Celebrity Portraits

David Warner: My Portraits Featured in Tron: Ares

December 02, 2025 in Acquisition, Northerners, Corporate Commission

It was a wonderful surprise to see my portraits of the late, great David Warner appear twice in the newly released Tron: Ares — once as a framed painting within a pivotal office scene, and again as part of an onscreen newscast montage. To witness Warner resurrected, recognised, and woven into the visual language of the film was deeply moving.

David Warner Portrait Sitting — Rory Lewis Photographer

November 20, 2013 in Actor Portraits, Northerners

For decades, Warner had famously declined professional portrait sittings, the last of which was with the legendary Cecil Beaton in 1965 when he was just twenty-four. By the time I approached him for my Northerners portrait series, he was seventy-two — a master actor whose presence had only deepened with time.