David Warner

Career timeline

1. 1941 · Born

   Born in Manchester, England, UK

2. 1962 · Screen debut

   Z-Cars (TV)

3. 1997 · Breakthrough

   Midsomer Murders (TV)

4. 2022 · Died

   July 24, 2022

5. 2025 · Latest release

   TRON: Ares (Movie)

Career in numbers

2 1960s

8 1970s

17 1980s

35 1990s

10 2000s

5 2010s

2 2020s

• Drama34
• Comedy26
• Sci-Fi & Fantasy22
• Action & Adventure17
• Mystery16
• Animation15

Highest-rated title Batman: The Animated Series 1992 8.6 Most popular title Doctor Who 2005 7.6

Frequent collaborators

People who appear most often alongside David Warner in our catalogue.

Peter Vaughan

3 titles together

James Doohan

2 titles together

Sam Wanamaker

2 titles together

Peter Jurasik

2 titles together

George Takei

2 titles together

Tracy Scoggins

2 titles together

Kevin Clash

2 titles together

Bruce Boxleitner

2 titles together

Tim Burton

2 titles together

J. Michael Straczynski

2 titles together

1. 2025 TRON: Ares as Master Control Program (voice) (archival audio) 6.4 Movie
2. 2021 Elliott from Earth 7.7 TV
3. 2018 Mary Poppins Returns as Admiral Boom 6.5 Movie
4. 2014 Inside No. 9 as Sir Andrew Pike 8.1 TV
5. 2012 Ripper Street as Rabbi Max Steiner 7.4 TV
6. 2011 The Amazing World of Gumball as Dr. Wrecker (voice) 8.5 TV
7. 2010 Black Death as Abbot 6.1 Movie
8. 2008 Wallander as Povel Wallander 7.4 TV
9. 2007 Hogfather as Lord Downey 6.8 Movie
10. 2006 Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire as Pulcher 7.6 TV
11. 2005 Sensitive Skin as Robert Ringwald TV
12. 2005 Doctor Who as Professor Grisenko 7.6 TV
13. 2004 Agatha Christie's Marple as Luther Crackenthorpe 7.9 TV
14. 2002 Spider-Man: The Return of the Green Goblin as Landon (voice) 7.5 Movie
15. 2001 The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy as Nergal (voice) 8.1 TV
16. 2001 Planet of the Apes as Sandar 5.8 Movie
17. 2000 Buzz Lightyear of Star Command as Lord Angstrom (voice) 6.6 TV
18. 1999 Wing Commander as Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn 4.9 Movie
19. 1999 Batman Beyond as Ra's al Ghul (voice) 8.2 TV
20. 1999 Total Recall 2070 6.3 TV
21. 1998 Hornblower as Captain Sawyer 7.7 TV
22. 1998 Toonsylvania as Dr. Vic Frankenstein TV
23. 1998 Three as The Man TV
24. 1997 Titanic as Spicer Lovejoy 7.9 Movie
25. 1997 Scream 2 as Gus Gold 6.5 Movie
26. 1997 Men in Black: The Series as Alpha (voice) 7.3 TV
27. 1997 Money Talks as Barclay 6.0 Movie
28. 1997 Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin as Narrator (voice) 7.2 Movie
29. 1997 The Hunger as Vassu 6.2 TV
30. 1997 Perversions of Science as Dr. Nordhoff TV
31. 1997 Midsomer Murders as Peter Fossett 7.5 TV
32. 1996 Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys as The Glyph (voice) TV
33. 1996 Superman: The Animated Series as Ra's al Ghul (voice) 7.7 TV
34. 1995 Freakazoid! as The Lobe (voice) 7.8 TV
35. 1995 The Outer Limits as Bill Trenton 7.7 TV
36. 1995 In the Mouth of Madness as Dr. Wrenn 7.2 Movie
37. 1994 Gargoyles as Archmage (voice) 8.1 TV
38. 1994 Iron Man as Arthur Dearborn (voice) 6.8 TV
39. 1994 Babylon 5 as Aldous Gajic 8.0 TV
40. 1993 Necronomicon as Dr. Madden 6.0 Movie
41. 1993 Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman as Jor-El 6.9 TV
42. 1993 The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. as Winston Smiles 7.1 TV
43. 1993 Body Bags as Dr. Lock 6.2 Movie
44. 1993 Wild Palms as Eli Levitt 6.2 TV
45. 1992 Batman: The Animated Series as Ra's al Ghul (voice) 8.6 TV
46. 1992 The Larry Sanders Show as Richard Germain 7.8 TV
47. 1991 Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country as Chancellor Gorkon 7.1 Movie
48. 1991 Performance as Vanya TV
49. 1991 Dinosaurs as Spirit of the Tree (voice) 7.8 TV
50. 1991 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze as Professor Jordon Perry 6.2 Movie
51. 1990 Twin Peaks as Thomas Eckhardt 8.3 TV
52. 1990 Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen as Bradley Thompson Movie
53. 1989 Tales from the Crypt as Dr. Alan Goetz 8.0 TV
54. 1989 Star Trek V: The Final Frontier as St. John Talbot 5.7 Movie
55. 1989 Father Dowling Mysteries as Sir Arthur wedgeworth 7.2 TV
56. 1988 Waxwork as Waxwork Man 6.2 Movie
57. 1987 My Best Friend Is a Vampire as Professor Leopold McCarthy 6.0 Movie
58. 1987 Star Trek: The Next Generation as Gul Madred 8.4 TV
59. 1984 A Christmas Carol as Bob Cratchit 7.5 Movie
60. 1984 Murder, She Wrote as Insp. McLaughlin 7.5 TV
61. 1984 The Company of Wolves as Father 6.3 Movie
62. 1983 The Man with Two Brains as Dr. Alfred Necessiter 6.2 Movie
63. 1982 Marco Polo as Rustichello da Pisa 6.8 TV
64. 1982 Remington Steele as Alexander Sebastien 7.1 TV
65. 1982 Faerie Tale Theatre as Zandor, The Innkeeper 8.1 TV
66. 1982 Tron as Ed Dillinger / Sark 6.6 Movie
67. 1981 The French Lieutenant's Woman as Murphy 6.5 Movie
68. 1981 Time Bandits as Evil Genius 6.6 Movie
69. 1981 Masada as Senator Pomponius Falco 7.1 TV
70. 1979 Time After Time as Jack the Ripper - John Leslie Stevenson 6.8 Movie
71. 1979 Hart to Hart as Mr. Bowlly 6.9 TV
72. 1979 The Concorde... Airport '79 as Peter O'Neill 4.7 Movie
73. 1978 Holocaust as Heydrich 7.3 TV
74. 1977 Cross of Iron as Hauptmann Kiesel 7.2 Movie
75. 1976 The Omen as Jennings 7.4 Movie
76. 1971 Straw Dogs as Henry Niles (uncredited) 7.1 Movie
77. 1970 The Ballad of Cable Hogue as Joshua 7.0 Movie
78. 1963 Tom Jones as Mr. Blifil 5.9 Movie
79. 1962 Z-Cars TV

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