Unfortunately, the BBC did not preserve programs after broadcast, and “Madhouse on Castle Street” was scrapped in 1968. In 1963, a television play, “ Madhouse on Castle Street,” had him costarring with a young Bob Dylan who contributed a new tune, “Blowin’ in the Wind” and other songs to this story about an English boarding house where a lodger locks himself in his room, declaring that he has retreated from the world until changes occur. Small wonder that eccentricity and Yiddishkeit were hallmarks of his performance experience from the start. “There was no theatrical tradition but plenty of histrionics.” “My parents kept stealing me from each other, so I moved across England a lot,” he told The Guardian. Warner’s father and mother, soon estranged, never married and were constantly feuding. Warner’s father was a Russian Jewish-born proprietor of a nursing home in northern England, and with excessive trust in the benefits of institutional care, Warner was sent to eight different boarding schools, where he failed academically. In most roles, Warner imported his own personal dislocation and torment, so that when his hulky silhouette appeared onscreen with hunched shoulders, audiences immediately sensed a certain disquiet. Warner played screen villains in “The Omen,” “Time Bandits,” “Titanic,” “Star Trek V, VI and The Next Generation” as well as an atypically benign character in “Mary Poppins Returns.” Yet his employment over the past six decades was based on an indefinable aura of being ill at ease, not fitting in. Sign up here to get the latest stories from the Forward delivered to you each morning. This story was originally published on July 25 by the Forward.

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