David Ogden Stiers

Birthday: 31 October 1942, Peoria, Illinois, USA

Birth Name: David Allen Ogden Stiers

Height: 193 cm

David Ogden Stiers was born in Peoria, Illinois, moved with his family to Eugene, Oregon during high school and began his acting career in Northern California, acting in the Actor's Workshop and ...Show More

I enjoy working and even though many have this idealistic belief that the entertainment industry and Show more I enjoy working and even though many have this idealistic belief that the entertainment industry and studios like Walt Disney are gay friendly. For the most part they are, but that doesn't mean for them that business does not come first. It's a matter of economics. Most of my more notable work in the last two decades has been as a voice actor. Certainly, I've done television appearances, be they recurring or guest roles, and numerous motion picture and documentary stints, but a lot of my income has been derived from voicing Disney and family programming. What they might allow in a more known actor, they prefer not having to deal with in minor players. Hide

[on creating the voice of Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast (1991)] I, at first, imagined a grandfat Show more [on creating the voice of Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast (1991)] I, at first, imagined a grandfather clock with a deep booming voice. Because he was smaller his vocal chords were also smaller and so the vocal quality became tighter. Then I tried to add a little bit of an uptight, pompous aspect and so that was the voice. Hide

The simple fact of it is, in the British tradition, you're an actor who happens to be in a film or o Show more The simple fact of it is, in the British tradition, you're an actor who happens to be in a film or on television or on the stage. In America, annoyingly, you're identified as a film actor or a TV actor or a whatever actor. Early in my career, I decided to stop paying attention to the labels. Hide

Why he chose to come out as gay, May, 2009: I could claim noble reasons as coming out in order to mo Show more Why he chose to come out as gay, May, 2009: I could claim noble reasons as coming out in order to move gay rights forward, but I must admit it is for far more selfish reasons. Now is the time I wish to find someone and I do not desire to force any potential partner to live a life of extreme discretion for me. Hide

What's next is what I really really like to regard. I don't care if it's voice over work, or commerc Show more What's next is what I really really like to regard. I don't care if it's voice over work, or commercial, or directing a play, or doing a guest appearance with an orchestra, or going into some sort of ear training for a movie, or what is next. That I keep working just astonishes me. I never take it for granted. Hide

David Ogden Stiers's FILMOGRAPHY

as Actor (323)

North and South, Book 2 - Season 1

House of Mouse - Season 2

Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World

Regular Show - Season 4

The Wild Thornberrys - Season 5

The Practice - Season 5

The Paper Chase - Season 1

The Outer Limits - Season 6

American Experience - Season 9

The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 3

Teacher`s Pet

The Wild Thornberrys - Season 3

Matlock - Season 5

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman - Season 6

NOVA - Season 43

Stitch The Movie

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1

The Practice - Season 7

Touched by an Angel - Season 6

Pocahontas

The Cheap Detective

American Experience - Season 25

The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 6

NOVA - Season 50

Poltergeist: The Legacy - Season 2

Regular Show - Season 1

David Ogden Stiers'S roles

Governor Ratcliffe

Leland Barton

Aubrey Thornton, Howard Deems, Sergei Nemiroff

Timicin

Mr. Maellard

Solovar

Maj. Charles Winchester

Al Meyer

Jumba

Mr. Maellard

Hacker

Penguin

Kamajii

Flakey Pete

Oberoth

Doc Stanton

Aubrey Thornton, Howard Deems, Sergei Nemiroff

Mel Price

Alexei Jovanovic

Archdeacon

Fenton Q. Harcourt