1. David Warbeck made his feature film debut in John Hough's Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood, reuniting with the director again for 1971's Twins of Evil.
18 Facts About David Warbeck
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In 1981, David Warbeck starred in two films for Italian horror director Lucio Fulci: The Black Cat and The Beyond.
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David Warbeck went on to appear in several independent and exploitation films throughout the 1980s and 1990s before dying of cancer in London in July 1997, aged 55.
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David Warbeck arrived in Britain in 1965 to attend the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and attended four terms before dropping out and becoming a photographic model.
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David Warbeck made his film debut as the title character in Wolfshead: The Legend of Robin Hood, a low-budget film adaptation of the adventures of Robin Hood directed by John Hough.
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David Warbeck then appeared in an episode of UFO called "Destruction" in 1970.
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David Warbeck next landed a small but important role in Sergio Leone's A Fistful of Dynamite.
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David Warbeck reunited with director Hough appearing in the vampire film Twins of Evil, followed by a minor role in Freddie Francis's exploitation film Craze.
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David Warbeck was then cast in American filmmaker Russ Meyer's cult film Black Snake, in which he portrayed a man in the 1800s searching for his brother on a Caribbean island overseen by a vicious woman who owns a slave plantation.
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David Warbeck is perhaps best known for his violent horror film roles in the 1980s.
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Margheriti was best known for his action films, and some of his noted efforts featuring David Warbeck were the Vietnam War film The Last Hunter, Hunters of the Golden Cobra and The Ark of the Sun God.
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Thanks to his appearances in several high-profile action and horror films, David Warbeck was being seriously considered as the next James Bond, but the role was taken by Roger Moore.
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David Warbeck claimed that for many years he was paid an amount to be a substitute or back-up Bond on the conditions that he not tell anyone and that he be ready for filming at a moment's notice in the case of Moore leaving or threatening to leave the role.
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David Warbeck concentrated on fan conventions in the UK and US, where he was popular due to his work with Fulci.
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David Warbeck spent his later life living in Hampstead, London, with his wife Lois, whom he married in 1965.
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David Warbeck spent two decades restoring his residence there, which had been built by Sir George Gilbert Scott at the time of the construction of St Pancras Station.
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In 1997, three weeks before his death, David Warbeck recorded an audio commentary for the LaserDisc release of The Beyond with actress Catriona MacColl.
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At age 55, David Warbeck died of an unspecified form of cancer in London, England on 23 July 1997.