David Warner

Actor

1941-07-29 – 2022-07-24 · 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.

• Titanic (1997) — Spicer Lovejoy
• Scream 2 (1997) — Gus Gold
• Planet of the Apes (2001) — Sandar
• Mary Poppins Returns (2018) — Admiral Boom
• Tron (1982) — Ed Dillinger / Sark
• The Omen (1976) — Jennings
• In the Mouth of Madness (1995) — Dr. Wrenn
• TRON: Ares (2025) — Master Control Program (voice) (archival audio)
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) — Chancellor Gorkon
• Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) — St. John Talbot
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991) — Professor Jordon Perry
• Time Bandits (1981) — Evil Genius
• Straw Dogs (1971) — Henry Niles (uncredited)
• Black Death (2010) — Abbot
• The Man with Two Brains (1983) — Dr. Alfred Necessiter
• Cross of Iron (1977) — Hauptmann Kiesel
• Money Talks (1997) — Barclay
• A Christmas Carol (1984) — Bob Cratchit
• Body Bags (1993) — Dr. Lock
• Time After Time (1979) — Jack the Ripper - John Leslie Stevenson
• The Company of Wolves (1984) — Father
• Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin (1997) — Narrator (voice)
• Waxwork (1988) — Waxwork Man
• Wing Commander (1999) — Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn