David Warner (actor)
David Warner ( born July 29, 1941 in Manchester, United Kingdom ) is a British actor.
Life and work
Warner was born on July 29, 1941 in Manchester, UK. His childhood described Warner as very chaotic because his father often changed his job and the family frequently moved from one city to the next. Warner attended eight different schools and dropped his own words in all the tests. His parents separated when he was a teenager, and he saw his mother only seven years later, on her death bed.
After a number of different professions, he was accepted at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where he felt very unhappy. After RADA he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1963 and was in the movie Tom Jones - Between the bed and made his screen debut gallows. With the title role in protest in 1966 and two years later, in Peter Hall's A Midsummer Night's Dream, he was known at the age of 24 years. In the 1970s to the 1990s, he appeared in numerous British and American film and television productions, of which his roles in The Omen (1976 ), Escape to the Future ( 1979), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991 ) and Titanic (1997) are the best known. Warner played two times in movies that had the sinking of the Titanic on the topic: 1979 in SOS Titanic as Lawrence Beesley and 1997 in Titanic as Spicer Lovejoy.
Since 2000, Warner is rare mainly seen in movies and in TV productions.
From 1969 to 1972 Warner was married to Harriet Lidgren. Since 1979, Sheilah Kent is his wife, and together they have a son, Luke, born in 1982.