David Warner (29 July 1941[1]-24 July 2022[2]) was a noted character actor who has performed in a number of Doctor Who related productions for the BBC and Big Finish.
Warner was best known to Doctor Who enthusiasts as the voice of the "Unbound Doctor", who began in the Doctor Who Unbound series, and was brought back in The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield.
His only screen acting appearance in the Doctor Who universe was as Professor Grisenko in the Doctor Who Series 7 episode, Cold War. Three years earlier, he had also played another professor in an Ice Warrior story, when he voiced Professor Boston Schooner in the New Eighth Doctor Adventure, Deimos.
Previously, in 2009, he played Lord Azlok for the BBC-produced animated Doctor Who serial, Dreamland, co-starring David Tennant.
Warner also narrated the audiobook release of the Twelfth Doctor novel Royal Blood, written by Una McCormack.
He was one of the actors considered for the part of Borusa in a television movie project that eventually became Doctor Who.[3] He was also considered for the roles of Valgard in Terminus (TCH 37), Commander Vorshak in Warriors of the Deep (TCH 38), Orcini in Revelation of the Daleks, (TCH 41) Merdeen in The Mysterious Planet (TCH 42) and Ratcliffe in Remembrance of the Daleks. (TCH 44). Pip and Jane Baker also suggested him for the role of the Seventh Doctor. (DCOM: The Last Chance Saloon)
Career highlights
Outside of Doctor Who, Warner was involved in many legendary film and TV productions, including Tron, James Cameron's Titanic, The Omen, Time Bandits, and Z-Cars, as well as various roles in the Star Trek and Batman franchises.
In 2005, Warner also appeared in The League of Gentlemen's Apocalyse, written by and starring Doctor Who writer/actor Mark Gatiss, who also wrote Cold War.
Personal life
He was the partner of Bernice Summerfield actress Lisa Bowerman.[4]
Credits
As the Unbound Doctor
Audio
Doctor Who Unbound
The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield
Bernice Summerfield: The Story So Far
As Cuthbert
The Fourth Doctor Adventures
- The Sands of Life / War Against the Laan
- The Dalek Contract / The Final Phase
- The Pursuit of History / Casualties of Time
Jago and Litefoot
- The Devil's Dicemen
- The Mourning After
- The Museum of Curiosities
- How the Other Half Lives
- Too Much Reality
- Jago & Litefoot Forever
Other Roles
Television
Doctor Who
Audio
Doctor Who Main Range
- Summer - Sir Isaac Newton
Special Releases
- The Worlds of Big Finish
- The Adventure of the Bloomsbury Bomber - Mycroft Holmes
The Lost Stories
- The Children of Seth - Autarch Siris
- The Rosemariners - Professor Arnold Biggs
The Eighth Doctor Adventures =
- Deimos - Professor Boston Schooner
The War Doctor
The Early Adventures
- The Black Hole - Narrator
The Companion Chronicles
- Empathy Games - Co-ordinator Angell
- The Crumbling Magician - Allie Kay
Bernice Summerfield
Iris Wildthyme
Graceless
As Daniel
- The Sphere
- The Fog
- The End (also as The Grace)
Torchwood
God Among Us
- God Among Us 2
- Another Man's Shoes - The Committee
- Eye of the Storm - The Committee
Audiobook Readings
BBC New Series Adventures
External links
- David Warner at the Internet Movie Database
- David Warner at Memory Alpha, the Star Trek canon wiki
- David Warner at the Star Wars Wiki
- David Warner at The Babylon 5 Project
- David Warner at the DC Animated Universe Wiki
- David Warner at the Muppet Wiki
- David Warner at the Tron Wiki
- David Warner at the Gargoyles Wiki