![]() To Doctor Who fans, David Warner will probably always be best remembered as the Unbound Doctor, or as the memorable Professor Grisenko from the 2013 TV episode ‘Cold War.’ But Warner enjoyed a far-reaching, international film career, and was perhaps best known as the villainous ‘body guard’ Spicer Lovejoy in James Cameron’s Titanic. Not that David needed directing much – he was such a wonderful actor that his first instinct was always spot on.” The best for the production, the best for the director and the best for the other actors he was working with. ![]() I was lucky enough to occasionally direct him and he was a joy to work with as all he wanted was the best. He was a sweet, shy and caring gentleman. The Big Finish chairman Jason Haigh-Ellery added: “David was a great friend to all of us at Big Finish. “It was quite a relief that I didn’t get the roasting I’d assumed I was in for from his tone of voice.”īernice Summerfield’s first encounter with the Unbound Doctor at Big Finish In fact, I’d like to do it all day every day, because I love it!’ ‘I want to do a lot more of this audio stuff. ‘Come with me.’ And he marched me behind a pillar, just a few feet away from where the rest of the cast were eating. ‘You!’ he said accusingly, ‘Are you in charge here?!?’ I said that I was. During a cast lunch, he suddenly gesticulated at me impatiently, sounding furious. Speaking on the Big Finish website, the company’s creative director Nicholas Briggs said: “I remember how David’s long association with us began. The pair would record a further three box sets together, the last of which was released in 2020. The first of these productions was a Bernice Summerfield adventure called ‘The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel’ in which Warner played Mycroft Holmes (brother of the famous Sherlock.) Later, Bernice would encounter David Warner’s Unbound Doctor in The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield: Volume Three, which was released in 2016. Bowerman, as many of you will know, portrays the famous time travelling archaeologist Bernice Summerfield at Big Finish, a Doctor Who companion who first appeared in the Virgin series of books.ĭavid Warner and Lisa Bowerman were also afforded the opportunity of working together in an acting capacity at Big Finish. Moreover, many of David Warner’s Blake’s 7 audio adventures were directed by his partner Lisa Bowerman. It’s possible that the Ninth Doctor will be meeting the Unbound Doctor in Doctor Who‘s upcoming 60th anniversary celebrations.ĭavid Warner as Solvin Tavac in Blake’s 7 ![]() Over there, David Warner is known as one of their most prolific contributors, not least for his portrayal of the Unbound Doctor – an alternative incarnation of the Time Lord who occupies a parallel universe in which his encounters with UNIT never happened. This may have been somewhat confusing for the uninitiated, but it makes sense in the world of Big Finish. And if any actor should have been the Doctor, it would have been David.” I think the 60th is my favourite and you’re gonna have to wait, but it’s gonna be worth the wait, because David Warner is extraordinary. “I’ve recorded something very special for the 60th anniversary,” he said, “and for me it was all about working with this incredible actor and incredible human being called David Warner. The news of David Warner’s passing came just days after the Ninth Doctor Christopher Eccleston took to the stage to announce that he had recorded something special with Warner as part of Doctor Who‘s 60th anniversary celebrations at Big Finish. David Warner as the Unbound Doctor in The New Adventures of Bernice Summerfield
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