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David Warner

David Warner
David Warner
Born: Jul 29, 1941 in Manchester, England
Occupation: Actor
Active: '60s-2000s
Major Genres: Drama, Comedy
Career Highlights: Providence, The Ballad of Cable Hogue, Morgan!
First Major Screen Credit: War of the Roses (1964)
45 Videos for David Warner
Ladies in Lavender (2005) Tryst (1994) Mr. North (1988)
Sweeney Todd (2005) Body Bags (1993) My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1988)
Planet of the Apes (2001) Necronomicon (1993) Waxwork (1988)
In the Beginning (2000) Quest of the Delta Knights (1993) Hansel and Gretel (1987)
Wing Commander (1999) Wild Palms (1993) The Company of Wolves (1984)
Money Talks (1997) Cast a Deadly Spell (1991) The Man with Two Brains (1983)
Titanic (1997) Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981)
Freakazoid!: Season 02 (1996) Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991) Time Bandits (1981)
Leading Man (1996) Blue Tornado (1990) Masada (1980)
Rasputin (1996) Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming (1990) Holocaust (1978)
Seven Servants (1996) Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) The Thirty-Nine Steps (1978)
Freakazoid!: Season 01 (1995) Code Name: Chaos (1988) Cross of Iron (1976)
Naked Souls (1995) Hanna's War (1988) The Omen (1976)
In the Mouth of Madness (1994) Hostile Takeover (1988) The Old Curiosity Shop (1975)
Inner Sanctum 2 (1994) Magdalene (1988) Tom Jones (1963)
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Biography:

Manchester native David Warner supported himself as a book salesman while studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts. Warner made his stage bow at the Royal Court Theater in 1962, the same year that he first appeared on television. In 1965, Warner became the youngest-ever member of the Royal Shakespeare Company to tackle the role of Hamlet.

In films from 1963 (he played Master Blifil in Tom Jones), Warner achieved international fame for his star turn as the certifiably insane protagonist of Morgan! (1966). His appearance as the village idiot in Straw Dogs (1971) went uncredited due to an injury that rendered him uninsurable on the set; but this was the only time that Warner's contribution to a film would ever go unofficially unheralded.

Seldom settling for a normal, sedate characterization, Warner has been seen as Jack the Ripper in Time After Time (1981), the Evil Genius in Time Bandits (1983), Dr. Alfred Necessiter (who had some interior decorator!) in The Man With Two Brains (1984), and genially eccentric Professor Jordan Perry (a good guy, for a change) in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2 (1992).

He has also played two different roles in two consecutive Star Trek films. On television, David Warner has played Heydrich in Holocaust (1978), Pomponius Falco (a performance that won him an Emmy) in Masada (1981), and Bob Cratchit (what-not Scrooge?) in the 1984 adaptation of A Christmas Carol. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.