Actor David Warner Passes Away

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https://variety.com/2022/film/obituaries-people-news/david-warner-dead-dies-omen-tron-1235324582/

David Warner, the English actor who gave memorable performances on the big screen, in a key role in “The Omen,” and as villains in “Time After Time,” “Time Bandits” and “Tron,” has died. He was 80.

The actor died of a cancer-related illness on Sunday in London, his family told the BBC. “Over the past 18 months he approached his diagnosis with a characteristic grace and dignity,” his family said in a statement shared with the public broadcaster.

“He will be missed hugely by us, his family and friends, and remembered as a kind-hearted, generous and compassionate man, partner and father, whose legacy of extraordinary work has touched the lives of so many over the years. We are heartbroken,” the statement continued.

Warner was Emmy-nominated for playing Reinhard Heydrich, a Nazi official who was a key architect of the Final Solution, in the landmark 1978 miniseries “Holocaust,” and won an Emmy for playing the sadistic Roman political opportunist Pomponius Falco in the 1981 miniseries “Masada.”

He was great.

[Liberal In Texas]

1. That's a shame. He was a very good actor and a really good villain.

RIP David.

[Torchlight]

2. I'll be damned. YT has the entire movie containing my favorite performance of his

One of the feature-length films in the Horatio Hornblower series starring Ioan Gruffudd. Warner plays a ship's commander slowing slipping into madness. Free, full-length and w/o commercials.

(Om edit: as Dana Lustig called him, 'a better class of villainy.'