David Warner, a versatile actor whose career spanned six decades with roles on stage, television and film, has died aged 80.
The RADA-trained performer played leading roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company with his 1965 Hamlet described as “the epitome of 1960s youth”.
The young actor also appeared opposite Helen Mirren and Diana Rigg in the 1968 film of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. The 1970s often saw him cast as the villain with roles in Straw Dogs (1971), The Omen (1976) and Time After Time (1979).
Sci-fi fans were familiar with his performances in Terry Gilliam’s Time Bandit’s (1981), computer movie Tron (1982) and Tim Burton’s 2001 remake of Planet of the Apes.
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