# David Warner (actor)

David Hattersley Warner (29 July 1941 – 24 July 2022) was an English actor who worked in film, television and theatre. Warner's lanky, often haggard appearance lent itself to a variety of villainous characters, as well as more sympathetic roles, across stage and screen. He received accolades such as a Primetime Emmy Award and nominations for a BAFTA Award and Screen Actors Guild Award.
Warner trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art before joining the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) where he made his stage debut in 1962 where he played Henry VI in The Wars of the Roses cycle at the West End's Aldwych Theatre in 1964. The RSC then cast him as Prince Hamlet in Peter Hall's 1965 production of Hamlet. He made his Broadway debut in the 2001 revival of Major Barbara.
Warner gained prominence portraying the leading role in the film Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (Karel Reisz, 1966), for which he was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role. Other notable roles include in The Omen (1976), Time After Time (1979), Time Bandits (1981), The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Tron (1982), A Christmas Carol (1984), Seven Servants (1996), Titanic (1997), Scream 2 (1997), Ladies in Lavender (2002), and Mary Poppins Returns (2018). He is also known for his roles in the films Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991).
Also known for his television roles, Warner received two Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or TV Movie nominations for his roles as Reinhard Heydrich in the NBC miniseries Holocaust (1978), and Pomponius Falco in the ABC miniseries Masada (1981), winning for the latter.

## Early life

Warner was born on 29 July 1941, in Manchester, Lancashire, the son of Ada Doreen Hattersley and Herbert Simon Warner, a nursing home proprietor. He was born out of wedlock and frequently taken to be brought up by each of his parents, eventually settling with his stepmother and Russian Jewish father. At 18 years of age he started at RADA, graduating in 1961 with an Acting (RADA Diploma).

## Career
### Theatre

Warner made his professional stage debut at the Royal Court Theatre in January 1962, playing Snout, a minor role in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Tony Richardson for the English Stage Company. In March 1962, at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, he played Conrad in Much Ado About Nothing, following which in June he appeared as Jim in Afore Night Come at the New Arts Theatre in London.
He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-upon-Avon in April 1963 to play Trinculo in The Tempest, and Cinna the Poet in Julius Caesar, and in July was cast as Henry VI in the John Barton adaptation of Henry VI, Parts I, II and III, which comprised the first two plays from The Wars of the Roses trilogy. At the West End's Aldwych Theatre in January 1964, he again played Henry VI in the complete The Wars of the Roses history cycle (1964). Returning to Stratford in April, he performed the title role in Richard II, Mouldy in Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry VI. At the Aldwych in October 1964, he was cast as Valentine Brose in the play Eh? by Henry Livings, a role he reprised in the 1968 film adaptation Work Is a Four-Letter Word.
He first played the title role in Hamlet for the RSC in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1965. This production transferred to the Aldwych Theatre in December of that year. In the 1966, Stratford season, his Hamlet was revived and he also played Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night. Finally at the Aldwych in January 1970, he played Julian in Tiny Alice.
According to his 2007 programme CV, Warner's other work for the theatre included The Great Exhibition at Hampstead Theatre (February 1972); I, Claudius at the Queen's Theatre (July 1972); A Feast of Snails at the Lyric Theatre (February 2002); Where There's a Will at the Theatre Royal, Bath; King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre (2005), see details below); and also Major Barbara on Broadway in 2001.

### Film and television

In 1963, he made his film debut as the villainous Blifil in Tom Jones, and in 1965, starred as Henry VI in the BBC television version of the RSC's The Wars of the Roses cycle of Shakespeare's history plays. He starred alongside Bob Dylan in the 1963 play Madhouse on Castle Street. A major step in his career was the leading role in Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment (1966), opposite Vanessa Redgrave, which established his reputation for playing slightly off-the-wall characters. He also appeared as Konstantin Treplev in Sidney Lumet's 1968 adaptation of Anton Chekhov's The Sea Gull and starred alongside Jason Robards and Stella Stevens as Reverend Joshua Duncan Sloane in Sam Peckinpah's The Ballad of Cable Hogue.
In horror films, he appeared in one of the stories of From Beyond the Grave, opposite Gregory Peck in The Omen (1976), as the ill-fated photojournalist Keith Jennings, and the 1979 thriller Nightwing. He also starred in cult classic Waxwork (1988), and featured alongside a young Viggo Mortensen in the 1990 film Tripwire.
He often played villains, in films such as The Thirty Nine Steps (1978), Time After Time (1979), Time Bandits (1981), Tron (1982), Hanna's War (1988), and television series such as Batman: The Animated Series playing Ra's al Ghul, the anti-mutant scientist Herbert Landon in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, as well as rogue agent Alpha from Men in Black: The Series, the Archmage in Disney's Gargoyles, and the Lobe in Freakazoid!. He was also cast against type as Henry Niles in Straw Dogs (1971) and as Bob Cratchit in the 1984 telefilm A Christmas Carol starring George C. Scott as Scrooge. In addition, he played German SS Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich both in the film Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil, and the television miniseries Holocaust; as sinister millionaire Amos Hackshaw in HBO's original 1991 film Cast a Deadly Spell.
In 1981, Warner received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special for Masada as Pomponius Falco. In 1988, he appeared in the Danny Huston film Mr. North.
He subsequently appeared in films such as Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989), Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Avatar (known as Matrix Hunter in the US), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze (1991), Titanic (the third time he appeared in a film that is about or includes reference to RMS Titanic) and Scream 2. In 2001, he played Captain James Sawyer in two episodes of A&E's adaptation of C.S. Forester's Hornblower series. He appeared in three episodes of the second season of Twin Peaks (1991) as "Thomas Eckhardt". He also continued to play classical roles. In "Chain of Command", an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, he was a Cardassian interrogator. He based his portrayal on the evil "re-educator" from 1984. He appeared in Murder, She Wrote in 1993 as Hong Kong based detective. His less-spectacular roles included a double-role in the low-budget fantasy Quest of the Delta Knights (1993) which was eventually spoofed on Mystery Science Theater 3000. He also played Admiral Tolwyn in the film version of Wing Commander.
Warner's sympathetic side had been evident in Sam Peckinpah's Cross of Iron (1977), where he portrayed Captain Kiesel. Other "nice guy" roles include in Ken Russel's William and Dorothy (1978), portraying the poet William Wordsworth, the charismatic "Aldous Gajic" in "Grail", a first season (1994) episode of Babylon 5 and "Chancellor Gorkon" in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). In an episode of Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, he played Superman's father Jor-El, who appeared to his son through holographic recordings. Warner also played "ambiguous nice guys" such as vampire bat exterminator Philip Payne in 1979's Nightwing; and Dr. Richard Madden in 1994's Necronomicon: Book of the Dead. In Seven Servants by Daryush Shokof, he co-starred with Anthony Quinn in 1996.
Another 'sympathetic' role was in 2013, when he played Professor Grisenko in the Doctor Who episode "Cold War" in which he battled a revived Ice Warrior and struck up a rapport with the Doctor's companion Clara Oswald. Warner also appeared in the second series of the Sky 1 comedy-drama Mad Dogs, and starred in two 2014 episodes of the horror series Penny Dreadful as Abraham Van Helsing.
Warner contributed "Sonnet 25" to the 2002 compilation album When Love Speaks, which consists of Shakespearean sonnets and play excerpts as interpreted by famous actors and musicians. He performed in many audio plays, starring in the Doctor Who Unbound play Sympathy for the Devil (2003) as an alternative version of the Doctor, and in a series of plays based on ITV's Sapphire & Steel as Steel, both for Big Finish Productions. He reprised his incarnation of the Doctor in a sequel, Masters of War (2008). In 2007, he guest starred as Isaac Newton in the Doctor Who audio drama Circular Time and as Cuthbert in four of the seven stories in the second Fourth Doctor series. He also guest starred in the BBC Radio 4 science fiction comedy Nebulous (2005) as Professor Nebulous' arch-enemy Dr. Joseph Klench. In all these productions, Warner worked with writer and comedian Mark Gatiss of the League of Gentlemen, and plays a guest role in the League's 2005 feature film The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse. He also performed in radio plays for the American companies L.A. Theatre Works and the Hollywood Theater of the Ear. In 2005, Warner read a new adaptation of Oliver Twist for BBC Radio 2 (adapted by Neville Teller and directed by Neil Gardner). In 2008, he guest-starred as Mycroft Holmes in the Bernice Summerfield audio play The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel. In 2009, he was the voice of Lord Azlok of the Viperox, an insectoid alien race in the animated Doctor Who serial "Dreamland". In 2016, he returned as his alternate Doctor in a series of audios where his Doctor briefly travels to the 'prime' universe and enlists the Seventh Doctor's companion Benny Summerfield (Lisa Bowerman) to try and help him save his universe. Warner's Doctor continued his travels with Benny in a second series of audios released in 2017. Shortly before his death in 2022, it was revealed Warner would return as his alternate Doctor as part of Finish's celebration of the 60th anniversary and would share scenes with Christopher Eccleston, who appeared as the Ninth Doctor.
He also contributed voice acting to a number of video games, notably playing the villain Jon Irenicus in Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and Morpheus in Fallout. Warner did voice work on the short-lived FOX animated series Toonsylvania as Dr. Vic Frankenstein. He was also the first voice of the demon Nergal from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, but was later replaced by Martin Jarvis. Warner narrated the Disney direct-to-video Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin.
In March 2010, it was announced that Warner would be joining the cast of the Dark Shadows audio drama miniseries Kingdom of the Dead.

### Return to theatre and later work

In 2001, Warner returned to the stage after a nearly three-decade hiatus to play Andrew Undershaft in a Broadway revival of George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara. In May 2005, at the Chichester Festival Theatre Warner made a return to Shakespeare, playing the title role in Steven Pimlott's production of King Lear. Tim Walker, reviewing the performance in The Sunday Telegraph, wrote: "Warner is physically the least imposing king I have ever seen, but his slight, gaunt body serves also to accentuate the vulnerability the part requires. So, too, does the fact that he is older by decades than most of the other members of the youthful cast."
On 30 October 2005, he appeared on stage at The Old Vic theatre in London in the one-night play Night Sky alongside Christopher Eccleston, Bruno Langley, Navin Chowdhry, Saffron Burrows and David Baddiel. In December 2006, he starred in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather on Sky One as Lord Downey. And in August 2007, as an RSC Honorary Artist, he returned to Stratford for the first time in over 40 years to play Sir John Falstaff in the Courtyard Theatre revival of Henry IV, Part 1 and Henry IV, Part 2 which were part of the RSC Histories Cycle.
In February 2008, Warner was heard as the popular fictional character Hugo Rune in a new 13-part audio adaptation of Robert Rankin's The Brightonomicon released by Hokus Bloke Productions and BBC Audiobooks. He starred alongside some high-profile names including cult science fiction actress and Superman star Sarah Douglas, Rupert Degas, The Lord of the Rings actor Andy Serkis, Harry Potter villain Jason Isaacs, Mark Wing-Davey and Martin Jarvis (written by Elliott Stein & Neil Gardner, and produced/directed by Neil Gardner).
In October 2008, Warner played the role of Lord Mountbatten of Burma in the BBC Four television film In Love with Barbara, a biopic about the life of romantic novelist Barbara Cartland. He played Povel Wallander, the father of Kurt Wallander, in BBC One's Wallander.

### Other work

In 2010, writer and actor Mark Gatiss interviewed Warner about his role in The Omen (1976) for his BBC documentary series A History of Horror. In November 2013, David Warner posed for Rory Lewis Photographers 'Northerners' Exhibition, David's image was acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in London, and was the first professional portrait sitting of David since 1966.

## Personal life

Warner married his first wife Harriet Lindgren in 1969. They divorced three years later in 1972. He married his second wife Sheilah Kent in 1979. The marriage lasted for 26 years, until their divorce in 2005. They had a daughter in 1982. Warner's partner until his death in 2022 was the actress Lisa Bowerman.

## Death

David Warner died of a cancer-related illness at Denville Hall, in Northwood, London, on 24 July 2022, aged 80. He had been diagnosed with cancer 18 months prior, but kept it private.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1962 | We Joined the Navy | Sailor painting ship | Uncredited |
| 1963 | The King's Breakfast | 1st trumpeter | Short film |
| 1963 | Tom Jones | Blifil | |
| 1966 | Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment | Morgan Delt | |
| 1967 | The Deadly Affair | Edward II | Uncredited |
| 1968 | The Bofors Gun | Terry "Lance Bar" Evans | |
| 1968 | Work Is a Four-Letter Word | Valentine Brose | |
| 1968 | A Midsummer Night's Dream | Lysander | |
| 1968 | The Fixer | Count Odoevsky | |
| 1968 | The Sea Gull | Konstantin Treplev | |
| 1969 | Michael Kohlhaas - Der Rebell | Michael Kohlhaas | |
| 1970 | The Ballad of Cable Hogue | Joshua Duncan Sloane | |
| 1970 | Perfect Friday | Lord Nicholas "Nick" Dorset | |
| 1971 | Straw Dogs | Henry Niles | Uncredited |
| 1973 | A Doll's House | Torvald Helmer | |
| 1974 | From Beyond the Grave | Edward Charlton | Segment: "The Gate Crasher" |
| 1974 | Little Malcolm | Dennis Charles Nipple | |
| 1975 | Mister Quilp | Sampson Brass | |
| 1976 | The Omen | Keith Jennings | |
| 1977 | Providence | Kevin Langham, Kevin Woodford | |
| 1977 | Cross of Iron | Hauptmann Kiesel | |
| 1977 | Age of Innocence | Henry Buchanan | |
| 1977 | Silver Bears | Agha Firdausi | |
| 1977 | The Disappearance | Burbank | |
| 1978 | The Thirty Nine Steps | Sir Edmund Appleton | |
| 1979 | Nightwing | Phillip Payne | |
| 1979 | The Concorde ... Airport '79 | Peter O'Neill | |
| 1979 | Time After Time | John Stevenson / Jack the Ripper | |
| 1980 | The Island | John David Nau | |
| 1981 | Time Bandits | Evil | |
| 1981 | The French Lieutenant's Woman | Murphy | |
| 1982 | Tron | Ed Dillinger, Sark, Master Control Program | |
| 1983 | The Man with Two Brains | Alfred Necessiter | |
| 1984 | The Company of Wolves | Father | |
| 1984 | Summer Lightning | George Millington | |
| 1987 | Hansel and Gretel | Father | |
| 1987 | My Best Friend Is a Vampire | Leopold McCarthy | |
| 1988 | Waxwork | David Lincon | |
| 1988 | Mr. North | Doctor McPherson | |
| 1988 | Office Party | Eugene Brackin | |
| 1988 | Hanna's War | Capt. Julian Simon | |
| 1988 | Magdalene | Baron von Seidl | |
| 1988 | Keys to Freedom | Nigel Heath | |
| 1989 | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier | St. John Talbot | |
| 1989 | Grave Secrets | Carl Farnsworth | |
| 1989 | Tripwire | Josef Szabo | |
| 1989 | Mortal Passions | Doctor Terrence Powers | |
| 1991 | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze | Prof. Jordan Perry | |
| 1991 | Blue Tornado | Commander Heller | |
| 1991 | Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | Chancellor Gorkon | |
| 1992 | The Lost World | Professor Summerlee | |
| 1992 | The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter | Chancellor Thayer | |
| 1993 | Quest of the Delta Knights | Baydool, Lord Vultare, Narrator | |
| 1993 | H.P. Lovecraft's Necronomicon | Dr Madden | |
| 1993 | Pretty Princess | Prince Max | |
| 1994 | Felony | Cooper | |
| 1994 | Tryst | Jason | |
| 1994 | Inner Sanctum II | Dr Lamont | |
| 1994 | In the Mouth of Madness | Dr Wrenn | |
| 1995 | Ice Cream Man | Reverend Langley | |
| 1995 | Final Equinox | Shilow | |
| 1995 | Luise and the Jackpot | The Butler | |
| 1996 | Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny | Eugene Botkin | |
| 1996 | Naked Souls | Everett Longstreet | |
| 1996 | Seven Servants | Blade | |
| 1996 | The Leading Man | Tod | |
| 1997 | Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin | The Narrator | |
| 1997 | Money Talks | Barclay (James' Boss) | |
| 1997 | Titanic | Spicer Lovejoy | |
| 1997 | Scream 2 | Gus Gold | |
| 1998 | The Last Leprechaun | Simpson | |
| 1999 | Wing Commander | Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn | |
| 2000 | Back to the Secret Garden | Dr. Snodgrass | |
| 2001 | Planet of the Apes | Senator Sandar | |
| 2001 | The Little Unicorn | Ted Regan | |
| 2001 | Superstition | Judge Padovani | |
| 2002 | The Code Conspiracy | Professor | |
| 2003 | Kiss of Life | Pap | |
| 2004 | Straight into Darkness | Deacon | |
| 2004 | Cortex | Master of Organisation | |
| 2004 | Ladies in Lavender | Francis Mead | |
| 2004 | Avatar | Joseph Lau | |
| 2005 | The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse | Erasmus Pea | |
| 2010 | Black Death | Abbot | |
| 2010 | Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey | Void | Voice |
| 2011 | A Thousand Kisses Deep | Max | |
| 2013 | Before I Sleep | Eugene Devlin | |
| 2013 | Old Habits | John | Short film |
| 2017 | You, Me and Him | Michael Miller | |
| 2018 | Mary Poppins Returns | Admiral Boom | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1962 | Madhouse on Castle Street | Lennie | Videotaped television play |
| 1963 | Z-Cars | Gee | Episode: "The Hitch-Hiker" |
| 1963 | Armchair Theatre | Steve | Episode: "The Push Over" |
| 1965 | The Wars of the Roses | King Henry VI | Miniseries |
| 1970 | NBC Experiment in Television | Dominic Boot | Episode: "The Engagement" |
| 1975 | Three Comedies of Marriage | Bobby | Episode: "Bobby Bluesocks" |
| 1976 | Clouds of Glory | William Wordsworth | 2 episodes |
| 1977 | The Blue Hotel | Swede | Television film |
| 1978 | Holocaust | Reinhard Heydrich | Miniseries |
| 1979 | S.O.S. Titanic | Lawrence Beesley | Television film |
| 1981 | Masada | Falco | ABC miniseries |
| 1982 | Nancy Astor | Philip Kerr | 4 episodes |
| 1982–1983 | Marco Polo | Rustichello da Pisa | Miniseries |
| 1983 | Remington Steele | Alexander Sebastien | 2 episodes |
| 1983 | Hart to Hart | Mr. Bowlly | Episode: "Two Harts Are Better Than One" |
| 1984 | Charlie | Charlie Alexander | Television film |
| 1984 | A Christmas Carol | Bob Cratchit | Television film |
| 1984 | Frankenstein | The Creature | Television film |
| 1984 | Faerie Tale Theatre | Zandor, the Innkeeper | Episode: "The Boy Who Left Home to Find Out About the Shivers" |
| 1985 | Love's Labour's Lost | Don Armado | BBC Television Shakespeare |
| 1985 | Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil | Reinhard Heydrich | Television film |
| 1985 | Hold the Back Page | Ken Wordsworth | Television mini-series |
| 1987 | Crossbow | The Alchemist | Episode: "Vogel" |
| 1988 | Worlds Beyond | Ken Larkin | Episode: "Reflections of Evil" |
| 1990 | Murder, She Wrote | Justin Hunnicut | Episode: "The Szechuan Dragon" |
| 1990 | Perry Mason: The Case of the Poisoned Pen | Bradley Thompson | Television film |
| 1990 | Spymaker: The Secret Life of Ian Fleming | Admiral Godfrey | Television film |
| 1990 | Father Dowling Investigates | Sir Arthur Wedgeworth | Episode: "The Murder Weekend Mystery" |
| 1991 | Uncle Vanya | Ivan "Uncle Vanya" Voynitsky | Television film |
| 1991 | Cast a Deadly Spell | Amos Hackshaw | Television film |
| 1991 | Twin Peaks | Thomas Eckhardt | 3 episodes |
| 1992 | Star Trek: The Next Generation | Gul Madred | Episode: "Chain of Command" |
| 1992 | Tales from the Crypt | Alan Getz | Episode: "The New Arrival" |
| 1992 | Captain Planet and the Planeteers | Zarm | Voice, episode: "The Dream Machine" |
| 1992–1994 | The Legend of Prince Valiant | Duke Richard of Lionsgate , additional voices | Voice, 7 episodes |
| 1992–1995 | Batman: The Animated Series | Ra's al Ghul | Voice, recurring role (5 episodes) |
| 1993 | Perry Mason: The Case of the Skin-Deep Scandal | Harley Griswold | Television film |
| 1993 | Dinosaurs | Spirit of the Tree | Voice, episode: "If I Were a Tree" |
| 1993 | Wild Palms | Eli Levitt | Miniseries |
| 1993 | Body Bags | Dr. Lock | Television film |
| 1993 | Murder, She Wrote | Insp. McLaughlin | Episode: "A Death in Hong Kong" |
| 1993 | The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. | Winston Smiles | Episode: "Deep in the Heart of Dixie" |
| 1993–1994 | The Larry Sanders Show | Richard Germain | 2 episodes |
| 1994 | Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman | Jor-El | Episode: "The Foundling" |
| 1994 | Babylon 5 | Aldous Gajic | Episode: "Grail" |
| 1994 | Mighty Max | Talon | Voice, episode: "Souls of Talon" |
| 1995 | Biker Mice from Mars | Ice Breaker | Voice, episode: "Below the Horizon" |
| 1995 | The Choir | Alexander Troy | 5 episodes |
| 1995 | Iron Man | Arthur Dearborn | Voice, episode: "Cell of Iron" |
| 1995 | Gargoyles | Archmage | Voice, 4 episodes |
| 1995–1997 | Spider-Man | Herbert Landon | Voice, 12 episodes |
| 1995–1997 | Freakazoid! | The Lobe | Voice, 10 episodes |
| 1996 | Beastmaster III: The Eye of Braxus | Lord Agon | Television film |
| 1997 | Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys | The Glyph | Voice, episode: "Rhesus Pieces" |
| 1997 | Perversions of Science | Dr. Nordhoff | Episode: "The Exile" |
| 1997 | Roar | Narrator | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 1997 | A Mind to Kill | David Caulfield | Episode: "Green Wounds" |
| 1997–2001 | Men in Black: The Series | Alpha | Voice, 9 episodes |
| 1998 | Three | The Man | 2 episodes |
| 1998 | Houdini | Arthur Conan Doyle | Television film |
| 1998 | Toonsylvania | Victor Frankenstein | Voice, main role |
| 1998 | A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving | The Narrator | Television special |
| 1999 | Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine for You | The Narrator | Television special |
| 1999 | The Outer Limits | Inspector Harold Langford | 2 episodes |
| 1999 | Total Recall 2070 | Felix Latham | 2 episodes |
| 1999 | Superman: The Animated Series | Ra's al Ghul | Voice, episode: "The Demon Reborn" |
| 1999 | The Hunger | Vassu | Episode: "Nunc Dimittis" |
| 2000 | Cinderella | Martin | Television film |
| 2000 | Batman Beyond | Ra's al Ghul | Voice, episode: "Out of the Past" |
| 2000 | In the Beginning | Eliezer | Miniseries |
| 2000 | Buzz Lightyear of Star Command | Lord Angstrom | Voice, 2 episodes |
| 2000 | The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne | Arago | 2 episodes |
| 2000 | Love & Money | Hugh | Episode: "Diagnosis: Effie" |
| 2001 | Hornblower | Captain James Sawyer | Miniseries, 2 episodes |
| 2001–2003 | The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy | Nergal | Voice, 3 episodes |
| 2002 | Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde | Sir Danvers Carew | Television film |
| 2002–2003 | What's New, Scooby-Doo? | Old Man | Voice, 3 episodes |
| 2004 | Conviction | Lenny Fairburn | Supporting role |
| 2004 | Agatha Christie's Marple | Luther Crackenthorpe | Episode: "4.50 from Paddington" |
| 2006 | Sweeney Todd | Sir John Fielding | Television film |
| 2006 | Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire | Claudius Pulcher | Episode: "Revolution" |
| 2006 | Terry Pratchett's Hogfather | Lord Downey | Miniseries |
| 2006 | Perfect Parents | Father Thomas | Television film |
| 2007 | Wild at Heart | Gerald | Season 2, episode 8 |
| 2008 | In Love with Barbara | Louis Mountbatten | Television film |
| 2008–2015 | Wallander | Povel Wallander | 5 episodes |
| 2009 | Doctor Who: Dreamland | Lord Azlok | Voice, 6 episodes |
| 2011 | Mad Dogs | Mackenzie | 3 episodes |
| 2012 | The Secret of Crickley Hall | Percy Judd | All 3 episodes |
| 2012 | Midsomer Murders | Peter Fossett | Episode: "Death in the Slow Lane" |
| 2013 | Doctor Who | Professor Grisenko | Episode: "Cold War" |
| 2014 | Penny Dreadful | Abraham Van Helsing | 2 episodes |
| 2015 | Inside No.9 | Justice Pike | Episode: "The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge" |
| 2015 | Lewis | Donald Lockston | Episode: "What Lies Tangled" |
| 2015–2016 | The Amazing World of Gumball | Rob, Dr. Wrecker | Voice, 5 episodes |
| 2016 | Ripper Street | Rabbi Max Steiner | 3 episodes |
| 2018 | The Alienist | Professor Cavanaugh | Episode: "Hildebrandt's Starling" |
| 2020 | Teen Titans Go! | The Lobe | Voice, episode: "Huggbees" |
| 2021 | Elliott from Earth | | Voice |

### Audio dramas

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 2003 | Doctor Who: Sympathy for the Devil | The Doctor | |
| 2005 | The Club of Queer Trades | Basil Grant | BBC Radio drama in six parts |
| 2007 | Doctor Who: Circular Time | Sir Isaac Newton | |
| 2008 | Bernice Summerfield: The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel | Mycroft Holmes | |
| 2008 | Doctor Who: Empathy Games | Coordinator Angell | |
| 2008 | Doctor Who: Masters of War | The Doctor | |
| 2010 | Dark Shadows: Kingdom of the Dead | Seraph | Four-part series |
| 2010 | Doctor Who: Deimos | Prof. Schooner | |
| 2010 | Graceless | Daniel | Series 1 |
| 2011 | Doctor Who: The Children of Seth | Siris | |
| 2011–2020 | The Scarifyers | Harry Crow | BBC Radio 4 Extra |
| 2012 | Doctor Who: The Rosemariners | Biggs | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Sands of Life | Cuthbert | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: War Against the Laan | Cuthbert | |
| 2013 | Doctor Who: The Dalek Contract, The Final Phase | Cuthbert | |
| 2015 | The Confessions of Dorian Gray: The Spirits of Christmas | Santa Claus | |
| 2016 | The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield | The Doctor | Volume Three: The Unbound Universe |
| 2016 | Doctor Who: The Pursuit of History, Casualties of Time | Cuthbert | |
| 2016 | Torchwood: Ghost Mission | OAP | |
| 2016 | The Torchwood Archive | The Committee | |
| 2017 | King Lear | King Lear | |
| 2017 | The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield | The Doctor | Volume Four: Ruler of the Universe |
| 2018 | Bernice Summerfield: The Story So Far: Volume Two | The Doctor | |
| 2018 | Shilling & Sixpence Investigate: Series One | Desmund Shilling | |
| 2018 | Jago & Litefoot Forever | Dr. Luke Betterman | |
| 2019 | The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield | The Doctor | Volume Five: Buried Memories |
| 2019 | Torchwood: God Among Us: Another Man's Shoes | The Committee | |
| 2019 | Torchwood: God Among Us: Eye of the Storm | The Committee | |
| 2020 | The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield | The Doctor | Volume Six: Lost in Translation |
| 2021 | The Box of Delights | Arnold of Todi | |
| 2022 | The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield: | The Doctor | Volume Seven: Blood & Steel (posthumous release) |
| 2022 | Shilling & Sixpence Investigate | Desmund Shilling | Series Two: In Loving Memory (posthumous release) |
| 2023 | Doctor Who: Once and Future | The Doctor | Part 7: Time Lord Immemorial (posthumous release) |

### Video games

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1996 | Privateer 2: The Darkening | Rhinehart | Live action |
| 1997 | Fallout | Morpheus | |
| 1999 | Descent 3 | Dravis | |
| 2000 | Star Wars: Force Commander | Grand General Brashin | |
| 2000 | Star Trek: Klingon Academy | Chancellor Gorkon | Live action |
| 2000 | Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn | Jon Irenicus | |
| 2016 | Baldur's Gate: Siege of Dragonspear | Jon Irenicus | |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Category | Project | Result |
| 1967 | BAFTA Award | Best Actor in a Leading Role | Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment | Nominated |
| 1969 | German Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role | German Film Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role | Michael Kohlhaas - Der Rebell | Nominated |
| 1978 | Primetime Emmy Award | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special | Holocaust | Nominated |
| 1979 | Saturn Award | Best Supporting Actor | Time After Time | Nominated |
| 1981 | Primetime Emmy Award | Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special | Masada | Won |
| 1997 | Screen Actors Guild Award | Outstanding Cast in a Motion Picture | Titanic | Nominated |
| 1999 | Annie Awards | Outstanding Voice Acting by a Male Performer | Toonsylvania | Nominated |
| 2001 | Annie Awards | Outstanding Voice Acting by a Male Performer | The New Batman Adventures | Nominated |