Actor David Warner has died at the age of 80 from a cancer-related illness, his family has announced.
A statement said: “It is with an overwhelmingly heavy heart that we share the news of the death of the actor David Warner (at the age of nearly 81), from a cancer-related illness, in the early hours of July 24 at Denville Hall. Over the past 18 months he approached his diagnosis with a characteristic grace and dignity.”
“For 60 years he was a well-respected stage, television, voice and film actor. His theatre career with the RSC included an era-defining Hamlet, Henry VI in The Wars of The Roses in the 1960s and Falstaff in their 2008 Histories Cycle. He also played King Lear at Chichester Festival Theatre in 2005.
