David Warner

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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.

Known For

Titanic

Spicer Lovejoy

Scream 2

Gus Gold

Planet of the Apes

Sandar

Mary Poppins Returns

Admiral Boom

Doctor Who

Professor Grisenko

Tron

Ed Dillinger / Sark

Twin Peaks

Thomas Eckhardt

The Omen

Keith Jennings

Full Filmography

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

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