Combined with his two-year stint as Hamlet with the RSC, Warner became a star at age 24. In yet another off-beat satire, Work Is a Four Letter Word (1968), Warner played a corporate drop-out who grows psychedelic mushrooms in an automated world of the future. A proper starring turn on the big screen followed in due course with the title role in Morgan! (1966), Warner playing a deranged artist with Marxist leanings who goes to absurd lengths to reclaim his ex-wife (played by Vanessa Redgrave), including blowing up his mother-in-law. His first big break came on the strength of his small part in A Midsummer Night's Dream, courtesy of Tony Richardson who cast him in his bawdy period romp Tom Jones (1963) as the mendacious, pimple-faced antagonist Blifil, who vied with Albert Finney for the affections of Susannah York. Eventually becoming disaffected with the theatre (and plagued for some years by stage fright), Warner found himself better served by the celluloid medium. Comedy may not have been his forte as much as the likes of Falstaff, Lysander and (on several occasions) Henry VI. A year later, he became the youngest-ever actor to play Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Company. When he first took up acting, it was not with the notion of a prospective career, but rather to escape (in his own words) 'a messy childhood.' Warner received some early mentoring from one of his teachers, and made his theatrical debut in 1962 at the Royal Court Theatre as Snout in A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Tony Richardson.
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He attended eight schools and "failed his exams at all of them." After a series of odd jobs, he was accepted against all odds at Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), and became a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. As an only child from a dysfunctional family, young David excelled neither at academia nor at athletics. He only saw his mother again on her deathbed. He was born out of wedlock and raised by each of his parents, eventually settling with his itinerant father and stepmother. He was 80.Distinguished character actor David Hattersley Warner was born on Jin Manchester, England, to Ada Doreen (Hattersley) and Herbert Simon Warner. 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. 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. John Talbot in S tar 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.
Star Trek fans know Warner for portraying three different species in the franchise: the human Federation representative St. 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).
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