David Hattersley Warner
For his work in television, Warner received two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie nominations, for his portrayals of Reinhard Heydrich in the NBC miniseries Holocaust (1978) and Pomponius Falco in the ABC miniseries Masada (1981); he won for the latter.
Early life
Warner was born on 29 July 1941, in Manchester, Lancashire, He was born out of wedlock and frequently taken to be brought up by each of his parents, eventually settling with his stepmother and his father, a Russian Jew. At 18 years of age he started at RADA, from which graduated in 1961 with an Acting (RADA Diploma).
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, as the ill-fated photojournalist Keith Jennings, and the 1979 thriller Nightwing.
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.
thumb|right|Warner in 2008
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.
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. In December 2006, he starred in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather on Sky One 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.
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. He played Povel Wallander, the father of Kurt Wallander, in BBC One's Wallander. In November 2013, David Warner posed for Rory Lewis Photographers 'Northerners' Exhibition, Warner's image was acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in London, and was the first professional portrait sitting of Warner since 1966.
Personal life
Warner married his first wife, Harriet Lindgren, in 1969;
Filmography
Film
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Title
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
!
|-
|1962
| We Joined the Navy
| Sailor painting ship
| Uncredited
|
|-
| rowspan="2"|1963
| The King's Breakfast
| 1st trumpeter
| Short film
|
|-
| Tom Jones
| Blifil
|
| rowspan="11" |
|-
| rowspan="2"|1974
| From Beyond the Grave
| Edward Charlton
| Segment: "The Gate Crasher"
| rowspan="10" |
|-
| The Concorde... Airport '79
| Peter O'Neill
|
| rowspan="9" |
|-
| Tron
| Ed Dillinger, Sark, Master Control Program
|
|-
| 1983
| The Man with Two Brains
| Alfred Necessiter
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1984
| The Company of Wolves
| Father
|
|-
| Summer Lightning
| George Millington
|
|
|-
| rowspan="2" |1987
| Hansel and Gretel
| Father
|
| rowspan="16" |
|-
| rowspan="3" |1993
|Quest of the Delta Knights
| Baydool, Lord Vultare, Narrator
|
| rowspan="8" |
|-
|Luise and the Jackpot
| The Butler
|
|
|-
| rowspan="4" |1996
|Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny
|Eugene Botkin
|
| rowspan="17" |
|-
| 2005
| The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse
| Erasmus Pea
|
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| 2011
| A Thousand Kisses Deep
| Max
|
|
|-
| rowspan="2"|2013
| Before I Sleep
| Eugene Devlin
|
|
|-
|2017
| You, Me and Him
| Michael Miller
|
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| rowspan="2" | 1963
| Z-Cars
| Gee
| Episode: "The Hitch-Hiker"
|
|-
| Armchair Theatre
| Steve
| Episode: "The Push Over"
|
|-
| 1965
| The Wars of the Roses
| King Henry VI
| Miniseries
|
|-
| 1970
| NBC Experiment in Television
| Dominic Boot
| Episode: "The Engagement"
|
|-
| 1975
| Three Comedies of Marriage
| Bobby
| Episode: "Bobby Bluesocks"
|
|-
| 1976
| Clouds of Glory
| William Wordsworth
| 2 episodes
|
|-
| 1977
| The Blue Hotel
| Swede
| Television film
|
|-
| 1979
| S.O.S. Titanic
| Lawrence Beesley
| Television film
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| 1982–1983
| Marco Polo
| Rustichello da Pisa
| Miniseries
|
|-
|rowspan="2"| 1983
| Remington Steele
| Alexander Sebastien
| 2 episodes
|
|-
| A Christmas Carol
| Bob Cratchit
| rowspan="3" |
|-
| Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
| Reinhard Heydrich
| Television film
|
|-
| 1987
| Crossbow
| The Alchemist
| Episode: "Vogel"
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| Cast a Deadly Spell
| Amos Hackshaw
|
|-
|rowspan="3"| 1992
| Star Trek: The Next Generation
| Gul Madred
| Episode: "Chain of Command"
| rowspan="2" |
|-
| rowspan="6" | 1993
| Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal
| Harley Griswold
| Television film
|
|-
| Wild Palms
| Eli Levitt
| Miniseries
|
|-
| Lewis
| Donald Lockston
| Episode: "What Lies Tangled"
|
|-
| 2015–2016
| The Amazing World of Gumball
| Rob, Dr. Wrecker (voice)
| 5 episodes
|
|-
| 2016
| Ripper Street
| Rabbi Max Steiner
| 3 episodes
|
|-
| 2018
| The Alienist
| Professor Cavanaugh
| Episode: "Hildebrandt's Starling"
|
|-
| 2020
| Teen Titans Go!
| The Lobe (voice)
| Episode: "Huggbees"
|
|-
| 2005
| The Club of Queer Trades
| Basil Grant
| BBC Radio drama in six parts
|
|-
| 2007
| Doctor Who: Circular Time
| Sir Isaac Newton
|
|
|-
| rowspan=3 | 2008
| Bernice Summerfield: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel
| Mycroft Holmes
|
|
|-
| Doctor Who: Empathy Games
| Coordinator Angell
|
|
|-
| Doctor Who: Masters of War
| The Doctor
|
|
|-
| rowspan=3 | 2010
| Dark Shadows: Kingdom of the Dead
| Seraph
| Four-part series
|
|-
| Doctor Who: Deimos
| Prof. Schooner
|
|
|-
| Graceless
| Daniel
| Series 1
|
|-
| 2011
| Doctor Who: The Children of Seth
| Siris
|
|
|-
| 2011–2020
|The Scarifyers
| Harry Crow
| BBC Radio 4 Extra
|
|-
| Doctor Who: The Pursuit of History, Casualties of Time
| Cuthbert
|
|
|-
| Torchwood: Ghost Mission
| OAP
|
|
|-
| The Torchwood Archive
| The Committee
|
|
|-
|rowspan="2" | 2017
|King Lear
|King Lear
|
|
|-
| The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield
| rowspan="2" | The Doctor
|Volume Four: Ruler of the Universe
|
|-
|rowspan="3" | 2018
|Bernice Summerfield: The Story So Far: Volume Two
|
|
|-
|Shilling & Sixpence Investigate: Series One
|Desmund Shilling
|
|
|-
|Jago & Litefoot Forever
|Dr. Luke Betterman
|
|
|-
| rowspan="3" | 2019
|The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield
| The Doctor
|Volume Five: Buried Memories
|
|-
| rowspan=3 | 2000
| Star Wars: Force Commander
| Grand General Brashin
|
|-
| Star Trek: Klingon Academy
| Chancellor Gorkon
| Live action
|-
| Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
|rowspan="2"| Jon Irenicus
|
|-
| 2016
| Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear
|
|
|}
Audiobook narration
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Title
! Author
!
|-
|2013
| Doctor Who: Plague of the Cybermen
|Justin Richards
|
|-
|2015
|Doctor Who: Royal Blood
|Una McCormack
|
|-
|2015
|Robinson Crusoe
|Daniel Defoe
|
|}
Awards and nominations
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Year
! Award
! Category
! Project
! Result
! class="unsortable" | Ref
|-
|1967
| BAFTA Award
| Best Actor in a Leading Role
| Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment
|
|
|-
| 1969
| colspan=2|German Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
| Michael Kohlhaas - Der Rebell
|
|
|-
| 1978
| Primetime Emmy Award
| Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special
| Holocaust
|
|
|-
| 1997
| Screen Actors Guild Award
| Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture
| Titanic
|
|
|}
See also
- List of British actors
- List of Primetime Emmy Award winners
References
Further reading
- Who's Who in the Theatre, 17th edition (1981) Gale Publishing,
- 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 plays King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre 2005: Sunday Times interview 17 July 2005