David Warner David Warner ( born July 29 , 1941 ) , who voiced Morpheus in " Fallout " , is an English actor known for playing sinister or villainous characters . Early life . Warner was born in Manchester , Lancashire , England , the son of Doreen ( née Hattersley ) and Herbert Simon Warner , who was a nursing home proprietor . He was born out of wedlock and was frequently taken to be brought up by each of his parents , eventually settling with his Russian Jewish father and his stepmother . He was educated at Feldon School , Leamington Spa , Warwickshire and trained for the stage at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA ) , London . 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 , 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 Aldwych Theatre , London , 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 1 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 reprized in the 1968 film adaptation Work Is a Four - Letter Word . He first played the title role in Hamlet at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in the 1965 repertoire . This production was 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 has 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 ( in 2005 , see details below ) ; and also Major Barbara on Broadway . 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 . Another early television role came when he starred alongside Bob Dylan in the 1963 play The 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 Chekov ' 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 , perhaps one of Warner ' s ( and Peckinpah ' s ) least known or appreciated films . In horror movies 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 1990 film Tripwire . Since then , he has often played villains , in films such as The Thirty - Nine Steps ( 1978 ) , Time After Time ( 1979 ) , Time Bandits ( 1981 ) , Tron ( 1982 ) , 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 in the animated Men in Black series and the Archmage in Disney ' s Gargoyles and finally 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 of A Christmas Carol . In addition , he played German SS General Reinhard Heydrich both in the movie Hitler ' s SS : Portrait in Evil , and the television mini - series Holocaust ; as sinister millionaire recluse Amos Hackshaw in HBO ' s original 1991 film Cast A Deadly Spell , who plots to use the world ' s most powerful spell book fallout vo - the Necronomicon - to unleash the Lovecraftian Old Ones from eternal imprisonment upon the Earth . In 1981 , Warner received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special for Masada as Pomponius Falco . He subsequently appeared in movies such as Star Trek V : The Final Frontier , Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country , Avatar , Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II : The Secret of the Ooze ( 1991 ) , Titanic ( the third time he has appeared in a film about RMS Titanic ) , Scream 2 , and more recently in independent television ' s adaptation of the Hornblower series ( which starred Ioan Gruffudd , Warner ' s co - star on Titanic ) . He appeared in three episodes of the second season of Twin Peaks ( 1991 ) . He also continues to play classical roles . In " Chain of Command " , a 6th - season episode of Star Trek : The Next Generation , he was a Cardassian interrogator . He based his portrayal on the evil " re - educator " from 1984 . His less - spectacular roles included a double - role in the campy 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 movie version of Wing Commander . On the " nice guy " side , he played the charismatic Aldous Gajic in Grail , a first - season episode of Babylon 5 and Chancellor Gorkon in Star Trek VI : The Undiscovered Country . He also portrayed the sympathetic character of Capt . Kiesel in Sam Peckinpah ' s Cross of Iron . In an episode of Lois & Clark he played Superman ' s deceased Kryptonian father Jor - El , who appeared to his son through holographic recordings . He has also played ambiguous " nice guys " like vampire bat exterminator Philip Payne in 1979 ' s Nightwing ; and Dr . Richard Madden in 1994 ' s Necronomicon : Book of the Dead , who had to kill to sustain his life , but was a generally nice person . He was the supporting role in Seven Servants by Daryush Shokof where he was to assist his long time best friend " Archie " in peaceful death with " unity " of man - kind in vision as he bodily " connected " to Archie played by the legendary Anthony Quinn in 1996 . He also appeared as mad scientist Dr . Alfred Necessiter in the film The Man with Two Brains in 1983 alongside Steve Martin and Kathleen Turner . Voice work . Warner contributed " Sonnet 25 " to the 2002 compilation album , When Love Speaks ( EMI Classics ) , which consists of Shakespearean sonnets and play excerpts as interpreted by famous actors and musicians . He has 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 . He also guest starred in the BBC Radio 4 Sci - Fi comedy Nebulous ( 2005 ) as Professor Nebulous ' arch - enemy Dr . Joseph Klench . In all these productions Warner has 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 . 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 is due to appear as the voice of The Viperox , an alien race appearing in the animated Doctor Who serial Dreamland , announced on the BBC Doctor Who website and in a BBC Press Release dated 21 August 2009 . He has also contributed voice acting to a number of computer games , most notably playing the villain Jon Irenicus in Baldur ' s Gate II : Shadows of Amn and Morpheus in Fallout . He was also approached to reprise his role as Tron ' s Sark in the video game Kingdom Hearts II , but was unavailable ( but his likeness was provided ) and replaced by veteran voice actor Corey Burton . Warner also did voice work on the short - lived FOX animated show Toonsylvania as Dr . Vic Frankenstein . On the Cartoon Network animated television series The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy , David provided the voice of Nergal , a demonic creature from the Earth ' s core that is obsessed with making friends . He voiced the character until 2003 , when he was replaced by Martin Jarvis . He also voiced one of Batman ' s greater enemies , Ra ' s Al Ghul , in Batman : The Animated Series , Superman : The Animated Series , and an episode of Batman Beyond . He also voiced The Lobe on Freakazoid . Career renaissance . n May 2005 at the Chichester Festival Theatre Warner made a return to Shakespeare , playing the title role in Steven Pimlott ' s unsettling 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 Sky1 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 - making him the only British actor to have played Hamlet , Lear and Falstaff in major theatrical productions . 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 sci - fi actress and Superman star Sarah Douglas , Rupert Degas , 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 . [ 5 ] He plays " Povel Wallander " , the father of Kurt Wallander , in BBC One ' s Wallander .