David Ogden Stiers

Biography: David Ogden Stiers

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 less

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Leroy & Stitch (2006)
Cast: Tia Carrere David Ogden Stiers Kevin McDonald Ving Rhames Daveigh Chase
Tags: Children's Fantasy Family
Length: 72min
Walt Disney's beloved space alien finds that his adventure has only begin when Dr. Hamsterviel breaks out of prison and creates an army of evil Stitch twins in a nefarious attempt to overthrow the universe. Having been rewarded for capturing all 625...
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American Experience: George H.W. Bush (2008)
Cast: David Ogden Stiers Austin Hoyt
Tags: Biography History Politics & Government
Length: 120min
Originally produced as part of the "American Experience" documentary series, this in depth- look at the life and career of the 41st President of the United States draws on new scholarship and recently-conducted interviews with those closest to George...
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NOVA: A Daring Flight (2005)
Cast: David Ogden Stiers Carl Charlson Christian Cascio
Tags: Biography History Vehicles & Transportation Inventions & Innovations
Length: 60min
This documentary chronicles Louis Blériot's 1909 flight across the English Channel as well as his earlier struggles to successfully create and maintain his Model XI monoplane. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide
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Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch (2005)
Cast: Tia Carrere David Ogden Stiers Kevin McDonald Dakota Fanning Jason Scott Lee
Tags: Children's Fantasy Family
Length: 68min
The animated feature-length film Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch follows the characters from the Oscar-nominated movie Lilo & Stitch. Everything seems to be going smoothly as the film begins, with Stitch acceptably assimilated into his adopted...
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Together Again for the First Time (2007)
Cast: Patty Duke David Ogden Stiers Joey Lawrence Larisa Oleynik Jeff Parkin
Tags: Comedy Drama Family-Oriented Comedy Holiday Film
Length: 85min
Seven years after bringing their two large families together in marriage, a devoted couple invites their entire extended family over for the holidays with predictably disastrous results. Audrey Wolders-Frobisher (Julia Duffy) and her husband Max...
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Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (2003)
Cast: Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. Kelly Ripa David Ogden Stiers Kyra Sedgwick Hector Elizondo
Tags: Superhero Film Fantasy Adventure Fantasy
Length: 75min
Batwoman makes her grand entrance in the feature-length animated adventure Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman. While Batman tries to figure out the new crime fighter's secret identity, Batwoman exposes an arms smuggling operation conducted by the...
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Winnie the Pooh: Springtime With Roo (2004)
Cast: David Ogden Stiers John Fiedler Saul Andrew Blinkoff Elliot M. Bour Ken Sansom
Tags: Family Holiday Film
Length: 65min
Walt Disney Pictures presents this straight-to-video animated feature starring Winnie the Pooh and friends. It's Easter and the whole gang is excited because that means Rabbit will be playing the Easter Bunny as he has in years past. Unfortunately for...
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Teacher's Pet (2003)
Cast: Kelsey Grammer Nathan Lane David Ogden Stiers Wallace Shawn Jerry Stiller
Tags: Children's Fantasy Animated Musical Family-Oriented Adventure Family
Length: 73min
Disney's animated feature Teacher's Pet is based on the award-winning ABC cartoon show created by artist Gary Baseman. Spot (voice of Nathan Lane) is a dog who wishes he was a real boy, like his master Leonard Helperman (voice of Shaun Flemming). He...
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American Experience: Chicago, City of the Century - The Revolution Has Begun (2002)
Cast: David Ogden Stiers Austin Hoyt
Tags: Biography History Politics & Government Social History
Length: 90min
"The Revolution Has Begun" is part two of American Experience: Chicago - City of the Century, based on the book by Don Miller. David Ogden Stiers narrates. After the Chicago Fire of 1871, the city began to rebuild. Marshall Fields opens his dream...
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Lilo & Stitch (2002)
Cast: David Ogden Stiers Ving Rhames Tia Carrere Elvis Presley Kevin McDonald
Tags: Children's Fantasy Sci-Fi Comedy Comedy Family Odd Couple Film
Length: 85min
A lonely little girl makes a very unusual friend -- a ukulele-playing alien who likes to toss around small automobiles -- in this antic animated comedy from Walt Disney Studios. Lilo (voice of Daveigh Chase) is a young Hawaiian girl being raised by...
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