2010 - actors, characters and roles

All actors and their roles in the film "2010"
2010 (1984)
Timing: 1:56 (116 min)
2010 - TMDB rating
6.64/10
1043
2010 - Kinopoisk rating
6.861/10
10120
2010 - IMDB rating
6.7/10
61000

Actors and characters

Photo Roy Scheider #53488Photo Roy Scheider #53489Photo Roy Scheider #53490Photo Roy Scheider #53491

Roy Scheider

Roy Scheider
Character Dr. Heywood Floyd
Photo John Lithgow #8585Photo John Lithgow #8586Photo John Lithgow #8587Photo John Lithgow #8588

John Lithgow

John Lithgow
Character Dr. Walter Curnow
Photo Helen Mirren #3465Photo Helen Mirren #3466Photo Helen Mirren #3467Photo Helen Mirren #3468

Helen Mirren

Helen Mirren
Character Tanya Kirbuk
Photo Bob Balaban #29534Photo Bob Balaban #29535Photo Bob Balaban #29536Photo Bob Balaban #251847

Bob Balaban

Bob Balaban
Character Dr. R. Chandra
Photo Keir Dullea #96171

Keir Dullea

Keir Dullea
Character Dr. David Bowman
Photo Douglas Rain #110737

Douglas Rain

Douglas Rain
Character HAL 9000 (voice)
Photo Savely Kramarov #90457

Savely Kramarov

Savely Kramarov
Character Dr. Vladimir Rudenko
Photo Taliesin Jaffe #110739

Taliesin Jaffe

Taliesin Jaffe
Character Christopher Floyd
Photo James McEachin #78282

James McEachin

James McEachin
Character Victor Milson
Photo Mary Jo Deschanel #43945

Mary Jo Deschanel

Mary Jo Deschanel
Character Betty Fernandez
Photo Elya Baskin #26339Photo Elya Baskin #26340Photo Elya Baskin #26341Photo Elya Baskin #26342

Elya Baskin

Elya Baskin
Character Maxim Brailovsky
Photo Dana Elcar #99485Photo Dana Elcar #99486

Dana Elcar

Dana Elcar
Character Dimitri Moisevitch
Photo Oleg Rudnik #110740
Oleg Rudnik
Character Dr. Vasili Orlov
Photo Natasha Shneider #110741
Natasha Shneider
Character Irina Yakunina
Photo Vladimir Skomarovsky #110742
Vladimir Skomarovsky
Character Yuri Svetlanov
Victor Steinbach
Character Nikolaj Ternovsky
Photo Candice Bergen #77303Photo Candice Bergen #77304Photo Candice Bergen #77305Photo Candice Bergen #77306

Candice Bergen

Candice Bergen
Character SAL 9000 (voice)
Gene McGarr
Character Commercial Announcer
Photo Herta Ware #106977
Herta Ware
Character Jessie Bowman
Photo Jan Tříska #96837Photo Jan Tříska #96838Photo Jan Tříska #96839Photo Jan Tříska #96840

Jan Tříska

Jan Tříska
Character Alexander Kovalev
Larry Carroll
Character Anchorman on TV
Cheryl Carter
Character Nurse
Ron Recasner
Character Hospital Neurosurgeon
Photo Robert Lesser #40230Photo Robert Lesser #40231

Robert Lesser

Robert Lesser
Character Dr. Hirsch
Delana Michaels
Character Commercial Announcer
Photo Arthur C. Clarke #110743Photo Arthur C. Clarke #110744

Arthur C. Clarke

Arthur C. Clarke
Character Man on Park Bench (uncredited)

What's left behind the scenes

  • Although neither Stanley Kubrick, who directed “2001: A Space Odyssey,” nor Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote “Odyssey Two,” were directly involved in the filming of the film, its creators found an original way to pay tribute to the creators of the first film. If you read the surname of the USSR commander Tatiana Kirbuk backward, you get the surname Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick is also portrayed in “2010” as a Soviet General Secretary, and Arthur C. Clarke is presented as an American President. Together they appear in one of the scenes of the film in a photograph on the cover of a magazine. In addition, Clarke played an episodic role as a man sitting on a bench near the White House.
  • According to the plot of the film, the spacecraft “Alexey Leonov” was originally intended to be named after cosmonaut No. 2 German Titov. The name was changed because Titov somehow “lost favor with the leadership.” In this context, it seems strange that the engines of the “Leonov” are named after Andrei Sakharov, who was in opposition to the Soviet regime since the late 60s (this contradiction is resolved in Clarke's novel).
  • The role of Dr. Vladimir Rudenko in the film was played by Savely Kramarov, who emigrated to the United States in 1981, and Maxim Braylovsky was played by his friend Ilya Baskin, who had emigrated to the United States earlier.
  • The design of "Leonov" in the film influenced the depiction of many spacecraft in science fiction cinema. For example, in the television series "Babylon 5", warships of the "Omega" class were designed based on the "Leonov".
  • In the film, Heywood Floyd works on Macintosh and Apple IIc personal computers. This is one of the first instances of Apple Corporation products being depicted in a feature film.
  • After filming "2001: A Space Odyssey", Kubrick destroyed the model of the spacecraft to prevent any remakes, but Peter Hyams' team restored it using pictures and frames from the film.
  • Although neither Stanley Kubrick, who directed “2001: A Space Odyssey,” nor Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote “Odyssey Two,” took direct part in filming the movie, its creators found an original way to pay tribute to the creators of the first film. If you read the surname of the USSR commander Tatiana Kirbuk backwards, you get the surname Kubrick. Also, Stanley Kubrick is depicted in “2010” as the image of a Soviet General Secretary, and Arthur Clarke is presented as the image of an American president. Together they appear in one of the scenes of the film in a photograph placed on the cover of a magazine. In addition, Clarke played an episodic role as a man sitting on a bench near the White House.
  • Although neither Stanley Kubrick, who directed "2001: A Space Odyssey," nor Arthur C. Clarke, who wrote "Odyssey Two," were directly involved in the filming of the movie, its creators found an original way to pay tribute to the creators of the first film. If you read the surname of the USSR commander Tatyana Kirbuk backward, you get the surname Kubrick. Stanley Kubrick is also depicted in "2010" as the image of a Soviet General Secretary, and Arthur Clarke is presented as the image of an American President. Together they appear in one of the film's scenes in a photograph on the cover of a magazine. In addition, Clarke played an episodic role as a man sitting on a bench near the White House.
  • The design of the "Leonov" in the film influenced the depiction of many spacecraft in science fiction. For example, in the television series "Babylon 5," warships of the "Omega" class were designed based on the "Leonov."
  • During the pre-production phase, the film's director, screenwriter, and producer Peter Hyams regularly consulted with Sir Arthur C. Clarke in Sri Lanka via email on the issues of adapting Clarke's novel. In the years 1983-1984, communication in this way was limited almost exclusively to the academic community, and this was certainly the first time it had been used in cinema. Selected excerpts from this correspondence were published in 1984 in the book "The Odyssey File."
  • Stanley Kubrick, the director, producer, and screenwriter of the 1968 film "2001: A Space Odyssey," destroyed all the props and sets so that they would not be used again (at the time, reusing props and sets in other projects was common practice). The model and interiors of the spaceship "Discovery" had to be recreated after carefully studying enlarged frames from the original film. The recreated spaceship was not an exact copy of the original – the corridors were made slightly wider, and the lighting was more natural than in the 1968 film.
  • Stanley Kubrick refused to film a sequel to the original 1968 film, and it was decided to turn to Peter Hyams, the creator of the science fiction action film "Outland" (1981). Hyams initially approached the offer without much enthusiasm (fearing that the sequel would inevitably be compared to the original, and that the comparison would favor the latter), but eventually agreed to participate in the project. He even called Arthur C. Clarke and Stanley Kubrick, as they say, to ask for their “blessing.” It is said that the conversation with Kubrick lasted three hours, and that Kubrick was keenly interested in how Hyams had filmed certain scenes in his previous films. Eventually, Hyams asked if Kubrick approved of him filming a sequel to "2001: A Space Odyssey," and received a positive answer.
  • The scene in which Roy Scheider’s character explains the details of docking spaceships to Helen Mirren’s character using a pen floating in zero gravity was not filmed on the first take. Scheider had to stick the pen into a sheet of clear plastic separating him and his co-star, but the sheet would not puncture, and the pen would fall. In the rare cases when the pen did puncture the sheet and actually held, the actor was so visibly surprised (simply because he didn’t expect it) that the take had to be restarted.
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