Editing David Warner (actor) (section)

===Theatre===
Warner made his professional stage debut at the [[Royal Court Theatre]] in January 1962, playing Snout, a minor role in [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]'s ''[[A Midsummer Night's Dream]]'',<ref name="young"/> directed by [[Tony Richardson]] for the [[English Stage Company]]. In March 1962, at the [[Belgrade Theatre]], [[Coventry]], he played Conrad in ''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'', following which in June he appeared as Jim in ''[[Afore Night Come]]'' at the New [[Arts Theatre]] in London.

He joined the [[Royal Shakespeare Company]] in [[Stratford-upon-Avon]] in April 1963 to play Trinculo in ''[[The Tempest]]'',<ref name="tv"/> and Cinna the Poet in ''[[Julius Caesar (play)|Julius Caesar]]'',<ref name="tv"/> and in July was cast as Henry VI in the John Barton adaptation of ''[[Henry VI, Part 1|Henry VI]]'',<ref name="tv"/> Parts I, II and III, which comprised the first two plays from ''[[Shakespearean history|The Wars of the Roses]]'' trilogy. At the [[West End theatre|West End]]'s [[Aldwych Theatre]] in January 1964, he again played Henry VI in the complete ''The Wars of the Roses'' history cycle (1964). Returning to Stratford in April, he performed the title role in ''[[Richard II (play)|Richard II]]'', Mouldy in ''[[Henry IV, Part 2]]'' and Henry VI. At the Aldwych in October 1964, he was cast as Valentine Brose in the play ''[[Eh? (play)|Eh?]]'' by [[Henry Livings]], a role he reprised in the 1968 film adaptation ''[[Work Is a Four-Letter Word]]''.

He first played the title role in ''[[Hamlet]]'' for the [[Royal Shakespeare Company|RSC]] in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1965.<ref name="young"/> This production transferred to the [[Aldwych Theatre]] in December of that year. In the 1966, Stratford season, his Hamlet was revived and he also played Sir Andrew Aguecheek in ''[[Twelfth Night]]''. Finally at the Aldwych in January 1970, he played Julian in ''[[Tiny Alice]]''.

According to his 2007 programme CV, Warner's other work for the theatre included ''[[The Great Exhibition]]'' at [[Hampstead Theatre]] (February 1972); ''[[I, Claudius]]'' at the [[Sondheim Theatre|Queen's Theatre]] (July 1972); ''A Feast of Snails'' at the [[Lyric Theatre (London)|Lyric Theatre]] (February 2002);<ref name="tv"/> ''Where There's a Will'' at the [[Theatre Royal, Bath]]; ''[[King Lear]]'' at [[Chichester Festival Theatre]] (2005),<ref name="tv"/> see details below); and also ''[[Major Barbara]]'' on Broadway in 2001.