David Ogden Stiers
David Ogden Stiers
David Ogden Stiersis an American actor, voice actor, and musician, noted for his roles in Disney animated films, the television series M*A*S*H as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III and the supernatural fiction drama The Dead Zone as Reverend Gene Purdy. He is also known for the role of District Attorney Michael Reston in the Perry Mason TV movies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth31 October 1942
CityPeoria, IL
CountryUnited States of America
I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.
I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult.
My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.
I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.
I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.
You hear the same work by different orchestras, different conductors, violinists, pianists, singers, and slowly, the work reveals itself and begins to live deeper in you.
What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.
Very often when I go in to meet for movies or pilots, I'm put on videotape. I hate the notion that that tape is going to sit on a shelf and never get better.
Something happens to us all when we experience something as a unit that doesn't occur when we're on our couches or holding our little portable DVD players.
I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years.
When something really extreme happens, you have to find a way to embrace that and include it in how you think about the character. Sometimes it's not easy.
Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.
A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.