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David Ogden Stiers

David Ogden Stiers
David Ogden Stiers
Born: Oct 31, 1942 in Peoria, Illinois
Occupation: Actor, Director,
Active: '80s-2000s
Major Genres: Comedy, History
Career Highlights: Beauty and the Beast, Creator, Doc Hollywood
First Major Screen Credit: M*A*S*H: Season 06 (1977)
31 Videos for David Ogden Stiers
Together Again for the First Time (2007) American Experience: MacArthur (1999) Day One (1989)
Hoodwinked (2006) The Stand-In (1999) The Final Days (1989)
Leroy & Stitch (2006) American Experience: Reagan, Part I - Lifeguard (1998) Another Woman (1988)
Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005) American Experience: Around the World in 72 Days (1997) The Accidental Tourist (1988)
The Dead Zone: Season 02 (2003) Meet Wally Sparks (1997) Better Off Dead (1985)
The Dead Zone: The Beginning (2002) Steal Big, Steal Little (1995) Creator (1985)
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) Past Tense (1994) The Man with One Red Shoe (1985)
Black River (2001) The Last of His Tribe (1992) The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (1984)
The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001) Doc Hollywood (1991) Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force (1978)
The Majestic (2001) Shadows and Fog (1991) Oh, God! (1977)
Tomcats (2001)
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Biography:

In contrast to the insufferably intellectual characters he has played so often and so well, David Ogden Stiers wasn't much of a student while growing up in Eugene, Oregon. Like many another underachiever, Stiers excelled at the things he was truly interested in, such as music (he played piano and french horn) and acting.

After flunking out of the University of Oregon, Stiers stepped up his amateur-theatrical activities, and at age 20 was hired by the California Shakespeare Festival at Santa Clara, where he spent the next seven years performing the Classics. After briefly working with the famous San Francisco improv group The Committee, Stiers attended Julliard, in hopes of improving his vocal delivery.

Evidently his training paid off: in 1974, Stiers co-starred with Zero Mostel in the Broadway production {~Ulysses in Nighttown}, then went on to appear opposite Doug Henning in the long-running musical {~The Magic Show}. Despite his success, Stiers detested New York, and at the first opportunity he ran screaming back to the West Coast.

He was cast in the short-lived sitcom Doc in 1975, and the following year played an important role in the 90-minute pilot for Charlie's Angels, though he passed when offered a regular assignment in the Angels series proper. Stiers' performance as a stuttering TV executive in a 1976 Mary Tyler Moore Show episode led to his being cast as the overbearing Major Charles Emerson Winchester on the ever-popular M*A*S*H; at first signed to a two-year contract, Stiers remained with the series until its final episode in February of 1983.

Before, during and after his tenure on M*A*S*H, Stiers kept busy in made-for-TV films, lending his patented authoritativeness to such real-life characters as Dr. Charles Mayo (in 1977's A Love Affair: The Eleanor and Lou Gehrig Story), critic and social arbiter Cleveland Amory (1984's Anatomy of an Illness) and President Franklin D.

Roosevelt (1987's J. Edgar Hoover). He was also seen as pontificating DA Michael Reston in several of the Perry Mason TV-movies of the late 1980s. Disney animation devotees will remember Stiers for his voiceover work as Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast (1988) and Lord Ratcliffe in Pocahontas (1995).

Parlaying his lifelong love of classical music into a second career, David Ogden Stiers has served as guest conductor for over 70 major U.S. symphony orchestras. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.