David Warner

David Warner

1941-07-29 – 2022-07-24 (age 80) Manchester, England, UK
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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.

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Known For

Titanic
Titanic

1997

as Spicer Lovejoy

TRON: Ares
TRON: Ares

2025

as Master Control Program (voice) (archival audio)

Scream 2
Scream 2

1997

as Gus Gold

The Omen
The Omen

1976

as Keith Jennings

Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes

2001

as Sandar

Mary Poppins Returns
Mary Poppins Returns

2018

as Admiral Boom

Tron
Tron

1982

as Ed Dillinger / Sark

In the Mouth of Madness
In the Mouth of Madness

1995

as Dr. Wrenn

The Company of Wolves
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
Straw Dogs
Straw Dogs

1971

as Henry Niles (uncredited)

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

1989

as St. John Talbot

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Ice Cream Man
Ice Cream Man

1995

as Reverend Langley

Time Bandits
Time Bandits

1981

as Evil Genius

Money Talks
Money Talks

1997

as Barclay

Black Death
Black Death

2010

as Abbot

Hogfather
Hogfather

2007

as Lord Downey

Necronomicon
Necronomicon

1993

as Dr. Madden