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
TRON: Ares (2025)
as Master Control Program (voice) (archival audio)
Planet of the Apes (2001)
as Sandar
Scream 2 (1997)
as Gus Gold
In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
as Dr. Wrenn
The Omen (1976)
as Keith Jennings
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
as Admiral Boom
Tron (1982)
as Ed Dillinger / Sark
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
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
as Chancellor Gorkon
Time Bandits (1981)
as Evil Genius
Money Talks (1997)
as Barclay
The Company of Wolves (1984)
as Father
Straw Dogs (1971)
as Henry Niles (uncredited)
The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
as Peter O'Neill
Cross of Iron (1977)
as Hauptmann Kiesel
Time After Time (1979)
as Jack the Ripper - John Leslie Stevenson
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)
Ladies in Lavender (2004)
as Dr Mead
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
as Joshua
Hogfather (2007)
as Lord Downey
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
as Murphy
Wing Commander (1999)
as Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn
Superstition (2001)
as Judge Padovani
Body Bags (1993)
as Dr. Lock
Ice Cream Man (1995)
as Reverend Langley
Tom Jones (1963)
as Mr. Blifil
Uncle Vanya (1991)
as Vanya
The Deadly Affair (1967)
as Edward II (in Edward II)
Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
as Amos Hackshaw
A Thousand Kisses Deep (2012)
as Max
S.O.S. Titanic (1980)
as Laurence Beesley
Mr. North (1988)
as Doctor Angus McPherson
Daredevil vs. Spider-Man (2003)
as Landon (voice)
The Island (1980)
as David Nau
The Man with Two Brains (1983)
as Dr. Alfred Necessiter
Necronomicon (1993)
as Dr. Madden
Waxwork (1988)
as Waxwork Man
Hansel and Gretel (1988)
as Father Stephan
Providence (1977)
as Kevin Woodford
We Joined the Navy (1963)
as Sailor Painting Ship (uncredited)
Sweeney Todd (2006)
as Fielding
Hornblower: Retribution (2001)
as Capt. James Sawyer
Perfect Friday (1970)
as Lord Nicholas "Nick" Dorset
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal (1993)
as Harley Griswold
TRON: The Next Day (2011)
as Ed Dillinger / MCP
The Leading Man (1996)
as Tod
Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus (1996)
as Lord Agon
Sam Peckinpah: Portrait (2006)
as Self
You, Me and Him (2018)
as Michael Miller
Silver Bears (1977)
as Agha Firdausi
Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You (1999)
as Narrator (voice)
The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge (2015)
as Sir Andrew Pike
Danielle Steel's Zoya (1997)
as Prince Vladmir
Drive (1991)
as The Driver
Naked Souls (1996)
as Everett Longstreet
In Love with Barbara (2008)
as Lord Mountbatten
Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible (1996)
Actor
Return to the Lost World (1992)
as Professor Leo Summerlee
Nightwing (1979)
as Phillip Payne
Rasputin (1996)
as Dr. Botkin
The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1992)
as Chancellor Thayer
Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel (1969)
as Michael Kohlhaas
The Lost World (1992)
as Summerlee
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990)
as Adm. Godfrey
The Fixer (1968)
as Count Odoevsky
Pretty Princess (1993)
as principe Massimiliano
The Old Curiosity Shop (1975)
as Sampson Brass
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985)
as Reinhard Heydrich
Houdini (1998)
as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Inner Sanctum II (1994)
as Dr. Lamont
The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)
as Sir Edmund Appleton
My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1987)
as Professor Leopold McCarthy
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
as Dr. Erasmus Pea
Hanna's War (1988)
as Captain Julian Simon
Love's Labour's Lost (1985)
as Don Armado
Back to the Secret Garden (2000)
as Dr. Snodgrass
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah (2005)
as Self
The Disappearance (1977)
as Burbank
Quest of the Delta Knights (1993)
as Lord Vultare
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974)
as Dennis Charles Nipple
Hornblower: Mutiny (2001)
as Captain James Sawyer
Dark at Noon (1992)
as Ellic
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
as Morgan Delt
Blue Tornado (1991)
as Commander
From Beyond the Grave (1974)
as Edward Charlton
Hostile Takeover (1989)
as Eugene Brackin
The Wars of the Roses (1965)
as King Henry VI
Grave Secrets (1989)
as Dr. Carl Farnsworth
Mortal Passions (1989)
as Doctor Terrence Powers
The Evil Clergyman (1988)
as Evil Clergyman
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)
as Lysander
Bacon's Arena (2006)
as Narrator (voice)
Pulse Pounders (1988)
as Evil Clergyman (The Evil Clergyman sequence) (archive footage)
Work Is a 4-Letter Word (1968)
as Valentine Brose
Contact (1982)
as Self - Narrator (Synchronisation)
Tripwire (1989)
as Josef Szabo
Keys to Freedom (1988)
as Nigel Heath
A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving (1998)
as Narrator
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2003)
as Sir Danvers Carew
Before I Sleep (2013)
as Eugene Devlin
A Doll's House (1973)
as Torvald Helmer
The Investigation (2002)
as Superint. Bruce Northorp
The Little Unicorn (2002)
as Ted Regan
His Picture In Little (2018)
Actor
The Last Leprechaun (1998)
as Simpson
The King's Breakfast (1963)
as 1st Trumpeter
Spider-Man: The Return of the Green Goblin (2002)
as Landon (voice)
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing (2006)
as Lord Moping
Diagnosis Murder: The House on Sycamore Street (1992)
as Dr. Lloyd Stern
Felony (1996)
as Cooper
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
Hearts of Gold (2003)
as Dr. Theo John
Frankenstein (1984)
as Creature
Amicus Vault of Horrors (2015)
as Himself
The Omen Legacy (2001)
as Self
Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock (2004)
as Landon (voice)
Age of Innocence (1977)
as Henry Buchanan
Shergar (1999)
as Eammon Garrity
Cyber Wars (2004)
as Joseph Lau
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers (1984)
as Zandor, the Inkeeper
Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen (1990)
as Bradley Thompson
The Sea Gull (1968)
as Konstantin Treplev
Albert's Memorial (2009)
as Frank
Taking Liberty (1993)
as Sir Leopold Linwood
Cinderella (2000)
as Martin
The Bofors Gun (1968)
as Lance Bombardier Terry Evans
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chain of Command (2014)
Actor
Opus (1967)
as Hamlet
Corwin (1996)
as Self
Blue Borsalino (2016)
as Ernie Child
Tryst (1994)
as Jason
Final Equinox (1995)
as Shilow
Blood and Dust (1992)
as Tripoli
Seven Servants (1996)
as Blade
Providence (2018)
as Himself
Perfect Parents (2006)
as Father Thomas
The Code Conspiracy (2002)
as Professor
Kiss of Life (2003)
as Pap
The Blue Hotel (1977)
as Swede
Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War (2011)
as Self
Desperado (1987)
as Ballard, Company Police Chief
Summer Lightning (1985)
as George Millington
Spies, Inc. (1992)
as Cleague
Loving Deadly (1994)
as Grant / Grant's Twin
Magdalene (1988)
as Baron von Seidl
The Madhouse on Castle Street (1963)
as Lennie
Straight Into Darkness (2004)
as Deacon