# 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:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**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 5, 2018, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/41 "2018-03-05T01:14:53Z")
> [@FairyChatMom](#): > > I love that movie, silly as it was!! And he was great in it. “We lost Lucy.” ☹ ---
**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 5, 2018, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/42 "2018-03-05T01:18:24Z")
> [@aceplace57](#): > > My bittersweet moment; Winchester teaches a Korean band a classical piece. They play it beautifully and leave camp in a truck. > > They get shelled. Winchester weeps and vows to never listen to that piece again. Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet in A. ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/43 "2018-03-05T01:45:33Z")
I wonder how much Stiers brought his love of music into the character of Winchester. Do you know if the role was tweaked to include that? ---
**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 5, 2018, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/44 "2018-03-05T02:03:54Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > I wonder how much Stiers brought his love of music into the character of Winchester. Do you know if the role was tweaked to include that? I would imagine so. I think that happened pretty often on _MAS_H\*\*\*. Members of the cast made all kinds of contributions to the show. ---
**Author:** ![SpoilerVirgin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@SpoilerVirgin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpoilerVirgin)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/45 "2018-03-05T05:06:58Z")
He had my favorite voice ever, one that you could truly enjoy even if he were just reading the phone book (back when we had phone books). I loved to listen to the various PBS documentaries that he narrated. I remember spending an hour listening to him talk about the Chicago sewer system, and thinking that only David Ogden Stiers could make it sound so interesting. I loved him on MASH, and The Dead Zone, and in Beauty and the Beast, and in his wonderful Star Trek episode, and on Frasier. RIP. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/46 "2018-03-05T12:18:21Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > First thing I remember seeing him in post-M_A_S\*H was this strange Peter O’Toole movie–_Creator_–where he got flashed by Mariel Hemingway in a football game. Nice work if you can find it. I came into this thread to say, _“Son of a bitch!”_ That movie apparently had some disproportionate effect on my young psyche. I just found the whole thing on YouTube, apparently licitly. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/47 "2018-03-05T16:11:38Z")
One of my favorite lines of his from M_A_S\*H… I forget the exact context but they are up to something possibly illegal, and Winchester mentions how they could all wind up in Leavenworth. Pause for a beat… “Oh God, that’s in _Kansas!_” ---
**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 5, 2018, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/48 "2018-03-05T18:53:58Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > According to Wikipedia, his first role was in George Lucas’ THX-1138, in which he was incorrectly credited as David Ogden Steers. According to his [unofficial website](http://davidogdenstiers.com/bio/faq.shtml): > [@](#): > > **How do you pronounce David Ogden Stiers’ last name?** > > Sounds like STIRES (STĪ-ərz) not STEERS. ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2018, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/49 "2018-03-05T19:09:09Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > One of my favorite lines of his from M_A_S\*H… I forget the exact context but they are up to something possibly illegal, and Winchester mentions how they could all wind up in Leavenworth. Pause for a beat… “Oh God, that’s in _Kansas!_” IIRC, Col. Tucker had come to inspect the 4077th, and criticized everyone harshly, saying he was going to have them arrested. That’s when Winchester made the Leavenworth remark. Then he, BJ, Hawkeye, and Margaret dumped beer on his head. He has a heart attack and while they’re trying to save him, he says, “April fools.” (He’d set it up with Potter.) Another great Winchester episode was when he defeated Col. Flagg. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/50 "2018-03-06T02:23:36Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > He was terrific as the guy who presumably wasn’t Frasier’s dad. Yes, he was one of my favorite guest stars of that show. R.I.P. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/51 "2018-03-06T02:52:35Z")
That’s terrible. RIP, Chuck Winchester. Sorry, Chah-les. My very favorite moment in the whole show is his, from the end of the episode which introduced him. I won’t go through the whole thing, anyone who’s seen it will remember it in its entirety, when I just say the punchline: “Please…Mozart!” ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2018, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988/52 "2018-03-06T21:00:22Z")
He also played District Attorney Michael Reston in five of the Perry Mason tv movies in the late 1980s. William Talman as Hamilton Burger is always the gold standard for courtroom opponents of Mason but Reston was pretty good. His arguments impressed Mason when he was a judge (before quitting to return to lawyer) and he came iff as classy in congratulating Mason for proving his clients innocence. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/david-ogden-stiers-has-died/809988.md?page=2)