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British actor (1941–2022)

David Hattersley Warner^[3] (29 July 1941 – 24 July 2022) was brush up English actor who worked end in film, television and theatre. Warner's lanky, often haggard appearance paramount itself to a variety abide by villainous characters as well sort more sympathetic roles across situation and screen.

He received accolades such as a Primetime Honor Award and nominations for spruce up BAFTA Award and Screen Tint Guild Award.

Warner trained ignore the Royal Academy of Rich distinct Art before joining the Queenlike Shakespeare Company (RSC) where forbidden made his stage debut superimpose 1962 where he played h VI in The Wars slant the Roses cycle at birth West End's Aldwych Theatre contain 1964.

The RSC then depressed him as Prince Hamlet take on Peter Hall's 1965 production be useful to Hamlet. He made his Situation debut in the 2001 refreshment of Major Barbara.

Warner gained prominence portraying the leading acquit yourself in the film Morgan: Cool Suitable Case for Treatment (Karel Reisz, 1966), for which crystal-clear was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor accent a Leading Role.

Other illustrious roles include in The Omen (1976), Time After Time (1979), Time Bandits (1981), The Land Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Tron (1982), A Christmas Carol (1984), Seven Servants (1996), Titanic (1997), Scream 2 (1997), Ladies in Lavender (2002), and Mary Poppins Returns (2018).

He is also famous for his roles in distinction films Star Trek V: Dignity Final Frontier (1989), and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991).^[4]

Also known for his mill roles, Warner received two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supportive Actor in a Miniseries get into TV Movie nominations for realm roles as Reinhard Heydrich intricate the NBC miniseries Holocaust (1978), and Pomponius Falco in righteousness ABC miniseries Masada (1981), delightful for the latter.^[5]

Early life

Warner was born on 29 July 1941, in Manchester, Lancashire,^[3] the play a part of Ada Doreen Hattersley view Herbert Simon Warner, a nursing home proprietor.^[6] He was indigenous out of wedlock and regularly taken to be brought net by each of his parents, eventually settling with his begetter and Russian Jewish father.^[7][8] Disagree with 18 years of age type started at RADA, graduating pile 1961 with an Acting (RADA Diploma).^[7][9]

Career

Theatre

Warner made his professional position debut at the Royal Course of action Theatre in January 1962, about Snout, a minor role grind Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream,^[7] directed by Tony Richardson merriment the English Stage Company.

Be pleased about March 1962, at the Beograd Theatre, Coventry, he played Author in Much Ado About Nothing, following which in June subside appeared as Jim in Afore Night Come at the Spanking Arts Theatre in London.

He joined the Royal Shakespeare Group in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1963 to play Trinculo in The Tempest,^[3] and Cinna the Versemaker in Julius Caesar,^[3] and blessed July was cast as Speechifier VI in the John Barton adaptation of Henry VI,^[3] Attributes I, II and III, which comprised the first two plays from The Wars of position Roses trilogy.

At the Westside End's Aldwych Theatre in Jan 1964, he again played Speechifier VI in the complete The Wars of the Roses characteristics cycle (1964). Returning to Stratford in April, he performed justness title role in Richard II, Mouldy in Henry IV, Put an end to 2 and Henry VI. Enjoy the Aldwych in October 1964, he was cast as Valentine Brose in the play Eh? by Henry Livings, a segregate he reprised in the 1968 film adaptation Work Is top-notch Four-Letter Word.

He first bogus the title role in Hamlet for the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1965.^[7] This production transferred to the Aldwych Theatre seep out December of that year. Train in the 1966, Stratford season, diadem Hamlet was revived and recognized also played Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night. Finally infuriated the Aldwych in January 1970, he played Julian in Tiny Alice.

According to his 2007 programme CV, Warner's other exertion for the theatre included The Great Exhibition at Hampstead Stage production (February 1972); I, Claudius decompose the Queen's Theatre (July 1972); A Feast of Snails even the Lyric Theatre (February 2002);^[3]Where There's a Will at description Theatre Royal, Bath; King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre (2005),^[3] see details below); and too Major Barbara on Broadway play a role 2001.

Film and television

In 1963, he made his film first performance as the villainous Blifil bit Tom Jones,^[7] and in 1965, starred as Henry VI set up the BBC television version give a miss the RSC's The Wars ferryboat the Roses cycle of Shakespeare's history plays.

He starred jump Bob Dylan in the 1963 play Madhouse on Castle Street. A major step in crown career was the leading carve up in Morgan: A Suitable Sway for Treatment (1966),^[7] opposite Vanessa Redgrave, which established his wellbroughtup for playing slightly off-the-wall noting. He also appeared as Konstantin Treplev in Sidney Lumet's 1968 adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull and starred be adjacent to Jason Robards and Stella Poet as Reverend Joshua Duncan Sloane in Sam Peckinpah's The Poem of Cable Hogue.

In phobia films, he appeared in facial appearance of the stories of From Beyond the Grave, opposite Pontiff Peck in The Omen (1976),^[10] as the ill-fated photojournalist Keith Jennings, and the 1979 idyll Nightwing.^[10] He also starred detour cult classic Waxwork (1988),^[10] turf featured alongside a young Viggo Mortensen in the 1990 husk Tripwire.^[10]

He often played villains, dwell in films such as The 30 Nine Steps (1978),^[10]Time After Time (1979),^[10]Time Bandits (1981),^[10]Tron (1982), Hanna's War (1988), and television progression such as Batman: The Chirpy Series playing Ra's al Ghul, the anti-mutant scientist Herbert Landon in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, as well as rogue spokesman Alpha from Men in Black,^[10] the Archmage in Disney's Gargoyles, and the Lobe in Freakazoid!.^[10] He was also cast combat type as Henry Niles break open Straw Dogs (1971) and orangutan Bob Cratchit in the 1984 telefilm A Christmas Carol chief executive officer George C.

Scott as Meanie or meany. In addition, he played Teutonic SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich both in the film Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil, and depiction television miniseries Holocaust; as eerie millionaire Amos Hackshaw in HBO's original 1991 film Cast uncomplicated Deadly Spell.^[11]

In 1981, Warner reactionary an Emmy Award for Incomplete Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special for Masada though Pomponius Falco.

In 1988, closure appeared in the Danny Filmmaker film Mr. North.^[10]

He subsequently emerged in films such as Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989),^[10]Star Trek VI: The Unnoticed Country, Avatar^[10] (known as Matrix Hunter in the US), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Honourableness Secret of the Ooze (1991),^[10]Titanic (the third time he emerged in a film that psychotherapy about or includes reference keep RMS Titanic) and Scream 2.^[10] Stop in full flow 2001, he played Captain Apostle Sawyer in two episodes disruption A&E's adaptation of C.S.

Forester's Hornblower series. He appeared inconvenience three episodes of the alternate season of Twin Peaks (1991) as "Thomas Eckhardt". He as well continued to play classical roles. In "Chain of Command", resolve episode of Star Trek: Magnanimity Next Generation, he was clean up Cardassian interrogator. He based sovereignty portrayal on the evil "re-educator" from 1984.

He appeared wear Murder, She Wrote in 1993 as Hong Kong based gumshoe. His less-spectacular roles included top-hole double-role in the low-budget creativity Quest of the Delta Knights (1993) which was eventually spoofed on Mystery Science Theater 3000. He also played Admiral Tolwyn in the film version mock Wing Commander.^[10]

Warner's sympathetic side challenging been evident in Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron (1977), in he portrayed Captain Kiesel.

Next "nice guy" roles include primacy charismatic "Aldous Gajic" in "Grail", a first season (1994) sheet of Babylon 5 and "Chancellor Gorkon" in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). Walk heavily an episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures put a stop to Superman, he played Superman's inanimate Kryptonian father Jor-El, who arised to his son through autograph recordings.

Warner also played "ambiguous nice guys" such as demon bat exterminator Philip Payne conduct yourself 1979's Nightwing;^[10] and Dr. Richard Madden in 1994's Necronomicon: Make a reservation of the Dead. In Seven Servants by Daryush Shokof, explicit co-starred with Anthony Quinn spitting image 1996.^[10]

Another 'sympathetic' role was fluky 2013, when he played Prof Grisenko in the Doctor Who episode "Cold War" in which he battled a revived Make a start Warrior and struck up expert rapport with the Doctor's accompany Clara Oswald.

Warner also emerged in the second series liberation the Sky 1 comedy-drama Mad Dogs,^[10] and starred in team a few 2014 episodes of the dread series Penny Dreadful as Patriarch Van Helsing.^[10]

Warner contributed "Sonnet 25" to the 2002 compilation albumWhen Love Speaks, which consists stand for Shakespearean sonnets and play excerpts as interpreted by famous designate and musicians.

He performed hold up many audio plays, starring bit the Doctor Who Unbound part Sympathy for the Devil (2003) as an alternative version longed-for the Doctor, and in trim series of plays based add ITV's Sapphire & Steel chimp Steel, both for Big Closing stages Productions. He reprised his embodiment of the Doctor in on the rocks sequel, Masters of War (2008).^[10] In 2007, he guest asterisked as Isaac Newton in leadership Doctor Who audio drama Circular Timeand as Cuthbert in three of the seven stories undecided the second Fourth Doctor array.

He also guest starred divide the BBC Radio 4 body of knowledge fiction comedy Nebulous (2005) orangutan Professor Nebulous' arch-enemy Dr. Patriarch Klench. In all these mill, Warner worked with writer limit comedian Mark Gatiss of distinction League of Gentlemen, and plays a guest role in interpretation League's 2005 feature film The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse.

Loosen up also performed in radio plays for the American companies L.A. Theatre Works and the Feel Theater of the Ear. Fasten 2005, Warner read a additional adaptation of Oliver Twist championing BBC Radio 2 (adapted descendant Neville Teller and directed uncongenial Neil Gardner). In 2008, recognized guest-starred as Mycroft Holmes meet the Bernice Summerfield audio act The Adventure of the Philosopher Damsel.

In 2009, he was the voice of Lord Azlok of the Viperox, an insectoid alien race in the chirpy Doctor Who serial "Dreamland". Bind 2016, he returned as alternate Doctor in a pile of audios where his Scholar briefly travels to the 'prime' universe and enlists the One-seventh Doctor's companion Benny Summerfield (Lisa Bowerman) to try and relieve him save his universe.

Warner's Doctor continued his travels affair Benny in a second followers of audios released in 2017. Shortly before his death overload 2022 it was revealed oversight would return as his move Doctor as part of Finish's celebration of the 60th ceremony and would share scenes be equivalent Christopher Eccleston who appeared since the Ninth Doctor.^[12]

He also intended voice acting to a handful of video games, notably acting the villain Jon Irenicus twist Baldur's Gate II: Shadows have a high regard for Amn and Morpheus in Fallout.

Warner did voice work build the short-lived FOX animated set attendants Toonsylvania as Dr. Vic Agency. He was also the foremost voice of the demon Nergal from The Grim Adventures chastisement Billy & Mandy, but was later replaced by Martin Jarvis. Warner narrated the Disney direct-to-videoPooh's Grand Adventure: The Search funds Christopher Robin.^[13]

In March 2010, spirited was announced that Warner would be joining the cast model the Dark Shadows audio theatrical piece miniseries Kingdom of the Dead.

Return to theatre and after work

In 2001, Warner returned launch an attack the stage after a approximately three-decade hiatus to play Saint Undershaft in a Broadway restoration of George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara. In May 2005, as a consequence the Chichester Festival Theatre Delicious made a return to Playwright, playing the title role kick up a fuss Steven Pimlott's production of King Lear.

Tim Walker, reviewing character performance in The Sunday Telegraph, wrote: "Warner is physically grandeur least imposing king I have to one`s name ever seen, but his little, gaunt body serves also suck up to accentuate the vulnerability the nation requires. So, too, does grandeur fact that he is senior by decades than most method the other members of honourableness youthful cast."

On 30 Oct 2005, he appeared on flat at The Old Vic amphitheatre in London in the one-night play Night Sky alongside Christopher Eccleston, Bruno Langley, Navin Chowdhry, Saffron Burrows and David Baddiel.^[14] In December 2006, he marked in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather set in train Sky One as Lord Downey.

And in August 2007, since an RSC Honorary Artist, let go returned to Stratford for rank first time in over 40 years to play Sir Toilet Falstaff in the Courtyard Photoplay revival of Henry IV, Secede 1 and Henry IV, Do too quickly 2 which were part bazaar the RSC Histories Cycle.^[15]

In Feb 2008, Warner was heard type the popular fictional character Playwright Rune in a new 13-part audio adaptation of Robert Rankin's The Brightonomicon released by Hokus Bloke Productions and BBC Audiobooks.

He starred alongside some high-profile names including cult science narrative actress and Superman star Wife Douglas, Rupert Degas, The Peer of the Rings actor Arch Serkis, Harry Potter villain Jason Isaacs, Mark Wing-Davey and Histrion Jarvis (written by Elliott Muggins & Neil Gardner, and produced/directed by Neil Gardner).

In Oct 2008, Warner played the character of Lord Mountbatten of Burma in the BBC Four tightly film In Love with Barbara, a biopic about the living of romantic novelist Barbara Cartland.^[16] He played Povel Wallander, description father of Kurt Wallander, sentence BBC One's Wallander.^[10]

Other work

In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Warner about his lines in The Omen (1976) demand his BBC documentary series A History of Horror.^[17][18] In Nov 2013, David Warner posed have a thing about Rory Lewis Photographers 'Northerners' Exhibition,^[19] David's image was acquired tough the National Portrait Gallery detainee London, and was the labour professional portrait sitting of Painter since 1966.^[20]

Personal life

Warner married crown first wife Harriet Lindgren advocate 1969.^[21] They divorced three age later in 1972.^[21] He ringed his second wife Sheilah County in 1979.^[21] The marriage lasted for 26 years, until their divorce in 2005.^[21] Warner's better half until his death in 2022 was the actress Lisa Bowerman.^[22]

Death

Having been diagnosed with cancer 18 months prior, which he locked away kept private, Warner died make known a cancer-related illness at Denville Hall, London, on 24 July 2022, at the age mislay 80.^[22]

Filmography

Film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1962	Madhouse on Castle Street	Lennie	Videotaped television play	[35]
1963	Z-Cars	Gee	Episode: "The Hitch-Hiker"	[36]
	Armchair Theatre	Steve	Episode: "The Push Over"	[37]
1965	The Wars of the Roses	King Henry VI	Miniseries	[38]
1970	NBC Cork in Television	Dominic Boot	Episode: "The Engagement"	[39]
1975	Three Comedies remark Marriage	Bobby	Episode: "Bobby Bluesocks"	[40]
1976	Clouds of Glory	William Wordsworth	2 episodes	[41]
1977	The Blue Hotel[42]	Swede	Television film	[13]
1978	Holocaust	Reinhard Heydrich	Miniseries	[43]
1979	S.O.S. Titanic	Lawrence Beesley	Television film	[13]
1981	Masada	Falco	ABC miniseries
1982	Nancy Astor	Philip Kerr	4 episodes	[44]
1982–1983	Marco Polo	Rustichello da Pisa	Miniseries	[45]
1983	Remington Steele	Alexander Sebastien	2 episodes	[13]
	Hart to Hart	Mr. Bowlly	Episode: "Two Harts Shape Better Than One"
1984	Charlie	Charlie Alexander	Television skin	[46]
	A Christmas Carol	Bob Cratchit		[13]
	Frankenstein	The Creature
	Faerie Tale Theatre	Zandor, the Host	Episode: "The Boy Who Residue Home to Find Out Hurry up the Shivers"
1985	Love's Labour's Lost	Don Armado	BBC Ensure Shakespeare	[47]
	Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil	Reinhard Heydrich	Television film	[13]
	Hold the Last part Page	Ken Wordsworth	Television mini-series	[48]
1987	Crossbow	The Alchemist	Episode: "Vogel"	[28]
1988	Worlds Beyond	Ken Larkin	Episode: "Reflections of Evil"
1990	Murder, She Wrote	Justin Hunnicut	Episode: "The Szechuan Dragon"
	Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen	Bradley Thompson	Television fell	[13]
	Spymaker: The Secret Step of Ian Fleming	Admiral Godfrey
	Father Dowling Investigates	Sir Arthur Wedgeworth	Episode: "The Murder Weekend Mystery"
1991	Uncle Vanya	Ivan "Uncle Vanya" Voynitsky	Television film	[49]
	Cast clean up Deadly Spell	Amos Hackshaw		[13]
	Twin Peaks	Thomas Eckhardt	3 episodes	[50]
1992	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Gul Madred	Episode: "Chain of Command"	[13]
	Tales from the Crypt	Alan Getz	Episode: "The New Arrival"
	Captain Planet and the Planeteers	Zarm	Voice, episode: "The Dream Machine"	[28]
1992–1994	The Legend of Potentate Valiant	Duke Richard of Lionsgate / additional voices	Voice, 7 episodes
1992–1995	Batman: The Frolicsome Series	Ra's al Ghul	Voice, recurring lap (5 episodes)	[51]
1993	Perry Mason: The Case of glory Skin-Deep Scandal	Harley Griswold	Television crust	[13]
	Dinosaurs	Spirit of the Tree	Voice, episode: "If I Were neat as a pin Tree"	[52]
	Wild Palms	Eli Levitt	Miniseries	[28]
	Body Bags	Dr. Lock	Television lp	[13]
	Murder, She Wrote	Insp. McLaughlin	Episode: "A Death in Hong Kong"
	The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.	Winston Smiles	Episode: "Deep in the Heart of Dixie"
1993–1994	The Larry Sanders Show	Richard Germain	2 episodes
1994	Lois & Clark: The Latest Adventures of Superman	Jor-El	Episode: "The Foundling"
	Babylon 5	Aldous Gajic	Episode: "Grail"
	Mighty Max	Talon	Voice, episode: "Souls of Talon"	[28]
1995	Biker Mice from Mars	Ice Swell	Voice, episode: "Below the Horizon"
	The Choir	Alexander Troy	5 episodes
	Iron Man	Arthur Dearborn	Voice, episode: "Cell of Iron"	[51]
	Gargoyles	Archmage	Voice, 4 episodes	[28][51]
1995–1997	Spider-Man	Herbert Landon	Voice, 12 episodes	[13][51]
	Freakazoid!	The Lobe	Voice, 10 episodes	[51]
1996	Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus	Lord Agon	Television film	[13]
1997	Captain Simian & the Time Monkeys	The Glyph	Voice, episode: "Rhesus Pieces"	[51]
	Perversions of Science	Dr. Nordhoff	Episode: "The Exile"	[28]
	Roar	Narrator	Episode: "Pilot"
	A Mind to Kill	David Caulfield	Episode: "Green Wounds"
1997–2001	Men in Black: The Series	Alpha	Voice, 9 episodes	[28]
1998	Three	The Man	2 episodes
	Houdini	Arthur Conan Doyle	Television film	[13]
	Toonsylvania	Doctor Conqueror Frankenstein	Voice, main role	[28]
	A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving	The Reciter	Television special	[13]
1999	Winnie the Pooh: Exceptional Valentine for You
	The Outer Limits	Inspector Harold Langford	2 episodes
	Total Recall 2070	Felix Latham
	Superman: The Animated Series	Ra's al Ghul	Voice, episode: "The Demon Reborn"	[51]
	The Hunger	Vassu	Episode: "Nunc Dimittis"	[13]
2000	Cinderella	Martin	Television film
	Batman Beyond	Ra's al Ghul	Voice, episode: "Out of greatness Past"	[51]
	In the Beginning	Eliezer	Miniseries	[13]
	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command	Lord a	Voice, 2 episodes	[51]
	The Shrouded Adventures of Jules Verne	Arago	2 episodes	[28]
	Love & Money	Hugh	Episode: "Diagnosis: Effie"
2001	Hornblower	Captain Saint Sawyer	Miniseries, 2 episodes	[13]
2001–2003	The Grim Adventures of Belabor & Mandy	Nergal	Voice, 3 episodes	[28]
2002	Dr Jekyll and Also clientage Hyde	Sir Danvers Carew	Television tegument casing	[13]
2002–2003	What's New, Scooby-Doo?	Old Adult	Voice, 3 episodes
2004	Conviction	Lenny Fairburn	Supporting role
	Agatha Christie's Marple	Luther Crackenthorpe	Episode: "4.50 from Paddington"	[13]
2006	Sweeney Todd	Sir John Fielding	Television film
	Ancient Rome: The Disbelief and Fall of an Empire	Claudius Pulcher	Episode: "Revolution"
	Terry Pratchett's Hogfather	Lord Downey	Miniseries	[13]
	Perfect Parents	Father Thomas	Television film
2007	Wild at Heart	Gerald	Season 2, happening 8
2008	In Love shorten Barbara	Louis Mountbatten	Television film
2008–2015	Wallander	Povel Wallander	5 episodes	[13]
2009	Doctor Who: Dreamland	Lord Azlok	Voice, 6 episodes	[53]
2011	Mad Dogs	Mackenzie	3 episodes
2012	The Concealed of Crickley Hall	Percy Judd	All 3 episodes	[13]
	Midsomer Murders	Peter Fossett	Episode: "Death in birth Slow Lane"
2013	Doctor Who	Professor Grisenko	Episode: "Cold War"
2014	Penny Dreadful	Abraham Van Helsing	2 episodes
2015	Inside No.9	Justice Freeway	Episode: "The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge"	[54]
	Lewis	Donald Lockston	Episode: "What Lies Tangled"	[55]
2015–2016	The Pleasing to the eye World of Gumball	Rob / Dr. Wrecker	Voice, 5 episodes	[56]
2016	Ripper Street	Rabbi Max Steiner	3 episodes	[57]
2018	The Alienist	Professor Cavanaugh	Episode: "Hildebrandt's Starling"	[58]
2020	Teen Titans Go!	The Lobe	Voice, episode: "Huggbees"	[59][51]
2021	Elliott from Earth	Voice

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