David Warner

Born: 1941-07-29 in Manchester, England, UK

Died: 2022-07-24

Known For: 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.

Filmography

2025

TRON: Ares as Master Control Program (voice) (archival audio)

2021

Elliott from Earth

2018

The Alienist as Professor Cavanaugh
Mary Poppins Returns as Admiral Boom
You, Me and Him as Michael Miller
Providence as Himself
His Picture In Little

2016

Blue Borsalino as Ernie Child

2015

The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge as Sir Andrew Pike
Amicus Vault of Horrors as Himself

2014

Inside No. 9 as Sir Andrew Pike
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chain of Command

2013

Teen Titans Go! as The Lobe (voice)
Before I Sleep as Eugene Devlin

2008

Wallander as Povel Wallander
In Love with Barbara as Lord Mountbatten

2007

Hogfather as Lord Downey

2006

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire as Pulcher
Hogfather as Lord Downey
Sweeney Todd as Fielding
Bacon's Arena as Narrator (voice)
Sam Peckinpah: Portrait as Self
Perfect Parents as Father Thomas
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing as Lord Moping

2005

Doctor Who as Professor Grisenko
Sensitive Skin as Robert Ringwald
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse as Dr. Erasmus Pea
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah as Self

2004

Agatha Christie's Marple as Luther Crackenthorpe
Ladies in Lavender as Dr Mead
Conviction as Lenny Fairburn
Cyber Wars as Joseph Lau
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
Straight Into Darkness as Deacon

2003

Hearts of Gold as Dr. Theo John
Kiss of Life as Pap
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Sir Danvers Carew

2002

The Investigation as Superint. Bruce Northorp
The Code Conspiracy as Professor
The Little Unicorn as Ted Regan

2001

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy as Nergal (voice)
Planet of the Apes as Sandar
Superstition as Judge Padovani
Hornblower: Mutiny as Captain James Sawyer
The Omen Legacy as Self
Hornblower: Retribution as Capt. James Sawyer

2000

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command as Lord Angstrom (voice)
In the Beginning as Eliezer
Cinderella as Martin
Back to the Secret Garden as Dr. Snodgrass

1999

Batman Beyond as Ra's al Ghul (voice)
Total Recall 2070
Wing Commander as Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn
Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You as Narrator (voice)
Shergar as Eammon Garrity

1998

Hornblower as Captain Sawyer
Toonsylvania as Dr. Vic Frankenstein
Three as The Man
Houdini as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving as Narrator
The Last Leprechaun as Simpson

1997

Midsomer Murders as Peter Fossett
Titanic as Spicer Lovejoy
The Hunger as Vassu
Scream 2 as Gus Gold
Men in Black: The Series as Alpha (voice)
Perversions of Science as Dr. Nordhoff
Money Talks as Barclay
Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin as Narrator (voice)
Danielle Steel's Zoya as Prince Vladmir

1996

Superman: The Animated Series as Ra's al Ghul (voice)
Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys as The Glyph (voice)
The Leading Man as Tod
Rasputin as Dr. Botkin
Naked Souls as Everett Longstreet
Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible
Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus as Lord Agon
Felony as Cooper
Seven Servants as Blade
Corwin as Self

1995

The Outer Limits as Bill Trenton
Freakazoid! as The Lobe (voice)
In the Mouth of Madness as Dr. Wrenn
Ice Cream Man as Reverend Langley
Signs and Wonders as Reverend Timothy Palmore
The Choir as Alexander Troy
Final Equinox as Shilow

1994

Babylon 5 as Aldous Gajic
Spider-Man as Landon (voice)
Gargoyles as Archmage (voice)
Iron Man as Arthur Dearborn (voice)
A Mind to Kill
The American Revolution as King George III
Inner Sanctum II as Dr. Lamont
Tryst as Jason
Loving Deadly as Grant / Grant's Twin

1993

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as Jor-El
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. as Winston Smiles
Wild Palms as Eli Levitt
Body Bags as Dr. Lock
Necronomicon as Dr. Madden
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal as Harley Griswold
Taking Liberty as Sir Leopold Linwood
Pretty Princess as principe Massimiliano
Quest of the Delta Knights as Lord Vultare

1992

Batman: The Animated Series as Ra's al Ghul (voice)
The Larry Sanders Show as Richard Germain
The Lost World as Summerlee
Spies, Inc. as Cleague
The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter as Chancellor Thayer
Diagnosis Murder: The House on Sycamore Street as Dr. Lloyd Stern
Dark at Noon as Ellic
Return to the Lost World as Professor Leo Summerlee
Blood and Dust as Tripoli

1991

Dinosaurs as Spirit of the Tree (voice)
Performance as Vanya
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze as Professor Jordon Perry
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as Chancellor Gorkon
Cast a Deadly Spell as Amos Hackshaw
Uncle Vanya as Vanya
Blue Tornado as Commander
Drive as The Driver

1990

Twin Peaks as Thomas Eckhardt
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming as Adm. Godfrey
Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen as Bradley Thompson

1989

Tales from the Crypt as Dr. Alan Goetz
Father Dowling Mysteries as Sir Arthur wedgeworth
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier as St. John Talbot
Grave Secrets as Dr. Carl Farnsworth
Mortal Passions as Doctor Terrence Powers
Tripwire as Josef Szabo
Hostile Takeover as Eugene Brackin

1988

Waxwork as Waxwork Man
Hansel and Gretel as Father Stephan
Mr. North as Doctor Angus McPherson
Hanna's War as Captain Julian Simon
Pulse Pounders as Evil Clergyman (The Evil Clergyman sequence) (archive footage)
Magdalene as Baron von Seidl
Keys to Freedom as Nigel Heath
The Evil Clergyman as Evil Clergyman

1987

Star Trek: The Next Generation as Gul Madred
Crossbow
My Best Friend Is a Vampire as Professor Leopold McCarthy
Desperado as Ballard, Company Police Chief

1986

Worlds Beyond as Ken Larkin

1985

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil as Reinhard Heydrich
Summer Lightning as George Millington
Love's Labour's Lost as Don Armado

1984

Murder, She Wrote as Insp. McLaughlin
A Christmas Carol as Bob Cratchit
The Company of Wolves as Father
Charlie as Charlie Alexander
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers as Zandor, the Inkeeper
Frankenstein as Creature

1983

The Man with Two Brains as Dr. Alfred Necessiter

1982

Remington Steele as Alexander Sebastien
Faerie Tale Theatre as Zandor, The Innkeeper
Tron as Ed Dillinger / Sark
Marco Polo as Rustichello da Pisa
Nancy Astor as Philip Kerr
Contact as Self - Narrator (Synchronisation)

1981

Masada as Senator Pomponius Falco
Time Bandits as Evil Genius
The French Lieutenant's Woman as Murphy

1980

The Island as David Nau
S.O.S. Titanic as Laurence Beesley

1979

Hart to Hart as Mr. Bowlly
The Concorde... Airport '79 as Peter O'Neill
Time After Time as Jack the Ripper - John Leslie Stevenson
Nightwing as Phillip Payne

1978

Holocaust as Heydrich
The Thirty Nine Steps as Sir Edmund Appleton
Clouds of Glory as William Wordsworth

1977

Cross of Iron as Hauptmann Kiesel
Silver Bears as Agha Firdausi
Providence as Kevin Woodford
The Disappearance as Burbank
Age of Innocence as Henry Buchanan
The Blue Hotel as Swede

1976

The Omen as Keith Jennings

1975

Three Comedies of Marriage as Bobby
The Old Curiosity Shop as Sampson Brass

1974

From Beyond the Grave as Edward Charlton
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs as Dennis Charles Nipple

1973

A Doll's House as Torvald Helmer

1971

Film '72 as Self
Straw Dogs as Henry Niles (uncredited)

1970

The Ballad of Cable Hogue as Joshua
Perfect Friday as Lord Nicholas "Nick" Dorset

1969

Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel as Michael Kohlhaas

1968

The Fixer as Count Odoevsky
The Sea Gull as Konstantin Treplev
A Midsummer Night's Dream as Lysander
Work Is a 4-Letter Word as Valentine Brose
The Bofors Gun as Lance Bombardier Terry Evans

1967

The Deadly Affair as Edward II (in Edward II)
Opus as Hamlet

1966

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment as Morgan Delt

1965

The Wars of the Roses as Henry VI
The Wars of the Roses as King Henry VI

1963

Tom Jones as Mr. Blifil
We Joined the Navy as Sailor Painting Ship (uncredited)
The Madhouse on Castle Street as Lennie
The King's Breakfast as 1st Trumpeter

1962

Z-Cars