
While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.

as Dr. Heywood Floyd

as Dr. Walter Curnow

as Tanya Kirbuk

as Dr. R. Chandra

as Dr. David Bowman

as HAL 9000 (voice)

as Caroline Floyd

as Dr. Vladimir Rudenko

as Christopher Floyd

as Victor Milson

as Betty Fernandez

as Maxim Brailovsky

as Dimitri Moisevitch

as Dr. Vasili Orlov

as Irina Yakunina

as Yuri Svetlanov

as Nikolaj Ternovsky

as SAL 9000 (voice)

as Commercial Announcer

as Jessie Bowman

as Alexander Kovalev

as Anchorman on TV

as Nurse

as Hospital Neurosurgeon

as Dr. Hirsch

as Commercial Announcer

as Man on Park Bench (uncredited)