Frank Poole

Frank Poole is a fictional character from Arthur C. Clarke's Space Odyssey series. In Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Poole was portrayed by Gary Lockwood. Tom Hanks once expressed interest in directing a film version of 3001, in which he would have played Poole. In 2001: A Space Odyssey, Poole is an astronaut aboard the spacecraft Discovery One on the first manned mission to Jupiter (Saturn in the novel). He and Dave Bowman are the only passengers who are not in suspended animation. Poole and Bowman discuss disconnecting HAL 9000, the ship's computer, after it mistakenly predicts that the AE-35 unit (an electronic unit in the ship's main antenna) is going to fail. They realize that HAL is capable of error, and privately...