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David Hattersley Warner^[3] (29 July – 24 July ) was an English actor who worked in film, television and theatre. Warner's lanky, often haggard appearance lent itself to a variety of villainous characters as well as more sympathetic roles across stage and screen.

He received accolades such as a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for a BAFTA Award and Screen Actors Guild Award.

Warner trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) where he made his stage debut in where he played Henry VI in The Wars of the Roses cycle at the West End's Aldwych Theatre in The RSC then cast him as Prince Hamlet in Peter Hall's production of Hamlet.

He made his Broadway debut in the revival of Major Barbara.

Warner gained prominence portraying the leading role in the film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (Karel Reisz, ), for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.

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He married his second wife Sheilah Kent in [21] The marriage lasted for 26 years, until their divorce in [21] Warner's partner until his death in was the actress Lisa Bowerman. [22].

Other notable roles include in The Omen (), Time After Time (), Time Bandits (), The French Lieutenant's Woman (), Tron (), A Christmas Carol (), Seven Servants (), Titanic (), Scream 2 (), Ladies in Lavender (), and Mary Poppins Returns (). He is also known for his roles in the films Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (), and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country ().^[4]

Also known for his television roles, Warner received two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie nominations for his roles as Reinhard Heydrich in the NBC miniseries Holocaust (), and Pomponius Falco in the ABC miniseries Masada (), winning for the latter.^[5]

Early life

Warner was born on 29 July , in Manchester, Lancashire,^[3] the son of Ada Doreen Hattersley and Herbert Simon Warner, a nursing home proprietor.^[6] He was born out of wedlock and frequently taken to be brought up by each of his parents, eventually settling with his stepmother and Russian Jewish father.^[7][8] At 18 years of age he started at RADA, graduating in with an Acting (RADA Diploma).^[7][9]

Career

Theatre

Warner made his professional stage debut at the Royal Court Theatre in January , playing Snout, a minor role in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream,^[7] directed by Tony Richardson for the English Stage Company.

In March , 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 to play Trinculo in The Tempest,^[3] and Cinna the Poet in Julius Caesar,^[3] and in July was cast as Henry VI in the John Barton adaptation of Henry VI,^[3] 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 , he again played Henry VI in the complete The Wars of the Roses history cycle (). Returning to Stratford in April, he performed the title role in Richard II, Mouldy in Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry VI. At the Aldwych in October , he was cast as Valentine Brose in the play Eh? by Henry Livings, a role he reprised in the film adaptation Work Is a Four-Letter Word.

He first played the title role in Hamlet for the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon in ^[7] This production transferred to the Aldwych Theatre in December of that year. In the , Stratford season, his Hamlet was revived and he also played Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night. Finally at the Aldwych in January , he played Julian in Tiny Alice.

According to his programme CV, Warner's other work for the theatre included The Great Exhibition at Hampstead Theatre (February ); I, Claudius at the Queen's Theatre (July ); A Feast of Snails at the Lyric Theatre (February );^[3]Where There's a Will at the Theatre Royal, Bath; King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre (),^[3] see details below); and also Major Barbara on Broadway in

Film and television

In , he made his film debut as the villainous Blifil in Tom Jones,^[7] and in , starred as Henry VI in the BBC television version of the RSC's The Wars of the Roses cycle of Shakespeare's history plays.

He starred alongside Bob Dylan in the play Madhouse on Castle Street. A major step in his career was the leading role in Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (),^[7] opposite Vanessa Redgrave, which established his reputation for playing slightly off-the-wall characters. He also appeared as Konstantin Treplev in Sidney Lumet's 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 (),^[10] as the ill-fated photojournalist Keith Jennings, and the thriller Nightwing.^[10] He also starred in cult classic Waxwork (),^[10] and featured alongside a young Viggo Mortensen in the film Tripwire.^[10]

He often played villains, in films such as The Thirty Nine Steps (),^[10]Time After Time (),^[10]Time Bandits (),^[10]Tron (), Hanna's War (), 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,^[10] the Archmage in Disney's Gargoyles, and the Lobe in Freakazoid!.^[10] He was also cast against type as Henry Niles in Straw Dogs () and as Bob Cratchit in the 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 film Cast a Deadly Spell.^[11]

In , Warner received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special for Masada as Pomponius Falco.

In , he appeared in the Danny Huston film Mr. North.^[10]

He subsequently appeared in films such as Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (),^[10]Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Avatar^[10] (known as Matrix Hunter in the US), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (),^[10]Titanic (the third time he appeared in a film that is about or includes reference to RMS&#;Titanic) and Scream 2.^[10] In , 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 () 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 .

He appeared in Murder, She Wrote in as Hong Kong based detective. His less-spectacular roles included a double-role in the low-budget fantasy Quest of the Delta Knights () which was eventually spoofed on Mystery Science Theater . He also played Admiral Tolwyn in the film version of Wing Commander.^[10]

Warner's sympathetic side had been evident in Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron (), where he portrayed Captain Kiesel.

Other "nice guy" roles include the charismatic "Aldous Gajic" in "Grail", a first season () episode of Babylon 5 and "Chancellor Gorkon" in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (). 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 's Nightwing;^[10] and Dr. Richard Madden in 's Necronomicon: Book of the Dead.

Sheilah kent biography of rory mcilroy He married his second wife Sheilah Kent in [21] The marriage lasted for 26 years, until their divorce in [21] Warner's partner until his death in was the actress Lisa Bowerman. [22].

In Seven Servants by Daryush Shokof, he co-starred with Anthony Quinn in ^[10]

Another 'sympathetic' role was in , 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,^[10] and starred in two episodes of the horror series Penny Dreadful as Abraham Van Helsing.^[10]

Warner contributed "Sonnet 25" to the compilation albumWhen 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 () 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 ().^[10] In , he guest starred as Isaac Newton in the Doctor Who audio drama Circular Timeand 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 () 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 feature film The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse.

Sheilah kent biography of rory anderson He was married to Harriet Lindgreen from to He divorced his second wife, Sheilah Kent, in after 26 years of marriage. He had two children, Melissa and Luke. Associated With. He acted alongside Mark Wahlberg in the film Planet of the Apes.

He also performed in radio plays for the American companies L.A. Theatre Works and the Hollywood Theater of the Ear. In , Warner read a new adaptation of Oliver Twist for BBC Radio 2 (adapted by Neville Teller and directed by Neil Gardner). In , he guest-starred as Mycroft Holmes in the Bernice Summerfield audio play The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel.

In , he was the voice of Lord Azlok of the Viperox, an insectoid alien race in the animated Doctor Who serial "Dreamland". In , 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 Shortly before his death in 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.^[12]

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.

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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-videoPooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin.^[13]

In March , 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 , 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 , 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 , 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.^[14] In December , he starred in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather on Sky One as Lord Downey.

And in August , 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.^[15]

In February , Warner was heard as the popular fictional character Hugo Rune in a new 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 , 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.^[16] He played Povel Wallander, the father of Kurt Wallander, in BBC One's Wallander.^[10]

Other work

In , writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Warner about his role in The Omen () for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror.^[17][18] In November , David Warner posed for Rory Lewis Photographers 'Northerners' Exhibition,^[19] David's image was acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in London, and was the first professional portrait sitting of David since ^[20]

Personal life

Warner married his first wife Harriet Lindgren in ^[21] They divorced three years later in ^[21] He married his second wife Sheilah Kent in ^[21] The marriage lasted for 26 years, until their divorce in ^[21] Warner's partner until his death in was the actress Lisa Bowerman.^[22]

Death

Having been diagnosed with cancer 18 months prior, which he had kept private, Warner died of a cancer-related illness at Denville Hall, London, on 24 July , at the age of ^[22]

Filmography

Film

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.
	Madhouse on Castle Street	Lennie	Videotaped television play	[35]
	Z-Cars	Gee	Episode: "The Hitch-Hiker"	[36]
	Armchair Theatre	Steve	Episode: "The Push Over"	[37]
	The Wars of the Roses	King Henry VI	Miniseries	[38]
	NBC Experiment in Television	Dominic Boot	Episode: "The Engagement"	[39]
	Three Comedies of Marriage	Bobby	Episode: "Bobby Bluesocks"	[40]
	Clouds of Glory	William Wordsworth	2 episodes	[41]
	The Blue Hotel[42]	Swede	Television film	[13]
	Holocaust	Reinhard Heydrich	Miniseries	[43]
	S.O.S. Titanic	Lawrence Beesley	Television film	[13]
	Masada	Falco	ABC miniseries
	Nancy Astor	Philip Kerr	4 episodes	[44]
–	Marco Polo	Rustichello da Pisa	Miniseries	[45]
	Remington Steele	Alexander Sebastien	2 episodes	[13]
	Hart to Hart	Mr. Bowlly	Episode: "Two Harts Are Better Than One"
	Charlie	Charlie Alexander	Television film	[46]
	A Christmas Carol	Bob Cratchit		[13]
	Frankenstein	The Creature
	Faerie Tale Theatre	Zandor, the Innkeeper	Episode: "The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers"
	Love's Labour's Lost	Don Armado	BBC Television Shakespeare	[47]
	Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil	Reinhard Heydrich	Television film	[13]
	Hold the Back Page	Ken Wordsworth	Television mini-series	[48]
	Crossbow	The Alchemist	Episode: "Vogel"	[28]
	Worlds Beyond	Ken Larkin	Episode: "Reflections of Evil"
	Murder, She Wrote	Justin Hunnicut	Episode: "The Szechuan Dragon"
	Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen	Bradley Thompson	Television film	[13]
	Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming	Admiral Godfrey
	Father Dowling Investigates	Sir Arthur Wedgeworth	Episode: "The Murder Weekend Mystery"
	Uncle Vanya	Ivan "Uncle Vanya" Voynitsky	Television film	[49]
	Cast a Deadly Spell	Amos Hackshaw		[13]
	Twin Peaks	Thomas Eckhardt	3 episodes	[50]
	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Gul Madred	Episode: "Chain of Command"	[13]
	Tales from the Crypt	Alan Getz	Episode: "The New Arrival"
	Captain Planet and the Planeteers	Zarm	Voice, episode: "The Dream Machine"	[28]
–	The Legend of Prince Valiant	Duke Richard of Lionsgate / additional voices	Voice, 7 episodes
–	Batman: The Animated Series	Ra's al Ghul	Voice, recurring role (5 episodes)	[51]
	Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal	Harley Griswold	Television film	[13]
	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	[13]
	Murder, She Wrote	Insp. McLaughlin	Episode: "A Death in Hong Kong"
	The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.	Winston Smiles	Episode: "Deep in the Heart of Dixie"
–	The Larry Sanders Show	Richard Germain	2 episodes
	Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	Jor-El	Episode: "The Foundling"
	Babylon 5	Aldous Gajic	Episode: "Grail"
	Mighty Max	Talon	Voice, episode: "Souls of Talon"	[28]
	Biker Mice from Mars	Ice Breaker	Voice, episode: "Below the Horizon"
	The Choir	Alexander Troy	5 episodes
	Iron Man	Arthur Dearborn	Voice, episode: "Cell of Iron"	[51]
	Gargoyles	Archmage	Voice, 4 episodes	[28][51]
–	Spider-Man	Herbert Landon	Voice, 12 episodes	[13][51]
	Freakazoid!	The Lobe	Voice, 10 episodes	[51]
	Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus	Lord Agon	Television film	[13]
	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"
–	Men in Black: The Series	Alpha	Voice, 9 episodes	[28]
	Three	The Man	2 episodes
	Houdini	Arthur Conan Doyle	Television film	[13]
	Toonsylvania	Doctor Victor Frankenstein	Voice, main role	[28]
	A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving	The Narrator	Television special	[13]
	Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You
	The Outer Limits	Inspector Harold Langford	2 episodes
	Total Recall	Felix Latham
	Superman: The Animated Series	Ra's al Ghul	Voice, episode: "The Demon Reborn"	[51]
	The Hunger	Vassu	Episode: "Nunc Dimittis"	[13]
	Cinderella	Martin	Television film
	Batman Beyond	Ra's al Ghul	Voice, episode: "Out of the Past"	[51]
	In the Beginning	Eliezer	Miniseries	[13]
	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"
	Hornblower	Captain James Sawyer	Miniseries, 2 episodes	[13]
–	The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy	Nergal	Voice, 3 episodes	[28]
	Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde	Sir Danvers Carew	Television film	[13]
–	What's New, Scooby-Doo?	Old Man	Voice, 3 episodes
	Conviction	Lenny Fairburn	Supporting role
	Agatha Christie's Marple	Luther Crackenthorpe	Episode: " from Paddington"	[13]
	Sweeney Todd	Sir John Fielding	Television film
	Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire	Claudius Pulcher	Episode: "Revolution"
	Terry Pratchett's Hogfather	Lord Downey	Miniseries	[13]
	Perfect Parents	Father Thomas	Television film
	Wild at Heart	Gerald	Season 2, episode 8
	In Love with Barbara	Louis Mountbatten	Television film
–	Wallander	Povel Wallander	5 episodes	[13]
	Doctor Who: Dreamland	Lord Azlok	Voice, 6 episodes	[53]
	Mad Dogs	Mackenzie	3 episodes
	The Secret of Crickley Hall	Percy Judd	All 3 episodes	[13]
	Midsomer Murders	Peter Fossett	Episode: "Death in the Slow Lane"
	Doctor Who	Professor Grisenko	Episode: "Cold War"
	Penny Dreadful	Abraham Van Helsing	2 episodes
	Inside No.9	Justice Pike	Episode: "The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge"	[54]
	Lewis	Donald Lockston	Episode: "What Lies Tangled"	[55]
–	The Amazing World of Gumball	Rob / Dr. Wrecker	Voice, 5 episodes	[56]
	Ripper Street	Rabbi Max Steiner	3 episodes	[57]
	The Alienist	Professor Cavanaugh	Episode: "Hildebrandt's Starling"	[58]
	Teen Titans Go!	The Lobe	Voice, episode: "Huggbees"	[59][51]
	Elliott from Earth	Voice

Audio dramas

Video games

Awards and nominations

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