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
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
as Admiral Boom
The Omen (1976)
as Jennings
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
Tron (1982)
as Ed Dillinger / Sark
In the Mouth of Madness (1995)
as Dr. Wrenn
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
as Chancellor Gorkon
Time Bandits (1981)
as Evil Genius
Cross of Iron (1977)
as Hauptmann Kiesel
Money Talks (1997)
as Barclay
Straw Dogs (1971)
as Henry Niles (uncredited)
Black Death (2010)
as Abbot
The Company of Wolves (1984)
as Father
The Concorde... Airport '79 (1979)
as Peter O'Neill
Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997)
as Narrator (voice)
Tom Jones (1963)
as Mr. Blifil
Ice Cream Man (1995)
as Reverend Langley
The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970)
as Joshua
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
as Murphy
Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible (1996)
Actor
Wing Commander (1999)
as Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn
Cast a Deadly Spell (1991)
as Amos Hackshaw
Time After Time (1979)
as Jack the Ripper - John Leslie Stevenson
The Man with Two Brains (1983)
as Dr. Alfred Necessiter
Hogfather (2007)
as Lord Downey
A Christmas Carol (1984)
as Bob Cratchit
Ladies in Lavender (2004)
as Dr Mead
Waxwork (1988)
as Waxwork Man
S.O.S. Titanic (1980)
as Laurence Beesley
TRON: The Next Day (2011)
as Ed Dillinger / MCP
Providence (1977)
as Kevin Woodford
Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You (1999)
as Narrator (voice)
Body Bags (1993)
as Dr. Lock
Mr. North (1988)
as Doctor Angus McPherson
The Island (1980)
as David Nau
Hansel and Gretel (1988)
as Father Stephan
The Thirty Nine Steps (1978)
as Sir Edmund Appleton
The Wars of the Roses (1965)
as King Henry VI
Daredevil vs. Spider-Man (2003)
as Landon (voice)
The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge (2015)
as Sir Andrew Pike
From Beyond the Grave (1974)
as Edward Charlton
Necronomicon (1993)
as Dr. Madden
My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1987)
as Professor Leopold McCarthy
The Blue Hotel (1977)
as Swede
You, Me and Him (2018)
as Michael Miller
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990)
as Adm. Godfrey
The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1992)
as Chancellor Thayer
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse (2005)
as Dr. Erasmus Pea
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade (2004)
as Self (archive footage)
A Doll's House (1973)
as Torvald Helmer
The Deadly Affair (1967)
as Edward II (in Edward II)
Uncle Vanya (1991)
as Vanya
Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus (1996)
as Lord Agon
Hearts of Gold (2003)
as Dr. Theo John
Superstition (2001)
as Judge Padovani
Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel (1969)
as Michael Kohlhaas
Danielle Steel's Zoya (1997)
as Prince Vladmir
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966)
as Morgan Delt
The Investigation (2002)
as Superint. Bruce Northorp
Dark at Noon (1992)
as Ellic
The Old Curiosity Shop (1975)
as Sampson Brass
Back to the Secret Garden (2000)
as Dr. Snodgrass
Silver Bears (1977)
as Agha Firdausi
Diagnosis Murder: The House on Sycamore Street (1992)
as Dr. Lloyd Stern
Spider-Man: The Return of the Green Goblin (2002)
as Landon (voice)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)
as Lysander
We Joined the Navy (1963)
as Sailor Painting Ship (uncredited)
Hanna's War (1988)
as Captain Julian Simon
Before I Sleep (2013)
as Eugene Devlin
Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War (2011)
as Self
Naked Souls (1996)
as Everett Longstreet
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal (1993)
as Harley Griswold
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil (1985)
as Reinhard Heydrich
Nightwing (1979)
as Phillip Payne
Sweeney Todd (2006)
as Fielding
Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock (2004)
as Landon (voice)
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers (1984)
as Zandor, the Inkeeper
The Leading Man (1996)
as Tod
Houdini (1998)
as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving (1998)
as Narrator
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974)
as Dennis Charles Nipple
Spies, Inc. (1992)
as Cleague
Rasputin (1996)
as Dr. Botkin
Return to the Lost World (1992)
as Professor Leo Summerlee
Contact (1982)
as Self - Narrator (Synchronisation)
A Thousand Kisses Deep (2012)
as Max
Hostile Takeover (1989)
as Eugene Brackin
Hornblower: Mutiny (2001)
as Captain James Sawyer
Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen (1990)
as Bradley Thompson
Pulse Pounders (1988)
as Evil Clergyman (The Evil Clergyman sequence) (archive footage)
Grave Secrets (1989)
as Dr. Carl Farnsworth
In Love with Barbara (2008)
as Lord Mountbatten
Drive (1991)
as The Driver
The Fixer (1968)
as Count Odoevsky
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chain of Command (2014)
as Gul Madred
Hornblower: Retribution (2001)
as Capt. James Sawyer
The Lost World (1992)
as Summerlee
Inner Sanctum II (1994)
as Dr. Lamont
Perfect Friday (1970)
as Lord Nicholas "Nick" Dorset
Love's Labour's Lost (1985)
as Don Armado
Final Equinox (1995)
as Shilow
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (2003)
as Sir Danvers Carew
The Omen Legacy (2001)
as Self
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah (2005)
as Self
Work Is a 4-Letter Word (1968)
as Valentine Brose
The Evil Clergyman (1988)
as Evil Clergyman
Quest of the Delta Knights (1993)
as Lord Vultare
Tripwire (1989)
as Josef Szabo
Tryst (1994)
as Jason
Mortal Passions (1989)
as Doctor Terrence Powers
The Little Unicorn (2002)
as Ted Regan
Desperado (1987)
as Ballard, Company Police Chief
Cyber Wars (2004)
as Joseph Lau
Pretty Princess (1993)
as principe Massimiliano
The Madhouse on Castle Street (1963)
as Lennie
The Sea Gull (1968)
as Konstantin Treplev
Loving Deadly (1994)
as Grant / Grant's Twin
Blood and Dust (1992)
as Tripoli
The Disappearance (1977)
as Burbank
The King's Breakfast (1963)
as 1st Trumpeter
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing (2006)
as Lord Moping
Blue Tornado (1991)
as Commander
Sam Peckinpah: Portrait (2006)
as Self
Amicus Vault of Horrors (2015)
as Himself
The Last Leprechaun (1998)
as Simpson
Providence (2018)
as Himself
Perfect Parents (2006)
as Father Thomas
The Code Conspiracy (2002)
as Professor
Seven Servants (1996)
as Blade
Keys to Freedom (1988)
as Nigel Heath
Kiss of Life (2003)
as Pap
Corwin (1996)
as Self
Age of Innocence (1977)
as Henry Buchanan
Taking Liberty (1993)
as Sir Leopold Linwood
His Picture In Little (2018)
Actor
Felony (1996)
as Cooper
Bacon's Arena (2006)
as Narrator (voice)
Frankenstein (1984)
as Creature
Shergar (1999)
as Eammon Garrity
Cinderella (2000)
as Martin
Magdalene (1988)
as Baron von Seidl
Albert's Memorial (2009)
as Frank
Opus (1967)
as Hamlet
The Bofors Gun (1968)
as Lance Bombardier Terry Evans
Summer Lightning (1985)
as George Millington
Blue Borsalino (2016)
as Ernie Child
Straight Into Darkness (2004)
as Deacon