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
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.
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.
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.
I am not a long-run actor. I admire actors who can do that.
I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.
People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.
A lot affects the outcome. It boils down to scheduling and the commitment of the network.
Because I don't take money, I'll go anywhere and do a benefit concert with almost any orchestra.
I am certainly not a mainstream religious man.
I love pulling people into concert halls who might not otherwise go and getting their ears tuned.
I will never master this craft. Orchestras are very, very forthcoming with me.
If it's right and true, it's listened to and accommodated.
In television you go in with this operating system that it is a crapshoot.
It's really important to stay engaged and involved in the character.