David Warner

ActorProducerCrew Jul 29 (died age 80) Manchester, England, UK 1962–2025 (63 year career)

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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 T…

Known For

Film

Titanic

Spicer Lovejoy

Film

The Omen

Keith Jennings

Film

Scream 2

Gus Gold

Film

In the Mouth of Madness

Dr. Wrenn

Film

Mary Poppins Returns

Admiral Boom

Film

Tron

Ed Dillinger / Sark

Film

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

Chancellor Gorkon

Film

Straw Dogs

Henry Niles (uncredited)

Filmography

Acting (215)

Movies (148)

TRON: Ares

2025

as Master Control Program (voice) (archival audio)

Mary Poppins Returns

as Admiral Boom

You, Me and Him

as Michael Miller

Providence

as Himself

His Picture In Little

2018

Blue Borsalino

2016

as Ernie Child

Amicus Vault of Horrors

2015

as Himself

10.0

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chain of Command

2014

Before I Sleep

2013

as Eugene Devlin

4.3

A Thousand Kisses Deep

2012

as Max

4.7

TRON: The Next Day

2011

as Ed Dillinger / MCP

5.7

Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War

2011

as Self

Black Death

as Abbot

Albert's Memorial

as Frank

In Love with Barbara

as Lord Mountbatten

Hogfather

as Lord Downey

Sweeney Todd

as Fielding

Bacon's Arena

as Narrator (voice)

Mr. Loveday's Little Outing

2006

as Lord Moping

Sam Peckinpah: Portrait

2006

as Self

Perfect Parents

2006

as Father Thomas

4.6

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse

2005

as Dr. Erasmus Pea

6.2

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah

as Self

Ladies in Lavender

as Dr Mead

Cyber Wars

as Joseph Lau

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade

2004

as Self (archive footage)

7.8

Straight Into Darkness

2004

as Deacon

4.4

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

as Sir Danvers Carew

Kiss of Life

as Pap

Hearts of Gold

as Dr. Theo John

The Investigation

as Superint. Bruce Northorp

The Code Conspiracy

as Professor

The Little Unicorn

as Ted Regan

Planet of the Apes

as Sandar

Hornblower: Mutiny

as Captain James Sawyer

Superstition

as Judge Padovani

The Omen Legacy

as Self

Hornblower: Retribution

2001

as Capt. James Sawyer

7.3

Cinderella

2000

as Martin

6.0

Back to the Secret Garden

as Dr. Snodgrass

Shergar

as Eammon Garrity

Wing Commander

as Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn

4.8

Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You

1999

as Narrator (voice)

6.9

Houdini

1998

as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

5.7

A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving

as Narrator

The Last Leprechaun

as Simpson

Titanic

as Spicer Lovejoy

Scream 2

as Gus Gold

Money Talks

as Barclay

Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin

1997

as Narrator (voice)

7.2

Danielle Steel's Zoya

as Prince Vladmir

Rasputin

as Dr. Botkin

Naked Souls

as Everett Longstreet

3.6

Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus

as Lord Agon

The Leading Man

as Tod

Corwin

as Self

Siegfried and Roy: Masters of the Impossible

1996

Seven Servants

1996

as Blade

4.3

In the Mouth of Madness

as Dr. Wrenn

Ice Cream Man

as Reverend Langley

Final Equinox

as Shilow

Felony

as Cooper

Inner Sanctum II

as Dr. Lamont

Tryst

as Jason

Loving Deadly

as Grant / Grant's Twin

Quest of the Delta Knights

as Lord Vultare

Necronomicon

as Dr. Madden

Body Bags

as Dr. Lock

Pretty Princess

as principe Massimiliano

5.6

Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal

1993

as Harley Griswold

7.3

Taking Liberty

1993

as Sir Leopold Linwood

The Lost World

1992

as Summerlee

5.2

The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter

as Chancellor Thayer

Spies, Inc.

as Cleague

Blood and Dust

as Tripoli

Return to the Lost World

1992

as Professor Leo Summerlee

5.5

Dark at Noon

1992

as Ellic

6.4

Diagnosis Murder: The House on Sycamore Street

1992

as Dr. Lloyd Stern

5.5

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze

1991

as Professor Jordon Perry

6.2

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

1991

as Chancellor Gorkon

7.0

Uncle Vanya

1991

as Vanya

Cast a Deadly Spell

as Amos Hackshaw

Drive

as The Driver

Blue Tornado

as Commander

Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen

1990

as Bradley Thompson

7.0

The Secret Life of Ian Fleming

1990

as Adm. Godfrey

4.3

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

1989

as St. John Talbot

5.7

Grave Secrets

1989

as Dr. Carl Farnsworth

Tripwire

as Josef Szabo

Hostile Takeover

as Eugene Brackin

Mortal Passions

as Doctor Terrence Powers

Waxwork

as Waxwork Man

Mr. North

as Doctor Angus McPherson

Hansel and Gretel

as Father Stephan

The Evil Clergyman

as Evil Clergyman

Hanna's War

as Captain Julian Simon

4.7

Pulse Pounders

1988

as Evil Clergyman (The Evil Clergyman sequence) (archive footage)

Magdalene

as Baron von Seidl

Keys to Freedom

as Nigel Heath

Desperado

as Ballard, Company Police Chief

3.2

My Best Friend Is a Vampire

1987

as Professor Leopold McCarthy

6.0

Love's Labour's Lost

1985

as Don Armado

7.0

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil

as Reinhard Heydrich

Summer Lightning

as George Millington

The Company of Wolves

as Father

A Christmas Carol

as Bob Cratchit

Frankenstein

as Creature

The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers

1984

as Zandor, the Inkeeper

6.5

Charlie

1984

as Charlie Alexander

The Man with Two Brains

1983

as Dr. Alfred Necessiter

6.2

Tron

1982

as Ed Dillinger / Sark

6.6

Contact

1982

as Self - Narrator (Synchronisation)

Time Bandits

1981

as Evil Genius

6.6

The French Lieutenant's Woman

as Murphy

The Island

as David Nau

S.O.S. Titanic

as Laurence Beesley

Nightwing

as Phillip Payne

Time After Time

as Jack the Ripper - John Leslie Stevenson

6.8

The Concorde... Airport '79

1979

as Peter O'Neill

4.7

The Thirty Nine Steps

1978

as Sir Edmund Appleton

Cross of Iron

as Hauptmann Kiesel

Providence

as Kevin Woodford

Silver Bears

as Agha Firdausi

The Disappearance

as Burbank

Age of Innocence

as Henry Buchanan

The Blue Hotel

as Swede

The Omen

as Keith Jennings

The Old Curiosity Shop

1975

as Sampson Brass

3.3

From Beyond the Grave

1974

as Edward Charlton

6.5

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs

1974

as Dennis Charles Nipple

A Doll's House

as Torvald Helmer

Straw Dogs

as Henry Niles (uncredited)

7.2

The Ballad of Cable Hogue

1970

as Joshua

7.0

Perfect Friday

1970

as Lord Nicholas "Nick" Dorset

6.2

Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel

1969

as Michael Kohlhaas

5.8

The Sea Gull

1968

as Konstantin Treplev

6.2

A Midsummer Night's Dream

as Lysander

The Fixer

as Count Odoevsky

The Bofors Gun

as Lance Bombardier Terry Evans

5.8

Work Is a 4-Letter Word

1968

as Valentine Brose

3.0

The Deadly Affair

1967

as Edward II (in Edward II)

6.2

Opus

1967

as Hamlet

5.0

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment

1966

as Morgan Delt

6.2

The Wars of the Roses

as King Henry VI

Tom Jones

as Mr. Blifil

The Madhouse on Castle Street

1963

as Lennie

We Joined the Navy

1963

as Sailor Painting Ship (uncredited)

5.6

The King's Breakfast

1963

as 1st Trumpeter

Television (67)

Elliott from Earth

2021

7.7

The Alienist

2018

as Professor Cavanaugh

Inside No. 9

as Sir Andrew Pike

Teen Titans Go!

as The Lobe (voice)

Ripper Street

as Rabbi Max Steiner

The Secret of Crickley Hall

2012

as Elderly Percy Judd

7.2

The Amazing World of Gumball

2011

as Dr. Wrecker (voice)

8.5

A History of Horror

2010

as Self

7.1

Doctor Who: Dreamland

2009

as Lord Azlok (voice)

Wallander

as Povel Wallander

Wallander

as Povel Wallander

Hogfather

as Lord Downey

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire

2006

as Pulcher

7.4

Doctor Who

2005

as Professor Grisenko

7.6

Sensitive Skin

2005

7.0

Agatha Christie's Marple

2004

as Luther Crackenthorpe

7.8

Conviction

2004

as Lenny Fairburn

7.7

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

as Nergal (voice)

Grim & Evil

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

2000

as Lord Angstrom (voice)

In the Beginning

as Eliezer

Batman Beyond

as Ra's al Ghul (voice)

Total Recall 2070

Hornblower

as Captain Sawyer

Toonsylvania

as Dr. Vic Frankenstein

Three

as The Man

Midsomer Murders

as Peter Fossett

The Hunger

as Vassu

Men in Black: The Series

1997

as Alpha (voice)

7.3

Perversions of Science

1997

as Dr. Nordhoff

5.6

Superman: The Animated Series

1996

as Ra's al Ghul (voice)

7.6

Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys

as The Glyph (voice)

The Outer Limits

as Bill Trenton

Freakazoid!

as The Lobe (voice)

The Choir

as Alexander Troy

Signs and Wonders

1995

as Rev Timothy Palmore

Babylon 5

as Aldous Gajic

Gargoyles

as Archmage (voice)

Spider-Man

as Landon (voice)

Iron Man

as Arthur Dearborn (voice)

6.6

The American Revolution

1994

as King George III

A Mind to Kill

1994

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

1993

as Jor-El

6.9

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

as Winston Smiles

Wild Palms

as Eli Levitt

Batman: The Animated Series

1992

as Ra's al Ghul (voice)

8.6

The Larry Sanders Show

1992

as Richard Germain

7.7

Dinosaurs

1991

as Spirit of the Tree (voice)

Performance

as Vanya

Twin Peaks

as Thomas Eckhardt

Tales from the Crypt

as Dr. Alan Goetz

Father Dowling Mysteries

1989

as Sir Arthur wedgeworth

7.4

Star Trek: The Next Generation

as Gul Madred

Crossbow

Worlds Beyond

as Ken Larkin

Murder, She Wrote

as Justin Hunnicut

Charlie

Remington Steele

as Alexander Sebastien

7.1

Faerie Tale Theatre

1982

as Zandor, The Innkeeper

8.1

Marco Polo

1982

as Rustichello da Pisa

Nancy Astor

as Philip Kerr

Masada

as Senator Pomponius Falco

Hart to Hart

as Mr. Bowlly

Holocaust

as Heydrich

Clouds of Glory

as William Wordsworth

5.0

The Wars of the Roses

as King Henry VI

Z-Cars

Crew (2)

Movies (2)

Blue Borsalino

2016

Executive Producer

Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War

2011

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