Directed by Peter Hyams   Written by Arthur C. Clarke   Peter Hyams   Cast Roy Scheider ... Dr. Heywood Floyd John Lithgow ... Dr. Walter Curnow Helen Mirren ... Tanya Kirbuk Bob Balaban ... Dr. R. Chandra Keir Dullea ... Dave Bowman Douglas Rain ... HAL 9000 (voice) Madolyn Smith Osborne ... Caroline Floyd (as Madolyn Smith) Dana Elcar ... Dimitri Moisevitch Taliesin Jaffe ... Christopher Floyd James McEachin ... Victor Milson Mary Jo Deschanel ... Betty Fernandez Elya Baskin ... Maxim Brajlovsky Saveliy Kramarov ... Dr. Vladimir Rudenko (as Savely Kramarov) Oleg Rudnik ... Dr. Vasili Orlov Natasha Shneider ... Irina Yakunina Vladimir Skomarovsky ... Yuri Svetlanov Victor Steinbach ... Mikolaj Ternovsky Jan Tríska ... Alexander Kovalev Larry Carroll ... Anchorman on TV Herta Ware ... Jessie Bowman Cheryl Carter ... Nurse Ron Recasner ... Hospital Neurosurgeon Robert Lesser ... Dr. Hirsch Candice Bergen ... SAL 9000 (voice) (as Olga Mallsnerd) Delana Michaels ... Commercial Announcer Gene McGarr ... Commercial Announcer Uncredited Cast Arthur C. Clarke ... Man on Park Bench Gary Lockwood ... Dr. Frank Poole (archive footage) Produced by Peter Hyams   Neil A. Machlis   Jonathan A. Zimbert   Original Music by David Shire

Additional Info Premiere: December 07, 1984 DVD Release: August 25, 1998 Blu-ray Release: April 07, 2009 Country: Distributor: Warner Brother Studios Websites: Production Companies Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) Distributors MGM/UA Entertainment Company   (1984) (United States) (theatrical) MGM/UA Home Entertainment   (1985) (United States) (VHS) TBS Superstation   (1988) (United States) (TV) MGM Home Entertainment   (1989) (United States) (LaserDisc) (video) TNT   (1994) (United States) (TV) MGM Home Entertainment   (1998) (United States) (DVD) Warner Home Video   (2000) (United States) (DVD) Filming Locations Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA Plains of San Augustin, Magdalena, New Mexico, USA Rancho Palos Verdes, California, USA   (exteriors Heywood Floyd's home) Very Large Array, Socorro, New Mexico, USA Washington, District of Columbia, USA Rating Stats Overall Rating 6.7 / 10 Our Rating -- / 10 Your Friends -- / 10 Male Users -- / 10 Female Users -- / 10 Site Ranking #2,344 / 21,254 Site Ranking #2,340 Airheads (1994) #2,341 Constantine: Season 1 (2014) #2,342 Mimic (1997) #2,343 Chaos Walking (2021) #2,344 2010: The Year We Make Contact (1984) #2,345 Texas Chainsaw (2013) #2,346 Dragged Across Concrete (2018) #2,347 Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm (1993) #2,348 Rough Night (2017)