![]() Luckily, via the Wayback Machine, I was able to grab the text of what I wrote back then. I wrote about this movie several years ago when I was still writing for The Geekiverse, and I discovered earlier that that site has been taken down ( The Geekiverse‘s owner has been retooling, refocusing, and ultimately rebranding the site, which is absolutely fine!). He commits one more murder but now the police are onto him…when he learns that his good friend, author and naive utopian H.G. The first time I saw David Warner in anything was a thriller called Time After Time, in which Warner played an 1890s London physician who turns out to be none other than Jack the Ripper. There’s no question this guy is going to be bad news before the end. You can see Lovejoy’s lethal nature in that tiny moment that Warner pulls off. He was Billy Zane’s security-henchman guy in Titanic, a really nasty character named Lovejoy at the end of the scene where Jack saves Rose from her suicide attempt and then helps her cover up that she attempted suicide at all, Warner fixes Leonardo DiCaprio with a pleasant expression as he says “It’s curious how she slipped and fell so suddenly, and yet you had time to remove your jacket and your shoes.” And the pleasantness leaves his eyes entirely, even as he gives DiCaprio a tight, controlled smile. His characters, whether villainous or virtuous, always had an air of dignity and consideration about them, and there was always a careful precision in his acting. I consider that a missed opportunity for Star Wars.ĭavid Warner was like Christopher Lee in his ability to elevate whatever material he was in. Oddly, despite being such a prevalent English actor, Warner never appeared in any Star Wars property, except for some voice work in a game that came out in 2000. He would then be a Cardassian in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “Chain of Command”, a particularly memorable turn in which his character, Gul Madred, tortures a captive Captain Picard, taunting him to break and admit that there are five spotlights shining down on him when in reality there are only four. ![]() Warner showed up on Star Trek several times, first as a human in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, and then as the doomed Klingon Chancellor Gorkon in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. ![]() From then on I would run into Warner pretty frequently, as he was the kind of actor who was always working. Warner appeared in genre films a lot the first thing I ever saw him in was 1982’s TRON in which he had the dual role of the oily businessman Ed Dillinger in the ‘real’ world and the sadistic henchman program Sark in the ‘computer’ world. He brought an air of dignity to the table whether he played a villain or an ally or something in between. ![]() Warner brought gravity, precision, and seriousness to every role he undertook. While he was usually not a lead, he was more than a “character actor”. Warner was a very prolific actor bring up his filmography and you’ll be scrolling for quite a while. ![]()
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