# Actor David Warner has died aged 80 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [July 25, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-david-warner-has-died-aged-80/968521 "2022-07-25T13:43:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WhyKickAMooCow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9fc29f/32.png) [@WhyKickAMooCow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WhyKickAMooCow)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-david-warner-has-died-aged-80/968521/1 "2022-07-25T13:43:00Z")
Just read that British actor David Warner has died, just a few days before his 81st birthday. > **[Titanic and Omen actor David Warner dies at 80](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-62219839)** > > David Warner, who recently starred in Mary Poppins Returns, dies from a cancer-related illness. Some of the films I loved him in are: Straw Dogs, The Omen, Cross of Iron, Time Bandits, Tron, The Company of Wolves Waxwork and two Star Trek films. Most will remember him from Titanic. He also did some fabulous voice acting work in particular as Doctor Who for Big Finish. I was lucky enough to meet him in 2019 and had a nice chat while he signed a reproduction of the Map from Time Bandits. He was a great actor, especially when portraying a villain, and a top bloke. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-david-warner-has-died-aged-80/968521/2 "2022-07-25T13:55:36Z")
He was fantastic as the paranoid Captain Sawyer in one of the Horatio Hornblower movies. And as the Cardassian interrogating/torturing Picard in TNG. And this is still one of the most terrifying things I’ve ever seen in a movie > **Summary** > > [Cult Horror Movie Scene N°77 - The Omen (1976) - Decapitation Journalist - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf1O0qoXN1Y) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-david-warner-has-died-aged-80/968521/3 "2022-07-25T13:57:26Z")
Don’t forget **Time after Time** – he was Jack the Ripper And **The Man with Two Brains** , for a rare non-villain role. And, as a Laser Guy myself, I love this quote of his line from Time Bandits: > [@](#): > > If I were creating the world I wouldn’t mess about with butterflies and daffodils. I would have started with lasers, eight o’clock, Day One! ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-david-warner-has-died-aged-80/968521/4 "2022-07-25T14:19:44Z")
Blast. I loved him in many things. I believe it was Bruce Boxleitner who said in reference to Tron > He’s this frail, sickly looking man. But when he said “Take them away.”, I didn’t have to act. I genuinely thought we were going to die. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-david-warner-has-died-aged-80/968521/5 "2022-07-25T14:29:26Z")
I recall his head getting decapitated by a window pane in the Omen. The stuff childhood traumas are made of! ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-david-warner-has-died-aged-80/968521/6 "2022-07-25T14:30:08Z")
He also performed the voice of Ra’s al Ghul in the animated _Batman_ series and played Jor-El in _Lois and Clark: The New Adventures of Superman_. ---
**Author:** ![Hermione1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d07c76/32.png) [@Hermione1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermione1)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-david-warner-has-died-aged-80/968521/7 "2022-07-25T14:31:50Z")
He was a terrific Bob Cratchit to George C. Scott’s Ebenezer Scrooge. Where most Cratchits tend towards the meek, Warner’s Bob projects reserves of quiet strength and dignity, whether asserting his right to Christmas Day off, or bearing the grief of his son’s death (in a timeline which, thankfully, didn’t come to pass). ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-david-warner-has-died-aged-80/968521/8 "2022-07-25T17:12:27Z")
The earliest thing he did that I’ve seen is _Tom Jones_ but I can’t picture his character off the top of my head. The next earliest thing is _Morgan!_ which I well remember and have rewatched “recently”. But, like others, it’s _Time Bandits_ for me. Here’s a longer [clip](https://youtu.be/7rdpJztS28A) that contains the earlier quote and many other beauties. His interactions with Benson are great. E.g., “Dear Benson, you are so mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence.” More [here](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081633/characters/nm0920266). But it doesn’t include the turning him into a dog line. “I’m a reasonable man.” ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-david-warner-has-died-aged-80/968521/9 "2022-07-25T17:23:42Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > The next earliest thing is _Morgan!_ which I well remember and have rewatched “recently”. I loved that movie. _Time After Time_ – mentioned above – was great, too. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-david-warner-has-died-aged-80/968521/10 "2022-07-25T17:29:32Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > He was fantastic as the paranoid Captain Sawyer in one of the Horatio Hornblower movies. … Yes, yes! I just watched this last week. _(Actually, I rewatched the entire Hornblower series.)_ He was deranged in this episode and yet seemed sane at the moment of his death in the company of a very young midshipman. Gut-wrenching episode. ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2022, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-david-warner-has-died-aged-80/968521/11 "2022-07-25T17:29:57Z")
He was the villian Jon Irenicus in the computer game Baldur’s Gate 2 and he was great. The last role I saw him in was as Van Helsing in Penny Dreadful, and it hit me that he wasn’t getting any younger. None of us are I guess. I never saw Titanic, and didn’t know he was in it until now. But I’ll remember him for Time Bandits, Tron, his voice acting, and the myraid other things I saw him in. He had a good run. ---
**Author:** ![Terminus\_Est](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terminus_est/32/3087_2.png) [@Terminus\_Est](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terminus_Est)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-david-warner-has-died-aged-80/968521/12 "2022-07-26T04:17:02Z")
> [@Odesio](#): > > He was the villian Jon Irenicus in the computer game Baldur’s Gate 2 and he was great. I think I know his every line in that game by heart. > You will suffer! You will _all_ **suffer**! ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-david-warner-has-died-aged-80/968521/13 "2022-07-26T04:32:05Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > Don’t forget **Time after Time** – he was Jack the Ripper Excellent and scary in that role, without lots of gore: “Ninety years ago, I was a freak. Today, I’m an amateur.” ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-david-warner-has-died-aged-80/968521/14 "2022-07-26T09:41:14Z")
Speaking of Boxleitner, Warner had a rare guest appearance as a good guy in _Babylon 5_. Another noteworthy performance. ---
**Author:** ![the\_art\_of\_rolling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/59ef9b/32.png) [@the\_art\_of\_rolling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_art_of_rolling)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-david-warner-has-died-aged-80/968521/15 "2022-07-26T10:27:25Z")
I saw him as Hamlet in 1965 for the R.S.C. Having looked it up to refresh my memory I saw that Ophelia was Glenda Jackson. I had completely forgotten, if I had ever noticed in the first place. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-david-warner-has-died-aged-80/968521/16 "2022-07-26T11:17:11Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > Speaking of Boxleitner, Warner had a rare guest appearance as a good guy in _Babylon 5_. Speaking of rare appearances as a good guy, he was great in _Star Trek VI_: a kingly man of reason who knows he isn’t exactly negotiating from a position of strength, but also knows that both sides could reluctantly accept peace-treaty terms that’d be less bad than the war he’s working to avert. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-david-warner-has-died-aged-80/968521/17 "2022-07-26T11:55:40Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Speaking of rare appearances as a good guy, he was great in _Star Trek VI_: “You don’t trust me, do you? I don’t blame you. If there is to be a brave new world, our generation is going to have the hardest time living in it.” ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/actor-david-warner-has-died-aged-80/968521/18 "2022-07-26T14:07:00Z")
I don’t know if this is the right thing to do or not-- Chancellor Gorkon was no warrior-- but: [![](https://i.imgur.com/mzIsOj5.jpg) ](https://i.imgur.com/mzIsOj5.jpg)