2001 A Space Odyssey (1968) Cast & Characters — QuantCinema

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CAST · 2001 A SPACE ODYSSEY

Faces & feelings

Per-character screen time, dialogue and emotion breakdown — derived from face recognition + expression classifier across every frame.

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Faces detected

14,489

across full runtime

Named matches

9

actors identified

Close-up shots

9.5%

of all framed shots

Smile rate

4.2%

frames with detected joy

Gender split

76%

24%

M / F · screen-time weighted

Dominant emotion

Neutral 48%

film-wide aggregate

Most expressive

Robert Beatty

72% non-neutral

Lead screen share

47%

9 tracked characters

Overall emotion distribution

7 emotions · all characters · screen-time weighted

Happy

4.2%

607 frames

Surprise

6.3%

916 frames

Neutral

47.7%

6,909 frames

Fear

17.4%

2,523 frames

Sad

7.4%

1,079 frames

Angry

11.4%

1,648 frames

Disgust

5.6%

807 frames

Screen time by actor

9 named · 33m tracked of 148.9m

01

Keir Dullea

as Dr. David Bowman · 2258 scenes

15.7min · 47% of cast

neutral

02

William Sylvester

as Dr. Heywood Floyd · 1089 scenes

7.6min · 23% of cast

neutral

03

Gary Lockwood

as Dr. Frank Poole · 707 scenes

4.9min · 15% of cast

neutral

04

Leonard Rossiter

as Dr. Andrei Smyslov · 547 scenes

3.8min · 11% of cast

neutral

05

Robert Beatty

as Dr. Ralph Halvorsen · 118 scenes

0.8min · 2% of cast

neutral

06

Alan Gifford

as Poole's Father · 28 scenes

0.2min · 1% of cast

disgust

07

Margaret Tyzack

as Elena · 18 scenes

0.1min · 0% of cast

neutral

08

Ann Gillis

as Poole's Mother · 12 scenes

0.1min · 0% of cast

happy

09

Ed Bishop

as Aries-1B Lunar Shuttle Captain · 10 scenes

0.1min · 0% of cast

happy

Dialogue by character

words spoken · WPM · share of total dialogue

NOTE — speaker matching uses face-detection overlap; actors not recognized by the AI appear as unidentified.

Actor / Character	Words spoken	WPM	% of dialogue
Keir Dullea as Dr. David Bowman	1,357	92.7	29.3%
Gary Lockwood as Dr. Frank Poole	1,162	60.2	25.1%
William Sylvester as Dr. Heywood Floyd	962	219.2	20.8%
Leonard Rossiter as Dr. Andrei Smyslov	534	259.5	11.5%
Robert Beatty as Dr. Ralph Halvorsen	327	243.2	7.1%
Alan Gifford as Poole's Father	287	271.2	6.2%
Unidentified speakers	7	—	0.2%

Cast profiles

arc · volatility · emotion breakdown per actor

KD

Keir Dullea

AS DR. DAVID BOWMAN

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

15m 42s

Scenes

2258

First seen

58:27

Last seen

137:46

Volatility

24 Low

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0037m74m111m148.9m

1%

Happy

6%

Surprise

30%

Neutral

16%

Fear

7%

Sad

26%

Angry

14%

Disgust

WS

William Sylvester

AS DR. HEYWOOD FLOYD

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

7m 34s

Scenes

1089

First seen

22:05

Last seen

116:23

Volatility

35 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0037m74m111m148.9m

14%

Happy

3%

Surprise

37%

Neutral

2%

Fear

20%

Sad

21%

Angry

3%

Disgust

GL

Gary Lockwood

AS DR. FRANK POOLE

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

4m 55s

Scenes

707

First seen

56:39

Last seen

87:02

Volatility

16 Low

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0037m74m111m148.9m

1%

Happy

6%

Surprise

56%

Neutral

1%

Fear

11%

Sad

21%

Angry

4%

Disgust

LR

Leonard Rossiter

AS DR. ANDREI SMYSLOV

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

3m 48s

Scenes

547

First seen

29:30

Last seen

33:44

Volatility

29 Med

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0037m74m111m148.9m

23%

Happy

6%

Surprise

28%

Neutral

0%

Fear

4%

Sad

12%

Angry

27%

Disgust

RB

Robert Beatty

AS DR. RALPH HALVORSEN

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

0m 49s

Scenes

118

First seen

41:07

Last seen

48:55

Volatility

51 High

Emotional arc — 30 segments~5m per bucket

00:0037m74m111m148.9m

13%

Happy

21%

Surprise

28%

Neutral

14%

Fear

21%

Sad

3%

Angry

0%

Disgust

AG

Alan Gifford

AS POOLE'S FATHER

● Dominant: disgust

Screen time

0m 11s

Scenes

28

First seen

64:34

Last seen

64:48

Too few detections for emotion analysis

MT

Margaret Tyzack

AS ELENA

● Dominant: neutral

Screen time

0m 08s

Scenes

18

First seen

29:31

Last seen

33:44

Too few detections for emotion analysis

AG

Ann Gillis

AS POOLE'S MOTHER

● Dominant: happy

Screen time

0m 05s

Scenes

12

First seen

64:34

Last seen

64:49

Too few detections for emotion analysis

EB

Ed Bishop

AS ARIES-1B LUNAR SHUTTLE CAPTAIN

● Dominant: happy

Screen time

0m 04s

Scenes

10

First seen

36:34

Last seen

38:24

Too few detections for emotion analysis

Speaker diarization

talk-time · turns · pacing per speaker

Talk-time share · 7 clusterssums to 100.0% of all dialogue

Dullea 27.8%

Lockwood 36.7%

Sylvester 8.3%

Unknown 18.7%

First-word entry · per speakerdot = first line · trail = on-screen window · 1 ensemble

0:0037:1474:27111:41148:54

runtime

William Sylvester

25:56enter

Leonard Rossiter

29:30enter

Robert Beatty

41:56enter

SPEAKER 24

49:09enter

Gary Lockwood

59:01enter

Keir Dullea

59:24enter

Alan Gifford

64:24enter

Keir DulleaSPEAKER 22

Rapid exchange

27.8%

of all dialogue · 1,357 words · 14:38 spoken

WPM92.7

Turns288

Avg turn1.5s

Longest11.6s

enters at 59:24profanity 0

Gary LockwoodSPEAKER 21

Rapid exchange

36.7%

of all dialogue · 1,162 words · 19:18 spoken

WPM60.2

Turns252

Avg turn1.5s

Longest16.7s

enters at 59:01profanity 2

William SylvesterSPEAKER 13

Rapid exchange

8.3%

of all dialogue · 962 words · 4:23 spoken

WPM219.2

Turns191

Avg turn1.5s

Longest9.8s

enters at 25:56profanity 0

Leonard RossiterSPEAKER 23

Brief

3.9%

of all dialogue · 534 words · 2:04 spoken

WPM259.5

Turns75

Avg turn1.9s

Longest7.8s

enters at 29:30profanity 0

Robert BeattySPEAKER 16

Brief

2.6%

of all dialogue · 327 words · 1:21 spoken

WPM243.2

Turns45

Avg turn1.8s

Longest7.6s

enters at 41:56profanity 2

Alan GiffordSPEAKER 14

Brief

2.0%

of all dialogue · 287 words · 1:04 spoken

WPM271.2

Turns37

Avg turn2.0s

Longest7.3s

enters at 64:24profanity 0

Unknown SpeakerSPEAKER 24 · unmatched

Brief

18.7%

of all dialogue · 7 words · 9:52 spoken

WPM0.7

Turns11

Avg turn5.1s

Longest21.0s

enters at 49:09profanity 0

AGGREGATE — 9 unique characters · 14,489 faces detected · 9 named matches · 33m screen-time tracked