David Warner

Work in the DWU

Main roles:

The Doctor, Cuthbert, Luke Betterman

Main jobs:

Actor

Main time period active:

2003, 2007-2013, 2015-present

Career highlights

Notable non-DWU work:

Hamlet, Tom Jones, The Wars of the Roses, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Doll's House, The Omen, Age of Innocence, Holocaust, The Thirty Nine Steps, Time Bandits, Nancy Astor, TRON, Marco Polo, A Christmas Carol, Frankenstein, Love's Labour's Lost, Star Trek, Twin Peaks, Batman, Spider-Man, Titanic, Hornblower, Sapphire and Steel, The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse, Wallander, Dark Shadows, The Scarifyers, Blake's 7, Inside No. 9, Survivors, Ripper Street, King Lear, You, Me and Him, Shilling & Sixpence Investigate, Mary Poppins Returns

IMDb profile

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David Warner is a noted character actor who has performed in a number of Doctor Who related productions for the BBC and Big Finish.

Warner is best known 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 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.

Outside of Doctor Who, Warner has been 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.