David Ogden Stiers (October 31, 1942, Peoria, Illinois, USA - March 3, 2018, Newport, Oregon, USA) was an American actor, voice actor, and musician, noted for his roles in Disney animated films, the television series M*A*S*H as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III and the supernatural fiction drama The Dead Zone as Reverend Gene Purdy. He is also known for the role of District Attorney Michael Reston in the Perry Mason TV movies.
He appeared prominently in the 1980s in the role of District Attorney Michael Reston in several Perry Mason television films, and voiced Cogsworth in the 1991 Walt Disney film Beauty and the Beast, Governor Ratcliffe and Wiggins in Pocahontas, as well as Dr. Jumba Jookiba in Disney's Lilo & Stitch (2002) and its sequels. He appeared in television again on the supernatural drama series The Dead Zone as Reverend Gene Purdy, a role he portrayed from 2002 to 2007.
Stiers continued to contribute voice work for films and television productions in his later years, narrating M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water (2006) and having a recurring role on the animated series Regular Show. Stiers spent his later years as a conductor of the Newport Symphony Orchestra. He died at his home in Newport, Oregon of bladder cancer on March 3, 2018.
Stiers provided voice work for dozens of film and television projects. His first work was on one of George Lucas's earliest films, the critically acclaimed THX 1138, in which he was incorrectly billed as "David Ogden Steers". Stiers voiced PBS documentary films such as Ric Burns's project New York: A Documentary Film, 2010 Peabody Award winner The Lord is Not on Trial Here Today, and several episodes of the documentary television series American Experience, including Ansel Adams (2002), also directed by Ric Burns. In 1992 he voiced Mr. Piccolo in the animated English-dubbed version of Porco Rosso. He collaborated with Disney on eight animated features, including 1991's Beauty and the Beast (as Cogsworth, also providing the opening narration), 1995's Pocahontas (as Governor Ratcliffe and Wiggins), 1996's The Hunchback of Notre Dame (as the Archdeacon), 2001's Atlantis: The Lost Empire (as Mr. Harcourt), and 2002's Lilo & Stitch (as Jumba Jookiba). He reprised a number of his Disney roles for various sequels, most notably with Jumba in Lilo & Stitch's three sequel films (2003's Stitch! The Movie, 2005's Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch, and 2006's Leroy & Stitch) and Lilo & Stitch: The Series.
| Year | Image | Character | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 
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Dr. Jumba Jookiba | Lilo & Stitch |
| 2001 | 
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Cogsworth | Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse |
| 2001 | 
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Fenton Q. Harcourt | Atlantis: The Lost Empire |
| 1996 | 
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Archedeacon | The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
| 1995 | 
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Governor Ratcliffe | Pocahontas |
| 1995 | 
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Wiggins | Pocahontas |
| 1991 | 
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Cogsworth | Beauty and the Beast |
| 1991 | 
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Narrator | Beauty and the Beast |