Born: July 29, 1941 – Died: July 24, 2022
Renowned for his distinctive talent and depth, David Hattersley Warner was a true gem in the realm of acting. Born in Manchester, England, to Ada Doreen Hattersley and Herbert Simon Warner, David's early life was marked by a series of challenges. His birth out of wedlock and upbringing divided between his parents painted a complex picture of his family life. Despite these challenges, Warner emerged as a significant force in the entertainment industry.
Early Life and Career
David Warner's journey began under challenging circumstances. With his academic and athletic pursuits not standing out during his school years, Warner's path seemed uncertain. He attended eight different schools and found little success in formal education. However, fate had a different plan for him. Warner's acting career, initially an escape route from a turbulent childhood, began to take shape when he was accepted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA).
1962 marked the start of Warner's professional acting career with his debut at the Royal Court Theatre. But it was his portrayal of Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1963, at a remarkably young age, that set him on a path to stardom. This role not only showcased his acting prowess but also helped him transition from stage to screen.
Warner's film career took off with a series of roles that highlighted his versatility. He portrayed complex and often dark characters with an ease that few could match. His portrayal of SS General Reinhardt Heydrich and Jack the Ripper in various projects are testaments to his ability to bring depth and nuance to challenging roles. However, it wasn't just the darker characters that he excelled at; Warner's range included sympathetic and intriguing figures, such as the Klingon Chancellor Gorkon in "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" and Spicer Lovejoy in Titanic.
His remarkable talent earned him an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series for his role as Roman Senator Pomponius Falco. This accolade was a recognition of the depth and versatility that Warner brought to every role he played.
Off-screen, Warner's life was as dynamic as his career. He was married to Sheilah Kent from 1979 to 2005 and had two children. His interests extended beyond acting, with a deep voice that lent itself well to various voice roles in television and video games.
David Warner's impact on Hollywood and the entertainment industry is indelible. Known for his deep, smooth voice and his ability to bring a unique presence to every role, Warner was not just an actor; he was a storyteller who brought characters to life in a way that few others could. His legacy is one of versatility, depth, and a remarkable ability to connect with audiences, making him a true icon in the world of entertainment.
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Teen Titans Go! (TV Series) | The Lobe (voice) |
| 2018 | Mary Poppins Returns | Admiral Boom |
| 2018 | The Alienist (TV Series) | Professor Cavanaugh |
| 2017 | You, Me and Him | Michael Miller |
| 2015–2016 | The Amazing World of Gumball (TV Series) | Dr. Wrecker (voice) |
| 2016 | Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear (Video Game) | Jon Irenicus (voice) |
| 2016 | Ripper Street (TV Series) | Rabbi Max Steiner |
| 2008–2015 | Wallander (TV Series) | Povel Wallander |
| 2015 | Southern Troopers (TV Series) | Admiral Warner |
| 2015 | Inspector Lewis (TV Series) | Donald Lockston |
| 2015 | Blue Borsalino (Short) | Ernie Child |
| 2015 | Inside No. 9 (TV Series) | Sir Andrew Pike |
| 2014 | Penny Dreadful (TV Series) | Professor Abraham Van Helsing |
| 2013 | Old Habits (Short) | John |
| 2013 | The Caravan Trilogy (Short) | The Dad |
| 2013 | Before I Sleep | Eugene Devlin |
| 2013 | Doctor Who (TV Series) | Professor Grisenko |
| 2013 | Wizard (Short) | Merlin |
| 2012 | The Evil Clergyman (Video) | Evil Clergyman |
| 2012 | The Secret of Crickley Hall (TV Mini Series) | Percy Judd |
| 2012 | Mad Dogs (TV Series) | Mackenzie |
| 2011 | A Thousand Kisses Deep | Max |
| 2011 | Midsomer Murders (TV Series) | Peter Fossett |
| 2011 | Tron: The Next Day (Short) | Ed Dillinger | MCP (uncredited) |
| 2010 | Graceless (TV Series) | Daniel |
| 2010 | Masterpiece Mystery (TV Series) | Povel Wallander |
| 2010 | Black Death | Abbot |
| 2009 | Albert's Memorial (TV Movie) | Frank |
| 2009 | Doctor Who: Dreamland (TV Mini Series) | Lord Azlok (voice) |
| 2008 | In Love with Barbara (TV Movie) | Lord Mountbatten |
| 2007 | Wild at Heart (TV Series) | Gerald |
| 2006 | Perfect Parents (TV Movie) | Father Thomas |
| 2006 | Hogfather (TV Movie) | Lord Downey |
| 2006 | The Battle for Rome (TV Mini Series) | Claudius Pulcher |
| 2006 | Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (TV Mini Series) | Pulcher |
| 2006 | Mr. Loveday's Little Outing (TV Movie) | Lord Moping |
| 2006 | Sweeney Todd (TV Movie) | Fielding |
| 2005 | Sensitive Skin (TV Series) | Robert Ringwald |
| 2005 | Arena (TV Series) | Readings | Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse | Dr Erasmus Pea |
| 2005 | Sapphire & Steel | Podcast Series |
| 2004 | Marple (TV Series) | Luther Crackenthorpe |
| 2004 | Conviction (TV Mini Series) | Lenny Fairburn |
| 2004 | Cyber Wars | Joseph Lau |
| 2004 | Ladies in Lavender | Dr. Francis Mead |
| 2004 | Cortex | Master of the Organization |
| 2004 | Straight Into Darkness | Deacon |
| 2003 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (TV Movie) | Sir Danvers Carew |
| 2001–2003 | The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy (TV Series) | Nergal (voice) |
| 2003 | Hearts of Gold (TV Movie) | Dr. Theo John |
| 2003 | Kiss of Life | Pap |
| 2002 | The Investigation (TV Movie) | Superint. Bruce Northorp |
| 2002 | The Code Conspiracy | Professor |
| 2001 | Superstition | Judge Padovani |
| 2001 | The Little Unicorn | Ted Regan |
| 2001 | Planet of the Apes | Senator Sandar |
| 1997–2001 | Men in Black: The Series (TV Series) | Alpha (voice) |
| 2001 | Horatio Hornblower: Retribution (TV Movie) | Captain James Sawyer |
| 2001 | Hornblower: Mutiny (TV Movie) | Captain James Sawyer |
| 2000 | Love & Money (TV Series) | Hugh |
| 2000 | Star Trek: Klingon Academy (Video Game) | Chancellor Gorkon |
| 2000 | The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (TV Series) | Arago |
| 2000 | Buzz Lightyear of Star Command (TV Series) | Lord Angstrom (voice) |
| 2000 | In the Beginning (TV Mini Series) | Eliezer |
| 2000 | Batman Beyond (TV Series) | Ra's al Ghul (voice) |
| 2000 | Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn (Video Game) | Jon Irenicus (voice) |
| 2000 | Back to the Secret Garden (TV Movie) | Dr. Snodgrass |
| 1998–2000 | Three (TV Series) | The Man |
| 2000 | Star Wars: Force Commander (Video Game) | Grand Gen. Brashin (voice) |
| 2000 | Cinderella (TV Movie) | Martin |
| 1999 | The Hunger (TV Series) | Vassu |
| 1999 | Superman: The Animated Series (TV Series) | Ra's al Ghul (voice) |
| 1999 | Descent³ (Video Game) | Dravis (voice) |
| 1999 | Shergar | Eammon Garrity |
| 1995–1999 | The Outer Limits (TV Series) | Inspector Harold Langford | Bill Trenton |
| 1999 | Total Recall 2070 (TV Series) | Dr. Felix Latham |
| 1999 | Wing Commander | Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn |
| 1999 | Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You (TV Short) | Narrator (voice) |
| 1998 | Toonsylvania (TV Series) | Doctor Vic Frankenstein (voice) |
| 1998 | A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving (TV Movie) | Narrator |
| 1998 | The Last Leprechaun | Simpson |
| 1998 | Houdini (TV Movie) | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 1997 | Scream 2 | Drama Teacher Gus Gold |
| 1997 | A Mind to Kill (TV Series) | David Caulfield |
| 1997 | Fallout: A Post-Nuclear Role-Playing Game (Video Game) | Morpheus (voice) |
| 1997 | *Titanic* | Spicer Lovejoy |
| 1995–1997 | Spider-Man: The Animated Series (TV Series) | Herbert Landon | Red Skull (voice) |
| 1997 | Money Talks | Barclay |
| 1997 | Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (Video) | The Narrator (voice) |
| 1997 | Roar (TV Series) | Narrator (uncredited) |
| 1997 | Perversions of Science (TV Series) | Dr. Nordhoff |
| 1995–1997 | Freakazoid! (TV Series) | The Lobe (voice) |
| 1997 | Captain Simian & The Space Monkeys (TV Series) | The Glyph (voice) |
| 1996 | The Legend of Sarmoti: Siegfried & Roy (TV Series) | (voice) |
| 1996 | Privateer 2: The Darkening (Video Game) | Rhinehart |
| 1996 | The Leading Man | Tod |
| 1996 | Seven Servants | Blade |
| 1996 | Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus (TV Movie) | Lord Agon |
| 1996 | Naked Souls | Everett Longstreet |
| 1996 | Rasputin (TV Movie) | Dr. Botkin |
| 1995 | Luise knackt den Jackpot | the Butler |
| 1995 | Gargoyles (TV Series) | Archmage (voice) |
| 1995 | Iron Man (TV Series) | Arthur Dearborn (voice) |
| 1995 | Zoya (TV Movie) | Prince Vladimir |
| 1992–1995 | Batman: The Animated Series (TV Series) | Ra's al Ghul (voice) |
| 1995 | Final Equinox | Shilow |
| 1995 | Ice Cream Man | Reverend Langley |
| 1995 | The Choir (TV Mini Series) | Alexander Troy |
| 1995 | Biker Mice from Mars (TV Series) | Ice Breaker (voice) |
| 1995 | Signs and Wonders (TV Series) | Rev Timothy Palmore |
| 1995 | Taking Liberty (TV Movie) | Sir Leopold Linwood |
| 1994 | Loving Deadly | Grant | Grant's Twin |
| 1994 | Inner Sanctum II | Dr. Lamont |
| 1994 | The American Revolution (TV Series) | King George III (voice) |
| 1994 | Tryst | Jason |
| 1994 | Felony | Cooper |
| 1994 | Mighty Max (TV Series) | Talon (voice) |
| 1994 | In the Mouth of Madness | Dr. Wrenn |
| 1994 | Babylon 5 (TV Series) | Aldous Gajic |
| 1993–1994 | The Larry Sanders Show (TV Series) | Richard Germain |
| 1994 | Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (TV Series) | Jor-El |
| 1993 | Piccolo grande amore | Prince Max |
| 1993 | Necronomicon: Book of Dead | Dr. Madden (part 2) |
| 1993 | The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. (TV Series) | Winston Smiles |
| 1993 | Quest of the Delta Knights (Video) | Lord Vultare | Baydool | Narrator |
| 1990–1993 | Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) | Insp. McLaughlin | Justin Hunnicut |
| 1993 | Body Bags (TV Movie) | Dr. Lock (segment "Hair") |
| 1993 | The Legend of Prince Valiant (TV Series) | Maldon's Commander | Duke Richard of Lionsgate | Sir Morgan (voice) ... |
| 1993 | Wild Palms (TV Mini Series) | Eli Levitt |
| 1993 | Dinosaurs (TV Series) | Spirit of the Tree (voice) |
| 1993 | Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal (TV Movie) | Harley Griswold |
| 1992 | De terre et de sang (TV Movie) | Tripoli |
| 1992 | Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV Series) | Gul Madred |
| 1992 | Dark at Noon | Ellic |
| 1992 | The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter | Chancellor Thayer |
| 1992 | Captain Planet and the Planeteers (TV Series) | Zarm (voice) |
| 1992 | Tales from the Crypt (TV Series) | Dr. Alan Goetz |
| 1992 | Diagnosis Murder: The House on Sycamore Street (TV Movie) | Dr. Lloyd Stern - plastic surgeon |
| 1992 | Return to the Lost World | Professor Summerlee |
| 1992 | The Lost World | Professor Summerlee |
| 1991 | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | Chancellor Gorkon |
| 1991 | Performance (TV Series) | Vanya |
| 1991 | Drive | The Driver |
| 1991 | Cast a Deadly Spell (TV Movie) | Amos Hackshaw |
| 1991 | Blue Tornado | Commander |
| 1991 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze | Professor Jordon Perry |
| 1991 | Twin Peaks (TV Series) | Thomas Eckhardt |
| 1990 | Father Dowling Mysteries (TV Series) | Sir Arthur Wedgeworth |
| 1992 | Spies Inc. | Arthur Cleague |
| 1990 | Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (TV Movie) | Adm. Godfrey |
| 1990 | Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen (TV Movie) | Bradley Thompson |
| 1989 | Tripwire | Josef Szabo |
| 1989 | Grave Secrets | Dr. Carl Farnsworth |
| 1989 | Mortal Passions | Doctor Terrence Powers |
| 1989 | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | St. John Talbot |
| 1988 | Pulse Pounders | Evil Clergyman (The Evil Clergyman sequence) |
| 1988 | Keys to Freedom | Nigel Heath |
| 1988 | Hansel and Gretel | Father |
| 1988 | Hostile Takeover | Eugene Brackin |
| 1988 | Worlds Beyond (TV Series) | Ken Larkin |
| 1988 | Mr. North | Doctor Angus McPherson |
| 1988 | Waxwork | Waxwork Man |
| 1988 | Magdalene | Baron von Seidl |
| 1988 | Hanna's War | Captain Julian Simon |
| 1987 | Crossbow (TV Series) | The Alchemist |
| 1987 | My Best Friend Is a Vampire | Professor Leopold McCarthy |
| 1987 | Desperado (TV Movie) | Ballard, Company Police Chief |
| 1985–1986 | Hold the Back Page (TV Mini Series) | Ken Wordsworth |
| 1985 | Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil (TV Movie) | Reinhard Heydrich |
| 1985 | Love's Labour's Lost (TV Movie) | Don Armado |
| 1984 | Summer Lightning | George Millington |
| 1984 | A Christmas Carol (TV Movie) | Bob Cratchit |
| 1984 | Faerie Tale Theatre (TV Series) | The Innkeeper |
| 1984 | The Company of Wolves | Father |
| 1984 | Frankenstein (TV Movie) | Creature |
| 1984 | Charlie (TV Mini Series) | Charlie Alexander |
| 1983 | Hart to Hart (TV Series) | Mr. Bowlly |
| 1983 | Remington Steele (TV Series) | Alexander Sebastien |
| 1983 | The Man with Two Brains | Dr. Alfred Necessiter |
| 1982–1983 | Marco Polo (TV Mini Series) | Rustichello |
| 1982 | TRON | Ed Dillinger | Sark | Master Control Program |
| 1982 | Nancy Astor (TV Mini Series) | Philip Kerr |
| 1981 | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Murphy |
| 1981 | Time Bandits | Evil Genius |
| 1981 | Masada (TV Mini Series) | Falco | Senator Pomponius Falco |
| 1980 | The Island | John David Nau |
| 1979 | S.O.S. Titanic (TV Movie) | Laurence Beesley |
| 1979 | Time After Time | Dr. John Leslie Stevenson - aka Jack the Ripper |
| 1979 | The Concorde... Airport '79 | Peter O'Neill |
| 1979 | Nightwing | Phillip Payne |
| 1978 | The Thirty Nine Steps | Sir Edmund Appleton |
| 1978 | Clouds of Glory (TV Mini Series) | William Wordsworth |
| 1978 | Holocaust (TV Mini Series) | Reinhard Heydrich | Heydrich |
| 1977 | The Blue Hotel (TV Movie) | Swede |
| 1977 | The Disappearance | Burbank |
| 1977 | Silver Bears | Agha Firdausi |
| 1977 | Age of Innocence | Henry Buchanan |
| 1977 | Cross of Iron | Hauptmann (Capt.) Kiesel |
| 1977 | Providence | Kevin Langham | Kevin Woodford |
| 1976 | The Omen | Jennings |
| 1975 | The Puritan Experience: Making of a New World (Short) | John Higgins |
| 1975 | The Puritan Experience: Forsaking England (Short) | John Higgins |
| 1975 | Mr. Quilp | Sampson Brass |
| 1975 | Three Comedies of Marriage (TV Series) | Bobby |
| 1974 | Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs | Dennis Charles Nipple |
| 1974 | From Beyond the Grave | Edward Charlton (Segment 1 "The Gate Crasher") |
| 1973 | A Doll's House | Torvald |
| 1971 | Straw Dogs | Henry Niles (uncredited) |
| 1970 | Perfect Friday | Lord Nicholas "Nick" Dorset |
| 1970 | The Ballad of Cable Hogue | Reverend Joshua Douglas Sloan |
| 1970 | NBC Experiment in Television (TV Series) | Dominic Boot |
| 1969 | Man on Horseback | Michael Kohlhaas |
| 1968 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Lysander |
| 1968 | The Sea Gull | Konstantin, Her Son |
| 1968 | The Fixer | Count Odoevsky |
| 1968 | Work Is a Four Letter Word | Valentine Brose |
| 1968 | The Bofors Gun | Terry "Lance Bar" Evans |
| 1967 | The Deadly Affair | Edward II (in "Edward II") (uncredited) |
| 1966 | Morgan! | Morgan |
| 1965–1966 | The Wars of the Roses (TV Mini Series) | King Henry VI |
| 1965 | A King's Story | Prince of Wales (voice) |
| 1963 | Tom Jones | Blifil |
| 1963 | Armchair Theatre (TV Series) | Steve |
| 1963 | The King's Breakfast (Short) | 1st Trumpeter |
| 1963 | Z Cars (TV Series) | Gee |
| 1963 | BBC Sunday-Night Play (TV Series) | Lennie |
| 1962 | We Joined the Navy | Sailor Painting Ship (uncredited) |
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