David Warner
Acting • Born 1941-07-29 – Died 2022-07-24
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
215 credits
Tron
Movie • 1982
Ed Dillinger / Sark
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Movie • 1989
St. John Talbot
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Movie • 1991
Chancellor Gorkon
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
Movie • 1991
Professor Jordon Perry
The Omen
Movie • 1976
Keith Jennings
Frankenstein
Movie • 1984
Creature
In the Mouth of Madness
Movie • 1995
Dr. Wrenn
The Lost World
Movie • 1992
Summerlee
Cross of Iron
Movie • 1977
Hauptmann Kiesel
Inner Sanctum II
Movie • 1994
Dr. Lamont
Tom Jones
Movie • 1963
Mr. Blifil
The Man with Two Brains
Movie • 1983
Dr. Alfred Necessiter
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Movie • 1970
Joshua
Body Bags
Movie • 1993
Dr. Lock
Hogfather
Movie • 2007
Lord Downey
The Island
Movie • 1980
David Nau
Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You
Movie • 1999
Narrator (voice)
Time After Time
Movie • 1979
Jack the Ripper - John Leslie Stevenson
The Company of Wolves
Movie • 1984
Father
Necronomicon
Movie • 1993
Dr. Madden
The Code Conspiracy
Movie • 2002
Professor
Cyber Wars
Movie • 2004
Joseph Lau
Waxwork
Movie • 1988
Waxwork Man
The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter
Movie • 1992
Chancellor Thayer
Black Death
Movie • 2010
Abbot
Straight Into Darkness
Movie • 2004
Deacon
Time Bandits
Movie • 1981
Evil Genius
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Movie • 1966
Morgan Delt
The Thirty Nine Steps
Movie • 1978
Sir Edmund Appleton
Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
Movie • 1997
Narrator (voice)
Hornblower: Mutiny
Movie • 2001
Captain James Sawyer
Ice Cream Man
Movie • 1995
Reverend Langley
Sweeney Todd
Movie • 2006
Fielding
The Little Unicorn
Movie • 2002
Ted Regan
The Leading Man
Movie • 1996
Tod
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Movie • 2003
Sir Danvers Carew
Rasputin
Movie • 1996
Dr. Botkin
From Beyond the Grave
Movie • 1974
Edward Charlton
Nightwing
Movie • 1979
Phillip Payne
Blue Tornado
Movie • 1991
Commander
Return to the Lost World
Movie • 1992
Professor Leo Summerlee
Albert's Memorial
Movie • 2009
Frank
Cast a Deadly Spell
Movie • 1991
Amos Hackshaw
Providence
Movie • 1977
Kevin Woodford
TRON: The Next Day
Movie • 2011
Ed Dillinger / MCP
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
Movie • 2006
Lord Moping
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
Movie • 1974
Dennis Charles Nipple
Hansel and Gretel
Movie • 1988
Father Stephan
Tripwire
Movie • 1989
Josef Szabo
Pretty Princess
Movie • 1993
principe Massimiliano
Mortal Passions
Movie • 1989
Doctor Terrence Powers
Perfect Friday
Movie • 1970
Lord Nicholas "Nick" Dorset
Quest of the Delta Knights
Movie • 1993
Lord Vultare
S.O.S. Titanic
Movie • 1980
Laurence Beesley
The Fixer
Movie • 1968
Count Odoevsky
Hostile Takeover
Movie • 1989
Eugene Brackin
Hornblower: Retribution
Movie • 2001
Capt. James Sawyer
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Movie • 1985
Reinhard Heydrich
Naked Souls
Movie • 1996
Everett Longstreet
The Deadly Affair
Movie • 1967
Edward II (in Edward II)
A Thousand Kisses Deep
Movie • 2012
Max
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
Movie • 1990
Adm. Godfrey
Grave Secrets
Movie • 1989
Dr. Carl Farnsworth
Seven Servants
Movie • 1996
Blade
The Last Leprechaun
Movie • 1998
Simpson
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Movie • 1968
Valentine Brose
Superstition
Movie • 2001
Judge Padovani
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Movie • 1968
Lysander
The Sea Gull
Movie • 1968
Konstantin Treplev
Felony
Movie • 1994
Cooper
Siegfried and Roy: Masters of the Impossible
Movie • 1996
Dark at Noon
Movie • 1992
Ellic
Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
Movie • 1969
Michael Kohlhaas
Pulse Pounders
Movie • 1988
Evil Clergyman (The Evil Clergyman sequence) (archive footage)
A Doll's House
Movie • 1973
Torvald Helmer
Age of Innocence
Movie • 1977
Henry Buchanan
The Old Curiosity Shop
Movie • 1975
Sampson Brass
Keys to Freedom
Movie • 1988
Nigel Heath
The Wars of the Roses
Movie • 1965
King Henry VI
My Best Friend Is a Vampire
Movie • 1987
Professor Leopold McCarthy
Straw Dogs
Movie • 1971
Henry Niles (uncredited)
Ladies in Lavender
Movie • 2004
Dr Mead
Shergar
Movie • 1999
Eammon Garrity
Magdalene
Movie • 1988
Baron von Seidl
Spies, Inc.
Movie • 1992
Cleague
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
Movie • 2005
Self
Houdini
Movie • 1998
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Desperado
Movie • 1987
Ballard, Company Police Chief
Cinderella
Movie • 2000
Martin
A Christmas Carol
Movie • 1984
Bob Cratchit
Love's Labour's Lost
Movie • 1985
Don Armado
Taking Liberty
Movie • 1993
Sir Leopold Linwood
A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving
Movie • 1998
Narrator
Back to the Secret Garden
Movie • 2000
Dr. Snodgrass
The Investigation
Movie • 2002
Superint. Bruce Northorp
Perfect Parents
Movie • 2006
Father Thomas
Loving Deadly
Movie • 1994
Grant / Grant's Twin
Silver Bears
Movie • 1977
Agha Firdausi
Hanna's War
Movie • 1988
Captain Julian Simon
Blood and Dust
Movie • 1992
Tripoli
Wing Commander
Movie • 1999
Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn
Tryst
Movie • 1994
Jason
Scream 2
Movie • 1997
Gus Gold
Before I Sleep
Movie • 2013
Eugene Devlin
The Blue Hotel
Movie • 1977
Swede
Hearts of Gold
Movie • 2003
Dr. Theo John
Bacon's Arena
Movie • 2006
Narrator (voice)
Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen
Movie • 1990
Bradley Thompson
Danielle Steel's Zoya
Movie • 1997
Prince Vladmir
Planet of the Apes
Movie • 2001
Sandar
Final Equinox
Movie • 1995
Shilow
Kiss of Life
Movie • 2003
Pap
You, Me and Him
Movie • 2018
Michael Miller
Amicus Vault of Horrors
Movie • 2015
Himself
Mary Poppins Returns
Movie • 2018
Admiral Boom
Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus
Movie • 1996
Lord Agon
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
Movie • 1984
Zandor, the Inkeeper
The Bofors Gun
Movie • 1968
Lance Bombardier Terry Evans
Summer Lightning
Movie • 1985
George Millington
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Movie • 1981
Murphy
Providence
Movie • 2018
Himself
His Picture In Little
Movie • 2018
Blue Borsalino
Movie • 2016
Ernie Child
We Joined the Navy
Movie • 1963
Sailor Painting Ship (uncredited)
The King's Breakfast
Movie • 1963
1st Trumpeter
Uncle Vanya
Movie • 1991
Vanya
Sam Peckinpah: Portrait
Movie • 2006
Self
The Disappearance
Movie • 1977
Burbank
Diagnosis Murder: The House on Sycamore Street
Movie • 1992
Dr. Lloyd Stern
Mr. North
Movie • 1988
Doctor Angus McPherson
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
Movie • 1993
Harley Griswold
Money Talks
Movie • 1997
Barclay
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Movie • 2005
Dr. Erasmus Pea
Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
Movie • 2011
Self
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Movie • 2004
Self (archive footage)
Opus
Movie • 1967
Hamlet
Drive
Movie • 1991
The Driver
In Love with Barbara
Movie • 2008
Lord Mountbatten
The Madhouse on Castle Street
Movie • 1963
Lennie
The Concorde... Airport '79
Movie • 1979
Peter O'Neill
The Evil Clergyman
Movie • 1988
Evil Clergyman
Titanic
Movie • 1997
Spicer Lovejoy
Corwin
Movie • 1996
Self
The Omen Legacy
Movie • 2001
Self
Contact
Movie • 1982
Self - Narrator (Synchronisation)
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chain of Command
Movie • 2014
TRON: Ares
Movie • 2025
Master Control Program (voice) (archival audio)
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Insp. McLaughlin
Batman Beyond
TV • 1999
Ra's al Ghul (voice)
Spider-Man
TV • 1994
Landon (voice)
Perversions of Science
TV • 1997
Dr. Nordhoff
Remington Steele
TV • 1982
Alexander Sebastien
Star Trek: The Next Generation
TV • 1987
Gul Madred
Gargoyles
TV • 1994
Archmage (voice)
Twin Peaks
TV • 1990
Thomas Eckhardt
Z-Cars
TV • 1962
Tales from the Crypt
TV • 1989
Dr. Alan Goetz
The American Revolution
TV • 1994
King George III
Wild Palms
TV • 1993
Eli Levitt
Babylon 5
TV • 1994
Aldous Gajic
Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys
TV • 1996
The Glyph (voice)
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
TV • 1993
Jor-El
Total Recall 2070
TV • 1999
A Mind to Kill
TV • 1994
Toonsylvania
TV • 1998
Dr. Vic Frankenstein
Three
TV • 1998
The Man
Elliott from Earth
TV • 2021
Agatha Christie's Marple
TV • 2004
Luther Crackenthorpe
Holocaust
TV • 1978
Heydrich
The Outer Limits
TV • 1995
Bill Trenton
Doctor Who: Dreamland
TV • 2009
Lord Azlok (voice)
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
TV • 2001
Nergal (voice)
Charlie
TV • 1984
Charlie Alexander
Conviction
TV • 2004
Lenny Fairburn
Superman: The Animated Series
TV • 1996
Ra's al Ghul (voice)
Hornblower
TV • 1998
Captain Sawyer
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
TV • 2001
The Wars of the Roses
TV • 1965
King Henry VI
Inside No. 9
TV • 2014
Sir Andrew Pike
The Secret of Crickley Hall
TV • 2012
Elderly Percy Judd
Batman: The Animated Series
TV • 1992
Ra's al Ghul (voice)
Doctor Who
TV • 2005
Professor Grisenko
Sensitive Skin
TV • 2005
Freakazoid!
TV • 1995
The Lobe (voice)
The Outer Limits
TV • 1995
Inspector Harold Langford
Ripper Street
TV • 2012
Rabbi Max Steiner
Hogfather
TV • 2006
Lord Downey
The Amazing World of Gumball
TV • 2011
Dr. Wrecker (voice)
The Choir
TV • 1995
Alexander Troy
Signs and Wonders
TV • 1995
Rev Timothy Palmore
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV • 1982
Zandor, The Innkeeper
In the Beginning
TV • 2000
Eliezer
Teen Titans Go!
TV • 2013
The Lobe (voice)
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
TV • 2000
Lord Angstrom (voice)
Iron Man
TV • 1994
Arthur Dearborn (voice)
A History of Horror
TV • 2010
Self
Dinosaurs
TV • 1991
Spirit of the Tree (voice)
The Hunger
TV • 1997
Vassu
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
TV • 1993
Winston Smiles
Men in Black: The Series
TV • 1997
Alpha (voice)
Hart to Hart
TV • 1979
Mr. Bowlly
Father Dowling Mysteries
TV • 1989
Sir Arthur wedgeworth
Midsomer Murders
TV • 1997
Peter Fossett
Performance
TV • 1991
Vanya
Marco Polo
TV • 1982
Rustichello da Pisa
The Alienist
TV • 2018
Professor Cavanaugh
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Justin Hunnicut
Clouds of Glory
TV • 1978
William Wordsworth
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
TV • 2006
Pulcher
Nancy Astor
TV • 1982
Philip Kerr
Wallander
TV • 2008
Povel Wallander
Masada
TV • 1981
Senator Pomponius Falco
The Larry Sanders Show
TV • 1992
Richard Germain
Crossbow
TV • 1987
Worlds Beyond
TV • 1986
Ken Larkin