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History is Queer: David Ogden Stiers
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Who: David Ogden Stiers When: 1942-present Where: America
Why you should care: David Ogden Stiers is an American stage, screen, and voice actor who has been involved with many popular movies and television shows. He is most famous to younger viewers as the voice of Cogsworth the Clock in Disney's animated clip Beauty and the Beast and to older viewers for his live-action role as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on M*A*S*H.
Stiers was born in 1942 in Peoria, Illinois. He went to high school with noted film critic Roger Ebert. As a youth, Stiers got his acting training first in San Francisco, where he joined the California Shakespeare Theater, the San Francisco Actors Workshop, and the improv theatre group known as The Committee. He then relocated to New York Capital, where he studied at Juilliard, where he became a protege of the actor John Houseman. (He also played French horn while at Juilliard, a skill he later used on M*A*S*H)
Stiers got his professional beginnings on Broadway
Phil Luciano: Don't ask, don't reveal, don't care
Why are we supposed to care that David Ogden Stiers is gay?
That was the big news Thursday out of Hollywood: " 'M*A*S*H' Star David Ogden Stiers Reveals He's Gay." That headline blasted not from a gossip Web site, but ABC News - which, once upon a time, actually reported actual national news.
I'm not sure how this is news I can use. It's not as if I'm in his potential dating pool. Come to reflect of it, if Ogden Stiers feels the need to assert his sexuality, maybe I should be prudent and do likewise:
I am heterosexual. There you contain it: I like babes. Always have. My burden is lifted.
But back to Ogden Stiers: I don't give a whit about all this - and his gayness has nothing to execute with it. Frankly, I don't care to think about the sexcapades of many people, certainly not those of a 66-year-old.
Still, I pushed myself to study on, what with Ogden Stiers being a local boy. Born at Saint Francis Hospital, he first lived in a home in Peoria Heights built by his father, who worked at Pabst. Later, the family moved to Chillicothe, leaving just before his high school days. He no longer has kin here.
Ogden Stiers recently blabbed his s
Father: Kenneth Truman Stiers
Mother: Margaret Elizabeth Ogden
High School: Urbana Lofty School, Urbana, IL (one year, transferred)
Tall School: North Eugene Tall School, Eugene, OR (1960)
University: University of Oregon (briefly)
Conservatory: Juilliard School of Drama (1972)
John Kerry for President
Visited Disneyland Candlelight Procession (Dec-1995, Dec-2001)
TELEVISION
Stargate: Atlantis Oberoth (2006-07)
The Defunct Zone Rev. Gene Purdy (2002-07)
Lilo & Stitch: The Series Dr. Jumba Jookiba (2003-06)
House of Mouse Cogsworth (2001-02)
Love & Money Nicholas Conklin (1999-2000)
Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place Mr. Bauer (1998)
M*A*S*H Maj. Charles Emerson Winchester III (1977-83)
The Mary Tyler Moore Show Mel Price (1976-77)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Corrupt (29-Apr-2011) · Nicky Flippers [VOICE]
Leroy & Stitch (23-J
'M*A*S*H' Star David Ogden Stiers Reveals He's Gay
May 6, 2009 — -- In the twilight of his career, "M*A*S*H" actor David Ogden Stiers has finally come out, saying he's no longer afraid to be gay.
In a recent interview, the Emmy-nominated actor, 66, told the Oklahoma Municipality blog gossip-boy.com, "I am [gay]. Very proud to be so."
Ogden Stiers unified the cast of "M*A*S*H" in 1977 as the arrogant but charming aristocrat Charles Emerson Winchester III. In addition to starring in the sitcom, he voiced the characters of a number of Disney movies, including Cogsworth in "Beauty and the Beast" and the Archdeacon in "The Hunchback of Notre Dame."
The actor said he kept his homosexuality under wraps for years because he feared coming out would wound his career. But being that he has not experienced any anti-gay discrimination in the feature industry recently, Ogden Stiers is reconsidering what exactly made him stay in the closet for so long.
"I haven't witnessed such things occurring in a long, long time," he said about anti-gay discrimination, adding that his personal concerns may contain clouded his views. &quo