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
2018
- The Alienist as Professor Cavanaugh
- Mary Poppins Returns as Admiral Boom
- You, Me and Him as Michael Miller
- His Picture In Little
- Providence as Himself
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
2012
- Ripper Street as Rabbi Max Steiner
- The Secret of Crickley Hall as Elderly Percy Judd
- A Thousand Kisses Deep as Max
2011
- The Amazing World of Gumball as Dr. Wrecker (voice)
- TRON: The Next Day as Ed Dillinger / MCP
- Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War as Self
2010
- Black Death as Abbot
- A History of Horror as Self
2009
- Doctor Who: Dreamland as Lord Azlok (voice)
- Albert's Memorial as Frank
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
- 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
- Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade as Self (archive footage)
- Cyber Wars as Joseph Lau
- Straight Into Darkness as Deacon
2003
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde as Sir Danvers Carew
- Kiss of Life as Pap
- Hearts of Gold as Dr. Theo John
2002
- The Investigation as Superint. Bruce Northorp
- The Little Unicorn as Ted Regan
- The Code Conspiracy as Professor
2001
- The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy as Nergal (voice)
- Planet of the Apes as Sandar
- Hornblower: Mutiny as Captain James Sawyer
- Superstition as Judge Padovani
- 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
- Houdini as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Three as The Man
- The Last Leprechaun as Simpson
- A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving as Narrator
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)
- Rasputin as Dr. Botkin
- The Leading Man as Tod
- Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus as Lord Agon
- Siegfried and Roy: Masters of the Impossible
- Felony as Cooper
- Naked Souls as Everett Longstreet
- Corwin as Self
- Seven Servants as Blade
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
- The Choir as Alexander Troy
- Signs and Wonders as Reverend Timothy Palmore
- Final Equinox as Shilow
1994
- Babylon 5 as Aldous Gajic
- Gargoyles as Archmage (voice)
- Spider-Man as Landon (voice)
- Iron Man as Arthur Dearborn (voice)
- The American Revolution as King George III
- A Mind to Kill
- 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
- Necronomicon as Dr. Madden
- Body Bags as Dr. Lock
- Taking Liberty as Sir Leopold Linwood
- Pretty Princess as principe Massimiliano
- Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal as Harley Griswold
- 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
- Return to the Lost World as Professor Leo Summerlee
- Diagnosis Murder: The House on Sycamore Street as Dr. Lloyd Stern
- The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter as Chancellor Thayer
- Blood and Dust as Tripoli
- Dark at Noon as Ellic
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
- Blue Tornado as Commander
- Uncle Vanya as Vanya
- 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
- Tripwire as Josef Szabo
- Mortal Passions as Doctor Terrence Powers
- Hostile Takeover as Eugene Brackin
- Grave Secrets as Dr. Carl Farnsworth
1988
- Waxwork as Waxwork Man
- Hansel and Gretel as Father Stephan
- Pulse Pounders as Evil Clergyman (The Evil Clergyman sequence) (archive footage)
- Hanna's War as Captain Julian Simon
- Mr. North as Doctor Angus McPherson
- 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
- Love's Labour's Lost as Don Armado
- Summer Lightning as George Millington
1984
- Murder, She Wrote as Insp. McLaughlin
- A Christmas Carol as Bob Cratchit
- The Company of Wolves as Father
- Charlie as Charlie Alexander
- Frankenstein as Creature
- The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers as Zandor, the Inkeeper
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
- Time Bandits as Evil Genius
- Masada as Senator Pomponius Falco
- The French Lieutenant's Woman as Murphy
1980
- S.O.S. Titanic as Laurence Beesley
- The Island as David Nau
1979
- Hart to Hart as Mr. Bowlly
- Time After Time as Jack the Ripper - John Leslie Stevenson
- The Concorde... Airport '79 as Peter O'Neill
- 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
- Age of Innocence as Henry Buchanan
- The Disappearance as Burbank
- The Blue Hotel as Swede
1976
- The Omen as Keith Jennings
1975
- 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
- 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 Sea Gull as Konstantin Treplev
- A Midsummer Night's Dream as Lysander
- The Fixer as Count Odoevsky
- The Bofors Gun as Lance Bombardier Terry Evans
- Work Is a 4-Letter Word as Valentine Brose
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 King's Breakfast as 1st Trumpeter
- The Madhouse on Castle Street as Lennie