David Warner , a British playing image who ’s genre role are almost innumerable to count , has fall out away at the age of 80 . He passed from a cancer - related malady , according to theBBC .
As a unseasoned gentleman’s gentleman , David Warner enrol at the Royal Academy for Dramatic Arts in London , get his start on the level before switch gear mechanism to film . He quickly became an in - demand case player and starred in legion literary genre motion picture . At the time of his passing he has over 200 credited acting roles .
He is best remember as playing villains , as he stood at an imposing six - groundwork two . Genre fan would discern Warner ’s roles from the Star Trek filmsThe Final FrontierandThe Undiscovered Country , where he play St. John Talbot and Chancellor Gorkon , respectively . Furthermore , Warner became a Trek guest star icon when he seem in thelegendary TNG two - parter“Chain of Command , ” playing the Cardassian interrogator Gul Madred in a tense tie with Jean - Luc Picard .
David Warner as Chancellor GorkonPhoto: Star Trek
Other memorable Warner roles across genre include Professor Perry in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II : secret of the Ooze , Jack the Ripper in Time After Time , Evil in Time Bandits , and Senator Sandar in Tim Burton ’s Planet of the Apes . He also star in legion revulsion roles , including the cult classic Waxwork , From Beyond the Grave , and most unforgettably , as the photojournalist Keith Jennings in The Omen ( 1978 ) , which has gain retrospective critical respect .
More recently , Warner made memorable steps into the humanity of voice - over work , voicing quality in Teen Titans Go ! and The Amazing World of Gumball , as well as Doctor Who : Unbound for Big Finish , where he played an alternative personification of the Doctor across several serial of audio dramas .
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