Age 75. Bladder cancer.
RIP.
That’s a shame; he was always watchable. RIP Mr. Stiers.
How sad… RIP Winchester.
That sucks… Winchester was one of my favorites!!
He was also the station manager of WJM on Mary Tyler Moore. Has he been mentioned in the Star Trek actors’ thread yet?
RIP.
“Half A Life” was one of the better Star Trek episode from any series.
“Know this. You can cut me off from the civilized world. You can incarcerate me with two moronic cellmates. You can torture me with your thrice daily swill, but you cannot break the spirit of a Winchester. My voice shall be heard from this wilderness and I shall be delivered from this fetid and festering sewer.”
I looked at three articles, and none of them mentioned his appearance on Star Trek:TNG. It’s the second show I thought of.
I’m a lot sadder about this than I would have imagined. I’m unashamedly a huge MAS*H and TNG fan and have seen him in little else…but that doesn’t change anything: RIP Charles.
I don’t know which I liked better: his narrating, “Beauty and the Beast,” or the exasperated clock from the same movie.
He was terrific as the guy who presumably wasn’t Frasier’s dad.
I am truly sorry to hear this. RIP Mr. Stiers.
He was great as the father in Better Off Dead. “Everyone will be wearing one of these?”
RIP Mr. Stiers
wow I remember him from mash… his Disney work (no new lilo and stitch series )and he was on murder she wrote a lot
Ive been told he was more like the eastern European characters he often played than Winchester …
He was also a noted orchestra conductor, and had gigs in more than 70 cities, including in Newport, Oregon, where he lived.
Ah, Charles? No.
He also played a homeless man on ALF who threatened to turn Alf in to the Alien Task Force. One of Stiers’ more memorable performances.
One of the best MASH episodes I have ever seen was the one where he starts raiding the pharmacy for amphetamines and starts having these crazy dreams of being able to out maneuver, outflank and out operate Hawkeye and BJ. His dreams in that one are comically bizarre.
I think it sprang from them teasing him about being slow “I do one thing at a time, I do it well, and then I move on!”
I came in to post this very quote. Whenever MASH replaced a character, the replacement was an improvement over the original.
I thought his best MASH episode was the one where he saved the legs of a soldier (but had to amputate one of his arms) who turned out to be a gifted pianist. When the soldier woke up, the soldier was so distraught above losing his arm, and Winchester tried to console him because he saved his legs.
RIP Major Winchester