David Warner
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- July 29, 1941
- Died
- July 24, 2022
- Birthplace
- Manchester, England, UK
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
TRON: Ares 2025
as Master Control Program (voice) (archival audio)
Mary Poppins Returns 2018
as Admiral Boom
Providence 2018
as Himself
His Picture In Little 2018
Actor
You, Me and Him 2018
as Michael Miller
Blue Borsalino 2016
as Ernie Child, Executive Producer
The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge 2015
as Sir Andrew Pike
Amicus Vault of Horrors 2015
as Himself
Before I Sleep 2013
as Eugene Devlin
A Thousand Kisses Deep 2012
as Max
Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War 2011
as Self, Thanks
TRON: The Next Day 2011
as Ed Dillinger / MCP
Black Death 2010
as Abbot
Albert's Memorial 2009
as Frank
In Love with Barbara 2008
as Lord Mountbatten
Hogfather 2007
as Lord Downey
Perfect Parents 2006
as Father Thomas
- Sam Peckinpah: Portrait
Sam Peckinpah: Portrait 2006
as Self
Bacon's Arena 2006
as Narrator (voice)
Mr. Loveday's Little Outing 2006
as Lord Moping
Sweeney Todd 2006
as Fielding
The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse 2005
as Dr. Erasmus Pea
Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah 2005
as Self
Ladies in Lavender 2004
as Dr Mead
Cyber Wars 2004
as Joseph Lau
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade 2004
as Self (archive footage)
Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock 2004
as Landon (voice)
Straight Into Darkness 2004
as Deacon
Kiss of Life 2003
as Pap
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 2003
as Sir Danvers Carew
Hearts of Gold 2003
as Dr. Theo John
Daredevil vs. Spider-Man 2003
as Landon (voice)
The Little Unicorn 2002
as Ted Regan
Spider-Man: The Return of the Green Goblin 2002
as Landon (voice)
The Code Conspiracy 2002
as Professor
The Investigation 2002
as Superint. Bruce Northorp
The Omen Legacy 2001
as Self
Superstition 2001
as Judge Padovani
Planet of the Apes 2001
as Sandar
Hornblower: Retribution 2001
as Capt. James Sawyer
Hornblower: Mutiny 2001
as Captain James Sawyer
Back to the Secret Garden 2000
as Dr. Snodgrass
Cinderella 2000
as Martin
Shergar 1999
as Eammon Garrity
Wing Commander 1999
as Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn
Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You 1999
as Narrator (voice)
Houdini 1998
as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving 1998
as Narrator
The Last Leprechaun 1998
as Simpson
Titanic 1997
as Spicer Lovejoy
Scream 2 1997
as Gus Gold
Money Talks 1997
as Barclay
Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin 1997
as Narrator (voice)
Danielle Steel's Zoya 1997
as Prince Vladmir
The Leading Man 1996
as Tod
Seven Servants 1996
as Blade
Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible 1996
Actor
- Corwin
Corwin 1996
as Self
Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus 1996
as Lord Agon
Naked Souls 1996
as Everett Longstreet
Rasputin 1996
as Dr. Botkin
Felony 1996
as Cooper
Final Equinox 1995
as Shilow
Ice Cream Man 1995
as Reverend Langley
In the Mouth of Madness 1995
as Dr. Wrenn
Inner Sanctum II 1994
as Dr. Lamont
Tryst 1994
as Jason
Loving Deadly 1994
as Grant / Grant's Twin
Pretty Princess 1993
as principe Massimiliano
Necronomicon 1993
as Dr. Madden
Quest of the Delta Knights 1993
as Lord Vultare
Body Bags 1993
as Dr. Lock
Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal 1993
as Harley Griswold
- Taking Liberty
Taking Liberty 1993
as Sir Leopold Linwood
Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chain of Command 1992
as Gul Madred
The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter 1992
as Chancellor Thayer
Dark at Noon 1992
as Ellic
Spies, Inc. 1992
as Cleague
Blood and Dust 1992
as Tripoli
Diagnosis Murder: The House on Sycamore Street 1992
as Dr. Lloyd Stern
Return to the Lost World 1992
as Professor Leo Summerlee
The Lost World 1992
as Summerlee
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country 1991
as Chancellor Gorkon
Uncle Vanya 1991
as Vanya
Blue Tornado 1991
as Commander
Cast a Deadly Spell 1991
as Amos Hackshaw
Drive 1991
as The Driver
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze 1991
as Professor Jordon Perry
The Secret Life of Ian Fleming 1990
as Adm. Godfrey
Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen 1990
as Bradley Thompson
Tripwire 1989
as Josef Szabo
Mortal Passions 1989
as Doctor Terrence Powers
Hostile Takeover 1989
as Eugene Brackin
Grave Secrets 1989
as Dr. Carl Farnsworth
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier 1989
as St. John Talbot
Hansel and Gretel 1988
as Father Stephan
Magdalene 1988
as Baron von Seidl
The Evil Clergyman 1988
as Evil Clergyman
Mr. North 1988
as Doctor Angus McPherson
Waxwork 1988
as Waxwork Man
Hanna's War 1988
as Captain Julian Simon
Keys to Freedom 1988
as Nigel Heath
Pulse Pounders 1988
as Evil Clergyman (The Evil Clergyman sequence) (archive footage)
My Best Friend Is a Vampire 1987
as Professor Leopold McCarthy
Desperado 1987
as Ballard, Company Police Chief
- Summer Lightning
Summer Lightning 1985
as George Millington
Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil 1985
as Reinhard Heydrich
Love's Labour's Lost 1985
as Don Armado
A Christmas Carol 1984
as Bob Cratchit
The Company of Wolves 1984
as Father
The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers 1984
as Zandor, the Inkeeper
Frankenstein 1984
as Creature
The Man with Two Brains 1983
as Dr. Alfred Necessiter
Tron 1982
as Ed Dillinger / Sark
Contact 1982
as Self - Narrator (Synchronisation)
The French Lieutenant's Woman 1981
as Murphy
Time Bandits 1981
as Evil Genius
The Island 1980
as David Nau
S.O.S. Titanic 1980
as Laurence Beesley
Time After Time 1979
as Jack the Ripper - John Leslie Stevenson
The Concorde... Airport '79 1979
as Peter O'Neill
Nightwing 1979
as Phillip Payne
The Thirty Nine Steps 1978
as Sir Edmund Appleton
The Disappearance 1977
as Burbank
Silver Bears 1977
as Agha Firdausi
Age of Innocence 1977
as Henry Buchanan
The Blue Hotel 1977
as Swede
Cross of Iron 1977
as Hauptmann Kiesel
Providence 1977
as Kevin Woodford
The Omen 1976
as Jennings
The Old Curiosity Shop 1975
as Sampson Brass
Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs 1974
as Dennis Charles Nipple
From Beyond the Grave 1974
as Edward Charlton
A Doll's House 1973
as Torvald Helmer
Straw Dogs 1971
as Henry Niles (uncredited)
Perfect Friday 1970
as Lord Nicholas "Nick" Dorset
The Ballad of Cable Hogue 1970
as Joshua
Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel 1969
as Michael Kohlhaas
The Sea Gull 1968
as Konstantin Treplev
The Fixer 1968
as Count Odoevsky
A Midsummer Night's Dream 1968
as Lysander
Work Is a 4-Letter Word 1968
as Valentine Brose
The Bofors Gun 1968
as Lance Bombardier Terry Evans
The Deadly Affair 1967
as Edward II (in Edward II)
Opus 1967
as Hamlet
Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment 1966
as Morgan Delt
The Wars of the Roses 1965
as King Henry VI
Tom Jones 1963
as Mr. Blifil
We Joined the Navy 1963
as Sailor Painting Ship (uncredited)
The Madhouse on Castle Street 1963
as Lennie
The King's Breakfast 1963
as 1st Trumpeter
Credits from TMDB.