David 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.

Most Known For

Midsomer Murders

as Peter Fossett

Doctor Who

as Professor Grisenko

Star Trek: The Next Generation

as Gul Madred

Twin Peaks

as Thomas Eckhardt

Teen Titans Go!

as The Lobe (voice)

Batman: The Animated Series

as Ra's al Ghul (voice)

Murder, She Wrote

as Insp. McLaughlin

Murder, She Wrote

as Justin Hunnicut

Babylon 5

as Aldous Gajic

The Amazing World of Gumball

as Dr. Wrecker (voice)

Agatha Christie's Marple

as Luther Crackenthorpe

Titanic

as Spicer Lovejoy

The Outer Limits

as Bill Trenton

The Outer Limits

as Inspector Harold Langford

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

as Nergal (voice)

The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy

Spider-Man

as Landon (voice)

Superman: The Animated Series

as Ra's al Ghul (voice)

Dinosaurs

as Spirit of the Tree (voice)

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

as Jor-El