David Warner
Known for Acting · 218 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 (67)
Midsomer Murders
1997
as Peter Fossett
Doctor Who
2005
as Professor Grisenko
Teen Titans Go!
2013
as The Lobe (voice)
Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
as Gul Madred
Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Insp. McLaughlin / Justin Hunnicut
Twin Peaks
1990
as Thomas Eckhardt
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
1993
as Jor-El
The Amazing World of Gumball
2011
as Dr. Wrecker (voice)
Babylon 5
1994
as Aldous Gajic
Z-Cars
1962
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
2001
as Nergal (voice)
Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Luther Crackenthorpe
Batman: The Animated Series
1992
as Ra's al Ghul (voice)
Hart to Hart
1979
as Mr. Bowlly
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 Outer Limits
1995
as Bill Trenton / Inspector Harold Langford
Dinosaurs
1991
as Spirit of the Tree (voice)
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
2000
as Lord Angstrom (voice)
Gargoyles
1994
as Archmage (voice)
Remington Steele
1982
as Alexander Sebastien
Batman Beyond
1999
as Ra's al Ghul (voice)
The Larry Sanders Show
1992
as Richard Germain
Film '72
1971
as Self
Inside No. 9
2014
as Sir Andrew Pike
Ripper Street
2012
as Rabbi Max Steiner
The Hunger
1997
as Vassu
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as Zandor, The Innkeeper
The Alienist
2018
as Professor Cavanaugh
Freakazoid!
1995
as The Lobe (voice)
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
1993
as Winston Smiles
Performance
1991
as Vanya
Crossbow
1987
Wallander
2008
as Povel Wallander
Hornblower
1998
as Captain Sawyer
Father Dowling Mysteries
1989
as Sir Arthur wedgeworth
Iron Man
1994
as Arthur Dearborn (voice)
Men in Black: The Series
1997
as Alpha (voice)
Worlds Beyond
1986
as Ken Larkin
Holocaust
1978
as Heydrich
Perversions of Science
1997
as Dr. Nordhoff
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
as Pulcher
Total Recall 2070
1999
Toonsylvania
1998
as Dr. Vic Frankenstein
Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys
1996
as The Glyph (voice)
Marco Polo
1982
as Rustichello da Pisa
Masada
1981
as Senator Pomponius Falco
Wild Palms
1993
as Eli Levitt
Elliott from Earth
2021
Hogfather
2006
as Lord Downey
Three
1998
as The Man
In the Beginning
2000
as Eliezer
Nancy Astor
1982
as Philip Kerr
The Wars of the Roses
1965
as Henry VI
A History of Horror
2010
as Self
Sensitive Skin
2005
as Robert Ringwald
The Choir
1995
as Alexander Troy
The Secret of Crickley Hall
2012
as Elderly Percy Judd
Doctor Who: Dreamland
2009
as Lord Azlok (voice)
Movies (151)
Titanic
1997
as Spicer Lovejoy
TRON: Ares
2025
as Master Control Program (voice) (archival audio)
In the Mouth of Madness
1995
as Dr. Wrenn
Planet of the Apes
2001
as Sandar
Scream 2
1997
as Gus Gold
Mary Poppins Returns
2018
as Admiral Boom
The Omen
1976
as Keith Jennings
Tron
1982
as Ed Dillinger / Sark
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991
as Chancellor Gorkon
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
1989
as St. John Talbot
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
1991
as Professor Jordon Perry
Cross of Iron
1977
as Hauptmann Kiesel
Time Bandits
1981
as Evil Genius
Straw Dogs
1971
as Henry Niles (uncredited)
The Company of Wolves
1984
as Father
Money Talks
1997
as Barclay
Black Death
2010
as Abbot
The Man with Two Brains
1983
as Dr. Alfred Necessiter
Hogfather
2007
as Lord Downey
Ladies in Lavender
2004
as Dr Mead
Ice Cream Man
1995
as Reverend Langley
Superstition
2001
as Judge Padovani
The Deadly Affair
1967
as Edward II (in Edward II)
A Christmas Carol
1984
as Bob Cratchit
Daredevil vs. Spider-Man
2003
as Landon (voice)
Hansel and Gretel
1988
as Father Stephan
Mr. North
1988
as Doctor Angus McPherson
The Concorde... Airport '79
1979
as Peter O'Neill
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970
as Joshua
Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
1997
as Narrator (voice)
Time After Time
1979
as Jack the Ripper - John Leslie Stevenson
Wing Commander
1999
as Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn
Waxwork
1988
as Waxwork Man
Uncle Vanya
1991
as Vanya
Cast a Deadly Spell
1991
as Amos Hackshaw
Necronomicon
1993
as Dr. Madden
The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
as Murphy
Tom Jones
1963
as Mr. Blifil
Body Bags
1993
as Dr. Lock
We Joined the Navy
1963
as Sailor Painting Ship (uncredited)
The Thirty Nine Steps
1978
as Sir Edmund Appleton
A Thousand Kisses Deep
2012
as Max
The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge
2015
as Sir Andrew Pike
TRON: The Next Day
2011
as Ed Dillinger / MCP
S.O.S. Titanic
1980
as Laurence Beesley
Danielle Steel's Zoya
1997
as Prince Vladmir
Hornblower: Retribution
2001
as Capt. James Sawyer
The Island
1980
as David Nau
Houdini
1998
as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Sam Peckinpah: Portrait
2006
as Self
In Love with Barbara
2008
as Lord Mountbatten
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
1990
as Adm. Godfrey
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
1993
as Harley Griswold
Silver Bears
1977
as Agha Firdausi
You, Me and Him
2018
as Michael Miller
Providence
1977
as Kevin Woodford
Dark at Noon
1992
as Ellic
Perfect Friday
1970
as Lord Nicholas "Nick" Dorset
Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
1969
as Michael Kohlhaas
Drive
1991
as The Driver
Return to the Lost World
1992
as Professor Leo Summerlee
Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible
1996
Sweeney Todd
2006
as Fielding
Naked Souls
1996
as Everett Longstreet
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005
as Dr. Erasmus Pea
The Old Curiosity Shop
1975
as Sampson Brass
Hornblower: Mutiny
2001
as Captain James Sawyer
The Fixer
1968
as Count Odoevsky
Nightwing
1979
as Phillip Payne
Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You
1999
as Narrator (voice)
The Wars of the Roses
1965
as King Henry VI
Rasputin
1996
as Dr. Botkin
Pretty Princess
1993
as principe Massimiliano
Love's Labour's Lost
1985
as Don Armado
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985
as Reinhard Heydrich
The Investigation
2002
as Superint. Bruce Northorp
Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus
1996
as Lord Agon
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968
as Lysander
Keys to Freedom
1988
as Nigel Heath
Grave Secrets
1989
as Dr. Carl Farnsworth
The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter
1992
as Chancellor Thayer
Bacon's Arena
2006
as Narrator (voice)
The Evil Clergyman
1988
as Evil Clergyman
The Omen Legacy
2001
as Self
Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock
2004
as Landon (voice)
Pulse Pounders
1988
as Evil Clergyman (The Evil Clergyman sequence) (archive footage)
Blue Tornado
1991
as Commander
Inner Sanctum II
1994
as Dr. Lamont
Spider-Man: The Return of the Green Goblin
2002
as Landon (voice)
The Leading Man
1996
as Tod
Hanna's War
1988
as Captain Julian Simon
Mortal Passions
1989
as Doctor Terrence Powers
The King's Breakfast
1963
as 1st Trumpeter
The Disappearance
1977
as Burbank
Before I Sleep
2013
as Eugene Devlin
Felony
1996
as Cooper
My Best Friend Is a Vampire
1987
as Professor Leopold McCarthy
Quest of the Delta Knights
1993
as Lord Vultare
From Beyond the Grave
1974
as Edward Charlton
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self (archive footage)
Hostile Takeover
1989
as Eugene Brackin
A Doll's House
1973
as Torvald Helmer
Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen
1990
as Bradley Thompson
Back to the Secret Garden
2000
as Dr. Snodgrass
The Lost World
1992
as Summerlee
A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving
1998
as Narrator
The Last Leprechaun
1998
as Simpson
Hearts of Gold
2003
as Dr. Theo John
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966
as Morgan Delt
Tripwire
1989
as Josef Szabo
Cinderella
2000
as Martin
Age of Innocence
1977
as Henry Buchanan
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968
as Valentine Brose
Diagnosis Murder: The House on Sycamore Street
1992
as Dr. Lloyd Stern
His Picture In Little
2018
Contact
1982
as Self - Narrator (Synchronisation)
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
2005
as Self
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
2003
as Sir Danvers Carew
Amicus Vault of Horrors
2015
as Himself
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
1974
as Dennis Charles Nipple
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 218 credits spanning from 1962 to 2025, David Warner has appeared in 151 films and 67 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)
- In the Mouth of Madness (1995) — as Dr. Wrenn
- Planet of the Apes (2001) — as Sandar
- Scream 2 (1997) — as Gus Gold
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