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David Ogden Stiers (b. October 31, 1942) is an American actor born in Peoria, Illinois. He is best known to genre fans in the role of Rev. Gene Purdy on the USA Network series The Dead Zone and has made frequent genre appearances.
Stiers worked in Northern California in the Actor's Workshop and the California Shakespeare Festival before moving to New York to study drama at Julliard. He also joined the Houseman Acting Company. Early roles include a voice role in THX 1138, guest sports on Kojak, Charlie's Angels, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda. He also appeared in the movies Sergeant Matlovich vs. the U.S. Air Force, Oh, God!, A Circle of Children, and Magic!
In 1977, he joined the cast of M*A*S*H as the surgeon Major Charles Emerson Winchester III. When the series ended in 1983, he followed up with several TV movies, The Innocents Abroad, The First Olympics: Athens 1896, The Bad Seed, The Man with One Red Shoe , Better Off Dead, Creator, and North and South. He appeared in several Perry Mason episodes as Attorney Michael Reston and guest starred on ALF. Other notable roles include Thomas Baldwin on Matlock, voice roles in Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Murder, She Wrote, Everyone Says I Love You, Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place, Ally McBeal, Touched by an Angel, and Lilo & Stich: The Series.
Genre Filmography
Television
- "Progeny"(2006)
- "Lifeline"(2007)
- "Dead Reckoning"
- "The Brave and the Bold: Part 1'"
- "The Brave and the Bold: Part 2'"
- I Will Walk with You: Part 1
- I Will Walk with You: Part 2
- "The Shroud"
- "The Twelfth Cave" (1996)
- "Half a Life"
- The Pedestrian (1989)
- "Turkey in the Straw: Part 2"
- "Turkey in the Straw: Part 1"
Video
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