David Warner

David Warner (29 July 1941BFI-24 July 2022BBC News) was a noted character actor who has performed in a number of Doctor Who related productions for the BBC and Big Finish.
Warner was best known to Doctor Who enthusiasts 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 in the Doctor Who universe 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.
Warner also narrated the audiobook release of the Twelfth Doctor novel Royal Blood, written by Una McCormack.
He was one of the actors considered for the part of Borusa in a television movie project that eventually became Doctor Who.http://www.shannonsullivan.com/drwho/serials/tvm.html He was also considered for the roles of Valgard in Terminus (TCH 37), Commander Vorshak in Warriors of the Deep (TCH 38), Orcini in Revelation of the Daleks, (TCH 41) Merdeen in The Mysterious Planet (TCH 42) and Ratcliffe in Remembrance of the Daleks. (TCH 44). Pip and Jane Baker also suggested him for the role of the Seventh Doctor. (DCOM: The Last Chance Saloon)
== Career highlights ==
Outside of Doctor Who, Warner was 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.
== Personal life ==
He was the partner of Bernice Summerfield actress Lisa Bowerman.Big Finish Podcast: 2022-07-31 Bernard and David
== Credits ==
As the Unbound Doctor
=== Audio ===
==== Doctor Who Unbound ====
* Sympathy for the Devil
* Masters of War
==== The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield ====
* The Unbound Universe
** The Library in the Body
** Planet X
** The Very Dark Thing
** The Emporium at the End
* Ruler of the Universe
** The City and the Clock
** Asking for a Friend
** Truant
** The True Saviour of the Universe
* Buried Memories
** Pride of the Lampian
** Clear History
** Dead and Breakfast
** Burrowed Time
* Lost in Translation
** Have I Told You Lately?
** The Undying Truth
** Inertia
** Gallifrey
* Blood & Steel (released posthumous)
** Willkommen
** Wulf
** Übermensch
** Auf Wiedersehen
==== Bernice Summerfield: The Story So Far ====
* The Angel of History
==== Once and Future ====
* Time Lord Immemorial - credited as Alternate Universe Doctor (released posthumous)
As Cuthbert
==== The Fourth Doctor Adventures ====
* The Sands of Life / War Against the Laan
* The Dalek Contract / The Final Phase
* The Pursuit of History / Casualties of Time
As Luke Betterman
==== Jago and Litefoot ====
* The Devil's Dicemen
* The Mourning After
* The Museum of Curiosities
* How the Other Half Lives
* Too Much Reality
* Jago & Litefoot Forever
Other Roles
=== Television ===
==== Doctor Who ====
* Dreamland - Lord Azlok
* Cold War - Professor Grisenko
=== Audio ===
==== Doctor Who Main Range ====
* Summer - Sir Isaac Newton
==== Special Releases ====
* The Worlds of Big Finish
** The Adventure of the Bloomsbury Bomber - Mycroft Holmes
==== The Lost Stories ====
* The Children of Seth - Autarch Siris
* The Rosemariners - Professor Arnold Biggs
=== The Eighth Doctor Adventures ====
* Deimos - Professor Boston Schooner
==== The War Doctor ====
* Legion of the Lost - Shadovar
==== The Early Adventures ====
* The Black Hole - Narrator
==== The Companion Chronicles ====
* Empathy Games - Co-ordinator Angell
* The Crumbling Magician - Allie Kay
==== Bernice Summerfield ====
* The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel - Mycroft Holmes
==== Iris Wildthyme ====
* Dark Side - Edward
==== Graceless ====
As Daniel
* The Sphere
* The Fog
* The End (also as The Grace)
==== Torchwood ====
* Ghost Mission - OAP
* The Torchwood Archive - The Committee
==== God Among Us ====
* God Among Us 2
** Another Man's Shoes - The Committee
** Eye of the Storm - The Committee
=== Audiobook Readings ===
==== BBC New Series Adventures ====
* Plague of the Cybermen
* Royal Blood
== External links ==
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== Footnotes ==
Category:Doctor Who guest actors
Category:Big Finish Doctor Who Unbound voice actors
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