David Warner of The Omen passes away

Emmy-winning English actor David Warner, who gave memorable performances on the big screen, in a key role in the seminal 1976 horror film, The Omen, and as villains in Time After Time, Time Bandits and Tron, has died of cancer-related illness. He was 80. Warner was Emmy-nominated for playing Reinhard Heydrich, a Nazi official who was a key architect of the Final Solution, in the landmark 1978 miniseries Holocaust, and won an Emmy for playing the sadistic Roman political opportunist Pomponius Falco in the 1981 miniseries Masada.

Recently, Warner appeared in Disney’s Mary Poppins Returns in (2018) and You, Me and Him (2017) and on Showtime’s Penny Dreadful as the Dracula character Professor Abraham van Helsing in 2014. — IANS

• Japanese actor Shimada Yoko, who won a Golden Globe for playing Mariko in the 1980s television drama Shogun, has also passed away at the age of 69 in a hospital in Tokyo from multiple organ failure brought about by colorectal cancer.
• Screenwriter, journalist, and author Aaron Latham passed away on July 23 at the age of 78 in Pennsylvania from complications related to Parkinson’s disease. His piece from Texas Monthly served as the inspiration for the 1980 hit film Urban Cowboy. — ANI