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David Warner (born 29 July 1941) is an English actor, who is known for playing sinister or villainous characters, both in film and animation.

David Warner (born 29 July 1941) is an Emmy Award-winning English actor, who is known for playing sinister or villainous characters. Warner was born in Manchester, England, the son of Doreen (née Hattersley) and Herbert Simon Warner, who was a nursing home proprietor. He was born out of wedlock and frequently taken to be raised by each of his parents, eventually settling with his father and his stepmother. He was educated at Feldon School, Leamington Spa, and trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London. Warner made his professional stage debut at the Royal Court in January 1962, playing Snout, a minor role in Shakespeare`s A Midsummer Night`s Dream, directed by Tony Richardson for the English Stage Company. In March 1962 at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry he played Conrad in Much Ado About Nothing, following which in June he appeared as Jim in Afore Night Come at the New Arts Theatre in London. In 1963, he made his film debut in Tom Jones, and in 1965 starred as Henry VI in the BBC television version of the RSC`s The Wars of the Roses cycle of Shakespeare`s history plays. Another early television role came when he starred alongside Bob Dylan in the 1963 play The Madhouse on Castle Street. A major step in his career was the leading role in Morgan: A Suitable Case For Treatment (1966) opposite Vanessa Redgrave, which established his reputation for playing slightly off-the-wall characters. He also appeared as Konstantin Treplev in Sidney Lumet`s 1968 adaptation of Anton Chekov`s The Sea Gull and starred alongside Jason Robards and Stella Stevens as Reverend Joshua Duncan Sloane in Sam Peckinpah`s The Ballad of Cable Hogue, perhaps one of Warner`s (and Peckinpah`s) least known or appreciated films. In horror movies he appeared in one of the stories of From Beyond the Grave, opposite Gregory Peck in The Omen (1976) as the ill-fated photojournalist Keith Jennings, and the 1979 thriller Nightwing. He also starred in cult classic Waxwork (1988), and featured alongside a young Viggo Mortensen in 1990 film Tripwire. Since then, he has often played villains, in films such as The Thirty-Nine Steps (1978), Time After Time (1979), Time Bandits (1981), Tron (1982), and television series such as Batman: The Animated Series playing Ra`s al Ghul, the anti-mutant scientist Herbert Landon in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, as well as rogue agent Alpha in the animated Men in Black series and the Archmage in Disney`s Gargoyles and finally The Lobe in Freakazoid. He was also cast against type as Henry Niles in Straw Dogs (1971) and as Bob Crachit in the 1984 telefilm of A Christmas Carol. In addition, he played German SS General Reinhard Heydrich both in the movie Hitler`s SS: Portrait in Evil, and the television mini-series Holocaust.

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