David Warner David Hattersley Warner is an English actor who has appeared in two " Star Trek " movies and a two - part episode of . He first played the part of Ambassador St . John Talbot in in . In , he returned to the " Star Trek " franchise to play Klingon chancellor Gorkon in . The following year , he portrayed the Cardassian Gul Madred in the TNG sixth season episodes and . He reprised the role of Chancellor Gorkon for the video game " " . Warner took over the role of Madred on three days notice and , though he had previously appeared in and , he knew nothing about the Cardassians from " The Next Generation " . As he recalled in a 2011 interview ; " " I took over on three days ' notice . It was another makeup job . It was with Pat Stewart , who ' s an old colleague . It was great to be a part of that . I thought , " Oh , I ' ve done two of the others , the old classic ones , and here I am in " The Next Generation " . I ' ll go for it . " So I wasn ' t aware of it , of the Cardassians . I didn ' t know their history at all , except of course , that they weren ' t very nice . " " Due to the short time in which he had to prepare , Warner also did not have enough time to memorize his lines . As such , they were written down on cue cards . As he commented ; " " There was too much technobabble and dialogue that doesn ' t come naturally to me . So they wrote everything up for me . I don ' t mind people knowing this . Every line I said , I actually was reading it over Patrick ' s shoulder or they put it down there for me to do it . " " Warner was also approached by the production staff for the role of Akorem Laan in . Ira Steven Behr commented , " " Personally , I wanted David Warner as Akorem . He wanted to do it , but his wife talked him out of it because he was on vacation and she didn ' t want him to work . To this day I still wish David Warner was in it . " " ( " Captains ' Logs Supplemental - The Unauthorized Guide to the New Trek Voyages " ) Life and career . Born in Manchester , England , Warner trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ( RADA ) before becoming a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) . As part of the RSC , he earned acclaim for his portrayal in the title role of " Hamlet " in 1965 . In a revival of the play the following year , Warner resumed the role of Hamlet while Patrick Stewart played the role of the Player King . Stewart has stated that he enjoyed being on stage with Warner , whom he called his hero . Stewart and Warner later worked together on " Star Trek : The Next Generation " . In the early 1960s , Warner made the move from stage to film , making his feature debut as the hapless Blifil in " Tom Jones " , which won the 1963 Academy Award for Best Picture . In 1966 , he starred in the title role of " Morgan ! " , an oddball artist obsessed with and gorillas . His performance in this film made him a star in Britain . Two years later , Warner made his United States debut with a supporting role in John Frankenheimer ' s drama " The Fixer " , co - starring TOS guest actor David Opatoshu . This was followed in 1970 with a role in the Western comedy " The Ballad of Cable Hogue " , which would be the first of three collaborations with acclaimed director Sam Peckinpah . The second would be the following year in " Straw Dogs " , a film which was ironically banned from being released on video in Warner ' s native England until 2002 . Warner ' s third and final project with Peckinpah was 1977 ' s " Cross of Iron " . Prior to co - starring together on " Star Trek VI " , David Warner and Christopher Plummer ( who played General ) worked together on the 1977 film " The Disappearance " . The two later reunited for the video game " Star Trek : Klingon Academy " . In the US , Warner has become well - known for his role as the unfortunate Keith Jennings , a photo - journalist who becomes one of the evil Damien ' s victims , in the classic horror movie " The Omen " . Another role for which he is remembered is that of Jack the Ripper , opposite Malcolm McDowell ' s H . G . Wells , in writer / director Nicholas Meyer ' s acclaimed 1979 science fiction adventure " Time After Time " . For his performance in this film , Warner was nominated for a Saturn Award from the Academy of Science Fiction , Fantasy & Horror Films . Since then , he has become well identified with villainous roles , typically in " genre " films . In the 1980s alone he played : the role of the " Evil Genius " in Terry Gilliam ' s sci - fi comedy " Time Bandits " ; the villainous ENCOM executive Ed Dillinger , his evil creation , Sark , and voiced the Master Control Program in the Disney ' s 1982 cult sci - fi film " Tron " ( co - starring Dan Shor , Vince Deadrick , Jr . , Tony Brubaker , and Erik Cord ) ; mad scientist Alfred Necessiter in the 1983 sci - fi comedy " The Man with Two Brains " ( with James Cromwell , Jeffrey Combs , and Earl Boen ) ; and a demented vampire hunter determined to kill the young protagonist in the 1988 horror comedy " My Best Friend is a Vampire " ( co - starring actor Rene Auberjonois ) . However , he did continue to play more benign characters , such as Bob Cratchit in the 1984 TV version of " A Christmas Carol " , starring George C . Scott in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge . Warner ' s other film credits during the 1980s include " The Island " ( 1980 ) , " The French Lieutenant ' s Woman " ( 1981 ) , " The Company of Wolves " ( 1984 ) , and , in 1988 , " Mr . North " ( with Virginia Madsen ) and " Spies Inc . " ( with Alice Krige ) . He co - starred with guest player Zach Galligan in two films : " Waxwork " in 1988 and " Mortal Passions " in 1989 . Warner continued portraying antagonists in films such as " Tripwire " ( 1990 , with Meg Foster ) , " Quest of the Delta Knights " ( 1993 , with Brigid Brannagh ) , and , most notably , in the 1997 blockbuster hit " Titanic " , in which he played slick manservant and bodyguard Spicer Lovejoy . That film had Jenette Goldstein in a small role , and music by James Horner . Warner also played the cruel James Sawyer , captain of the HMS " Renown " , in the " Horatio Hornblower " TV movie series starring Ioan Gruffudd . His penchant for villainous roles carried over to voice acting , most notably as the mystical Ra ' s al Ghul on " Batman : The Animated Series " ( appearing in episodes opposite Brock Peters , Robert Costanzo , Nichelle Nichols , Loren Lester , and Malcolm McDowell again ) ; the sorcerer villain Jon Irenicus in the computer game " Forgotten Realms : Baldur ' s Gate II – Shadows of Amn " ; the mutant Herbert Landon on " Spider - Man : The Animated Series " ; as The Lobe on " Freakazoid ! " ; rogue agent Alpha on " Men in Black : The Series " ; and the evil Doctor Klench in Radio 4 audio drama / comedy " Nebulous " . Warner did play the occasional " good guy " role , however . Some examples include Professor Jordan Perry in " Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II : The Secret of the Ooze " ( 1991 , co - starring Josh Pais , Michelan Sisti , Frank Welker , Brian Tochi , Lee Spencer , and Lisa Chess ) , and Adouis Gajic in a first season episode of the sci - fi television series " Babylon 5 " ( co - starring with Bill Mumy and Jim Norton ) . He also played the protagonist in " Doctor Who " on audio in two adventures entitled " Sympathy for the Devil " and " Masters of War " , where he portrayed an alternate version of the Doctor ' s third incarnation . Other notable films in which Warner has appeared include " The Lost World " ( with John Rhys - Davies ) and its sequel , " Return to the Lost World " ( both 1992 ) , " In the Mouth of Madness " ( 1995 , with John Glover ) , " Naked Souls " ( 1995 , with Clayton Rohner and Dean Stockwell ) , " Ice Cream Man " ( 1995 , starring Clint Howard in the title role ) , " Money Talks " ( 1997 ) , " Scream 2 " ( 1997 ) , the 2001 remake of " Planet of the Apes " ( co - starring Cary - Hiroyuki Tagawa and Erick Avari ) , and " Ladies in Lavender " ( 2004 ) . He also played Admiral Geoffrey Tolwyn in 1999 ' s " Wing Commander " ; his " Time After Time " co - star , fellow " Star Trek " film actor , and fellow Englishman Malcolm McDowell had originally played the role of Tolwyn in the video games on which the film was based . On television , Warner has participated in numerous mini - series . Among these are 1978 ' s " Holocaust " ( co - starring Fritz Weaver ) , for which Warner received an Emmy Award nomination as " Schutzstaffel " and " Gestapo " Chief Reinhard Heydrich . He also starred in 1981 ' s " Masada " ( for which Warner won an Emmy Award ) , 1982 ' s " Marco Polo " ( in which DS9 guest star Kenneth Marshall played the titular character and TOS star Leonard Nimoy appeared ) , and 1993 ' s " Wild Palms " ( co - starring fellow " Star Trek VI " star Kim Cattrall as well as Brad Dourif , Bob Gunton , Bebe Neuwirth , and Charles Rocket ) . He has also made guest appearances on " Murder , She Wrote " , " Twin Peaks " , and " Lois & Clark " , among other popular shows , and was nominated for an Annie Award for his portrayal of Doctor Vic Frankenstein on the animated series " Toonsylvania " . In the mid - 90s , he voiced the character Arthur Dearborn in an episode of " The Marvel Action Hour : Iron Man " , an animated TV show which regularly featured the voice talent of James Avery as War Machine ; Avery as War Machine made a two - part guest - appearance on Fox Kids ' " Spider - Man " animated series , which also occasionally featured Warner as the voice of Herbert Landon . In 1998 , Warner starred as The Man in the short - lived MTV / WB spy series " Three " alongside Bumper Robinson . Warner is one of the many " Star Trek " performers to lend their voices to the animated series " Gargoyles " . Others who have done so include Jonathan Frakes , Marina Sirtis , LeVar Burton , Nichelle Nichols , Michael Dorn , Avery Brooks , Brent Spiner , John Rhys - Davies , and W . Morgan Sheppard . Other " Trek " connections . Additional projects in which Warner worked with fellow " Star Trek " alumni include :