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Douglas Rain: Performances

A - very, very incomplete - list of where to find/watch/listen to some of DR's work. I'm not going to link 2001: A Space Odyssey or 2010: The Year We Make Contact; I'm sure you can figure those out on your own.

Also, according to his sons he probably wasn't actually featured in the 1973 film Sleeper - they say he never mentioned a role like that and that it's most likely someone doing an imitation.

If you find any of his work (film, TV, stage, radio plays, documentaries, etc) not listed here available online anywhere, let me know so I can add it!

Also feel free to let me know if any of the links on here ever stop working, and I'll go find potential alternatives (or create them, if needed) :)

#douglas rain #stratford festival #national film board of canada

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Useful image for when your internet friends have rain in their cities and you don’t

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This is one of the best posts I’ve ever made. It’s just people talking about wanting rain. Or who have too much rain and want other to have their rain.

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useful image for people who are Very Normal about late canadian theatre actor douglas rain, also

a selection of douglas rain's roles at stratford

Measure for Measure (1954) as Claudio Twelfth Night (1957) as Malvolio King John (1960) as King John Cyrano de Bergerac (1962) as Ragueneau Troilus and Cressida (1963) as Ulysses Henry V (1966) as Henry V A Midsummer Night's Dream (1978) as Bottom Macbeth (1978) as Macbeth The First Part of Henry VI (1979) as King Henry IV Love Letters (1991) as Andrew Makepeace Ladd II

(from the festival's official post marking what would have been his 98th birthday)

#douglas rain #photo evidence #they are catering to ME specifically any time they post a pic of DR and i do really appreciate it #also sorry but can we talk about the eyeliner they gave him for the 1954 pic?? hello?????

thank you to the stratford festival for remarking on DR's birthday and posting a bunch of pictures from various productions, some of which i hadn't seen before. i owe you my life <3

#literally the only reason i still log into facebook

Today would have been Douglas Rain's 98th birthday 🎉

(since, as we all know, he was born 9 may 1928. and not on any other date.)

Colours in the Dark (1967) A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968) Hadrian VII (1969)

and since earlier this year, i finally completed the newspaper clippings project that i had been intermittently working on (though mostly just procrastinating from) for like a year and a half, let me use this momentous occasion to share with you the earliest recorded mention of DR in the archive i scoured — an article from the winnipeg tribune, 21 may 1934, page 7 (he would have just turned six at the time):

....yeah, welcome to the private little circle of hell i live in, called "where the fuck is douglas," in which i spend hours squinting at the horrible grainy scans of ancient newspapers trying to figure out where the one singular mention of DR is hanging out on this tightly printed page. this is why it took a year and a half.

spot him yet? no worries if not; that's what you have me for, after all. he's in the section at the top left titled "CLUBS" – right here:

this article does not give any further details, other than mentioning him by name, so we don't really know what his part of the 'program' for this club event was. but we can hazard a guess based on the fact that basically all his appearances in these earlier newspapers talk of him reciting poems, speeches, and such things.

the most recent mention of him btw (at the time i scoured the archive, over a year ago at this point) was from the gaston gazette, on 21 february 2024, on page 20. in the tv program section, of course:

almost exactly 90 years after the first article he appeared in. just three months shy :)

#douglas rain #photo evidence

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tremendous progress on the newspapers. down to 79, from ~300 (where it had sat for uhhh a year while i Pretended I Do Not See It), in the span of less than 2 days. we only have the years '36-'39 left

admittedly, they're dreadful bc the print/scan quality tends to be horrendous and i am literally digging for single name mentions every single time, guided only by intuition of what kind of events he would have participated in at age 10. but with persistence, i will get there in the end

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It Is Finished

tremendous progress on the newspapers. down to 79, from ~300 (where it had sat for uhhh a year while i Pretended I Do Not See It), in the span of less than 2 days. we only have the years '36-'39 left

admittedly, they're dreadful bc the print/scan quality tends to be horrendous and i am literally digging for single name mentions every single time, guided only by intuition of what kind of events he would have participated in at age 10. but with persistence, i will get there in the end

randomly visited the archive where i got the 1000+ newspaper scans from and am greeted with a message that they've been down since 10th march because of a cyberattack??

#tragic. i was trying to see if i could circumvent some work on the old Project #but i guess i shall just continue as usual. very slowly. and sporadically

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Celebrate the Ides of March this year with the absolutely delightful 1960 production of "Julius Caesar" by Shakespeare, performed as part of the CBC Television show "Festival"! 🔪🔪🔪

Starring Fritz Weaver as Brutus and Douglas Rain as Cassius. And a bunch of other people, including William Shatner (who sounds like he's in a different play from everybody else lol).

#douglas rain #julius caesar (1960)#video evidence #🥳🥳🥳

idridian

A mostly coherent account by K. W. Rushing (they/them) Christmas Eve, 2023. The time is 12:43. I send my best friend Miri a message on Disco

okay, after vagueposting about it for like a month now - here's what i've been up to. the internet is a weird place filled with conflicting information and i made it my mission to unravel a tiny, extremely specific portion of it

#douglas rain #birthday debacle

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remembering douglas rain today. specifically the fact that he was born 9 may 1928, not today <3

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happy It's-Not-Douglas-Rain's-Birthday day to all who celebrate 🥳

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happy valentine’s day ❤️🚬✝️

#douglas rain #hadran vii #photo evidence

idridian

i'm having A Day and i'm making it everyone else's problem

douglas-rain

aaaand happy one year anniversary to my most successful yt video ever, sitting at over 1.3k views for SOME REASON 🥳

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two years and it‘s at 3.2k views now. terrifying 👍

#douglas rain #henry v #stratford festival #video evidence

I am being changed into a mental wreck Why don’t you understand Fools that are mankind. Ah well I have but a week of torture and then - 3/5/ 5am

#hadrian vii #did i buy a theatre program just so i could decipher what the previous owner wrote on the back? yes #was it worth it? also yes #sorry this doesn't even have any pictures of DR on/in it. otherwise i would share them lol

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happy one year anniversary to the inciting incident that led to me being obsessed with DR 🥳🥳🥳

(and to me spending several weeks losing my mind over when he was born)

#birthday debacle #it has been. two entire years of me not being normal about this guy

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my sibling said that the framed photo of DR that sits on my shelf "looks like it's of [my] husband who died in the war" and honestly i have never felt more seen and attacked in my life

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this one, in case you're wondering

#photo evidence

my sibling said that the framed photo of DR that sits on my shelf "looks like it's of [my] husband who died in the war" and honestly i have never felt more seen and attacked in my life

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