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{{Infobox actor
| name = David Warner
| image = Lovejoy Titanic.jpg
| caption = David Warner as Spicer Lovejoy on ''Titanic''
| birthdate =
| location = Manchester, England, UK
| spouse = Harriet Lidgren (1969 - 1972) (divorced)
Sheilah Kent {1979-present}
| emmyawards = 'Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries/Movie'
1981 ''Masada''
}}
'David Warner' (born July 29, 1941) is an Emmy Award-winning English actor who is known for playing sinister or evil characters.
Warner was born in Manchester, England. He was born out of wedlock, frequently taken to be raised by each of his parents, eventually settling with his Russian Jewish[1] father, Herbert Simon Warner (a nursing home proprietor)[2] and his step-mother.[3] He was educated at Feldon School, Leamington Spa, and trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London.
Warner made his professional stage debut at the Royal Court in January 1962, playing Snout, a minor role in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Tony Richardson for the English Stage Company. In March 1962 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, Stratford on Avon in April 1963 to play Trinculo in ''The Tempest'' and Cinna the Poet in ''Julius Caesar'', and in July was cast as Henry VI and Edward IV in an adaptation of ''Henry VI'', Parts I, II and III, which comprised the first two plays from ''The Wars of the Roses'' trilogy. At the Aldwych Theatre, London, in January 1964 he again played Henry VI in the complete ''The Wars of the Roses'' history cycle (1964). Returning to Stratford in April he performed the title role in ''Richard II)'', Mouldy in ''Henry IV, Part 1'' and Henry VI. At the Aldwych in October 1964 he was cast as Valentine Brose in ''Eh?''.
He first played the title role in ''Hamlet'' at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in August 1965, transferring his acclaimed performance to the Aldwych the following December. In the 1966 Stratford season he revived his Hamlet and also played Sir Andrew Aguecheek in ''Twelfth Night''. Finally at the Aldwych in January 1970, he played Julian in ''Tiny Alice''.
According to his 2007 programme CV, Warner's other work for the theatre has included ''The Great Exhibition'' at Hampstead Theatre (February 1972); ''I, Claudius'' at the Queen's Theatre (July 1972); ''A Feast of Snails'' at the Lyric Theatre (February 2002); ''Where There's a Will'' at the Theatre Royal, Bath; ''King Lear'' at Chichester Festival Theatre (in 2005, see details below); and also ''Major Barbara'' on Broadway.
In 1963, he made his film debut in ''Tom Jones'', and in 1965 starred as Henry VI in the BBC television version of the RSC's ''The Wars of the Roses'' cycle of Shakespeare's history plays. Another early television role came when he starred alongside Bob Dylan in the 1963 play ''The Madhouse on Castle Street''. A major step in his career was the leading role in ''Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment'' (1966), which established his reputation for playing slightly off-the-wall characters. He also appeared opposite Gregory Peck in ''The Omen'' (1976) as the ill-fated photojournalist, Keith Jennings.
Since then, he has often played villains, in films such as ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' (1978), ''Time After Time'' (1979), ''Time Bandits'' (1981), ''Tron'' (1982), and television series such as '' playing "Ra's Al Ghul", the anti-mutant scientist Herbert Landon in '', as well as rogue agent Alpha in the animated series and the Archmage in Disney's ''Gargoyles'' and finally The Lobe in ''Freakazoid''. He was also cast against type as Henry Niles in ''Straw Dogs'' (1971) and as Bob Crachit in the 1984 telefilm of ''A Christmas Carol''. In addition, he played Nazi war criminal Reinhard Heydrich in the movie '', and the television mini-series ''Holocaust''.
He has appeared in movies such as '', '', '' (1991), ''Titanic'' (the third time he has appeared in a film about RMS ''Titanic''), ''Scream 2'', and more recently in independent television's adaptation of the ''Hornblower'' series (which starred Ioan Gruffudd, Warner's co-star on ''Titanic''). He appeared in three episodes of the second series of ''Twin Peaks'' (1991). He also continues to play classical roles. In "Chain of Command", a 6th-season episode of '', he was a Cardassian interrogator. He based his portrayal on the evil "re-educator" from ''1984''. His less-spectacular roles included a double-role in the campy low-budget fantasy ''Quest of the Delta Knights'' (1993) which was eventually spoofed on Mystery Science Theater 3000. He also played Admiral Tolwyn in the movie version of Wing Commander.
On the "nice guy" side, he played the charismatic Aldous Gajic in Grail, a first-season episode of ''Babylon 5'' and Chancellor Gorkon in ''. He also portrayed the sympathetic character of Capt. Kiesel in Sam Peckinpah's ''Cross of Iron''. In an episode of ''Lois & Clark'' he played Superman's deceased Kryptonian father Jor-El, who appeared to his son through holographic recordings. He also played the ambiguous "nice guy" Dr. Richard Madden in 1994's Necronomicon: Book of the Dead, who had to kill to sustain his life, but was a generally nice person.
Warner has performed in many audio plays, starring in the ''Doctor Who'' "Unbound" play ''Sympathy for the Devil'' (2003) 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 will reprise his incarnation of the Doctor in a sequel, ''The Dark Palace''. He also guest starred in the BBC Radio 4 Sci-Fi comedy ''Nebulous'' (2005) as Professor Nebulous' arch-enemy Dr. Klench. In all these productions Warner has worked with writer and comedian Mark Gatiss of the ''League of Gentlemen'', and plays a guest role in the League's 2005 feature film ''The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse''.
He has also contributed voice acting to a number of computer games, most notably playing the villain Jon Irenicus in '' and Morpheus in ''Fallout''. He was also approached to reprise his role as ''Tron's'' Sark in the video game ''Kingdom Hearts II'', but was unavailable (but his likeness was provided) and replaced by veteran voice actor Corey Burton.
Warner also did voice work on the short-lived FOX animated show Toonsylvania as Dr. Vic Frankenstein. On the Cartoon Network animated television series ''The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy'', David provided the voice of Nergal, a demonic creature from the Earth's core that is obsessed with making friends. He voiced the character until 2003, when he was replaced by Martin Jarvis.
In May 2005 at the Chichester Festival Theatre Warner made a long overdue return to Shakespeare, playing the title role in Steven Pimlott's unsettling production of King Lear. Reviewing for The Times, Sam Marlowe praised his performance as "exasperating, piteous and, from the outset, terrifyingly fragile in both body and mind...a failed father, a toppled tyrant and, above all, disastrously, desperately human".
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 Courtryard Theatre revival of Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2.
1. http://www.geocities.com/baddi_101/david_warner_bio.html
2. http://www.filmreference.com/film/14/David-Warner.html
3. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800011421/bio
★
★ article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
★ David Warner plays King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre 2005: Sunday Times interview 17 July 2005 [1]
★ ''Who's Who in the Theatre'', 17th edition (1981) Gale Publishing, ISBN 0810302357
★ RSC programme for the Stratford on Avon, Courtyard Theatre production of ''Henry IV'', Parts 1 and 2
★ Theatre Record Indexes
| name = David Warner
| image = Lovejoy Titanic.jpg
| caption = David Warner as Spicer Lovejoy on ''Titanic''
| birthdate =
| location = Manchester, England, UK
| spouse = Harriet Lidgren (1969 - 1972) (divorced)
Sheilah Kent {1979-present}
| emmyawards = 'Outstanding Supporting Actor - Miniseries/Movie'
1981 ''Masada''
}}
'David Warner' (born July 29, 1941) is an Emmy Award-winning English actor who is known for playing sinister or evil characters.
| Contents |
| Early life |
| Career |
| Theatre |
| Film and television |
| Voice work |
| Career renaissance since 2005 |
| Notes |
| External links |
| Literature |
Early life
Warner was born in Manchester, England. He was born out of wedlock, frequently taken to be raised by each of his parents, eventually settling with his Russian Jewish[1] father, Herbert Simon Warner (a nursing home proprietor)[2] and his step-mother.[3] He was educated at Feldon School, Leamington Spa, and trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London.
Career
Theatre
Warner made his professional stage debut at the Royal Court in January 1962, playing Snout, a minor role in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Tony Richardson for the English Stage Company. In March 1962 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, Stratford on Avon in April 1963 to play Trinculo in ''The Tempest'' and Cinna the Poet in ''Julius Caesar'', and in July was cast as Henry VI and Edward IV in an adaptation of ''Henry VI'', Parts I, II and III, which comprised the first two plays from ''The Wars of the Roses'' trilogy. At the Aldwych Theatre, London, in January 1964 he again played Henry VI in the complete ''The Wars of the Roses'' history cycle (1964). Returning to Stratford in April he performed the title role in ''Richard II)'', Mouldy in ''Henry IV, Part 1'' and Henry VI. At the Aldwych in October 1964 he was cast as Valentine Brose in ''Eh?''.
He first played the title role in ''Hamlet'' at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in August 1965, transferring his acclaimed performance to the Aldwych the following December. In the 1966 Stratford season he revived his Hamlet and also played Sir Andrew Aguecheek in ''Twelfth Night''. Finally at the Aldwych in January 1970, he played Julian in ''Tiny Alice''.
According to his 2007 programme CV, Warner's other work for the theatre has included ''The Great Exhibition'' at Hampstead Theatre (February 1972); ''I, Claudius'' at the Queen's Theatre (July 1972); ''A Feast of Snails'' at the Lyric Theatre (February 2002); ''Where There's a Will'' at the Theatre Royal, Bath; ''King Lear'' at Chichester Festival Theatre (in 2005, see details below); and also ''Major Barbara'' on Broadway.
Film and television
In 1963, he made his film debut in ''Tom Jones'', and in 1965 starred as Henry VI in the BBC television version of the RSC's ''The Wars of the Roses'' cycle of Shakespeare's history plays. Another early television role came when he starred alongside Bob Dylan in the 1963 play ''The Madhouse on Castle Street''. A major step in his career was the leading role in ''Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment'' (1966), which established his reputation for playing slightly off-the-wall characters. He also appeared opposite Gregory Peck in ''The Omen'' (1976) as the ill-fated photojournalist, Keith Jennings.
Since then, he has often played villains, in films such as ''The Thirty-Nine Steps'' (1978), ''Time After Time'' (1979), ''Time Bandits'' (1981), ''Tron'' (1982), and television series such as '' playing "Ra's Al Ghul", the anti-mutant scientist Herbert Landon in '', as well as rogue agent Alpha in the animated series and the Archmage in Disney's ''Gargoyles'' and finally The Lobe in ''Freakazoid''. He was also cast against type as Henry Niles in ''Straw Dogs'' (1971) and as Bob Crachit in the 1984 telefilm of ''A Christmas Carol''. In addition, he played Nazi war criminal Reinhard Heydrich in the movie '', and the television mini-series ''Holocaust''.
He has appeared in movies such as '', '', '' (1991), ''Titanic'' (the third time he has appeared in a film about RMS ''Titanic''), ''Scream 2'', and more recently in independent television's adaptation of the ''Hornblower'' series (which starred Ioan Gruffudd, Warner's co-star on ''Titanic''). He appeared in three episodes of the second series of ''Twin Peaks'' (1991). He also continues to play classical roles. In "Chain of Command", a 6th-season episode of '', he was a Cardassian interrogator. He based his portrayal on the evil "re-educator" from ''1984''. His less-spectacular roles included a double-role in the campy low-budget fantasy ''Quest of the Delta Knights'' (1993) which was eventually spoofed on Mystery Science Theater 3000. He also played Admiral Tolwyn in the movie version of Wing Commander.
On the "nice guy" side, he played the charismatic Aldous Gajic in Grail, a first-season episode of ''Babylon 5'' and Chancellor Gorkon in ''. He also portrayed the sympathetic character of Capt. Kiesel in Sam Peckinpah's ''Cross of Iron''. In an episode of ''Lois & Clark'' he played Superman's deceased Kryptonian father Jor-El, who appeared to his son through holographic recordings. He also played the ambiguous "nice guy" Dr. Richard Madden in 1994's Necronomicon: Book of the Dead, who had to kill to sustain his life, but was a generally nice person.
Voice work
Warner has performed in many audio plays, starring in the ''Doctor Who'' "Unbound" play ''Sympathy for the Devil'' (2003) 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 will reprise his incarnation of the Doctor in a sequel, ''The Dark Palace''. He also guest starred in the BBC Radio 4 Sci-Fi comedy ''Nebulous'' (2005) as Professor Nebulous' arch-enemy Dr. Klench. In all these productions Warner has worked with writer and comedian Mark Gatiss of the ''League of Gentlemen'', and plays a guest role in the League's 2005 feature film ''The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse''.
He has also contributed voice acting to a number of computer games, most notably playing the villain Jon Irenicus in '' and Morpheus in ''Fallout''. He was also approached to reprise his role as ''Tron's'' Sark in the video game ''Kingdom Hearts II'', but was unavailable (but his likeness was provided) and replaced by veteran voice actor Corey Burton.
Warner also did voice work on the short-lived FOX animated show Toonsylvania as Dr. Vic Frankenstein. On the Cartoon Network animated television series ''The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy'', David provided the voice of Nergal, a demonic creature from the Earth's core that is obsessed with making friends. He voiced the character until 2003, when he was replaced by Martin Jarvis.
Career renaissance since 2005
In May 2005 at the Chichester Festival Theatre Warner made a long overdue return to Shakespeare, playing the title role in Steven Pimlott's unsettling production of King Lear. Reviewing for The Times, Sam Marlowe praised his performance as "exasperating, piteous and, from the outset, terrifyingly fragile in both body and mind...a failed father, a toppled tyrant and, above all, disastrously, desperately human".
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 Courtryard Theatre revival of Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2.
Notes
1. http://www.geocities.com/baddi_101/david_warner_bio.html
2. http://www.filmreference.com/film/14/David-Warner.html
3. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800011421/bio
External links
★
★ article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki
★ David Warner plays King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre 2005: Sunday Times interview 17 July 2005 [1]
Literature
★ ''Who's Who in the Theatre'', 17th edition (1981) Gale Publishing, ISBN 0810302357
★ RSC programme for the Stratford on Avon, Courtyard Theatre production of ''Henry IV'', Parts 1 and 2
★ Theatre Record Indexes
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