![]() In 1996, Warner was the scientist doing bizarre experiments in "Naked Souls" and Dr. Warner starred in the 1984 British series "Nancy Astor" (PBS) about the American socialite who came to Britain and stayed. ![]() Scott's Scrooge in CBS' 1984 rendition of "A Christmas Carol" and again played Heydrich in "SS: Portrait in Evil" (NBC, 1985). Titanic" (ABC), and in 1981, Warner won a Best Supporting Actor Emmy for his work as a waspish Roman in the ABC miniseries "Masada." He was Bob Cratchit to George C. In 1979, he was a bachelor who flirts with Susan Saint James and survives the demise of the "S.O.S. Warner has compiled an extensive TV resume, gaining steam in the 70s with the British series "Clouds of Glory" and coming to the attention of American audiences as Reinhard Heydrich, the general in charge of the final solution, who promotes Michael Moriarty, in the NBC miniseries "Holocaust" (1978). Warner even played the affable scientist who discovers the secret of the crime fighters in "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze" (1991). In the latter two, he was the Klingon chancellor who says he wants to negotiate a peace. Warner's output in the 80s and 90s often included large-scale spectacle films, such as "Tron" (1982) and both "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" (1989) and "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country" (1991). He went on to give notable performances as Torvald opposite Jane Fonda's Nora in Joseph Losey's 1973 adaptation of "A Doll's House" (which played on American TV), and was chilling as Jack the Ripper transported to present-day San Francisco in "Time After Time" (1979). He made his screen debut as the sleazy Blifil in Tony Richardson's raucous "Tom Jones" (1963), but it was "Morgan - A Suitable Case for Treatment/Morgan!" that made him a viable screen actor. Warner's stage work tapered off in the 70s as film and TV roles began to take more of his time. He made his debut in the 1962 Royal Shakespeare Company production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" as Snout and in 19 won over all critics by playing "Hamlet" in the afternoons and Andrew Aguecheek in "Twelfth Night" in the evenings at Stratford-upon-Avon. Warner was a book salesman before training for the stage. Wells in "Time After Time" (1979), the Evil Genius in Terry Gilliam's "Time Bandits" (1983) and the sinister doctor in "Mr. ![]() While highly capable of sympathetic and even poignant roles, Warner has delivered many notable performances as villains, including Jack the Ripper to Malcolm McDowell's H.G. He has worked for such distinguished directors as John Frankenheimer, Sidney Lumet, Richard Donner, Joseph Losey, Alain Resnais and-on three occasions-Sam Peckinpah ("The Ballad of Cable Hogue" 1970 "Straw Dogs" 1971 and "Cross of Iron" 1977). Gangly British stage-trained actor David Warner entered film in the early 1960s and came to attention in the title role of Karel Reisz's eccentric drama, "Morgan!" (1966), playing an unbalanced artist driven to the edge by his divorce.
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