David Warner
Known for Acting · 213 credits
- Born
- 1941-07-29
- Died
- 2022-07-24
- Place of birth
- Manchester, England, UK
- Also known as
- David Hattersley Warner
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.
Known For
TV Shows (65)
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Peter Fossett
Doctor Who
2005
as Professor Grisenko
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
as Gul Madred
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
1993
as Jor-El
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Insp. McLaughlin / Justin Hunnicut
Batman: The Animated Series
1992
as Ra's al Ghul (voice)
Twin Peaks
1990
as Thomas Eckhardt
Teen Titans Go!
2013
as The Lobe (voice)
Babylon 5
1994
as Aldous Gajic
The Amazing World of Gumball
2011
as Dr. Wrecker (voice)
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Luther Crackenthorpe
Hart to Hart
1979
as Mr. Bowlly
The Outer Limits
1995
as Bill Trenton / Inspector Harold Langford
Dinosaurs
1991
as Spirit of the Tree (voice)
Superman: The Animated Series
1996
as Ra's al Ghul (voice)
Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Dr. Alan Goetz
Spider-Man
1994
as Landon (voice)
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
2001
as Nergal (voice)
Gargoyles
1994
as Archmage (voice)
Remington Steele
1982
as Alexander Sebastien
Batman Beyond
1999
as Ra's al Ghul (voice)
Inside No. 9
2014
as Sir Andrew Pike
Z-Cars
1962
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
as Richard Germain
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as Zandor, The Innkeeper
Ripper Street
2012
as Rabbi Max Steiner
The Alienist
2018
as Professor Cavanaugh
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
2000
as Lord Angstrom (voice)
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
1993
as Winston Smiles
Performance
1991
as Vanya
The Hunger
1997
as Vassu
Freakazoid!
1995
as The Lobe (voice)
Wallander
2008
as Povel Wallander
Iron Man
1994
as Arthur Dearborn (voice)
Hornblower
1998
as Captain Sawyer
Men in Black: The Series
1997
as Alpha (voice)
Marco Polo
1982
as Rustichello da Pisa
Father Dowling Mysteries
1989
as Sir Arthur wedgeworth
Total Recall 2070
1999
Perversions of Science
1997
as Dr. Nordhoff
Holocaust
1978
as Heydrich
Crossbow
1987
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
as Pulcher
Elliott from Earth
2021
Masada
1981
as Senator Pomponius Falco
Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys
1996
as The Glyph (voice)
Worlds Beyond
1986
as Ken Larkin
Wild Palms
1993
as Eli Levitt
In the Beginning
2000
as Eliezer
A History of Horror
2010
as Self
Toonsylvania
1998
as Dr. Vic Frankenstein
The Secret of Crickley Hall
2012
as Elderly Percy Judd
Nancy Astor
1982
as Philip Kerr
Hogfather
2006
as Lord Downey
Conviction
2004
as Lenny Fairburn
A Mind to Kill
1994
Doctor Who: Dreamland
2009
as Lord Azlok (voice)
Sensitive Skin
2005
The Choir
1995
as Alexander Troy
The American Revolution
1994
as King George III
Movies (148)
Titanic
1997
as Spicer Lovejoy
TRON: Ares
2025
as Master Control Program (voice) (archival audio)
Scream 2
1997
as Gus Gold
Planet of the Apes
2001
as Sandar
The Omen
1976
as Keith Jennings
Tron
1982
as Ed Dillinger / Sark
Mary Poppins Returns
2018
as Admiral Boom
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
1991
as Professor Jordon Perry
In the Mouth of Madness
1995
as Dr. Wrenn
Time Bandits
1981
as Evil Genius
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
1989
as St. John Talbot
Straw Dogs
1971
as Henry Niles (uncredited)
Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
1997
as Narrator (voice)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991
as Chancellor Gorkon
Black Death
2010
as Abbot
A Christmas Carol
1984
as Bob Cratchit
The Company of Wolves
1984
as Father
Cross of Iron
1977
as Hauptmann Kiesel
The Man with Two Brains
1983
as Dr. Alfred Necessiter
Money Talks
1997
as Barclay
Ice Cream Man
1995
as Reverend Langley
Ladies in Lavender
2004
as Dr Mead
The Concorde... Airport '79
1979
as Peter O'Neill
Wing Commander
1999
as Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn
Waxwork
1988
as Waxwork Man
Necronomicon
1993
as Dr. Madden
Body Bags
1993
as Dr. Lock
Hansel and Gretel
1988
as Father Stephan
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
as Murphy
The Leading Man
1996
as Tod
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970
as Joshua
Time After Time
1979
as Jack the Ripper - John Leslie Stevenson
Tom Jones
1963
as Mr. Blifil
The Island
1980
as David Nau
Hogfather
2007
as Lord Downey
Rasputin
1996
as Dr. Botkin
Sweeney Todd
2006
as Fielding
Mr. North
1988
as Doctor Angus McPherson
S.O.S. Titanic
1980
as Laurence Beesley
Silver Bears
1977
as Agha Firdausi
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self (archive footage)
The Deadly Affair
1967
as Edward II (in Edward II)
TRON: The Next Day
2011
as Ed Dillinger / MCP
The Fixer
1968
as Count Odoevsky
Hornblower: Mutiny
2001
as Captain James Sawyer
The Lost World
1992
as Summerlee
The Thirty Nine Steps
1978
as Sir Edmund Appleton
Hanna's War
1988
as Captain Julian Simon
Nightwing
1979
as Phillip Payne
Cast a Deadly Spell
1991
as Amos Hackshaw
Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You
1999
as Narrator (voice)
Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus
1996
as Lord Agon
Naked Souls
1996
as Everett Longstreet
You, Me and Him
2018
as Michael Miller
Danielle Steel's Zoya
1997
as Prince Vladmir
Perfect Friday
1970
as Lord Nicholas "Nick" Dorset
Siegfried and Roy: Masters of the Impossible
1996
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985
as Reinhard Heydrich
The Sea Gull
1968
as Konstantin Treplev
From Beyond the Grave
1974
as Edward Charlton
Hearts of Gold
2003
as Dr. Theo John
The Disappearance
1977
as Burbank
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
1993
as Harley Griswold
Felony
1996
as Cooper
Desperado
1987
as Ballard, Company Police Chief
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chain of Command
2014
My Best Friend Is a Vampire
1987
as Professor Leopold McCarthy
Tripwire
1989
as Josef Szabo
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968
as Lysander
Final Equinox
1995
as Shilow
Providence
1977
as Kevin Woodford
Houdini
1998
as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Thousand Kisses Deep
2012
as Max
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966
as Morgan Delt
Shergar
1999
as Eammon Garrity
A Doll's House
1973
as Torvald Helmer
Cyber Wars
2004
as Joseph Lau
The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter
1992
as Chancellor Thayer
A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving
1998
as Narrator
Hostile Takeover
1989
as Eugene Brackin
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2003
as Sir Danvers Carew
Magdalene
1988
as Baron von Seidl
Spies, Inc.
1992
as Cleague
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
1984
as Zandor, the Inkeeper
The Little Unicorn
2002
as Ted Regan
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005
as Dr. Erasmus Pea
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
1990
as Adm. Godfrey
Pulse Pounders
1988
as Evil Clergyman (The Evil Clergyman sequence) (archive footage)
Inner Sanctum II
1994
as Dr. Lamont
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
1974
as Dennis Charles Nipple
Back to the Secret Garden
2000
as Dr. Snodgrass
The Wars of the Roses
1965
as King Henry VI
Hornblower: Retribution
2001
as Capt. James Sawyer
Superstition
2001
as Judge Padovani
The Omen Legacy
2001
as Self
Taking Liberty
1993
as Sir Leopold Linwood
Cinderella
2000
as Martin
Blue Tornado
1991
as Commander
Mortal Passions
1989
as Doctor Terrence Powers
Before I Sleep
2013
as Eugene Devlin
Return to the Lost World
1992
as Professor Leo Summerlee
Tryst
1994
as Jason
Frankenstein
1984
as Creature
The Madhouse on Castle Street
1963
as Lennie
Grave Secrets
1989
as Dr. Carl Farnsworth
Corwin
1996
as Self
Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
1969
as Michael Kohlhaas
Opus
1967
as Hamlet
The Investigation
2002
as Superint. Bruce Northorp
Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen
1990
as Bradley Thompson
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
2005
as Self
Kiss of Life
2003
as Pap
Diagnosis Murder: The House on Sycamore Street
1992
as Dr. Lloyd Stern
The Code Conspiracy
2002
as Professor
The Evil Clergyman
1988
as Evil Clergyman
Pretty Princess
1993
as principe Massimiliano
Loving Deadly
1994
as Grant / Grant's Twin
Quest of the Delta Knights
1993
as Lord Vultare
Uncle Vanya
1991
as Vanya
Age of Innocence
1977
as Henry Buchanan
About David Warner
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 Iro… With 213 credits spanning from 1962 to 2025, David Warner has appeared in 148 films and 65 TV shows.
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Most Popular David Warner Movies
- Titanic (1997) — as Spicer Lovejoy
- TRON: Ares (2025) — as Master Control Program (voice) (archival audio)
- Scream 2 (1997) — as Gus Gold
- Planet of the Apes (2001) — as Sandar
- The Omen (1976) — as Keith Jennings
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