David Warner
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Series
Midsomer Murders
Peter Fossett
1997
Series
Doctor Who
Professor Grisenko
2005
Series
Teen Titans Go!
The Lobe (voice)
2013
Series
Murder, She Wrote
Insp. McLaughlin
1984
Series
Murder, She Wrote
Justin Hunnicut
1984
Series
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Gul Madred
1987
Series
Twin Peaks
Thomas Eckhardt
1990
Film
Titanic
Spicer Lovejoy
1997
Series
Babylon 5
Aldous Gajic
1994
Series
Spider-Man
Landon (voice)
1994
Series
The Amazing World of Gumball
Dr. Wrecker (voice)
2011
Series
Agatha Christie's Marple
Luther Crackenthorpe
2004
Series
Batman: The Animated Series
Ra's al Ghul (voice)
1992
Series
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Jor-El
1993
Series
Hart to Hart
Mr. Bowlly
1979
Series
The Outer Limits
Bill Trenton
1995
Series
The Outer Limits
Inspector Harold Langford
1995
Series
Tales from the Crypt
Dr. Alan Goetz
1989
Series
The Larry Sanders Show
Richard Germain
1992
Film
TRON: Ares
Master Control Program (voice) (archival audio)
2025
Series
Remington Steele
Alexander Sebastien
1982
Series
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
Nergal (voice)
2001
Series
The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
2001
Series
Superman: The Animated Series
Ra's al Ghul (voice)
1996
Series
Dinosaurs
Spirit of the Tree (voice)
1991
Series
Inside No. 9
Sir Andrew Pike
2014
Series
Gargoyles
Archmage (voice)
1994
Series
Batman Beyond
Ra's al Ghul (voice)
1999
Film '72
Self
1971
Series
The Alienist
Professor Cavanaugh
2018
Series
Z-Cars
1962
Series
Ripper Street
Rabbi Max Steiner
2012
Series
Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
Lord Angstrom (voice)
2000
Film
Scream 2
Gus Gold
1997
Series
Faerie Tale Theatre
Zandor, The Innkeeper
1982
Series
The Hunger
Vassu
1997
Series
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Winston Smiles
1993
Series
Performance
Vanya
1991
Series
Freakazoid!
The Lobe (voice)
1995
Film
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
St. John Talbot
1989
Series
Wallander
Povel Wallander
2008
Film
The Omen
Keith Jennings
1976
Film
Planet of the Apes
Sandar
2001
Series
Crossbow
1987
Series
Hornblower
Captain Sawyer
1998
Film
Tron
Ed Dillinger / Sark
1982
Film
Mary Poppins Returns
Admiral Boom
2018
Film
In the Mouth of Madness
Dr. Wrenn
1995
Series
Iron Man
Arthur Dearborn (voice)
1994
Series
Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys
The Glyph (voice)
1996
Film
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
Professor Jordon Perry
1991
Series
Men in Black: The Series
Alpha (voice)
1997
Series
Total Recall 2070
1999
Film
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Chancellor Gorkon
1991
Series
Marco Polo
Rustichello da Pisa
1982
Film
Money Talks
Barclay
1997
Series
Father Dowling Mysteries
Sir Arthur wedgeworth
1989
Film
Time Bandits
Evil Genius
1981
Film
Straw Dogs
Henry Niles (uncredited)
1971
Series
Holocaust
Heydrich
1978
Series
Perversions of Science
Dr. Nordhoff
1997
Series
Wild Palms
Eli Levitt
1993
Series
Toonsylvania
Dr. Vic Frankenstein
1998
Film
Ice Cream Man
Reverend Langley
1995
Series
Elliott from Earth
2021
Series
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Pulcher
2006
Film
Black Death
Abbot
2010
Series
Masada
Senator Pomponius Falco
1981
Film
Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
Narrator (voice)
1997
Film
The Madhouse on Castle Street
Lennie
1963
Film
Body Bags
Dr. Lock
1993
Film
Ladies in Lavender
Dr Mead
2004
Film
The Concorde... Airport '79
Peter O'Neill
1979
Film
Cross of Iron
Hauptmann Kiesel
1977
Series
Hogfather
Lord Downey
2006
Film
The French Lieutenant's Woman
Murphy
1981
Film
Waxwork
Waxwork Man
1988
Series
In the Beginning
Eliezer
2000
Film
The Company of Wolves
Father
1984
Film
A Christmas Carol
Bob Cratchit
1984
Series
Worlds Beyond
Ken Larkin
1986
Film
Time After Time
Jack the Ripper - John Leslie Stevenson
1979
Film
The Man with Two Brains
Dr. Alfred Necessiter
1983
Series
Three
The Man
1998
Film
Tom Jones
Mr. Blifil
1963
Film
Mr. North
Doctor Angus McPherson
1988
Film
Wing Commander
Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn
1999
Film
The Ballad of Cable Hogue
Joshua
1970
Film
Cast a Deadly Spell
Amos Hackshaw
1991
Film
The Island
David Nau
1980
Series
The Wars of the Roses
Henry VI
1965
Film
Necronomicon
Dr. Madden
1993
Series
Sensitive Skin
Robert Ringwald
2005
Film
Hogfather
Lord Downey
2007
Series
The Secret of Crickley Hall
Elderly Percy Judd
2012
Series
Nancy Astor
Philip Kerr
1982
Series
A Mind to Kill
1994
Series
A History of Horror
Self
2010
Film
S.O.S. Titanic
Laurence Beesley
1980
Film
Hansel and Gretel
Father Stephan
1988
Series
Signs and Wonders
Reverend Timothy Palmore
1995
Film
Daredevil vs. Spider-Man
Landon (voice)
2003
Film
My Best Friend Is a Vampire
Professor Leopold McCarthy
1987
Series
Conviction
Lenny Fairburn
2004
Film
The Thirty Nine Steps
Sir Edmund Appleton
1978
Film
Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You
Narrator (voice)
1999
Series
Doctor Who: Dreamland
Lord Azlok (voice)
2009
Film
Uncle Vanya
Vanya
1991
Film
Rasputin
Dr. Botkin
1996
Series
The American Revolution
King George III
1994
Series
The Choir
Alexander Troy
1995
Series
Charlie
Charlie Alexander
1984
Film
Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible
1996
Film
Silver Bears
Agha Firdausi
1977
Film
Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus
Lord Agon
1996
Film
The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter
Chancellor Thayer
1992
Film
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Reinhard Heydrich
1985
Film
A Doll's House
Torvald Helmer
1973
Film
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
Adm. Godfrey
1990
Film
The Deadly Affair
Edward II (in Edward II)
1967
Film
Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War
Self
2011
Film
Superstition
Judge Padovani
2001
Film
Naked Souls
Everett Longstreet
1996
Film
Providence
Kevin Woodford
1977
Film
TRON: The Next Day
Ed Dillinger / MCP
2011
Film
Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
Michael Kohlhaas
1969
Film
Sweeney Todd
Fielding
2006
Film
Hanna's War
Captain Julian Simon
1988
Film
The Evil Clergyman
Evil Clergyman
1988
Film
Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock
Landon (voice)
2004
Film
The Fixer
Count Odoevsky
1968
Film
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
Dr. Erasmus Pea
2005
Film
From Beyond the Grave
Edward Charlton
1974
Film
Perfect Friday
Lord Nicholas "Nick" Dorset
1970
Film
The Leading Man
Tod
1996
Film
Spider-Man: The Return of the Green Goblin
Landon (voice)
2002
Film
The Investigation
Superint. Bruce Northorp
2002
Film
The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge
Sir Andrew Pike
2015
Film
Drive
The Driver
1991
Film
Contact
Self - Narrator (Synchronisation)
1982
Film
Nightwing
Phillip Payne
1979
Film
Diagnosis Murder: The House on Sycamore Street
Dr. Lloyd Stern
1992
Series
Hold the Back Page
Ken Wordsworth
1985
Film
Spies, Inc.
Cleague
1992
Film
The Old Curiosity Shop
Sampson Brass
1975
Film
The Disappearance
Burbank
1977
Clouds of Glory
William Wordsworth
1978
Film
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
Morgan Delt
1966
Film
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lysander
1968
Film
Blue Tornado
Commander
1991
Film
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Sir Danvers Carew
2003
Film
Houdini
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1998
Film
Danielle Steel's Zoya
Prince Vladmir
1997
Film
Before I Sleep
Eugene Devlin
2013
Film
A Thousand Kisses Deep
Max
2012
Film
A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving
Narrator
1998
Film
Return to the Lost World
Professor Leo Summerlee
1992
Film
You, Me and Him
Michael Miller
2018
Film
The Lost World
Summerlee
1992
Film
Hornblower: Retribution
Capt. James Sawyer
2001
Sam Peckinpah: Portrait
Self
2006
Film
Pretty Princess
principe Massimiliano
1993
Film
Quest of the Delta Knights
Lord Vultare
1993
Film
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
Harley Griswold
1993
Film
Back to the Secret Garden
Dr. Snodgrass
2000
Film
The Last Leprechaun
Simpson
1998
Film
Hornblower: Mutiny
Captain James Sawyer
2001
Film
The Little Unicorn
Ted Regan
2002
Film
Dark at Noon
Ellic
1992
Film
We Joined the Navy
Sailor Painting Ship (uncredited)
1963
Film
Pulse Pounders
Evil Clergyman (The Evil Clergyman sequence) (archive footage)
1988
Three Comedies of Marriage
Bobby
1975
Film
Cinderella
Martin
2000
Film
The Wars of the Roses
King Henry VI
1965
Film
Cyber Wars
Joseph Lau
2004
Film
Tripwire
Josef Szabo
1989
Film
Grave Secrets
Dr. Carl Farnsworth
1989
Film
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
Self
2005
Film
Hostile Takeover
Eugene Brackin
1989
Film
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self (archive footage)
2004
Film
Bacon's Arena
Narrator (voice)
2006
Film
Hearts of Gold
Dr. Theo John
2003
Film
Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Valentine Brose
1968
Film
Tryst
Jason
1994
Film
Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen
Bradley Thompson
1990
Film
Desperado
Ballard, Company Police Chief
1987
Film
Felony
Cooper
1996
Film
Inner Sanctum II
Dr. Lamont
1994
Film
Kiss of Life
Pap
2003
Film
Mortal Passions
Doctor Terrence Powers
1989
Film
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chain of Command
2014
Film
The Blue Hotel
Swede
1977
Film
In Love with Barbara
Lord Mountbatten
2008
Film
Love's Labour's Lost
Don Armado
1985
Film
The Sea Gull
Konstantin Treplev
1968
Film
Magdalene
Baron von Seidl
1988
Film
Amicus Vault of Horrors
Himself
2015
Film
Keys to Freedom
Nigel Heath
1988
Film
His Picture In Little
2018
Film
Shergar
Eammon Garrity
1999
Film
Final Equinox
Shilow
1995
Film
The Omen Legacy
Self
2001
Film
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
Dennis Charles Nipple
1974
Taking Liberty
Sir Leopold Linwood
1993
Film
The Code Conspiracy
Professor
2002
Corwin
Self
1996
Film
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing
Lord Moping
2006
Film
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
Zandor, the Inkeeper
1984
Film
Seven Servants
Blade
1996
Film
Providence
Himself
2018
Film
Age of Innocence
Henry Buchanan
1977
Film
Frankenstein
Creature
1984
Film
The King's Breakfast
1st Trumpeter
1963
Film
Opus
Hamlet
1967
Summer Lightning
George Millington
1985
Film
Blood and Dust
Tripoli
1992
Film
Perfect Parents
Father Thomas
2006
Film
The Bofors Gun
Lance Bombardier Terry Evans
1968
Film
Blue Borsalino
Ernie Child
2016
Film
Albert's Memorial
Frank
2009
Film
Loving Deadly
Grant / Grant's Twin
1994
Film
Straight Into Darkness
Deacon
2004