
#David warner actor tv#
Warner by that time had become known for seemingly never encountering a film or TV role he wouldn’t take. Holm had become towering figures of the theater, Mr.

Instead, while Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi and Mr.

“Not like McKellen and Jacobi and Ian Holm, and all those people who have worked from the bottom up, whom I admired when I was just beginning.” “You see, I’m not a man of the theater,” he told The Times in 2001. He had stopped doing stage work, he said, in part because of anxiety about performing live. It was also his first stage performance of any kind since 1972. Warner’s American stage debut at age 60 in a production of George Bernard Shaw’s “Major Barbara” by the Roundabout Theater Company in New York. The occasion for that 2001 article was, astonishingly, Mr. I’ve worked with some extraordinarily beautiful women, but they never want to stay with me.”

“So getting the girl is something that has never happened to me. Warner told the British newspaper The Independent in 2003. “I’ve never been asked to play the happy, romantic lead,” Mr. In “TRON,” the 1982 film in which Jeff Bridges’s character, Kevin Flynn, is transported into the innards of a computer, he was Flynn’s nemesis in both the real and the virtual world. He was Jack the Ripper in “Time After Time” in 1979 two years later, in “Time Bandits,” his character was named simply Evil Genius. Warner played a wide variety of roles, he may have been most frequently identified with villainous ones.

His family said in a statement that the cause of death, at Denville Hall, a retirement home for actors, was “a cancer-related illness.”Īlthough Mr. Warner's family noted that he is survived by his son, Luke Warner, daughter-in-law Sarah and ex-wife, Harriet Evans, in addition to Bowerman and "his many gold dust friends.David Warner, who started his career on the British stage, including playing Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company when he was just 24, then gravitated toward film and television, accumulating more than 200 credits, including “The Omen,” “Time After Time,” “TRON,” “Titanic” and “Wallander,” died on Sunday in Northwest London. Warner's final role was in the 2018 film "Mary Poppins Returns," where he acted alongside Emily Blunt, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Colin Firth and Meryl Streep.
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He also appeared in several episodes of the '90s hit "Twin Peaks" and was a mainstay in various "Doctor Who" audio series before debuting in a 2013 guest spot on the beloved sci-fi television show. Warner is probably best remembered for playing opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in "Titanic," and as a recurring face in multiple chapters of the original "Star Trek" film franchise. He quickly gained international recognition, after his leading performance in the 1966 comedy "Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment" won critical acclaim and a coveted BAFTA nomination, and later went on to secure starring roles in movies like "Tron," "Time Bandits" and "The Omen." After training at London's Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, Warner began his career with the Royal Shakespeare Company during the early '60s, landing the titular part in in its production of "Hamlet" and other classic plays.
