# David Ogden Stiers has died. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 4, 2018, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988 "2018-03-04T00:41:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/1 "2018-03-04T00:41:49Z")
Age 75. Bladder cancer. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/2 "2018-03-04T00:49:05Z")
That’s a shame; he was always watchable. RIP Mr. Stiers. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/3 "2018-03-04T00:50:45Z")
☹ ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/4 "2018-03-04T00:59:05Z")
How sad… RIP Winchester. ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/5 "2018-03-04T01:04:03Z")
That sucks… Winchester was one of my favorites!! ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/6 "2018-03-04T01:05:36Z")
He was also the station manager of WJM on _ **Mary Tyler Moore** _. Has he been mentioned in the _ **Star Trek** _ actors’ thread yet? RIP. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/7 "2018-03-04T01:06:49Z")
“Half A Life” was one of the better Star Trek episode from _any_ series. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/8 "2018-03-04T01:08:03Z")
“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.” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/9 "2018-03-04T01:08:06Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > “Half A Life” was one of the better Star Trek episode from _any_ series. I looked at three articles, and none of them mentioned his appearance on _Star Trek:TNG_. It’s the second show I thought of. ---
**Author:** ![Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/59ef9b/32.png) [@Yorkshire\_Pudding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorkshire_Pudding)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/10 "2018-03-04T01:10:18Z")
I’m a lot sadder about this than I would have imagined. I’m unashamedly a huge M_A_S\*H and TNG fan and have seen him in little else…but that doesn’t change anything: RIP Charles. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/11 "2018-03-04T01:16:13Z")
I don’t know which I liked better: his narrating, “Beauty and the Beast,” or the exasperated clock from the same movie. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/12 "2018-03-04T01:17:29Z")
He was terrific as the guy who presumably wasn’t Frasier’s dad. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/13 "2018-03-04T01:18:20Z")
I am truly sorry to hear this. RIP Mr. Stiers. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/14 "2018-03-04T01:32:56Z")
He was great as the father in _Better Off Dead_. “Everyone will be wearing one of these?” RIP Mr. Stiers ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/15 "2018-03-04T01:34:20Z")
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 … ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/16 "2018-03-04T02:13:11Z")
He was also a noted orchestra conductor, and had gigs in more than 70 cities, including in Newport, Oregon, where he lived. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/17 "2018-03-04T02:18:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/18 "2018-03-04T02:20:00Z")
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!” ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/19 "2018-03-04T02:26:15Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > “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 came in to post this very quote. Whenever MASH replaced a character, the replacement was an improvement over the original. ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2018, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/20 "2018-03-04T02:30:51Z")
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 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988.md?page=2)