David Warner

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 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

Midsomer Murders

Doctor Who

Teen Titans Go!

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Murder, She Wrote

Murder, She Wrote

Twin Peaks

Babylon 5

All Movies (148)

• TRON: Ares2025 · as Master Control Program (voice) (archival audio)
• Mary Poppins Returns2018 · as Admiral Boom
• Providence2018 · as Himself
• His Picture In Little2018
• You, Me and Him2018 · as Michael Miller
• Blue Borsalino2016 · as Ernie Child
• The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge2015 · as Sir Andrew Pike
• Amicus Vault of Horrors2015 · as Himself
• Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chain of Command2014
• Before I Sleep2013 · as Eugene Devlin
• A Thousand Kisses Deep2012 · as Max
• Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War2011 · as Self
• TRON: The Next Day2011 · as Ed Dillinger / MCP
• Black Death2010 · as Abbot
• Albert's Memorial2009 · as Frank
• In Love with Barbara2008 · as Lord Mountbatten
• Hogfather2007 · as Lord Downey
• Perfect Parents2006 · as Father Thomas
• Sam Peckinpah: Portrait2006 · as Self
• Bacon's Arena2006 · as Narrator (voice)
• Mr. Loveday's Little Outing2006 · as Lord Moping
• Sweeney Todd2006 · as Fielding
• The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse2005 · as Dr. Erasmus Pea
• Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah2005 · as Self
• Ladies in Lavender2004 · as Dr Mead
• Cyber Wars2004 · as Joseph Lau
• Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade2004 · as Self (archive footage)
• Straight Into Darkness2004 · as Deacon
• Kiss of Life2003 · as Pap
• Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde2003 · as Sir Danvers Carew
• Hearts of Gold2003 · as Dr. Theo John
• The Little Unicorn2002 · as Ted Regan
• The Code Conspiracy2002 · as Professor
• The Investigation2002 · as Superint. Bruce Northorp
• The Omen Legacy2001 · as Self
• Superstition2001 · as Judge Padovani
• Planet of the Apes2001 · as Sandar
• Hornblower: Retribution2001 · as Capt. James Sawyer
• Hornblower: Mutiny2001 · as Captain James Sawyer
• Back to the Secret Garden2000 · as Dr. Snodgrass
• Cinderella2000 · as Martin
• Shergar1999 · as Eammon Garrity
• Wing Commander1999 · as Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn
• Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You1999 · as Narrator (voice)
• Houdini1998 · as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving1998 · as Narrator
• The Last Leprechaun1998 · as Simpson
• Titanic1997 · as Spicer Lovejoy
• Scream 21997 · as Gus Gold
• Money Talks1997 · as Barclay
• Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin1997 · as Narrator (voice)
• Danielle Steel's Zoya1997 · as Prince Vladmir
• The Leading Man1996 · as Tod
• Seven Servants1996 · as Blade
• Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible1996
• Corwin1996 · as Self
• Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus1996 · as Lord Agon
• Naked Souls1996 · as Everett Longstreet
• Rasputin1996 · as Dr. Botkin
• Felony1996 · as Cooper
• Final Equinox1995 · as Shilow
• Ice Cream Man1995 · as Reverend Langley
• In the Mouth of Madness1995 · as Dr. Wrenn
• Inner Sanctum II1994 · as Dr. Lamont
• Tryst1994 · as Jason
• Loving Deadly1994 · as Grant / Grant's Twin
• Pretty Princess1993 · as principe Massimiliano
• Necronomicon1993 · as Dr. Madden
• Quest of the Delta Knights1993 · as Lord Vultare
• Body Bags1993 · as Dr. Lock
• Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal1993 · as Harley Griswold
• Taking Liberty1993 · as Sir Leopold Linwood
• The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter1992 · as Chancellor Thayer
• Dark at Noon1992 · as Ellic
• Spies, Inc.1992 · as Cleague
• Blood and Dust1992 · as Tripoli
• Diagnosis Murder: The House on Sycamore Street1992 · as Dr. Lloyd Stern
• Return to the Lost World1992 · as Professor Leo Summerlee
• The Lost World1992 · as Summerlee
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country1991 · as Chancellor Gorkon
• Uncle Vanya1991 · as Vanya
• Blue Tornado1991 · as Commander
• Cast a Deadly Spell1991 · as Amos Hackshaw
• Drive1991 · as The Driver
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze1991 · as Professor Jordon Perry
• The Secret Life of Ian Fleming1990 · as Adm. Godfrey
• Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen1990 · as Bradley Thompson
• Tripwire1989 · as Josef Szabo
• Mortal Passions1989 · as Doctor Terrence Powers
• Hostile Takeover1989 · as Eugene Brackin
• Grave Secrets1989 · as Dr. Carl Farnsworth
• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier1989 · as St. John Talbot
• Hansel and Gretel1988 · as Father Stephan
• Magdalene1988 · as Baron von Seidl
• The Evil Clergyman1988 · as Evil Clergyman
• Mr. North1988 · as Doctor Angus McPherson
• Waxwork1988 · as Waxwork Man
• Hanna's War1988 · as Captain Julian Simon
• Pulse Pounders1988 · as Evil Clergyman (The Evil Clergyman sequence) (archive footage)
• Keys to Freedom1988 · as Nigel Heath
• My Best Friend Is a Vampire1987 · as Professor Leopold McCarthy
• Desperado1987 · as Ballard, Company Police Chief
• Summer Lightning1985 · as George Millington
• Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil1985 · as Reinhard Heydrich
• Love's Labour's Lost1985 · as Don Armado
• A Christmas Carol1984 · as Bob Cratchit
• The Company of Wolves1984 · as Father
• The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers1984 · as Zandor, the Inkeeper
• Frankenstein1984 · as Creature
• The Man with Two Brains1983 · as Dr. Alfred Necessiter
• Tron1982 · as Ed Dillinger / Sark
• Contact1982 · as Self - Narrator (Synchronisation)
• The French Lieutenant's Woman1981 · as Murphy
• Time Bandits1981 · as Evil Genius
• The Island1980 · as David Nau
• S.O.S. Titanic1980 · as Laurence Beesley
• Time After Time1979 · as Jack the Ripper - John Leslie Stevenson
• The Concorde... Airport '791979 · as Peter O'Neill
• Nightwing1979 · as Phillip Payne
• The Thirty Nine Steps1978 · as Sir Edmund Appleton
• The Disappearance1977 · as Burbank
• Silver Bears1977 · as Agha Firdausi
• Age of Innocence1977 · as Henry Buchanan
• The Blue Hotel1977 · as Swede
• Cross of Iron1977 · as Hauptmann Kiesel
• Providence1977 · as Kevin Woodford
• The Omen1976 · as Keith Jennings
• The Old Curiosity Shop1975 · as Sampson Brass
• Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs1974 · as Dennis Charles Nipple
• From Beyond the Grave1974 · as Edward Charlton
• A Doll's House1973 · as Torvald Helmer
• Straw Dogs1971 · as Henry Niles (uncredited)
• Perfect Friday1970 · as Lord Nicholas "Nick" Dorset
• The Ballad of Cable Hogue1970 · as Joshua
• Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel1969 · as Michael Kohlhaas
• The Sea Gull1968 · as Konstantin Treplev
• The Fixer1968 · as Count Odoevsky
• A Midsummer Night's Dream1968 · as Lysander
• Work Is a 4-Letter Word1968 · as Valentine Brose
• The Bofors Gun1968 · as Lance Bombardier Terry Evans
• The Deadly Affair1967 · as Edward II (in Edward II)
• Opus1967 · as Hamlet
• Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment1966 · as Morgan Delt
• The Wars of the Roses1965 · as King Henry VI
• Tom Jones1963 · as Mr. Blifil
• We Joined the Navy1963 · as Sailor Painting Ship (uncredited)
• The Madhouse on Castle Street1963 · as Lennie
• The King's Breakfast1963 · as 1st Trumpeter

All TV Shows (70)

• Elliott from Earth2021
• The Alienist2018 · as Professor Cavanaugh
• Inside No. 92014 · as Sir Andrew Pike
• Teen Titans Go!2013 · as The Lobe (voice)
• Ripper Street2012 · as Rabbi Max Steiner
• The Secret of Crickley Hall2012 · as Elderly Percy Judd
• The Amazing World of Gumball2011 · as Dr. Wrecker (voice)
• A History of Horror2010 · as Self
• Doctor Who: Dreamland2009 · as Lord Azlok (voice)
• Wallander2008 · as Povel Wallander
• Hogfather2006 · as Lord Downey
• Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire2006 · as Pulcher
• Sensitive Skin2005 · as Robert Ringwald
• Doctor Who2005 · as Professor Grisenko
• Agatha Christie's Marple2004 · as Luther Crackenthorpe
• Conviction2004 · as Lenny Fairburn
• The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy2001 · as Nergal (voice)
• The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy2001
• In the Beginning2000 · as Eliezer
• Buzz Lightyear of Star Command2000 · as Lord Angstrom (voice)
• Batman Beyond1999 · as Ra's al Ghul (voice)
• Total Recall 20701999
• Hornblower1998 · as Captain Sawyer
• Toonsylvania1998 · as Dr. Vic Frankenstein
• Three1998 · as The Man
• Men in Black: The Series1997 · as Alpha (voice)
• The Hunger1997 · as Vassu
• Perversions of Science1997 · as Dr. Nordhoff
• Midsomer Murders1997 · as Peter Fossett
• Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys1996 · as The Glyph (voice)
• Superman: The Animated Series1996 · as Ra's al Ghul (voice)
• Freakazoid!1995 · as The Lobe (voice)
• The Outer Limits1995 · as Bill Trenton
• The Outer Limits1995 · as Inspector Harold Langford
• The Choir1995 · as Alexander Troy
• Signs and Wonders1995 · as Reverend Timothy Palmore
• The American Revolution1994 · as King George III
• A Mind to Kill1994
• Spider-Man1994 · as Landon (voice)
• Gargoyles1994 · as Archmage (voice)
• Iron Man1994 · as Arthur Dearborn (voice)
• Babylon 51994 · as Aldous Gajic
• Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman1993 · as Jor-El
• The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.1993 · as Winston Smiles
• Wild Palms1993 · as Eli Levitt
• Batman: The Animated Series1992 · as Ra's al Ghul (voice)
• The Larry Sanders Show1992 · as Richard Germain
• Performance1991 · as Vanya
• Dinosaurs1991 · as Spirit of the Tree (voice)
• Twin Peaks1990 · as Thomas Eckhardt
• Tales from the Crypt1989 · as Dr. Alan Goetz
• Father Dowling Mysteries1989 · as Sir Arthur wedgeworth
• Star Trek: The Next Generation1987 · as Gul Madred
• Crossbow1987
• Worlds Beyond1986 · as Ken Larkin
• Murder, She Wrote1984 · as Insp. McLaughlin
• Murder, She Wrote1984 · as Justin Hunnicut
• Charlie1984 · as Charlie Alexander
• Marco Polo1982 · as Rustichello da Pisa
• Remington Steele1982 · as Alexander Sebastien
• Faerie Tale Theatre1982 · as Zandor, The Innkeeper
• Nancy Astor1982 · as Philip Kerr
• Masada1981 · as Senator Pomponius Falco
• Hart to Hart1979 · as Mr. Bowlly
• Clouds of Glory1978 · as William Wordsworth
• Holocaust1978 · as Heydrich
• Three Comedies of Marriage1975 · as Bobby
• Film '721971 · as Self
• The Wars of the Roses1965 · as Henry VI
• Z-Cars1962