All that other stuff has never been a part of my life. I didn’t think about anything else besides that. A lot of people were surprised when it won the Best Picture Oscar of the year… although I have to be honest-when they told me it won an Oscar, I had no idea what an Oscar was! But I just wanted to be an actor. At the time we were making it, to be honest with you, it was a pretty chaotic shoot, so nobody knew how it would turn out. Whether that’s true or not, I don’t know, but the point I’m trying to make is that I got my break in movies from playing a small part on the stage, because the same director was casting Tom Jones.ĪVC: That’s a pretty high-profile picture for your first speaking role.ĭW: Well, it turned out that way, of course. The common quote that people say is that there are no small parts, just small actors. And that-as is often the case with some actors like me-came to me when all the other actors had turned the part down. Bur after I left drama school, that didn’t mean that I immediately started to really act, since-as you just mentioned-my first job was as an extra!ĭW: I think Tom Jones was my first speaking part in a movie, yes. Those are the two people I remember during my immediate time there. And Ian McShane, who you may know from Deadwood. John Hurt-the great John Hurt-was one of my fellow students. But then I did some amateur theater and decided to try and apply for the Royal Academy Of Dramatic Arts, and-much to everybody’s surprise-I got in! They just let me paint scenery and stuff like that. I joined an amateur company when I was a teenager in England, and they wouldn’t let me go onstage in the beginning.
DAVID WARNER ACTOR KLINGON PROFESSIONAL
But I never thought I’d ever become a professional actor or anything. In my Wikipedia entry, it says I had a messy childhood, and that’s the truth! But I sort of drifted into the odd school play, and that was one thing that I kind of felt that I had some enthusiasm for, so I was sort of interested. Academically I was hopeless, and athletically I was hopeless.
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. His family shared, "Over the past 18 months, he approached his diagnosis with a characteristic grace and dignity.
David Warner passed away Sunday in a nursing home in London for those in the entertainment agency.
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