
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
Credits

Titanic (1997)
as Spicer Lovejoy

Planet of the Apes (2001)
as Sandar

TRON: Ares (2025)
as Master Control Program (voice) (archival audio)

Scream 2 (1997)
as Gus Gold

Money Talks (1997)
as Barclay

Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
as Admiral Boom

In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
as Dr. Wrenn

The Omen (1976)
as Jennings

Tron (1982)
as Ed Dillinger / Sark

Hogfather (2007)
as Lord Downey

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991)
as Professor Jordon Perry

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989)
as St. John Talbot

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
as Chancellor Gorkon

Waxwork (1988)
as Waxwork Man

Time Bandits (1981)
as Evil Genius

Ladies in Lavender (2004)
as Dr Mead

Cross of Iron (1977)
as Hauptmann Kiesel

A Christmas Carol (1984)
as Bob Cratchit

Black Death (2010)
as Abbot

Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997)
as Narrator (voice)

Houdini (1998)
as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
as Murphy

Time After Time (1979)
as Jack the Ripper - John Leslie Stevenson

The Company of Wolves (1984)
as Father

The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
as Joshua

Superstition (2001)
as Judge Padovani

Wing Commander (1999)
as Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn

Mr. North (1988)
as Doctor Angus McPherson

Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible (1996)
Actor

Straw Dogs (1971)
as Henry Niles (uncredited)

The Man with Two Brains (1983)
as Dr. Alfred Necessiter

Uncle Vanya (1991)
as Vanya

The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge (2015)
as Sir Andrew Pike

From Beyond the Grave (1974)
as Edward Charlton

Body Bags (1993)
as Dr. Lock

Ice Cream Man (1995)
as Reverend Langley

Necronomicon (1993)
as Dr. Madden

The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
as Peter O'Neill

Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
as Amos Hackshaw

The Island (1980)
as David Nau

Providence (1977)
as Kevin Woodford

Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You (1999)
as Narrator (voice)

Hansel and Gretel (1988)
as Father Stephan

Tom Jones (1963)
as Mr. Blifil

Contact (1982)
as Self - Narrator (Synchronisation)

Drive (1991)
as The Driver

My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1987)
as Professor Leopold McCarthy

Daredevil vs. Spider-Man (2003)
as Landon (voice)

Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel (1969)
as Michael Kohlhaas

The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)
as Sir Edmund Appleton

Dark at Noon (1992)
as Ellic

S.O.S. Titanic (1980)
as Laurence Beesley

Before I Sleep (2013)
as Eugene Devlin

The Old Curiosity Shop (1975)
as Sampson Brass

The Deadly Affair (1967)
as Edward II (in Edward II)

Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus (1996)
as Lord Agon

We Joined the Navy (1963)
as Sailor Painting Ship (uncredited)

You, Me and Him (2018)
as Michael Miller

The Fixer (1968)
as Count Odoevsky

The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1992)
as Chancellor Thayer

Silver Bears (1977)
as Agha Firdausi

Hornblower: Mutiny (2001)
as Captain James Sawyer

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
as Self (archive footage)

Sweeney Todd (2006)
as Fielding

Spider-Man: The Return of the Green Goblin (2002)
as Landon (voice)

Rasputin (1996)
as Dr. Botkin

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
as Morgan Delt

Back to the Secret Garden (2000)
as Dr. Snodgrass

TRON: The Next Day (2011)
as Ed Dillinger / MCP

A Doll's House (1973)
as Torvald Helmer

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)
as Lysander

In Love with Barbara (2008)
as Lord Mountbatten

Nightwing (1979)
as Phillip Payne

Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock (2004)
as Landon (voice)

Naked Souls (1996)
as Everett Longstreet

Grave Secrets (1989)
as Dr. Carl Farnsworth

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
as Dr. Erasmus Pea

Return to the Lost World (1992)
as Professor Leo Summerlee

Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen (1990)
as Bradley Thompson

Pretty Princess (1993)
as principe Massimiliano

Hanna's War (1988)
as Captain Julian Simon

The Evil Clergyman (1988)
as Evil Clergyman
Sam Peckinpah: Portrait (2006)
as Self

Bacon's Arena (2006)
as Narrator (voice)

Providence (2018)
as Himself

A Thousand Kisses Deep (2012)
as Max

Desperado (1987)
as Ballard, Company Police Chief

The Investigation (2002)
as Superint. Bruce Northorp

The Leading Man (1996)
as Tod

Perfect Friday (1970)
as Lord Nicholas "Nick" Dorset

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985)
as Reinhard Heydrich

Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal (1993)
as Harley Griswold

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2003)
as Sir Danvers Carew

Tripwire (1989)
as Josef Szabo

Danielle Steel's Zoya (1997)
as Prince Vladmir

The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990)
as Adm. Godfrey

The Disappearance (1977)
as Burbank

A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving (1998)
as Narrator

The Code Conspiracy (2002)
as Professor

Tryst (1994)
as Jason

Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War (2011)
as Self

The Sea Gull (1968)
as Konstantin Treplev

Inner Sanctum II (1994)
as Dr. Lamont

The Wars of the Roses (1965)
as King Henry VI

Spies, Inc. (1992)
as Cleague

The Lost World (1992)
as Summerlee

Loving Deadly (1994)
as Grant / Grant's Twin

The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers (1984)
as Zandor, the Inkeeper

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chain of Command (2014)
as Gul Madred

The Madhouse on Castle Street (1963)
as Lennie

Magdalene (1988)
as Baron von Seidl

Pulse Pounders (1988)
as Evil Clergyman (The Evil Clergyman sequence) (archive footage)

Work Is a 4-Letter Word (1968)
as Valentine Brose

The Little Unicorn (2002)
as Ted Regan

Mortal Passions (1989)
as Doctor Terrence Powers

Felony (1996)
as Cooper

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah (2005)
as Self

Blood and Dust (1992)
as Tripoli

Quest of the Delta Knights (1993)
as Lord Vultare

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974)
as Dennis Charles Nipple

Frankenstein (1984)
as Creature

Hostile Takeover (1989)
as Eugene Brackin

Hearts of Gold (2003)
as Dr. Theo John

Diagnosis Murder: The House on Sycamore Street (1992)
as Dr. Lloyd Stern

The King's Breakfast (1963)
as 1st Trumpeter

Cyber Wars (2004)
as Joseph Lau

The Blue Hotel (1977)
as Swede

Keys to Freedom (1988)
as Nigel Heath

Blue Tornado (1991)
as Commander

His Picture In Little (2018)
Actor

Cinderella (2000)
as Martin

Shergar (1999)
as Eammon Garrity

The Last Leprechaun (1998)
as Simpson
Summer Lightning (1985)
as George Millington

Hornblower: Retribution (2001)
as Capt. James Sawyer
Taking Liberty (1993)
as Sir Leopold Linwood

The Bofors Gun (1968)
as Lance Bombardier Terry Evans

Perfect Parents (2006)
as Father Thomas

Love's Labour's Lost (1985)
as Don Armado

Kiss of Life (2003)
as Pap

Amicus Vault of Horrors (2015)
as Himself

The Omen Legacy (2001)
as Self

Age of Innocence (1977)
as Henry Buchanan

Mr. Loveday's Little Outing (2006)
as Lord Moping

Blue Borsalino (2016)
as Ernie Child

Final Equinox (1995)
as Shilow

Opus (1967)
as Hamlet

Seven Servants (1996)
as Blade

Albert's Memorial (2009)
as Frank
Corwin (1996)
as Self

Straight Into Darkness (2004)
as Deacon





