy television series Rising Damp (1974–78), and Reginald Iolanthe Perrin, in The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (1976–79). He also had a long and distinguished career in the theatre and gained some notoriety for a series of Cinzano commercials (1978–1983), with Joan Collins. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leonard Rossiter, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Margaret Tyzack

Character's name: "Elena"
Birthday: 09/09/1931
Date of Death: 06/25/2011
Birthplace: Essex, England
Biography:
Margaret Tyzack was born on September 9, 1931 in Plaistow, London, England, UK. She was an actress, known for 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Match Point (2005). She was previously married to Alan R. Stephenson. She died on June 25, 2011 in Blackheath, London, England, UK.

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Robert Beatty

Character's name: "Dr. Ralph Halvorsen"
Birthday: 10/19/1909
Date of Death: 03/03/1992
Birthplace: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Beatty (19 October 1909 – 3 March 1992) was a Canadian actor who worked in film, television and radio for most of his career and was especially known in the UK. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Beatty, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Sean Sullivan

Character's name: "Dr. Roy Michaels"
Birthday: 12/26/1921
Date of Death: 06/03/1985
Birthplace: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Frank Miller

Character's name: "Mission Controller"
Birthday: 01/01/1944
Date of Death: 06/02/1998
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, USA

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Ed Bishop

Character's name: "Aries-1B Lunar Shuttle Captain"
Birthday: 06/11/1932
Date of Death: 06/08/2005
Birthplace: Brooklyn - New York - USA
Biography:
George Victor Bishop (11 June 1932 – 8 June 2005), known professionally as Ed Bishop or sometimes Edward Bishop, was an American actor. He was known for playing Commander Ed Straker in UFO, Captain Blue in Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and for voicing Philip Marlowe in a series of BBC Radio adaptations of the Marlowe novels by Raymond Chandler. Bishop made his film acting debut as an ambulance driver in Stanley Kubrick's 1962 movie Lolita. He played an American astronaut going to the Moon in the film The Mouse on the Moon (1963) and also appeared in The Bedford Incident (1965) and Battle Beneath the Earth (1967). He had small speaking roles in the James Bond films You Only Live Twice (1967) and Diamonds Are Forever (1971), but was not included in the film credits for either. He appeared in a second Kubrick film, 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), in which he played the Captain of the Aries 1B Moon shuttle. The role initially featured dialogue but this was later cut from his scenes. Bishop appeared in various film and television projects created by producer Gerry Anderson. He provided narration, in addition to the voice of Captain Blue, for Anderson's Supermarionation puppet series, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967), and appeared in Anderson's science-fiction film Doppelgänger (1969). Perhaps his most prominent screen role was that of Commander Ed Straker in Anderson's science-fiction series UFO (1970–71). Bishop's dark hair was initially dyed blond for the role, though he eventually wore a blond wig instead. In later years, he appeared in films such as Twilight's Last Gleaming, Saturn 3, Silver Dream Racer, and The Lords of Discipline. He provided vocal work for the 1974 animated TV series of Star Trek, and appeared as Lieutenant Colonel Harrity in the final episode of the British World War II prisoner-of-war drama Colditz. In the 1980s, he made several appearances on The Kenny Everett Television Show, Whoops Apocalypse (he also appeared in the subsequent film), and had a role in the children's television series Chocky's Children. He continued to act on film, TV and radio, usually in British and European productions, and was a frequent guest at science fiction conventions. He and fellow Anderson actor Shane Rimmer (a Canadian actor who often worked in the UK) joked about how frequently their professional paths crossed and termed themselves "Rent-a-yank". They appeared together as NASA operatives in the opening of You Only Live Twice and as United States Navy sailors in The Bedford Incident, as well as the 1983 film of the Harold Robbins novel The Lonely Lady. In 1989, Bishop was reunited with Rimmer and another Anderson actor, Matt Zimmerman, in the BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet. He and Rimmer also toured together in theatre shows, including Death of a Salesman in the 1990s, and they both appeared in the BBC drama-documentary Hiroshima (2005), one of Bishop's last TV projects.

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Edwina Carroll

Character's name: "Aries-1B Stewardess"
Birthday: 10/06/1938
Birthplace: Burma
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Edwin Carroll is a Burmese-born retired actress.

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Heather Downham

Character's name: "Stewardess"
Birthday: 09/16/2024

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Penny Brahms

Character's name: "Stewardess"
Birthday: 09/16/2024
Birthplace: London, England, UK

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Maggie London

Character's name: "Stewardess"
Birthday: 08/04/1937
Birthplace: Islington, London, England, UK


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