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.

Filmography

• 2025TRON: Ares — Master Control Program (voice) (archival audio)
• Elliott from Earth
• 2018His Picture In Little
• 2018Mary Poppins Returns — Admiral Boom
• The Alienist — Professor Cavanaugh
• 2018You, Me and Him — Michael Miller
• 2016Blue Borsalino — Ernie Child, Executive Producer
• 2015The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge — Sir Andrew Pike
• Inside No. 9 — Sir Andrew Pike
• 2014Star Trek: The Next Generation - Chain of Command — Gul Madred
• 2013Before I Sleep — Eugene Devlin
• Teen Titans Go! — The Lobe (voice)
• 2012A Thousand Kisses Deep — Max
• Ripper Street — Rabbi Max Steiner
• The Secret of Crickley Hall — Elderly Percy Judd
• 2011Passion & Poetry: Sam Peckinpah's War — Self, Thanks
• 2011TRON: The Next Day — Ed Dillinger / MCP
• The Amazing World of Gumball — Dr. Wrecker (voice)
• 2010Black Death — Abbot
• 2009Albert's Memorial — Frank
• Doctor Who: Dreamland — Lord Azlok (voice)
• 2008In Love with Barbara — Lord Mountbatten
• Wallander — Povel Wallander
• 2007Hogfather — Lord Downey
• Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire — Pulcher
• 2006Bacon's Arena — Narrator (voice)
• Hogfather — Lord Downey
• 2006Mr. Loveday's Little Outing — Lord Moping
• 2006Perfect Parents — Father Thomas
• 2006Sweeney Todd — Fielding
• Doctor Who — Professor Grisenko
• Sensitive Skin — Robert Ringwald
• 2005The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse — Dr. Erasmus Pea
• Agatha Christie's Marple — Luther Crackenthorpe
• Conviction — Lenny Fairburn
• 2004Cyber Wars — Joseph Lau
• 2004Ladies in Lavender — Dr Mead
• 2004Spider-Man vs. Doc Ock — Landon (voice)
• 2004Straight Into Darkness — Deacon
• 2003Daredevil vs. Spider-Man — Landon (voice)
• 2003Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde — Sir Danvers Carew
• 2003Hearts of Gold — Dr. Theo John
• 2003Kiss of Life — Pap
• 2002Spider-Man: The Return of the Green Goblin — Landon (voice)
• 2002The Code Conspiracy — Professor
• 2002The Investigation — Superint. Bruce Northorp
• 2002The Little Unicorn — Ted Regan
• 2001Hornblower: Mutiny — Captain James Sawyer
• 2001Hornblower: Retribution — Capt. James Sawyer
• 2001Planet of the Apes — Sandar
• 2001Superstition — Judge Padovani
• The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy — Nergal (voice)
• 2000Back to the Secret Garden — Dr. Snodgrass
• Buzz Lightyear of Star Command — Lord Angstrom (voice)
• 2000Cinderella — Martin
• In the Beginning — Eliezer
• Batman Beyond — Ra's al Ghul (voice)
• 1999Shergar — Eammon Garrity
• Total Recall 2070
• 1999Wing Commander — Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn
• 1999Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You — Narrator (voice)
• 1998A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving — Narrator
• Hornblower — Captain Sawyer
• 1998Houdini — Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• 1998The Last Leprechaun — Simpson
• Three — The Man
• Toonsylvania — Dr. Vic Frankenstein
• 1997Danielle Steel's Zoya — Prince Vladmir
• Men in Black: The Series — Alpha (voice)
• Midsomer Murders — Peter Fossett
• 1997Money Talks — Barclay
• Perversions of Science — Dr. Nordhoff
• 1997Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin — Narrator (voice)
• 1997Scream 2 — Gus Gold
• The Hunger — Vassu
• 1997Titanic — Spicer Lovejoy
• 1996Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus — Lord Agon
• Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys — The Glyph (voice)
• 1996Felony — Cooper
• 1996Naked Souls — Everett Longstreet
• 1996Rasputin — Dr. Botkin
• 1996Seven Servants — Blade
• 1996Siegfried & Roy: Masters of the Impossible
• Superman: The Animated Series — Ra's al Ghul (voice)
• 1996The Leading Man — Tod
• 1995Final Equinox — Shilow
• Freakazoid! — The Lobe (voice)
• 1995Ice Cream Man — Reverend Langley
• 1995In the Mouth of Madness — Dr. Wrenn
• Signs and Wonders — Reverend Timothy Palmore
• The Choir — Alexander Troy
• The Outer Limits — Bill Trenton, Inspector Harold Langford
• A Mind to Kill
• Babylon 5 — Aldous Gajic
• Gargoyles — Archmage (voice)
• 1994Inner Sanctum II — Dr. Lamont
• Iron Man — Arthur Dearborn (voice)
• 1994Loving Deadly — Grant / Grant's Twin
• Spider-Man — Landon (voice)
• The American Revolution — King George III
• 1994Tryst — Jason
• 1993Body Bags — Dr. Lock
• Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman — Jor-El
• 1993Necronomicon — Dr. Madden
• 1993Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal — Harley Griswold
• 1993Pretty Princess — principe Massimiliano
• 1993Quest of the Delta Knights — Lord Vultare
• 1993Taking Liberty — Sir Leopold Linwood
• The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. — Winston Smiles
• Wild Palms — Eli Levitt
• Batman: The Animated Series — Ra's al Ghul (voice)
• 1992Blood and Dust — Tripoli
• 1992Dark at Noon — Ellic
• 1992Diagnosis Murder: The House on Sycamore Street — Dr. Lloyd Stern
• 1992Return to the Lost World — Professor Leo Summerlee
• 1992Spies, Inc. — Cleague
• The Larry Sanders Show — Richard Germain
• 1992The Lost World — Summerlee
• 1992The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter — Chancellor Thayer
• 1991Blue Tornado — Commander
• 1991Cast a Deadly Spell — Amos Hackshaw
• Dinosaurs — Spirit of the Tree (voice)
• 1991Drive — The Driver
• Performance — Vanya
• 1991Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country — Chancellor Gorkon
• 1991Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze — Professor Jordon Perry
• 1991Uncle Vanya — Vanya
• 1990Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen — Bradley Thompson
• 1990The Secret Life of Ian Fleming — Adm. Godfrey
• Twin Peaks — Thomas Eckhardt
• Father Dowling Mysteries — Sir Arthur wedgeworth
• 1989Grave Secrets — Dr. Carl Farnsworth
• 1989Hostile Takeover — Eugene Brackin
• 1989Mortal Passions — Doctor Terrence Powers
• 1989Star Trek V: The Final Frontier — St. John Talbot
• Tales from the Crypt — Dr. Alan Goetz
• 1989Tripwire — Josef Szabo
• 1988Hanna's War — Captain Julian Simon
• 1988Hansel and Gretel — Father Stephan
• 1988Keys to Freedom — Nigel Heath
• 1988Magdalene — Baron von Seidl
• 1988Mr. North — Doctor Angus McPherson
• 1988Pulse Pounders — Evil Clergyman (The Evil Clergyman sequence) (archive footage)
• 1988The Evil Clergyman — Evil Clergyman
• 1988Waxwork — Waxwork Man
• Crossbow
• 1987Desperado — Ballard, Company Police Chief
• 1987My Best Friend Is a Vampire — Professor Leopold McCarthy
• Star Trek: The Next Generation — Gul Madred
• Worlds Beyond — Ken Larkin
• 1985Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil — Reinhard Heydrich
• Hold the Back Page — Ken Wordsworth
• 1985Love's Labour's Lost — Don Armado
• 1985Summer Lightning — George Millington
• 1984A Christmas Carol — Bob Cratchit
• Charlie — Charlie Alexander
• 1984Frankenstein — Creature
• Murder, She Wrote — Insp. McLaughlin, Justin Hunnicut
• 1984The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers — Zandor, the Inkeeper
• 1984The Company of Wolves — Father
• 1983The Man with Two Brains — Dr. Alfred Necessiter
• Faerie Tale Theatre — Zandor, The Innkeeper
• Marco Polo — Rustichello da Pisa
• Nancy Astor — Philip Kerr
• Remington Steele — Alexander Sebastien
• 1982Tron — Ed Dillinger / Sark
• Masada — Senator Pomponius Falco
• 1981The French Lieutenant's Woman — Murphy
• 1981Time Bandits — Evil Genius
• 1980S.O.S. Titanic — Laurence Beesley
• 1980The Island — David Nau
• Hart to Hart — Mr. Bowlly
• 1979Nightwing — Phillip Payne
• 1979The Concorde... Airport '79 — Peter O'Neill
• 1979Time After Time — Jack the Ripper - John Leslie Stevenson
• Clouds of Glory — William Wordsworth
• Holocaust — Heydrich
• 1978The Thirty Nine Steps — Sir Edmund Appleton
• 1977Age of Innocence — Henry Buchanan
• 1977Cross of Iron — Hauptmann Kiesel
• 1977Providence — Kevin Woodford
• 1977Silver Bears — Agha Firdausi
• 1977The Blue Hotel — Swede
• 1977The Disappearance — Burbank
• 1976The Omen — Jennings
• 1975The Old Curiosity Shop — Sampson Brass
• Three Comedies of Marriage — Bobby
• 1974From Beyond the Grave — Edward Charlton
• 1974Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs — Dennis Charles Nipple
• 1973A Doll's House — Torvald Helmer
• 1971Straw Dogs — Henry Niles (uncredited)
• 1970Perfect Friday — Lord Nicholas "Nick" Dorset
• 1970The Ballad of Cable Hogue — Joshua
• 1969Michael Kohlhaas - The Rebel — Michael Kohlhaas
• 1968A Midsummer Night's Dream — Lysander
• 1968The Bofors Gun — Lance Bombardier Terry Evans
• 1968The Fixer — Count Odoevsky
• 1968The Sea Gull — Konstantin Treplev
• 1968Work Is a 4-Letter Word — Valentine Brose
• 1967Opus — Hamlet
• 1967The Deadly Affair — Edward II (in Edward II)
• 1966Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment — Morgan Delt
• 1965The Wars of the Roses — King Henry VI
• The Wars of the Roses — Henry VI
• 1963The King's Breakfast — 1st Trumpeter
• 1963The Madhouse on Castle Street — Lennie
• 1963Tom Jones — Mr. Blifil
• 1963We Joined the Navy — Sailor Painting Ship (uncredited)
• Z-Cars

Appearances as themselves (10)

• 2018Providence — Himself
• 2015Amicus Vault of Horrors — Himself
• A History of Horror — Self
• 2006Sam Peckinpah: Portrait — Self
• 2005Passion & Poetry: The Ballad of Sam Peckinpah — Self
• 2004Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade — Self (archive footage)
• 2001The Omen Legacy — Self
• 1996Corwin — Self
• 1982Contact — Self - Narrator (Synchronisation)
• Film '72 — Self