David Warner

David Warner was an English actor.

In the first film he made in the U.S., Warner portrayed the itinerant preacher Joshua Duncan Sloane in Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue (1970), and the filmmaker brought him back to play the village idiot Henry Niles in Straw Dogs (1971) and the German officer Kiesel in Cross of Iron (1977).

Star Trek fans know Warner for portraying three different species in the franchise: the human Federation representative St. John Talbot in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), the peaceful Klingon Chancellor Gorkon in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) and the Cardassian officer Gul Madred on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1992.

He had many credits on television. He won a supporting actor Emmy for his work as the wicked Pomponius Falco in the 1981 ABC miniseries Masada; voiced the supervillain Ra's al Ghul on three animated series in the '90s; was killed by Joan Chen's Josie Packard in '91 on ABC's Twin Peaks; and showed up as a creepy network boss in 1993-94 on HBO's The Larry Sanders Show.

The actor said he lobbied to play a nice guy in CBS's 1984 version of A Christmas Carol, and instead of portraying Marley's ghost, he got the part of Bob Cratchit opposite George C. Scott.

Warner died July 29, 2022 in London. He was 80.