David Warner
Actor
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.
Filmography
Scream 2
as Gus Gold 1997
Planet of the Apes
as Sandar 2001
Mary Poppins Returns
as Admiral Boom 2018
Tron
as Ed Dillinger / Sark 1982
The Omen
as Keith Jennings 1976
In the Mouth of Madness
as Dr. Wrenn 1995
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
as Chancellor Gorkon 1991
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
as St. John Talbot 1989
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
as Professor Jordon Perry 1991
Time Bandits
as Evil Genius 1981
Straw Dogs
as Henry Niles (uncredited) 1971
Black Death
as Abbot 2010
The Man with Two Brains
as Dr. Alfred Necessiter 1983
Cross of Iron
as Hauptmann Kiesel 1977
Money Talks
as Barclay 1997
A Christmas Carol
as Bob Cratchit 1984