David Ogden Stiers

David Allen Ogden Stiers was an American actor, voice actor, and conductor. He was best known for his television roles as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III in the CBS war comedy-drama series , Reverend Gene Purdy in , and D.A. Michael Reston in . He also voiced Mr. Maellard in 's . Additionally, he voiced three characters in the video game franchise: Jeff Zandi in , as well as Dr. Richard Watson and Esher (a D'ni survivor) in .
For Disney, he voiced Cogsworth and the opening narrator in the 1991 Disney animated feature film Beauty and the Beast. He also voiced Governor Ratcliffe and Wiggins in Pocahontas, Fenton Q. Harcourt in Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Mr. Jolly in Teacher's Pet and its film of the same name, Jumba Jookiba in the Lilo & Stitch franchise, Kamajī, Mr. Piccolo, and the Narrator in the English dub of Studio Ghibli's Spirited Away, Porco Rosso, and My Neighbors the Yamadas (respectively), and the Archdeacon in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Additionally, he played J.W. Harper in Iron Will, Alexei Jovanovic in Jungle 2 Jungle, Judge Justin Beach in the 1995 Touchstone Pictures film Bad Company, Arnold Spence in the 1996 Miramax film , and Henry Spivey in Krippendorf's Tribe.
Stiers also narrated several Winnie the Pooh stories, a two-part documentary on the 60th anniversary of Fantasia, and was the narrator in the American Dragon: Jake Long episode "The Talented Mr. Long". Additionally, he voiced the King and the Prime Minister in The Cat That Looked at a King.
==Roles==
Profile - Cogsworth.png|Cogsworth(Beauty and the Beast franchise; 1991–2006)
Profile - Governor Ratcliffe.png|Governor Ratcliffe(Pocahontas franchise)
Icerapocahontas2875.jpg|Wiggins(Pocahontas)
Hunchback-of-the-notre-dame-disneyscreencaps.com-4099.jpg|Archdeacon(The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
Mr Jolly.jpg|Mr. Jolly(Teacher's Pet)
Harcourt.jpg|Fenton Q. Harcourt(Atlantis: The Lost Empire)
Profile - Jumba.jpg|Dr. Jumba Jookiba(Lilo & Stitch franchise)
Mp6.jpg|The King(The Cat That Looked at a King)
The Cat That Looked at a King - Prime Minister.png|Prime Minister(The Cat That Looked at a King)
Profile - Doc.png|Doc(Disney Princess: Enchanted Journey)
Spiritedkamaji.jpg|Kamajī(Spirited Away; Disney dub)
Herr Piccolo.jpg|Mr. Piccolo(Porco Rosso; Disney dub)
DOS - Iron Will.jpg|J.W. Harper(Iron Will)
Alexei Jovanovic.jpg|Alexei Jovanovic(Jungle 2 Jungle)
==Gallery==
David Ogden Stiers behind the scenes BatB.jpg|David Ogden Stiers behind the scenes of Beauty and the Beast.
David Ogden Stiers behind the scenes Pocahontas.jpg|David Ogden Stiers behind the scenes of Pocahontas.
David Ogden Stiers.2.jpg|David Ogden Stiers at the premiere of Atlantis: The Lost Empire in June 2001.
David Ogden Stiers behind the scenes L&S.jpg|David Ogden Stiers behind the scenes of Lilo & Stitch.
Zztrtgbgf.jpg|David Ogden Stiers at the premiere of Teacher's Pet in January 2004.
David Ogden Stiers Macy's Herald Square speak.jpg|David Ogden Stiers speaks onstage at the Christmas Window Unveiling Spectacular in NYC'S Macy's Herald Square in November 2009.
==Trivia==
*Stiers never married and came out as gay in 2009.
*Before being cast as Cogsworth in Beauty and the Beast, Stiers originally tried to audition for Lumiere before the role went to Jerry Orbach, whom Stiers had apologized to.
*When Beauty and the Beast opened on Broadway in 1994, Stiers had pre-recorded the same narration he spoke in the film for the stage production.
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