British actor David Warner, who voiced darkish wizard Jon Irenicus in basic CRPG Baldur’s Gate II: Shadows Of Amn, has died on the age of 80, the BBC reviews. The actor additionally appeared in different video games through the late Nineteen Nineties and early 2000s, totally on PC. You may hear Warner’s evocative efficiency as Irenicus within the trailer for Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Version beneath.
Warner’s most up-to-date function in video video games was a return to the character of Irenicus in 2016’s Baldur’s Gate: Siege Of Dragonspear. Beamdog, builders of Dragonspear together with the Enhanced Version revamps of Baldur’s Gate and its sequel, managed to coax the actor again to document new traces for his or her model of the second recreation too. Andrew Foley, who labored with Warner on Baldur’s Gate II: Enhanced Version, stated in 2016:
Everybody within the workplace, however particularly me, have been type of in awe/borderline scared of him, however he was simply the sweetest man, with an excellent sense of humour. I would given him some notes for a pick-up session, asking for him to tug again on the emotion in a selected line, to do a extra “Spock-like” supply.
“I am simply curious what you imply by this word, what’s ‘Spock-like’?”
I’ve labored with him (remotely, he was in London, we have been in a studio right here in Edmonton, however nonetheless) for 4 hours now, however he is nonetheless DAVID FREAKIN’ WARNER, and that is the primary time we have talked in a number of months, so I say, “Uh, properly, Spock was this character in Star Trek who spoke in a measured, emotional tone–“
“Sure I learn about Star Trek, I’ve solely completed three of them. I simply wished to make sure–you don’t desire me to do a Leonard [Nimoy] impression, do you?” After which he began chuckling.
As a classically educated actor who’d performed Hamlet and Henry VI in Royal Shakespeare Firm productions, Warner helped make Baldur’s Gate 2 into among the finest RPGs of the 2000s. It’s a recreation RPS nonetheless charges as among the finest RPGs to play on PC even right now. Outdoors of video games, Warner had acted in every part from basic ’60s cop present Z-Automobiles to James Cameron’s Titanic, together with style movie and TV roles in Tron, Star Trek V: The Remaining Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Nation and episodes of Star Trek: The Subsequent Technology.
Warner’s voice-over work in video games consisted largely of PC releases. The actor performed Morpheus within the authentic Fallout, and contributed to Privateer 2: The Darkening, Descent 3, and Star Wars: Drive Commander. Memorably, he reprised his film function as Chancellor Gorkon from The Undiscovered Nation in 2000’s FMV area flight-sim Star Trek: Klingon Academy.