David Warner (actor)

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David Warner
Warner in 2013
Born	David Hattersley Warner (1941-07-29)29 July 1941 Manchester, England
Died	24 July 2022(2022-07-24) (aged 80) Northwood, London, England
Alma mater	Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1962–2022
Spouse(s)	Harriet Lindgren ​ ​ (m. 1969; div. 1972)​ Sheilah Kent ​ ​ (m. 1979; div. 2005)​
Partner(s)	Lisa Bowerman (–2022)[1]
Children	2[2]
Awards	1981 Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special
Signature

David Hattersley Warner (29 July 1941 – 24 July 2022) was an English actor who worked in film, television and theatre. He attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art; after making his stage debut in 1962 he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) with whom he played Henry VI in The Wars of the Roses cycle at the West End's Aldwych Theatre in 1964. The RSC then cast him as Prince Hamlet in Peter Hall's 1965 production of Hamlet. He attained prominence on screen in 1966 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's lanky, often haggard appearance lent itself to a variety of villainous characters as well as more sympathetic roles across a range of media, often in science fiction or fantasy titles or period dramas, including The Omen, Time After Time (as Jack the Ripper), A Christmas Carol (as Bob Cratchit opposite George C. Scott's Ebenezer Scrooge), Titanic, Mary Poppins Returns and various characters in the Star Trek franchise.^[3]

In 1981, he won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special for his portrayal of the barbaric commander of a Roman legion in the television miniseries Masada.^[4]

Early life

Warner was born on 29 July 1941 in Manchester, Lancashire, the son of Ada Doreen Hattersley and Herbert Simon Warner, a nursing home proprietor.^[5] He was born out of wedlock and frequently taken to be brought up by each of his parents, eventually settling with his Russian Jewish father and his stepmother.^[6][7][8]

He graduated from RADA in 1961.^[9]

Career

Theatre

Warner made his professional stage debut at the Royal Court Theatre in January 1962, playing Snout, a minor role in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Tony Richardson for the English Stage Company. In March 1962, at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, he played Conrad in Much Ado About Nothing, following which in June he appeared as Jim in Afore Night Come at the New Arts Theatre in London.

He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1963 to play Trinculo in The Tempest and Cinna the Poet in Julius Caesar, and in July was cast as Henry VI in the John Barton adaptation of Henry VI, Parts I, II and III, which comprised the first two plays from The Wars of the Roses trilogy. At the West End's Aldwych Theatre in January 1964, he again played Henry VI in the complete The Wars of the Roses history cycle (1964). Returning to Stratford in April, he performed the title role in Richard II, Mouldy in Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry VI. At the Aldwych in October 1964, he was cast as Valentine Brose in the play Eh? by Henry Livings, a role he reprised in the 1968 film adaptation Work Is a Four-Letter Word.

He first played the title role in Hamlet for the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1965. This production transferred to the Aldwych Theatre in December of that year. In the 1966, Stratford season, his Hamlet was revived and he also played Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night. Finally at the Aldwych in January 1970, he played Julian in Tiny Alice.

According to his 2007 programme CV, Warner's other work for the theatre included The Great Exhibition at Hampstead Theatre (February 1972); I, Claudius at the Queen's Theatre (July 1972); A Feast of Snails at the Lyric Theatre (February 2002); Where There's a Will at the Theatre Royal, Bath; King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre (in 2005, see details below); and also Major Barbara on Broadway.

Film and television

In 1963, he made his film debut as the villainous Blifil in Tom Jones, and in 1965, starred as Henry VI in the BBC television version of the RSC's The Wars of the Roses cycle of Shakespeare's history plays. Another early television role came when he starred alongside Bob Dylan in the 1963 play Madhouse on Castle Street. A major step in his career was the leading role in Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) opposite Vanessa Redgrave, which established his reputation for playing slightly off-the-wall characters. He also appeared as Konstantin Treplev in Sidney Lumet's 1968 adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull and starred alongside Jason Robards and Stella Stevens as Reverend Joshua Duncan Sloane in Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue.

In horror films, he appeared in one of the stories of From Beyond the Grave, opposite Gregory Peck in The Omen (1976) as the ill-fated photojournalist Keith Jennings, and the 1979 thriller Nightwing. He also starred in cult classic Waxwork (1988), and featured alongside a young Viggo Mortensen in the 1990 film Tripwire.

He often played villains, in films such as The Thirty Nine Steps (1978), Time After Time (1979), Time Bandits (1981), Tron (1982), Hanna's War (1988), and television series such as Batman: The Animated Series playing Ra's al Ghul, the anti-mutant scientist Herbert Landon in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, as well as rogue agent Alpha from Men in Black, the Archmage in Disney's Gargoyles, and the Lobe in Freakazoid!. He was also cast against type as Henry Niles in Straw Dogs (1971) and as Bob Cratchit in the 1984 telefilm A Christmas Carol starring George C. Scott as Scrooge. In addition, he played German SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich both in the film Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil, and the television miniseries Holocaust; as sinister millionaire Amos Hackshaw in HBO's original 1991 film Cast a Deadly Spell.^[10]

In 1981, Warner received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special for Masada as Pomponius Falco. In 1988, he appeared in the Danny Huston film Mr. North.

He subsequently appeared in films such as Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Avatar (known as Matrix Hunter in the USA), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991), Titanic (the third time he appeared in a film that is about or includes reference to RMS Titanic) and Scream 2. In 2001, he played Captain James Sawyer in two episodes of A&E's adaptation of C.S. Forester's Hornblower series. He appeared in three episodes of the second season of Twin Peaks (1991) as "Thomas Eckhardt". He also continued to play classical roles. In "Chain of Command", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, he was a Cardassian interrogator. He based his portrayal on the evil "re-educator" from 1984. His less-spectacular roles included a double-role in the low-budget fantasy Quest of the Delta Knights (1993) which was eventually spoofed on Mystery Science Theater 3000. He also played Admiral Tolwyn in the film version of Wing Commander.

Warner's sympathetic side had been evident in Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron (1977), where he portrayed Captain Kiesel. Other "nice guy" roles include the charismatic "Aldous Gajic" in "Grail", a first season (1994) episode of Babylon 5 and "Chancellor Gorkon" in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). In an episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, he played Superman's deceased Kryptonian father Jor-El, who appeared to his son through holographic recordings. Warner also played "ambiguous nice guys" such as vampire bat exterminator Philip Payne in 1979's Nightwing; and Dr. Richard Madden in 1994's Necronomicon: Book of the Dead. In Seven Servants by Daryush Shokof, he co-starred with Anthony Quinn in 1996.

Another 'sympathetic' role was in 2013, when he played Professor Grisenko in the Doctor Who episode "Cold War" in which he battled a revived Ice Warrior and struck up a rapport with the Doctor's companion Clara Oswald. Warner also appeared in the second series of the Sky 1 comedy-drama Mad Dogs and starred in two 2014 episodes of the Horror series Penny Dreadful as Abraham Van Helsing.

Warner contributed "Sonnet 25" to the 2002 compilation album When Love Speaks, which consists of Shakespearean sonnets and play excerpts as interpreted by famous actors and musicians. He performed in many audio plays, starring in the Doctor Who Unbound play Sympathy for the Devil (2003) as an alternative version of the Doctor, and in a series of plays based on ITV's Sapphire & Steel as Steel, both for Big Finish Productions. He reprised his incarnation of the Doctor in a sequel, Masters of War (2008). In 2007, he guest starred as Isaac Newton in the Doctor Who audio drama Circular Time and as Cuthbert in four of the seven stories in the second Fourth Doctor series. He also guest starred in the BBC Radio 4 science fiction comedy Nebulous (2005) as Professor Nebulous' arch-enemy Dr. Joseph Klench. In all these productions, Warner worked with writer and comedian Mark Gatiss of the League of Gentlemen, and plays a guest role in the League's 2005 feature film The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse. He also performed in radio plays for the American companies L.A. Theatre Works and the Hollywood Theater of the Ear. In 2005, Warner read a new adaptation of Oliver Twist for BBC Radio 2 (adapted by Neville Teller and directed by Neil Gardner). In 2008, he guest-starred as Mycroft Holmes in the Bernice Summerfield audio play The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel. In 2009, he was the voice of Lord Azlok of the Viperox, an insectoid alien race in the animated Doctor Who serial "Dreamland". In 2016, he returned as his alternate Doctor in a series of audios where his Doctor briefly travels to the 'prime' universe and enlists the Seventh Doctor's companion Benny Summerfield (Lisa Bowerman) to try and help him save his universe. Warner's Doctor continued his travels with Benny in a second series of audios released in 2017. Shortly before his death in 2022 it was revealed he would return as his alternate Doctor as part of Finish's celebration of the 60th Anniversary and would share scenes with Christopher Eccleston who appeared as the Ninth Doctor.^[11]

He also contributed voice acting to a number of video games, notably playing the villain Jon Irenicus in Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and Morpheus in Fallout.

Warner did voice work on the short-lived FOX animated series Toonsylvania as Dr. Vic Frankenstein. He was also the first voice of the demon Nergal from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, but was later replaced by Martin Jarvis.

Warner narrated the Disney direct-to-video Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin.^[12]

In March 2010, it was announced that Warner would be joining the cast of the Dark Shadows audio drama miniseries Kingdom of the Dead.

Return to theatre and later work

In 2001, Warner returned to the stage after a nearly three-decade hiatus to play Andrew Undershaft in a Broadway revival of George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara. In May 2005, at the Chichester Festival Theatre Warner made a return to Shakespeare, playing the title role in Steven Pimlott's production of King Lear. Tim Walker, reviewing the performance in The Sunday Telegraph, wrote: "Warner is physically the least imposing king I have ever seen, but his slight, gaunt body serves also to accentuate the vulnerability the part requires. So, too, does the fact that he is older by decades than most of the other members of the youthful cast."

On 30 October 2005, he appeared on stage at The Old Vic theatre in London in the one-night play Night Sky alongside Christopher Eccleston, Bruno Langley, Navin Chowdhry, Saffron Burrows and David Baddiel.^[13] In December 2006, he starred in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather on Sky1 as Lord Downey. And in August 2007, as an RSC Honorary Artist, he returned to Stratford for the first time in over 40 years to play Sir John Falstaff in the Courtyard Theatre revival of Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 which were part of the RSC Histories Cycle.^[14] He is one of the few actors^{[citation needed]} to play Hamlet (RSC), Lear (Chichester Festival Theatre) and Falstaff (RSC).

In February 2008, Warner was heard as the popular fictional character Hugo Rune in a new 13-part audio adaptation of Robert Rankin's The Brightonomicon released by Hokus Bloke Productions and BBC Audiobooks. He starred alongside some high-profile names including cult science fiction actress and Superman star Sarah Douglas, Rupert Degas, The Lord of the Rings actor Andy Serkis, Harry Potter villain Jason Isaacs, Mark Wing-Davey and Martin Jarvis (written by Elliott Stein & Neil Gardner, and produced/directed by Neil Gardner).

In October 2008, Warner played the role of Lord Mountbatten of Burma in the BBC Four television film In Love with Barbara, a biopic about the life of romantic novelist Barbara Cartland.^[15] He plays Povel Wallander, the father of Kurt Wallander, in BBC One's Wallander.

Other work

In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Warner about his role in The Omen (1976) for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror.^[16][17] In November 2013, David Warner posed for Rory Lewis Photographers 'Northerners' Exhibition,^[18] David's image was acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in London, and was the first professional portrait sitting of David since 1966.^[19]

Personal life

Warner was married twice. He married his first wife Harriet Lindgren in 1969.^[20] They divorced three years later in 1972.^[20] He later married his second wife Sheilah Kent in 1979.^[20] The marriage lasted for 26 years when they divorced in 2005.^[20]

Death

Having been diagnosed with cancer 18 months prior, which he had kept hidden from the public, Warner died of a lung cancer-related illness at Denville Hall, London, on 24 July 2022, at the age of 80.^{[21] [22]}

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1962	We Joined the Navy	Sailor painting ship	Uncredited	[23]
	The King's Breakfast	1st trumpeter	Short film	[24]
1963	Tom Jones	Blifil		[12]
1966	Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment	Morgan Delt	Nominated- BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role	[12]
1967	The Deadly Affair	Edward II	Uncredited	[12]
1968	The Bofors Gun	Terry "Lance Bar" Evans		[12]
	Work Is a Four-Letter Word	Valentine Brose		[12]
	The Fixer	Count Odoevsky		[12]
	The Sea Gull	Konstantin Treplev		[12]
	A Midsummer Night's Dream	Lysander		[12]
1969	Michael Kohlhaas - Der Rebell	Michael Kohlhaas	Nominated- German Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role	[12]
1970	The Ballad of Cable Hogue	Joshua Duncan Sloane		[12]
	Perfect Friday	Lord Nicholas "Nick" Dorset		[12]
1971	Straw Dogs	Henry Niles	Uncredited	[4]
1973	A Doll's House	Torvald Helmer		[25]
1974	From Beyond the Grave	Edward Charlton	Segment: "The Gate Crasher"	[12]
	Little Malcolm	Dennis Charles Nipple		[12]
1975	Mister Quilp	Sampson Brass		[12]
1976	The Omen	Keith Jennings		[12]
1977	Providence	Kevin Langham / Kevin Woodford		[12]
	Cross of Iron	Hauptmann Kiesel		[12]
	Age of Innocence	Henry Buchanan		[12]
	Silver Bears	Agha Firdausi		[12]
	The Disappearance	Burbank		[12]
1978	The Thirty Nine Steps	Sir Edmund Appleton		[12]
1979	Nightwing	Phillip Payne		[26]
	The Concorde ... Airport '79	Peter O'Neill		[12]
	Time After Time	John Leslie Stevenson / Jack the Ripper	Nominated – Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor	[12]
1980	The Island	John David Nau		[12]
1981	Time Bandits	Evil		[12]
	The French Lieutenant's Woman	Murphy		[12]
1982	Tron	Ed Dillinger / Sark / Master Control Program		[12]
1983	The Man with Two Brains	Alfred Necessiter		[12]
1984	The Company of Wolves	Father		[12]
	Summer Lightning	George Millington		[27]
1987	Hansel and Gretel	Father		[12]
	My Best Friend Is a Vampire	Leopold McCarthy		[12]
1988	Hanna's War	Capt. Julian Simon		[12]
	Waxwork	David Lincon		[12]
	Mr. North	Doctor McPherson		[12]
	Office Party	Eugene Brackin		[12]
	Magdalene	Baron von Seidl		[12]
	Keys to Freedom	Nigel Heath		[12]
1989	Star Trek V: The Final Frontier	St. John Talbot		[12]
	Mortal Passions	Doctor Terrence Powers		[12]
	Grave Secrets	Carl Farnsworth		[12]
	Tripwire	Josef Szabo		[12]
1991	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze	Prof. Jordan Perry		[12]
	Blue Tornado	Commander Heller		[12]
	Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country	Chancellor Gorkon		[12]
1992	The Lost World	Professor Summerlee		[12]
	The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter	Chancellor Thayer		[28]
1993	Quest of the Delta Knights	Baydool / Lord Vultare / Narrator		[12]
	H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon	Dr Madden		[12]
	Pretty Princess	Prince Max		[12]
1994	Felony	Cooper		[12]
	Tryst	Jason		[12]
	Inner Sanctum II	Dr Lamont		[12]
	In the Mouth of Madness	Dr Wrenn		[12]
1995	Ice Cream Man	Reverend Langley		[12]
	Final Equinox	Shilow		[29]
	Luise knackt den Jackpot	The Butler		[30]
1996	Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny	Eugene Botkin		[12]
	Naked Souls	Everett Longstreet		[12]
	Seven Servants	Blade		[12]
	The Leading Man	Tod		[12]
1997	Money Talks	Barclay (James' Boss)		[12]
	Titanic	Spicer Lovejoy	Nominated – Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture	[12]
	Scream 2	Gus Gold		[12]
	Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin	The Narrator		[12]
1998	The Last Leprechaun	Simpson		[12]
1999	Wing Commander	Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn		[12]
2000	Back to the Secret Garden	Dr. Snodgrass		[12]
2001	Planet of the Apes	Senator Sandar		[12]
	The Little Unicorn	Ted Regan		[12]
	Superstition	Judge Padovani		[12]
2002	The Code Conspiracy	Professor		[12]
2003	Kiss of Life	Pap		[12]
2004	Straight into Darkness	Deacon		[12]
	Cortex	Master of Organisation		[28]
	Ladies in Lavender	Francis Mead		[12]
	Avatar	Joseph Lau		[31]
2005	The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse	Erasmus Pea		[12]
2007	Terry Pratchett's Hogfather	Lord Downey		[12]
2010	Black Death	Abbot		[12]
	Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey	Void (voice)		[32]
2011	A Thousand Kisses Deep	Max		[33]
2013	Before I Sleep	Eugene Devlin		[12]
	Old Habits	John	Short film	[34]
2017	You, Me and Him	Michael Miller		[12]
2018	Mary Poppins Returns	Admiral Boom		[12]

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1962	Madhouse on Castle Street	Lennie	Videotaped television play	[35]
1963	Z-Cars	Gee	Episode: "The Hitch-Hiker"	[36]
	Armchair Theatre	Steve	Episode: "The Push Over"	[37]
1965	The Wars of the Roses	King Henry VI	Miniseries	[38]
1970	NBC Experiment in Television	Dominic Boot	Episode: "The Engagement"	[39]
1975	Three Comedies of Marriage	Bobby	Episode: "Bobby Bluesocks"	[40]
1976	Clouds of Glory	William Wordsworth	Episodes: "William & Dorothy", "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"	[41]
1977	The Blue Hotel[42]	Swede	Television film	[12]
1978	Holocaust	Reinhard Heydrich	Miniseries Nominated- Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special	[43]
1979	S.O.S. Titanic	Lawrence Beesley	Television film	[12]
1981	Masada	Falco	Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special	[12]
1982	Nancy Astor	Philip Kerr	4 episodes	[44]
1982–83	Marco Polo	Rustichello da Pisa	Miniseries	[45]
1983	Remington Steele	Alexander Sebastien	2 episodes	[12]
	Hart to Hart	Mr. Bowlly	Episode: "Two Harts Are Better Than One"
1984	Charlie	Charlie Alexander	Television film	[46]
	A Christmas Carol	Bob Cratchit		[12]
	Frankenstein	The Creature		[12]
	Faerie Tale Theatre	Zandor, the Innkeeper	Episode: "The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers"	[12]
1985	Love's Labour's Lost	Don Armado	BBC Television Shakespeare	[47]
	Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil	Reinhard Heydrich	Television film	[12]
	Hold the Back Page	Ken Wordsworth	Television mini-series	[48]
1987	Crossbow	The Alchemist	Episode: "Vogel"	[28]
1988	Worlds Beyond	Ken Larkin	Episode: "Reflections of Evil"	[28]
1990	Murder, She Wrote	Justin Hunnicut	Episode: "The Szechuan Dragon"
	Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen	Bradley Thompson	Television film	[12]
	Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming	Admiral Godfrey		[12]
	Father Dowling Investigates	Sir Arthur Wedgeworth	Episode: "The Murder Weekend Mystery"
1991	Uncle Vanya	Ivan "Uncle Vanya" Voynitsky	Television film	[49]
	Cast a Deadly Spell	Amos Hackshaw		[12]
	Twin Peaks	Thomas Eckhardt	3 episodes	[50]
1992	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Gul Madred	Episodes: "Chain of Command Pt. I & Pt. II"	[12]
	Tales from the Crypt	Alan Getz	Episode: "The New Arrival"	[12]
	Captain Planet and the Planeteers	Zarm (voice)	Episode: "The Dream Machine"	[28]
1992–95	Batman: The Animated Series	Ra's al Ghul (voice)	Recurring role Nominated- Annie Award Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Male Performer	[51]
1992–94	The Legend of Prince Valiant	Duke Richard of Lionsgate / Additional voices	7 episodes
1993	Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal	Harley Griswold	Television film	[12]
	Dinosaurs	Spirit of the Tree (voice)	Episode: "If I Were a Tree"	[52]
	Wild Palms	Eli Levitt	Miniseries	[28]
	Body Bags	Dr. Lock	Television film	[12]
	Murder, She Wrote	Insp. McLaughlin	Episode: "A Death in Hong Kong"	[12]
	The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.	Winston Smiles	Episode: "Deep in the Heart of Dixie"	[12]
1993–94	The Larry Sanders Show	Richard Germain	2 episodes	[12]
1994	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	Jor-El	Episode: "The Foundling"	[12]
	Babylon 5	Aldous Gajic	Episode: "Grail"	[12]
	Mighty Max	Talon (voice)	Episode: "Souls of Talon"	[28]
1995–97	Spider-Man	Herbert Landon (voice)	12 episodes	[12]
1995	Biker Mice from Mars	Ice Breaker (voice)	Episode "Below the Horizon"	[28]
	The Choir	Alexander Troy	5 episodes
	Iron Man	Arthur Dearborn (voice)	Episode "Cell of Iron"	[51]
	Gargoyles	Archmage (voice)	4 episodes	[28]
1995–97	Freakazoid!	The Lobe (voice)	10 episodes	[51]
1996	Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus	Lord Agon	Television film	[12]
1997	Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys	The Glyph (voice)	Episode: "Rhesus Pieces"	[51]
	Perversions of Science	Dr. Nordhoff	Episode: "The Exile"	[28]
	Roar	Narrator	Episode: "Pilot"
	A Mind to Kill	David Caulfield	Episode: "Green Wounds"
1997–2001	Men in Black: The Series	Alpha (voice)	9 episodes	[28]
1998	Three	The Man	2 episodes
	Houdini	Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	Television film	[12]
	Toonsylvania	Doctor Victor Frankenstein (voice)	Main role Nominated- Annie Award Outstanding Individual Achievement for Voice Acting by a Male Performer	[28]
1999	The Outer Limits	Inspector Harold Langford	Episodes: "Ripper" & "Better Luck Next Time"	[12]
	Total Recall 2070	Felix Latham	2 episodes	[12]
	Superman: The Animated Series	Ra's al Ghul (voice)	Episode: "The Demon Reborn"	[51]
	The Hunger	Vassu	Episode: "Nunc Dimittis"	[12]
2000	Cinderella	Martin	Television film	[12]
	Batman Beyond	Ra's Al Ghul (voice)	Episode: "Out of the Past"	[51]
	In the Beginning	Eliezer	Miniseries	[12]
	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command	Lord Angstrom (voice)	2 episodes	[51]
	The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne	Arago	2 episodes	[28]
	Love & Money	Hugh	Episode: "Diagnosis: Effie"
2001	Hornblower	Captain James Sawyer	Miniseries, 2 episodes	[12]
2002	Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Sir Danvers Carew	Television film	[12]
2002–03	What's New, Scooby-Doo?	Old Man (voice)	3 episodes
2001–03	The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy	Nergal (voice)	Main role	[28]
2004	Conviction	Lenny Fairburn	Supporting role
	Agatha Christie's Marple	Luther Crackenthorpe	Episode: "4.50 from Paddington"	[12]
2006	Sweeney Todd	Fielding	Television film	[12]
	Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire	Claudius Pulcher	Episode: "Revolution"
	Perfect Parents	Father Thomas	Television film	[12]
2007	Wild at Heart	Gerald	Season 2, episode 8
2008–15	Wallander	Povel Wallander	5 episodes	[12]
2008	In Love with Barbara	Louis Mountbatten	Television film
2009	Doctor Who: Dreamland	Lord Azlok (voice)	6 Episodes	[53]
2011	Mad Dogs	Mackenzie	3 episodes
2012	The Secret of Crickley Hall	Percy Judd	All 3 episodes	[12]
	Midsomer Murders	Peter Fossett	Episode: "Death in the Slow Lane"	[12]
2013	Doctor Who	Professor Grisenko	Episode: "Cold War"	[12]
2014	Penny Dreadful	Abraham Van Helsing	2 episodes	[12]
2015	Inside No.9	Justice Pike	Episode: "The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge"	[54]
	Lewis	Donald Lockston	Episode: "What Lies Tangled"	[55]
2015–16	The Amazing World of Gumball	Rob / Dr. Wrecker (voice)	5 episodes	[56]
2016	Ripper Street	Rabbi Max Steiner	3 episodes	[57]
2018	The Alienist	Professor Cavanaugh	Episode: "Hildebrandt's Starling"	[58]
2020	Teen Titans Go!	The Lobe (voice)	Episode: "Huggbees" (final role)	[59]

Audio dramas

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
2003	Doctor Who: Sympathy for the Devil	The Doctor		[60]
2005	The Club of Queer Trades	Basil Grant	BBC Radio drama in six parts	[61][62]
2007	Doctor Who: Circular Time	Sir Isaac Newton		[63]
2008	Bernice Summerfield: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel	Mycroft Holmes
	Doctor Who: Empathy Games	Coordinator Angell
	Doctor Who: Masters of War	The Doctor
2010	Dark Shadows: Kingdom of the Dead	Seraph	Four-part series
	Doctor Who: Deimos and The Resurrection of Mars	Prof. Boston Schooner	Two-part series
	Graceless	Daniel	Series 1
2011–2020	The Scarifyers	Harry Crow	BBC Radio 4 Extra	[53]
2011	Doctor Who: The Children of Seth	Siris
2012	Doctor Who: The Rosemariners	Biggs
2016	The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield: Volume Three: The Unbound Universe	The Doctor		[53]
2017	King Lear		King Lear
2017	The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield: Volume Four: Ruler of the Universe
2018	Bernice Summerfield: The Story So Far: Volume Two
2018	Shilling & Sixpence Investigate		Desmund Shilling
2019	The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield: Volume Five: Buried Memories			[60]
2020	The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield: Volume Six: Lost in Translation
TBA	Untitled Doctor Who 60th Anniversary	The Doctor	Posthumous release	[11]

Video games

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
1996	Privateer 2: The Darkening	Rhinehart	Live action	[28]
1997	Fallout	Morpheus		[64]
1999	Descent 3	Dravis		[65]
2000	Star Wars: Force Commander	Grand General Brashin		[65]
	Star Trek: Klingon Academy	Chancellor Gorkon	Live action	[65]
	Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn	Jon Irenicus		[65]
2016	Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear	Jon Irenicus		[66]

References

Further reading

• Who's Who in the Theatre, 17th edition (1981) Gale Publishing, ISBN 0-8103-0235-7
• RSC programme for Stratford-upon-Avon's, Courtyard Theatre production of Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2
• Theatre Record magazine's annual indexes of each year's reviewed theatrical productions

External links

• David Warner at IMDb
• David Warner at the Internet Broadway Database
• David Warner at the TCM Movie Database
• David Warner at AllMovie
• David Warner at the BFI's Screenonline
• David Warner at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• David Warner discography at Discogs
• David Warner plays King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre 2005: Sunday Times interview 17 July 2005