Portrait of David Warner

David Warner

Acting

Biography

David Hattersley Warner (July 29, 1941 – July 24, 2022) was an English actor. Born in Manchester, he attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and worked in the theatre before attaining prominence on screen in the early 1960s through his lead performance in the Karel Reisz film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment, for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Warner portrayed both romantic leads and villainous characters across a range of media, including The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Straw Dogs, Cross of Iron, The Omen, Holocaust, The Thirty Nine Steps, Time After Time, Time Bandits, Tron, A Christmas Carol, Portrait in Evil, Titanic, Mary Poppins Returns and various characters in the Star Trek franchise, in the films Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. In 1981, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special for his portrayal of Pomponius Falco in the television miniseries Masada.

Born: July 29, 1941

Place of Birth: Manchester, England, UK

Filmography

2018
Mary Poppins Returns

as Admiral Boom

2018
Providence

as Himself

2018
You, Me and Him

as Michael Miller

2018
The Alienist

as Professor Cavanaugh

2016
Blue Borsalino

as Ernie Child

2014
Inside No. 9

as Sir Andrew Pike

2013
Before I Sleep

as Eugene Devlin

2013
Teen Titans Go!

as The Lobe (voice)

2012
Ripper Street

as Rabbi Max Steiner

2012
The Secret of Crickley Hall

as Elderly Percy Judd

2011
The Amazing World of Gumball

as Dr. Wrecker (voice)

2011
TRON: The Next Day

as Ed Dillinger / MCP

2010
Black Death

as Abbot

2009
2009
Doctor Who: Dreamland

as Lord Azlok (voice)

2008
Wallander

as Povel Wallander

2008
In Love with Barbara

as Lord Mountbatten

2007
Hogfather

as Lord Downey

2006
Perfect Parents

as Father Thomas

2006
Hogfather

as Lord Downey

2006
Bacon's Arena

as Narrator (voice)

2006
2006
Sweeney Todd

as Fielding

2005
Doctor Who

as Professor Grisenko

2004
Agatha Christie's Marple

as Luther Crackenthorpe

2004
2004
Conviction

as Lenny Fairburn

2004
Cyber Wars

as Joseph Lau

2003
2003
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Sir Danvers Carew

2003
Hearts of Gold

as Dr. Theo John

2002
The Little Unicorn

as Ted Regan

2002
2002
The Investigation

as Superint. Bruce Northorp

2001
2001
Superstition

as Judge Padovani

2001
2001
Hornblower: Retribution

as Capt. James Sawyer

2001
Hornblower: Mutiny

as Captain James Sawyer

2000
2000
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

as Lord Angstrom (voice)

2000
2000
Cinderella

as Martin

1999
Shergar

as Eammon Garrity

1999
Wing Commander

as Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn

1999
Batman Beyond

as Ra's al Ghul (voice)

1998
Houdini

as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

1998
1998
Hornblower

as Captain Sawyer

1998
Toonsylvania

as Dr. Vic Frankenstein

1998
Three

as The Man

1997
Scream 2

as Gus Gold

1997
Titanic

as Spicer Lovejoy

1997
Men in Black: The Series

as Alpha (voice)

1997
Money Talks

as Barclay

1997
Danielle Steel's Zoya

as Prince Vladmir

1997
The Hunger

as Vassu

1997
Perversions of Science

as Dr. Nordhoff

1997
Midsomer Murders

as Peter Fossett

1996
1996
1996
1996
Superman: The Animated Series

as Ra's al Ghul (voice)

1996
Naked Souls

as Everett Longstreet

1996
Rasputin

as Dr. Botkin

1995
Final Equinox

as Shilow

1995
Freakazoid!

as The Lobe (voice)

1995
Ice Cream Man

as Reverend Langley

1995
The Outer Limits

as Bill Trenton

1995
The Outer Limits

as Inspector Harold Langford

1995
The Choir

as Alexander Troy

1995
1995
Signs and Wonders

as Rev Timothy Palmore

1994
Inner Sanctum II

as Dr. Lamont

1994
The American Revolution

as King George III

1994
Spider-Man

as Landon (voice)

1994
Tryst

as Jason

1994
Gargoyles

as Archmage (voice)

1994
Felony

as Cooper

1994
Iron Man

as Arthur Dearborn (voice)

1994
Babylon 5

as Aldous Gajic

1994
Loving Deadly

as Grant / Grant's Twin

1993
Pretty Princess

as principe Massimiliano

1993
Necronomicon

as Dr. Madden

1993
1993
Body Bags

as Dr. Lock

1993
Wild Palms

as Eli Levitt

1992
Dark at Noon

as Ellic

1992
Spies, Inc.

as Cleague

1992
Blood and Dust

as Tripoli

1992
Batman: The Animated Series

as Ra's al Ghul (voice)

1992
Return to the Lost World

as Professor Leo Summerlee

1992
The Lost World

as Summerlee

1991
Uncle Vanya

as Vanya

1991
Performance

as Vanya

1991
Blue Tornado

as Commander

1991
Cast a Deadly Spell

as Amos Hackshaw

1991
Drive

as The Driver

1991
Dinosaurs

as Spirit of the Tree (voice)

1990
Twin Peaks

as Thomas Eckhardt

1989
Tripwire

as Josef Szabo

1989
Mortal Passions

as Doctor Terrence Powers

1989
Hostile Takeover

as Eugene Brackin

1989
Grave Secrets

as Dr. Carl Farnsworth

1989
Tales from the Crypt

as Dr. Alan Goetz

1989
1989
Father Dowling Mysteries

as Sir Arthur wedgeworth

1988
Hansel and Gretel

as Father Stephan

1988
Magdalene

as Baron von Seidl

1988
The Evil Clergyman

as Evil Clergyman

1988
Mr. North

as Doctor Angus McPherson

1988
Waxwork

as Waxwork Man

1988
Hanna's War

as Captain Julian Simon

1988
Pulse Pounders

as Evil Clergyman (The Evil Clergyman sequence) (archive footage)

1988
Keys to Freedom

as Nigel Heath

1987
My Best Friend Is a Vampire

as Professor Leopold McCarthy

1987
Desperado

as Ballard, Company Police Chief

1985
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

as Reinhard Heydrich

1985
1984
A Christmas Carol

as Bob Cratchit

1984
Murder, She Wrote

as Insp. McLaughlin

1984
Murder, She Wrote

as Justin Hunnicut

1984
Frankenstein

as Creature

1984
Charlie

as Charlie Alexander

1983
The Man with Two Brains

as Dr. Alfred Necessiter

1982
Marco Polo

as Rustichello da Pisa

1982
Remington Steele

as Alexander Sebastien

1982
Faerie Tale Theatre

as Zandor, The Innkeeper

1982
Tron

as Ed Dillinger / Sark

1982
Nancy Astor

as Philip Kerr

1982
Contact

as Self - Narrator (Synchronisation)

1981
Time Bandits

as Evil Genius

1981
Masada

as Senator Pomponius Falco

1980
The Island

as David Nau

1980
S.O.S. Titanic

as Laurence Beesley

1979
Time After Time

as Jack the Ripper - John Leslie Stevenson

1979
Hart to Hart

as Mr. Bowlly

1979
1979
Nightwing

as Phillip Payne

1978
The Thirty Nine Steps

as Sir Edmund Appleton

1978
Clouds of Glory

as William Wordsworth

1978
Holocaust

as Heydrich

1977
1977
Silver Bears

as Agha Firdausi

1977
Age of Innocence

as Henry Buchanan

1977
1977
Cross of Iron

as Hauptmann Kiesel

1977
Providence

as Kevin Woodford

1976
The Omen

as Keith Jennings

1975
The Old Curiosity Shop

as Sampson Brass

1974
From Beyond the Grave

as Edward Charlton

1973
A Doll's House

as Torvald Helmer

1971
Straw Dogs

as Henry Niles (uncredited)

1970
Perfect Friday

as Lord Nicholas "Nick" Dorset

1969
Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel

as Michael Kohlhaas

1968
The Sea Gull

as Konstantin Treplev

1968
The Fixer

as Count Odoevsky

1968
Work Is a 4-Letter Word

as Valentine Brose

1968
The Bofors Gun

as Lance Bombardier Terry Evans

1967
The Deadly Affair

as Edward II (in Edward II)

1967
Opus

as Hamlet

1965
The Wars of the Roses

as King Henry VI

1965
The Wars of the Roses

as King Henry VI

1963
Tom Jones

as Mr. Blifil

1963
We Joined the Navy

as Sailor Painting Ship (uncredited)

1963
The King's Breakfast

as 1st Trumpeter

1962