Titanic and The Omen actor David Warner breathed his last on Sunday at Danville Hall in Northwood, UK, a care home for figures in the entertainment industry. He was suffering from cancer and was 80 years old. The actor’s family told the BBC: “Over the past 18 months he has approached his diagnosis with a distinctive grace and dignity.” The family statement said: “He will be sorely missed by us, his family and friends, and will be remembered as a kind, generous and compassionate man, companion and father, whose legacy of extraordinary work has helped so many people.” Over the years. We are heartbroken.”
Warner was nominated to play Reinhard Heydrich, a Nazi officer who was a key architect of the Final Solution, in the 1978 miniseries ‘Holocaust’, and in the 1981 miniseries ‘Holocaust’ of the sadistic Roman political opportunist Pomponius Falco. Won an Emmy for playing the role. Masada’, ‘Variety’ notes.
He reprized the role of Nazi Heydrich in the 1985 telepic ‘Hitler SS: Portrait in Evil’.
The actor was among the big cast of James Cameron’s 1997 epic “Titanic” but was “doomed to play a butler like a thug,” according to Variety. He played a simian senator in Tim Roth’s 2001 re-imagining of ‘Planet of the Apes’ and played a doctor in the hit comedy ‘Ladies in Lavender’ (2005), the unique pairing of Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. Was.
Most recently, Warner appeared in Disney’s ‘Mary Poppins Returns’ (2018) and ‘You, Me and Him’ (2017) and as ‘Dracula’ character Professor Abraham Van Helsing in Showtime’s ‘Penny Dreadful’ in 2014 .
The mid-’70s to the mid-’80s probably represented the climax of Warner’s career, beginning with ‘The Omen’, where he played Jennings, the photographer who developed the images on which he painted. A specific mode of death is imposed on individuals.
His fans and colleagues from around the world paid tribute to him on Twitter.
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David Warner was born in Manchester in 1941. His parents were unmarried and he spent time looking after both of them. Warner moved to Hollywood in 1987, where he lived for 15 years. In addition to Titanic, he has appeared in Star Trek, Doctor Who, Twin Peaks and The League of Gentlemen’s Apocalypse.