Another tragic loss.
8 years ago
General
I don't usually outright gasp when I learn of the passing of a celebrity, (I think the last time was for Robin Williams), but I did this time.
RIP David Ogden Stiers.
His most high-profile role probably being Maj. Winchester in M.A.S.H., he's done tons of stuff across multiple media, and generally one of those 'good at nearly everything' actors. He's done MASH, several Disney animated films, and an episode of Star Trek TNG. What more could you want?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001773/
(guest starring George Wendt on this one :) )
RIP David Ogden Stiers.
His most high-profile role probably being Maj. Winchester in M.A.S.H., he's done tons of stuff across multiple media, and generally one of those 'good at nearly everything' actors. He's done MASH, several Disney animated films, and an episode of Star Trek TNG. What more could you want?
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001773/
(guest starring George Wendt on this one :) )
FA+

We'll always miss you.
Saw this quote from Loretta Swit, who played Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan, about Stiers and the series finale.
“A few episodes before, Margaret had borrowed a book of poems from Winchester. He got angry with me at one point and made me return it. In real life, we had this running gag. I would tease David all the time that no one had his private phone number. He was very much his own person, very reclusive in a way. So, in the final episode Winchester gives Margaret the book back. I open it and read the inscription. David had written his phone number inside. That’s my real emotion on camera.”
The scene she mentions https://youtu.be/wNn-LrIglfo?t=1h50m20s
One of my favorite scenes with the marine and the billiard ball XD.
Also, with that scene, Winchester didn't get around to pointing out that the muscle relaxant cannot be administered orally.
That marine was headed for some real fun. Scary, but fun.
(MLP fans will get the joke in that last comment.)
https://youtu.be/pPih629zvqQ
R.I.P., David Ogden Stiers.
Still, I remember him more from MASH... He will be missed.
RIP
A toast to Charles Emerson Winchester III
·... when Winchester had the French Horn and B. J. and Hawkeye battled him with BO...
·... when Winchester and Col. Potter both got the mumps.
and then the other one where he became a pill junkie.
Why? Winchester's sister stuttered and he knew that shit those guys pulled wasn't funny.
In that episode, Winchester was a stand-up kind of guy.
He will be missed dearly.
up for a young man who stuttered. Why? In the series, Winchester's sister had a speech
impediment, which enraged him when the boy's fellow soldiers mocked the poor guy.
Compared to Charles Emerson Winchester, Frank Burns was an asshole. Winchester was
definitely MORE human than Frank.