David Ogden Stiers

David Ogden Stiers

actor, director, additional crew

David Ogden Stiers was born on Oct 31, 1942 in USA. David Ogden Stiers's big-screen debut came with THX 1138 directed by George Lucas in 1971, strarring Announcer (voice, as David Ogden Steers). David Ogden Stiers is known for Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep directed by Tetsuya Nomura, Jason Dohring stars as Terra and Willa Holland as Aqua. David Ogden Stiers has got 1 awards and 5 nominations so far. The most recent award David Ogden Stiers achieved is TV Land Awards. The upcoming new movie David Ogden Stiers plays is Love Unplugged which will be released on May 06, 2017.

David Ogden Stiers was born in Peoria, Illinois, to Margaret Elizabeth (Ogden) and Kenneth Truman Stiers. He moved with his family to Eugene, Oregon, where he graduated from North Eugene High School in 1960. At the age of twenty, he was offered $200 to join the company of the Santa Clara Shakespeare Festival for three months. He ended up staying for seven years, in due course playing both King Lear and Richard III. In 1969, he moved to New York to study drama at Juilliard where he also trained his voice as a dramatic baritone. He joined the Houseman City Center Acting Company at its outset, working on such productions as The Beggar's Opera, Measure for Measure, The Hostage and the hit Broadway musical The Magic Show for which he created the character 'Feldman the Magnificent'. He lent his voice to animated films, with Lilo & Stitch (2002) being his 25th theatrically-released Disney animated film. He was also an avid fan of classical music and conducted a number of orchestras, including the Yaquina Chamber Orchestra in Newport, Oregon, where was the principal guest conductor.His other theatrical work included performances with the Committee Revue and Theatre, the San Francisco Actor's Workshop, The Old Globe Theatre Festival in San Diego and at the Pasadena Playhouse in Love Letters with Meredith Baxter. As a drama instructor, he worked at Santa Clara University and also taught improvisation at Harvard. In addition to his long-running role in M.A.S.H. (1972), Stiers' work on television also included the excellent mini-series Nord et sud (1985), Nord et sud II (1986), The First Olympics: Athens 1896 (1984) and roles in such productions as Anatomy of an Illness (1984), L'ange du mal (1985), J. Edgar Hoover (1987), The Final Days (1989), Father Damien: The Leper Priest (1980) and Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986). Among his screen credits were Voyageur malgré lui (1988), L'Homme à la Chaussure Rouge (1985), Creator (1985), Harry's War (1981), Magic (1978) and Bon Dieu! (1977).Above all, the prodigious talent that was David Ogden Stiers will be most fondly remembered as the pompous, ever-so articulate Major Charles Emerson Winchester III in M*A*S*H. He had found that taking on the role was -- from the beginning -- an easy choice. Stiers saw and loved the movie version. Moreover, he had a fond regard of fellow actor Harry Morgan (who played the character of Colonel Potter) as a kind of fatherly role model. In retrospect, Stiers viewed his experiences with the show as a career highlight, saying "No matter how much you read about the M*A*S*H company, the evolution of it, the quite beautiful human stance it takes, you will not know how much it means ". In his spare time on the set he often annoyed the security guards by skateboarding at 25 miles an hour and "cheerfully thumbing his nose at them".David died of bladder cancer on March 3, 2018, in Newport, Oregon. He was 75.

  • Birthday

    Oct 31, 1942
  • Place of Birth

    Peoria, Illinois, USA

Known For

Awards

1 wins & 5 nominations

TV Land Awards
2009
M*A*S*H (1972)
Winner - Impact Award

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