When a mysterious artifact is uncovered on the Moon, a spacecraft manned by two humans and one supercomputer is sent to Jupiter to find its origins.


Director
Stanley Kubrick
Screenplay
Stanley Kubrick
Arthur C. Clarke
Cast
Keir Dullea as Dr David Bowman
Gary Lockwood as Dr Frank Poole
William Sylvester as Dr Heywood Floyd
Daniel Richter as Moonwatcher, the chief man-ape
Leonard Rossiter as Dr Andrei Smyslov
Margaret Tyzack as Elena
Robert Beatty as Dr Ralph Halvorsen
Sean Sullivan as Dr Roy Michaels
Douglas Rain as the voice of HAL 9000
Frank Miller as mission controller
Edwina Carroll as lunar shuttle stewardess
Penny Brahms as stewardess
Heather Downham as stewardess
Alan Gifford as Poole's father
Ann Gillis as Poole's mother
Maggie d'Abo as stewardess (Space Station 5 elevator) (uncredited)
Chela Matthison as Mrs Turner, Space Station 5 reception (uncredited)
Vivian Kubrick as Floyd's daughter, "Squirt" (uncredited)
Kenneth Kendall as BBC announcer (uncredited)