David Warner, actor. Born: 29 July 1941 in Manchester. Died: 24 July 2022 in London, aged 80Cinema offered escape for David Warner when he was a child.
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David Warner, who starred in films including Titanic and Tron, has died at the age of 80.
The actor’s family announced the news “with an overwhelmingly heavy heart” in a statement on Monday, July 25, explaining that Warner died after battling a cancer-related illness.
“Over the past 18 months he approached his diagnosis with a characteristic grace and dignity,” his relatives told the BBC. “He will be missed hugely by us, his family and friends, and remembered as a kindhearted, generous and compassionate man, partner and father, whose legacy of extraordinary work has touched the lives of so many over the years. We are heartbroken.”
The Emmy winner died on Sunday, July 24, at Denville Hall, which is a London care home for veterans of the entertainment industry.
Born in 1941, Warner made his stage debut in 1962, joining the Royal Shakespeare Company one year later. He landed his first screen role in 1963 in Tom Jones, a film adaptation of Henry Fielding’s classic 1749 novel, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling.
Warner appeared in tons of films and TV shows over the years, but contemporary audiences may best remember him from 1997’s Titanic, in which he played Spicer Lovejoy, the villainous sidekick of Billy Zane‘s character, Cal Hockley.
Nearly 20 years earlier, Warner starred in a TV movie about the famous shipwreck titled S.O.S. Titanic, but in that project, he played a real person: Lawrence Beesley, a teacher who survived the ship’s sinking. “It was only years later I found out that, when I was working at Stratford-Upon-Avon, I was working with his grandson!” Warner recalled to The A.V. Club in July 2017.
Warner also became known for his roles in sci-fi and horror productions over the years, racking up credits in Time
David Warner, actor. Born: 29 July 1941 in Manchester. Died: 24 July 2022 in London, aged 80Cinema offered escape for David Warner when he was a child.
David Warner was a prolific actor, equally at ease on stage, television or on the silver screen, a star whose wide repertoire ranged from Shakespeare to Doctor Who and to films such as Tron and The Omen. Warner, who has died aged 80, had appeared in more than 200 plays, films and television dramas during a successful career spanning six decades. Born in Manchester in 1941, Warner was the son of Ada Doreen Hattersley and Herbert Simon Warner, the owner of a nursing home.
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David Warner, a versatile actor whose career spanned six decades with roles on stage, television and film, has died aged 80. The RADA-trained performer played leading roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company with his 1965 Hamlet described as “the epitome of 1960s youth”. The young actor also appeared opposite Helen Mirren and Diana Rigg in the 1968 film of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
The Omen, Tron, and Titanic and television shows such as Doctor Who, Twin Peaks and Star Trek. He died from “a cancer-related illness”.His family confirmed the news to the BBC “with an overwhelmingly heavy heart”, saying in a statement: “Over the past 18 months he approached his diagnosis with a characteristic grace and dignity.“He will be missed hugely by us, his family and friends, and remembered as a kind-hearted, generous and compassionate man, partner and father, whose legacy of extraordinary work has touched the lives of so many over the years.
BBC, the actor’s family confirmed that he died at the Denville Hall care community for people in the entertainment industry. «Over the past 18 months he approached his diagnosis with a characteristic grace and dignity,» the statement read. «He will be missed hugely by us, his family and friends, and remembered as a kind-hearted, generous and compassionate man, partner and father, whose legacy of extraordinary work has touched the lives of so many over the years.
Peter Hall; tall, lean, gangling, long-faced, he triumphed first in one of Shakespeare’s least-known roles, Henry VI, which he brought to life in the RSC’s quatercentenary cycle, The Wars of the Roses, and again with a resolutely “contemporary” interpretation of Hamlet. But within a decade of those early glories, which he achieved in his early twenties, Warner was drawn increasingly to the cinema – not that he took it as seriously as he had the classical stage, but as he said, when living in Los Angeles years later, “I am a letterbox actor.
Mary Poppins Returns and the 2001 remake of Planet of the Apes but he also had memorable parts in Star Trek – where he played three different characters over the years – as well as in David Lynch’s 1991 cult favourite television show Twin Peaks. He was also nominated for an Emmy for his role in the 1978 television miniseries Holocaust, won an Emmy for his role in the 1981 ABC show Masada, about the siege of the Masada citadel in Israel, and was nominated for a BAFTA for one of his first ever film roles in Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment in 1966. Like many actors of his generation, he spent years in the theatre before moving to cinema and television, but his career also spanned radio, audio dramas and video games.
David Warner, known for his roles in the "Titanic" and "The Omen," has died at 80. Warner died Sunday from "a cancer-related illness," the BBC first reported. "Over the past 18 months he approached his diagnosis with a characteristic grace and dignity," his family told the outlet in a statement.
David Warner, the Emmy award-winning actor who starred in Titanic and The Omen has passed away at the age of 80 of a cancer-related illness.
David Warner, the British actor best known for his screen work in “Titanic,” “Tron” and “The Omen,” has died. He was 80 years old.
Carmel Dagan Staff WriterDavid Warner, an English actor who gave memorable performances on the big screen, in a key role in “The Omen,” and as villains in “Time After Time,” “Time Bandits” and “Tron,” has died. He was 80.The actor died of a cancer-related illness, his family told the BBC.
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