David Ogden Stiers/Major Charles Emerson Winchester III January 1983

[@djrychlak4443]

He made MASH a much much better show. We all owe him a debt of gratitude.

[@kimiisungstartedthekoreanw2771]

He was in the dull phase of the show. The writers made what very little his character was worth.

[@CK-sn2lg]

I have never heard his real voice and I am Shooketh

[@b-radg916]

Yeah, me neither. Very cool to hear him, and these thoughts.

[@sexobscura]

how did they know your name when you didn't even give it to them ...

[@AY-uf4oz]

I heard his real voice some years after the show ended and it also shocked me.

[@rjkral]

C K haha yes I know what you mean. I was shooketh when I saw and heard him in the comedy “BETTER OFF DEAD”. Check it out!

[@brandi5720]

SAME HERE🤯

[@skullduggery3377]

his character was among the most believable on the show.

[@kimiisungstartedthekoreanw2771]

He too came from nowhere.He was just a familiar-on-TV easy to play rich snob character. Nothing that hard about what this man did.

[@colinmerritt7645]

@@kimiisungstartedthekoreanw2771 Get your acting career going, then come back and tell us how easy it is

[@Ed-eq8ui]

​@kimiisungstartedthekoreanw2771 okay, we get it. You don't like him. No need to keep repeating yourself.

[@barrylonyai1530]

he was a great great actor on and off screen and t.v. i wish they put him on mash earlier he was a very serious and very strict and smart actor. r.i.p. thank you David ogden stiers . for your greatness .

[@kimiisungstartedthekoreanw2771]

At times he was really weak as Charles. Outtakes show this formerly parental neglected/ stutterer of an actor was not that deep in character as he was not that great a performer. Scripts were his minor success and that is the writers' doing and he was not a series writer. doing

[@colinmerritt7645]

@@kimiisungstartedthekoreanw2771 At times he was a better actor than you.

[@Summer_Reigns]

The only replacement character that I loved as much as the original cast. He was brilliant! It’s a shame he didn’t win at least one of the two Emmys that he was nominated for.

[@kimiisungstartedthekoreanw2771]

He did not win cause the board that puts out the Emmys knew he was merely scripted. He was not that impressive.

[@mikeperry6794]

When he lost those Chinese musicians he had been directing. Music would never be the same to him.

[@kazuhiramiller1996]

It is a fantastic example, that there are not only wounds from bombs and shells that people carry home from war. In fact there are no unwounded soldiers in war.

[@tinselbmerryweather]

Rest In Peace David Ogden Stiers. You are dearly missed. You were/are my favorite actor ever

[@SUBLIME849]

Fuck you rose

[@djtforever1414]

This is the voice he used when narrating documentaries.

[@kevinbutler1955NYC]

Mr.Stiers not only speaks witty and intelligently..he also talks to the press in his normal voice.

[@humphreygruntwhistle3946]

Why would he speak to the press in his Winchester voice?

[@Shervin86]

"It's all about committing yourself to a group without risking your individuality!" Wiser words have not been said! 1 Dislike? Burns must have been here!

[@WilliamC1966]

Thank you....just wonderful stuff!!!

[@nolanboles8492]

Hearing him without the Boston accent was strange.

[@frankensteinbeck3721]

I agree. Even though I know it was a fake accent and I’ve seen and heard him in other roles, I still expect him to sound like Charles.

[@MrGruffteddybear]

I loved his character in "Better Off Dead", he was hilarious as Lane's father.

[@rexlex1736]

Klinger and Winchester were my favorites!

[@bloodsling]

Charles was a way more layered character than Frank Burns,and a much better fit. No fault to Larry Linville though,he worked with what they gave him.

[@matthewgersch1901]

Rest In Peace David Ogden Stiers

[@Carolinian4372]

RIP David Ogden Stiers

[@terminat1]

I wonder if David ever met Larry Linville.

[@bentstrider]

I read that he and Larry Linville actually attended the deactivation of the last actual M*A*S*H unit in S.Korea in '97. They all transitioned over to Combat Support Hospitals.

[@nicholasjanke3476]

You can find a film of David and Larry together at a real Mash in South Korea! Charles meets Frank! Both men give a speech.

[@edwardbianchi192]

He was one of my favorites on M.A.S.H.

[@gwg245]

I had no idea he wasn’t actually British. I did know he was Mr. Maellard on regular show though.

[@NortonsNestMonthly]

Winchester was not British. He was to the manor born in Boston.

[@fractalnomics]

Thank you for sharing.

[@donaldbrowning4602]

one of the best

[@stevenweiler1379]

This is the shortest one why all the others were talking longer

[@BLAB-it5un]

Always interesting how an actor can bring himself into a character without the character being him - such as with the love of classical music. And his privacy seems to have borne out in how he shied away, best I can tell, from all the post-MASH events. There are no clips of him in any of the retrospectives or archives shows commenting on the show or his character or his role in it which I always found odd and a bit disingenuous particularly since he made such a great contribution and the show did so much for him.

[@icedcoffee9607]

@Alan Sivell, I was wondering if you might tell me where I could find the original footage of this interview?Thanks for sharing!

[@eatpigsnot]

in the comments from another clip of this press conference he said he was a reporter at the press conference and later rescued the footage from the trash

[@opticscolossalandepicvideo4879]

He killed a man in a bar fight with his bare hands

[@updfdrakkell143]

I cant get used to him not having a accent

[@acidspit14]

why is winchester talking so weird???

[@BiffJackson-o4i]

Winchester killed that show for me. What a god-awful character.