up in the attic

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) :)

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

(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: