Production Details

2001: A Space Odyssey

Script: Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke, based on Clarke’s story “The Sentinel”

Direction: Stanley Kubrick

Photography (Super Panavision): Geoffrey Unsworth

Additional photography: John Alcott

Production design: Tony Masters, Harry Lange, Ernie Archer

Special photographic effects design and direction: Stanley Kubrick

Special photographic effects supervision: Wally Veevers, Douglas Trumbull, Con Pederson, Tom Howard

Editing: Ray Lovejoy

Music: Richard Strauss, Johann Strauss, Aram Khatchaturian, György Ligeti

Costumes: Hardy Amies

Cast: Keir Dullea (David Bowman), Gary Lockwood (Frank Poole), William Sylvester (Dr. Heywood Floyd), Daniel Richter (Moon-Watcher), Douglas Rain (Voice of HAL 9000), Leonard Rossiter (Smyslov), Margaret Tyzack (Elena), Robert Beatty (Halvorsen), Sean Sullivan (Michaels), Frank Miller (Mission Control), Penny Brahms (Stewardess), Alan Gifford (Poole’s Father)

Produced by Stanley Kubrick for MGM

Running time: 141 minutes