British actor David Warner, star of stage and screen, dies aged 80

David Warner, a flexible actor whose profession spanned six a long time with roles on stage, tv and movie, has died aged 80.

The RADA-trained performer performed main roles with the Royal Shakespeare Firm along with his 1965 Hamlet described as “the epitome of Sixties youth”. 

The younger actor additionally appeared reverse Helen Mirren and Diana Rigg within the 1968 movie of A Midsummer Evening’s Dream.

The Nineteen Seventies usually noticed him solid because the villain with roles in Straw Canines (1971), The Omen (1976) and Time After Time (1979).

Sci-fi followers have been acquainted with his performances in Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandit’s (1981), pc film Tron (1982) and Tim Burton’s 2001 remake of Planet of the Apes.

Warner performed malicious valet Spicer Lovejoy in Titanic (1998). One among his last movie roles was as retired naval officer Admiral Growth in “Mary Poppins Returns,” launched in 2018.

Regardless of his acclaim as a stage actor, power stage fright led Warner to want movie and TV work for a few years.

He was nominated for a British Academy Movie Award for the title function in Karel Reisz’s Swinging London tragicomedy “Morgan: A Appropriate Case for Remedy,” launched in 1966. He later gained an Emmy for his function as Roman politician Pomponius Falco within the 1981 TV miniseries “Masada.”

Warner’s household mentioned he died from a cancer-related sickness on Sunday at Denville Corridor, a retirement house for entertainers in London.