David Warner Birthday: July 29, 1941 Birth Place: Manchester, England, UK Height: 6' 2"
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David Warner once described his childhood as "messy". His father changed jobs often and moved from town to town. David attended eight schools and "failed his exams at all of them". His parents separated when he was a teenager and he only saw his mother again seven years later - on her deathbed. After a series of odd jobs, he was accepted at the Royal Academy Of Dramatic Arts (RADA) where he was very unhappy. After RADA, he became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and got the part of Blifil in Tom Jones (1963). With the title role in Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) and a two-year stint as Hamlet with the RSC, Warner became a star at 24.
Has vertigo. Was doubled in Time Bandits (1981) in the scene where the Evil Genius walks up the steps after caging the bandits, because he could not handle the drop below him.
Daughter: Melissa, born 1982
David Warner's limp in Straw Dogs (1971) was real. He had smashed both his heels in a fall sometime before filming began and it was a long time before he could walk normally again. Warner's name is not in the credits because, for his career's sake, he didn't want people to know about his problem. It was not for insurance reasons as it has been often written.
Has been in 3 movies about the Titanic: S.O.S. Titanic (1979) (TV); Time Bandits (1981) and Titanic (1997).
Has played at least three different species in the Star Trek universe: a human in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989); a Klingon in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) and a Cardassian in "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987).
Is one of only 32 actors or actresses to have starred in both the original Star Trek (up to and including Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)) and then in one of the spin offs.
Became an Associate Member of RADA.
Played an ape in Planet of the Apes (2001), a character obsessed with gorillas in Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966) and did a gorilla impression in The Man with Two Brains (1983).
Has appeared in three different films involving time travel: Time After Time (1979); Time Bandits (1981) and Planet of the Apes (2001).
In Time After Time (1979), he played John Leslie Stevenson (Jack the Ripper). In "The Outer Limits" (1995) episode "Ripper", he played Inspector Langford who was investigating Dr. Jack York (Cary Elwes) who was suspected of being Jack the Ripper.
Chosen by Tony Richardson for his role in Tom Jones (1963) after the director enjoyed his performance in the play "Afore the night" (1962)
Although he played Reinhard Heydrich, one of the key architects of the Holocaust, in both "Holocaust" (1978) (mini) and Hitler's S.S.: Portrait in Evil (1985) (TV), he is Jewish in real life.
By appearing in Batman: The Animated Series ("Batman" (1992)), he became the first actor to play the villain Ra's-Al-Ghul. To date, he has been succeeded only by Ken Watanabe and Liam Neeson.
With the death of Gregory Peck on June 12, 2003, he is the only surviving adult star of The Omen (1976).
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