
David Warner
Known for Acting · 213 credits
- Born
- 1941-07-29
- Died
- 2022-07-24
- Place of birth
- Manchester, England, UK
- Also known as
- David Hattersley 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
TV Shows (65)

Midsomer Murders
1997
as Peter Fossett

Doctor Who
2005
as Professor Grisenko

Star Trek: The Next Generation
1987
as Gul Madred

Murder, She Wrote
1984
as Insp. McLaughlin / Justin Hunnicut

Teen Titans Go!
2013
as The Lobe (voice)

Babylon 5
1994
as Aldous Gajic

Twin Peaks
1990
as Thomas Eckhardt

The Amazing World of Gumball
2011
as Dr. Wrecker (voice)

Batman: The Animated Series
1992
as Ra's al Ghul (voice)

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
1993
as Jor-El

Agatha Christie's Marple
2004
as Luther Crackenthorpe

Dinosaurs
1991
as Spirit of the Tree (voice)

Hart to Hart
1979
as Mr. Bowlly

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
2001
as Nergal (voice)

The Outer Limits
1995
as Bill Trenton / Inspector Harold Langford

Z-Cars
1962

Spider-Man
1994
as Landon (voice)

Superman: The Animated Series
1996
as Ra's al Ghul (voice)

Batman Beyond
1999
as Ra's al Ghul (voice)

Tales from the Crypt
1989
as Dr. Alan Goetz

Gargoyles
1994
as Archmage (voice)

Remington Steele
1982
as Alexander Sebastien

Inside No. 9
2014
as Sir Andrew Pike

The Larry Sanders Show
1992
as Richard Germain

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command
2000
as Lord Angstrom (voice)

The Alienist
2018
as Professor Cavanaugh

Ripper Street
2012
as Rabbi Max Steiner

Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
as Zandor, The Innkeeper

The Hunger
1997
as Vassu

Performance
1991
as Vanya

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
1993
as Winston Smiles

Freakazoid!
1995
as The Lobe (voice)

Wallander
2008
as Povel Wallander

Crossbow
1987

Hornblower
1998
as Captain Sawyer

Men in Black: The Series
1997
as Alpha (voice)

Iron Man
1994
as Arthur Dearborn (voice)

Father Dowling Mysteries
1989
as Sir Arthur wedgeworth

Holocaust
1978
as Heydrich

Perversions of Science
1997
as Dr. Nordhoff

Marco Polo
1982
as Rustichello da Pisa

Total Recall 2070
1999

Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
2006
as Pulcher

Toonsylvania
1998
as Dr. Vic Frankenstein

Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys
1996
as The Glyph (voice)

Elliott from Earth
2021

Wild Palms
1993
as Eli Levitt

Masada
1981
as Senator Pomponius Falco

Hogfather
2006
as Lord Downey

Worlds Beyond
1986
as Ken Larkin

In the Beginning
2000
as Eliezer

A History of Horror
2010
as Self

A Mind to Kill
1994

The Secret of Crickley Hall
2012
as Elderly Percy Judd

Nancy Astor
1982
as Philip Kerr

Conviction
2004
as Lenny Fairburn

The Choir
1995
as Alexander Troy

Sensitive Skin
2005

The American Revolution
1994
as King George III

Signs and Wonders
1995
as Reverend Timothy Palmore
Movies (148)

Titanic
1997
as Spicer Lovejoy

TRON: Ares
2025
as Master Control Program (voice) (archival audio)

Scream 2
1997
as Gus Gold

The Omen
1976
as Keith Jennings

Planet of the Apes
2001
as Sandar

Tron
1982
as Ed Dillinger / Sark

Mary Poppins Returns
2018
as Admiral Boom

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
1991
as Professor Jordon Perry

The Company of Wolves
1984
as Father

In the Mouth of Madness
1995
as Dr. Wrenn

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
1989
as St. John Talbot

Straw Dogs
1971
as Henry Niles (uncredited)

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991
as Chancellor Gorkon

Black Death
2010
as Abbot

Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
1997
as Narrator (voice)

Time Bandits
1981
as Evil Genius

The Leading Man
1996
as Tod

Hogfather
2007
as Lord Downey

Money Talks
1997
as Barclay

Wing Commander
1999
as Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn

Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
2004
as Self (archive footage)

Necronomicon
1993
as Dr. Madden

Cross of Iron
1977
as Hauptmann Kiesel

The French Lieutenant's Woman
1981
as Murphy

The Man with Two Brains
1983
as Dr. Alfred Necessiter

Tripwire
1989
as Josef Szabo

Ladies in Lavender
2004
as Dr Mead

A Christmas Carol
1984
as Bob Cratchit

Body Bags
1993
as Dr. Lock

Ice Cream Man
1995
as Reverend Langley

The Concorde... Airport '79
1979
as Peter O'Neill

Sweeney Todd
2006
as Fielding

Houdini
1998
as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Island
1980
as David Nau

The Ballad of Cable Hogue
1970
as Joshua

Hansel and Gretel
1988
as Father Stephan

Magdalene
1988
as Baron von Seidl

Waxwork
1988
as Waxwork Man

Time After Time
1979
as Jack the Ripper - John Leslie Stevenson

Tom Jones
1963
as Mr. Blifil

Cast a Deadly Spell
1991
as Amos Hackshaw

Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus
1996
as Lord Agon
Taking Liberty
1993
as Sir Leopold Linwood

Pulse Pounders
1988
as Evil Clergyman (The Evil Clergyman sequence) (archive footage)
Corwin
1996
as Self

Rasputin
1996
as Dr. Botkin

Silver Bears
1977
as Agha Firdausi

The Old Curiosity Shop
1975
as Sampson Brass

Mr. North
1988
as Doctor Angus McPherson

The Deadly Affair
1967
as Edward II (in Edward II)

You, Me and Him
2018
as Michael Miller

Hanna's War
1988
as Captain Julian Simon

TRON: The Next Day
2011
as Ed Dillinger / MCP

Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs
1974
as Dennis Charles Nipple

Providence
1977
as Kevin Woodford

Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
1993
as Harley Griswold

Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You
1999
as Narrator (voice)

Perfect Friday
1970
as Lord Nicholas "Nick" Dorset

My Best Friend Is a Vampire
1987
as Professor Leopold McCarthy

Pretty Princess
1993
as principe Massimiliano

S.O.S. Titanic
1980
as Laurence Beesley

We Joined the Navy
1963
as Sailor Painting Ship (uncredited)

Inner Sanctum II
1994
as Dr. Lamont

From Beyond the Grave
1974
as Edward Charlton

The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter
1992
as Chancellor Thayer

Cinderella
2000
as Martin

The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
2005
as Dr. Erasmus Pea

The Thirty Nine Steps
1978
as Sir Edmund Appleton

Superstition
2001
as Judge Padovani

Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah
2005
as Self

Hornblower: Mutiny
2001
as Captain James Sawyer

Naked Souls
1996
as Everett Longstreet

Felony
1996
as Cooper

Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
1966
as Morgan Delt

Grave Secrets
1989
as Dr. Carl Farnsworth

The Fixer
1968
as Count Odoevsky

A Thousand Kisses Deep
2012
as Max

Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
1985
as Reinhard Heydrich

The Investigation
2002
as Superint. Bruce Northorp

Cyber Wars
2004
as Joseph Lau

Back to the Secret Garden
2000
as Dr. Snodgrass

The Sea Gull
1968
as Konstantin Treplev

Before I Sleep
2013
as Eugene Devlin

Danielle Steel's Zoya
1997
as Prince Vladmir

Shergar
1999
as Eammon Garrity

A Midsummer Night's Dream
1968
as Lysander

The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers
1984
as Zandor, the Inkeeper

Desperado
1987
as Ballard, Company Police Chief

The Disappearance
1977
as Burbank

Frankenstein
1984
as Creature

The Secret Life of Ian Fleming
1990
as Adm. Godfrey

Return to the Lost World
1992
as Professor Leo Summerlee

Siegfried and Roy: Masters of the Impossible
1996

Uncle Vanya
1991
as Vanya

Nightwing
1979
as Phillip Payne

The Lost World
1992
as Summerlee

Final Equinox
1995
as Shilow

Love's Labour's Lost
1985
as Don Armado

Spies, Inc.
1992
as Cleague

The Wars of the Roses
1965
as King Henry VI

A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving
1998
as Narrator

Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel
1969
as Michael Kohlhaas

Dark at Noon
1992
as Ellic

Age of Innocence
1977
as Henry Buchanan

Hostile Takeover
1989
as Eugene Brackin

Tryst
1994
as Jason

In Love with Barbara
2008
as Lord Mountbatten

The Little Unicorn
2002
as Ted Regan

Diagnosis Murder: The House on Sycamore Street
1992
as Dr. Lloyd Stern

Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen
1990
as Bradley Thompson

Hearts of Gold
2003
as Dr. Theo John

Hornblower: Retribution
2001
as Capt. James Sawyer

Kiss of Life
2003
as Pap

Blue Tornado
1991
as Commander

The Bofors Gun
1968
as Lance Bombardier Terry Evans

Opus
1967
as Hamlet

The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge
2015
as Sir Andrew Pike

A Doll's House
1973
as Torvald Helmer

His Picture In Little
2018

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chain of Command
2014
About David Warner
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 Iro… With 213 credits spanning from 1962 to 2025, David Warner has appeared in 148 films and 65 TV shows.
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Most Popular David Warner Movies
- Titanic (1997) — as Spicer Lovejoy
- TRON: Ares (2025) — as Master Control Program (voice) (archival audio)
- Scream 2 (1997) — as Gus Gold
- The Omen (1976) — as Keith Jennings
- Planet of the Apes (2001) — as Sandar
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