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| DAVID WARNER was born in Manchester, England during World War II. At age 18, he joined an amateur theatrical group at Leamington Spa near Stratford-Upon-Avon, where a few years later he would star as Hamlet. At the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, his fellow students included Tom Courtney, John Hurt and Sarah Miles, and his diploma was presented to him by Susannah York. Warner made his professional stage debut in 1960, in Tony Richardson’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, followed by a role in Afore Night Comes for the Royal Shakespeare Company. After signing a long-term contract with the RSC in 1963, he won immediate stardom as Henry VI in War of the Roses, a highly praised production of Shakespeare’s rarely performed cycle of three history plays. Concurrently, Warner was traveling 100 miles to London several times weekly to appear in the very modern play Eh? at the RSC’s Aldwych Theatre. During the next season at Stratford, Warner played Hamlet in the afternoons and Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night in the evenings. In 1965, he received the Variety Club of Great Britain’s Best Actor of the Year Award for his performances of Hamlet at Stratford and the Aldwych. Warner’s film career began in the early 1960s with roles in The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and Tom Jones. He became a star in the 1966 film Morgan – A Suitable Case for Treatment with Vanessa Redgrave. His more than 25 pictures credits include Time After Time, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Mr. North, Perfect Friday, Cross of Iron, The Sea Gull, Airport ’79, and Marco Polo. Among his many TV credits are War of the Roses, Nancy Astor, Clouds of Glory, and Charlie. |
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