![]() ![]() Most people will know him from the horror classic The Omen (1976) in which he played the ill fated photographer Keith Jennings never has the phrase “just a little off the top, please” been more appropriate! However, just because he is most recognised from that role doesn’t mean he was limited to the genre. He focused on film acting and it was just short of thirty years before he returned to the stage. I wanted to make them come back again, of their own free will.” Unfortunately, a disastrous production of I, Claudius in 1973 meant that Warner developed stage fright. He said “I thought surely kids today were the same as I was, not wanting Shakespeare shoved down their throats. Warner played Shakespeare’s prince as a student radical while it may have ticked off the older generation it resonated with the younger theatre goers. He spent most of his time on the stage during the sixties and took his Hamlet in a direction which may have upset some of the traditionalists. 1966 – Morgan, A Suitable Case For Treatment The following year saw him getting the title role in Karel Reisz’s Morgan, A Suitable Case For Treatment for which he was nominated for a best actor BAFTA. However, this didn’t stop him being cast as the lead in a 1965 RSC production of Hamlet and he rapidly became regarded as the finest stage Hamlet of his generation. Breaking ThroughĪt the beginning he wasn’t confident of his success as an actor as he was tall, and unsure of his looks and ability. Despite all this upheaval, he managed to get himself a place at RADA and eventually went on to join the RSC. His Russian-Jewish father packed him off to a variety of boarding schools and his mother disappeared altogether during his teens. ![]() Warner himself described his childhood as “troubled” and “messy”. Rather scandalously for the time, his parents were unmarried and he spent time between them. David Warner – Early Days In 1963 at the RST in Stratford on Avon with Ian Holm and Ian Richardson – so much talent in such a small place.īorn in Manchester in 1941 his early life could generously be described as unsettled.
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