David Odgen Stiers (Charles Emerson Winchester on M.A.S.H.), dead at 75.

[muddocktor]

I just ran across this just a few minutes ago, right here. He died of bladder cancer. I rather enjoyed his character's portrayal on the series. All of them that were on M.A.S.H. are getting up in age, so I wouldn't be surprised to see more of them going on in the next few years.

 

[1stgarand]

That's sad. RIP

 

[RobertJ.]

I'm sorry to hear of his death. RIP.

In the series, though, I found him to be more unlikable than Frank Burns!

 

[max]

No, Burns was incompetent, Winchester was pompous.

 

[CustomChevyGuy]

May Charles Emmerson Winchester "The Third" RIP

 

[JohnRippert]

Fare thee well, Charles.

 

[rwsmith]

I'm not sure if I've seen him......

I'm not sure if I've seen him on anything else. He played a good 'guy you love to hate'. Didn't Hawkeye and Pierce get to him near the end and he let up a little on the pompous stuff?

 

[LVSteve]

Sad news. RIP.

 

[steveno]

nothing against Winchester but MASH starting going downhill pretty fast after Henry , Trapper and Frank left

 

[Golddollar]

I'm not sure if I've seen him on anything else. He played a good 'guy you love to hate'. Didn't Hawkeye and Pierce get to him near the end and he let up a little on the pompous stuff?

I saw him playing a District Attorney in one of the Perry Mason movies.

 

[Old cop]

He played several character roles after MASH that spoke to what a good & versitle actor he was. I'm sorry to hear of his passing, just a few years older than me which really gives me pause. RIP Major Winchester.

 

[riverrat38]

" I'm sorry to hear of his passing, just a few years older than me which really gives me pause. RIP Major Winchester."

He was 4 months older than me. Pause indeed!

Best,
Rick

 

[vytoland]

i enjoyed his character in "doc hollywood".....

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpIgfRGUpU0[/ame]

 

[labworm]

RIP Charles.

I really enjoyed him in the MASH series, wealth didn't keep him out of Korea, and I know that bothered him.

Made me laugh a lot, bragging all the time about his surgeon status at the MGH in Boston.

 

[2tall79]

RIP Chuck

 

[timjake]

He was also the voice of Cogsworth, the clock, in the animated version of Beauty and the Beast.

Most people don't know he was also a conductor:
Stiers was the associate conductor for the Newport (Oregon) Symphony Orchestra and the Ernest Bloch Music Festival. He also guest-conducted over 70 orchestras around the world, including the Oregon Mozart Players, the Vancouver Symphony, the Virginia Symphony, the Oregon Chamber Players, the Yaquina (Oregon) Chamber Orchestra, as well as orchestras in San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Chicago and Toronto. (Wikipedia)

RIP

 

[Joed49]

nothing against Winchester but MASH starting going downhill pretty fast after Henry , Trapper and Frank left

I got sick of it when Alan Alda started going anti war and acting righteous. Haven't cared for him in anything he's played in too.

 

[jeffrefrig]

80's comedy movie

I'm not sure, but didn't he play the dad in "Better Off Dead", a funny/stupid teen movie from the 80's? The movie in which the paperboy on the bike kept harassing Laine Myers for $2 as a sub-plot. (Where's my 2 dollars/)! The dad thought his son was on drugs and was using some parenting booklet on how to tell if your kid's on drugs. Almost possitive it was Stiers.

 

[2ffat]

I enjoyed his voice work on several Disney movies.

 

[Ogandydancer]

nothing against Winchester but MASH starting going downhill pretty fast after Henry , Trapper and Frank left

To me that's when the program got better. Couldn't stand Burns, Blake and was so-so on trapper.

Potter and Winchester were tops to me.
Loved Klinger and Radar and Father Mulcahy.