“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,” his family said.Warner was born on July 29 th, 1941 in Manchester, England his parents divorced when he was a child, so he attended eight separate boarding schools while they “kept stealing me from each other,” according to Warner. Warner is survived by his partner Lisa Bowerman, son Luke and his “many gold dust friends,” among others, his family wrote in their statement. “He was a generous spirit, a kind man, and a huge talent.” “David seemed the epitome of 1960s youth, and caught the radical spirit of a turbulent age,” said the company’s artistic director emeritus Gregory Doran. The Royal Shakespeare Company remembered Warner as he was in 1965, when he played Hamlet as a “tortured student in his long orange scarf.” “So glad to have been able to express my admiration for David Warner’s incredible versatility and career in our time together on set,” Miranda wrote on Twitter. Lin-Manuel Miranda, who starred with Warner in “Mary Poppins Returns,” shared a photo of himself with the late actor. “I’m the kind of actor where you go around, you do your best, and you see what happens,” he told the AV Club. In the 2017 AV Club interview, Warner said that as a young person, he was “hopeless” both academically and athletically, and so he “drifted into the odd school play.” Disney/Kobal/Shutterstockĭespite his prolific career, Warner often regarded his legacy with a lightheartedness. In 'Tron,' Warner played a tech exec who stole protagonist Jeff Bridges' work. He also lent his voice to animated productions, like “Batman: The Animated Series” (as Ra’s al Ghul) and “The Amazing World of Gumball.” He said in 2017 appearing in “kids pictures,” like “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II,” was “great fun.” He also mentioned his “utmost respect for the actors in the turtle suits.” In his last film role, he played eccentric military veteran Admiral Boom, who regularly fires cannons to mark the time, in “Mary Poppins Returns.” When he could, Warner played against type, appearing as Ebenezer Scrooge’s sympathetic employee Bob Cratchit in a TV movie of “A Christmas Carol.” He acted in two “Star Trek” films, including one appearance as a Klingon. He also appeared in three of director Sam Peckinpah’s films, including the World War II ensemble film “Cross of Iron.” Some of Warner’s most enduring roles saw him play the second banana: In “The Omen,” he wasn’t the villain but the victim, portraying a photographer threatened by the demonic child Damien. 20th Century Fox/Paramount/Kobal/Shutterstock

And in Terry Gilliam’s “Time Bandits,” Warner quite literally played the role of “Evil.”ĭavid Warner (right) played Spicer Lovejoy in 'Titanic,' a snide companion to Billy Zane's Caldeon Hockley. In “Titanic,” he conspired with Billy Zane’s antagonist to keep the central lovebirds apart as the deliciously named Spicer Lovejoy. In Disney’s landmark sci-fi flick “Tron,” he played a power-hungry executive who passed off Jeff Bridges’ ideas as his own. Though he often played Shakespearean heroes onstage, in films, he was often cast as the antagonist. He starred in several productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company, appearing as the title roles in “Richard II” and “Hamlet.” He also appeared in the 1968 film adaptation of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” alongside Helen Mirren, Judi Dench and Diana Rigg. Warner began his career onstage after studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. But that’s show biz … and, you know, I think I’ve still done okay.”Ī career spanning Shakespeare, horror and a best picture winner “So there are those big ones that I haven’t managed to do. “I’ve done war pictures, I’ve done Westerns, I’ve done sci-fi … I mean, I wasn’t in ‘Harry Potter,’ and I wasn’t in ‘Lord Of The Rings,’ and I haven’t been in ‘Game Of Thrones,’” he told the AV Club. There was hardly a genre of film he didn’t leave a mark on, he acknowledged in a 2017 interview with the AV Club. His was a prolific career that spanned more than 50 years, from horror classics to Oscar winners from beloved animated series to a Disney musical. He’d been sick for 18 months, his family wrote, and “approached his diagnosis with a characteristic grace and dignity.” Warner died from a “cancer-related illness,” his family said in a statement shared by his talent agency with CNN. David Warner, an English actor who played villainous supporting characters with aplomb in films like “Titanic” and “Tron,” died over the weekend.

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