The Herald-News from Passaic, New Jersey • 76

At the movies David Warmer's head is back By Tom Sullivan "Gregory Peck and I were together for almost three months. It was an experience I cherish." ik not been a problem for him since he started acting as a teenager in Leamington Spa. HE WAS BORN IN Manchester on July 29, 1941 and let his interest in acting come to the fore as a teen with the amateur group. He went on to enroll in The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating when he was 20, and made his London debut in Tony Richardson's much acclaimed production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." He followed that with a role in David Rudkin's "Afore Night Comes" at The Comedy Theater and in 1964 was cast by Peter Hall as Henry VI in a cycle of three Shakespearean plays known as "The War of The Roses." He acted at Stratford-On-Avon and the Aldwych Theater in Edward Albee's "Tiny Alice" and Shakespeare's "Richard II," "The Tempest," "Julius Caesar," "Twelfth Night" and as "Hamlet" to Glenda Jackson's Ophelia. He also acted in Robert Graves' "I Claudius." DURING THAT PERIOD he had a small part in the film "The Loneliness in films, including "Work is a Four Letter Word," "A Midsummer Night's Dream," "Perfect Friday," "The Bofers Gun," "The Fixer" for John Frankenheimer, Joseph Losey's "A Doll's House," Sidney Lumet's "The Seagull," "Little Malcom," "Love With Nina" and "Quilp," based on the Charles Dickens classic "The Old Curiosity Shop." THEN CAME "THE Omen," and since that was finished, a veritable slew of pictures such as playing at Cinema III in New York's PlazaJJoteL-written by-Brian Mercer who also wrote 'Morgan." Warner plays Kevin, the illegitimate son of spaced-out novelist John Gielgud, and brother to prissy Dirk Bogarde.

It is a fantasy set in the future, with Gielgud thinking up involvements forhis distant family, confusing to the average film but enjQyed by a few since it has been doing fairly good business. "Mercer created the role for me," Warner observed, "and I must say it was a pleasure working with director NEW YORK Remember the inquisitive newspaper, reporter whose head was lopped off by a sheet of plate glass in "The Omen" last year? His name is David Warner, and you will be happy to know that, by some miracle of modern science, his head is back in its rightful place on his shoulders with nary a stitch in sight. "Actually, I never really did lose my head," he smiled. "In fact, in a picture that took three months to film, that was one of the easier scenes to do. It required no effort on my part at all." Another of the film's more horrific sequences did require a great deal of effort by Warner and his co-star, Gregory Peck, the one in which they are chewed upon by some scary looking hounds who apparently worked for the devil.

"They may have been scary look-ing" said, "but in reality they were pussycats, and the handlers had to tuck pieces-of meat in our clothing to get them to simulate an attack." OF "THE OMEN," one of the big moneymakers of last year, Warner has two pre-eminent memories. "First off, it gave me an opportunity to work with Gregory Peck, a man whose face, distinctive voice and good work have been familiar to me on movie screens for as long as I can remember. "We were together for almost the entire three months and it was arr'ex-perience I cherish. I feel a friendship developed that will last. "And the other memory is that I lost my head in the picture and that means I won't get a role in any of the two or three sequels the producer is planning as the Devil's child matures." Warner was only kidding with the latter thought.

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07003 A1 L-4 The Herald-News, Sunday, March 6, 1977 Serving North Jersey.