Posted on 03/03/2018 5:08:53 PM PST by lowbridge
David Odgen Stiers -- best known for playing Major Charles Winchester on "M*A*S*H" -- has died after a battle with bladder cancer ... according to his agent.
The actor joined the cast of "M*A*S*H" in 1977, playing an arrogant aristocrat and talented surgeon who filled the void left by the departure of the show's Frank Burns character. Stiers did it splendidly too ... earning himself 2 Emmy nominations.
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
I also liked the one where he shows empathy to someone who stutters, and at the end he listens to a taped message that his sister sent him and she is also a stutterer.
I also liked the one where he shows empathy to someone who stutters, and at the end he listens to a taped message that his sister sent him and she is also a stutterer.
I also liked the one where he shows empathy to someone who stutters, and at the end he listens to a taped message that his sister sent him and she is also a stutterer.
So is William Christopher, who played Father Mulcahey. He died this past year.
So is William Christopher, who played Father Mulcahey. He died this past year.
So is William Christopher, who played Father Mulcahey. He died this past year.
Please forgive my duplicate posts. There’s something wrong with my cursor and everytime I hit it, it does things in triplicates or more. I’ve tried only lightly touching it, but that doesn’t seem to help. I guess this post will duplicate as well.
Your posting finger must suffer the
same problem!
But that episode you mentioned
Really was VERY engaging...
Very.
so many funny moments - like when Charles trys to pour tea and then looks in the pot and pulls the rubber chicken out and finishes his voice message to his sister “get me the hell out of here!”
The first couple of seasons, with Wayne Rogers and McLean Stevenson, were entertaining and watchable. When those two left, it turned into a much more preachy and self-righteous liberal propaganda machine.
I saw an interview with Larry Linville and he said that he was not allowed to expand, which is why he quit. "I was just a one-dimensional character that the producers wanted to keep one-dimensional."
Linville also said the show got too preachy for his likes.
Played for the “other team”.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. /s
After MASH, I remember him being on a show called “Two Guys, A Girl, and a Pizza Place”, with a very young Ryan Reynolds.
Agreed. MASH jumped the shark after McLean, Rogers and Linville left. Can’t even watch the newer reruns with the pontification Alda.
I liked that movie as well.As I recall, he was very proud of that squash, or was it zucchini?
R.I.P.
I thought Winchester was the best character in the series finale, with the North Korean musicians.
I always remember the episode with Winchester and Colonel Flagg, when Flagg mispronounced his sister’s name, “Honoria”, as “Hono-reah”
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