Remembering David Ogden Stiers: The 5 best TV roles of his career
By Shawn Lealos
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The Dead Zone, David Ogden Stiers
Film and Television
David Ogden Stiers, the beloved actor from the hit TV series M*A*S*H, passed away on March 3, at the age of 75.
David Ogden Stiers had a very successful 46-year career in film and television. He is a three-time Emmy Award nominee (two for M*A*S*H and once for The First Olympics: Athens 1896), picked up an Annie nomination for his voice work on Teacher’s Pet, and won the Best Cast Award from the TV Land Awards for his past work on M*A*S*H.
Over his career, Stiers has a lot of television appearances, including guest roles on shows like Star Trek: The Next Generation, Touched by an Angel, Frasier, Murder, She Wrote, Wings and Matlock. However, he also had recurring and starring roles on a lot of great TV shows over the years.
To honor his passing, here is a look at five of the best television roles that David Ogden Stiers portrayed over his illustrious career.
5. Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place – Mr. Bauer
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If you haven’t seen Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place, you missed a very entertaining sitcom from the late ’90s that starred none other than Ryan Reynolds and also featured Nathan Fillion (Firefly, Castle) in an early television role. Reynolds starred as Berg, a slacker who worked in a pizza joint with his buddy Pete.
This was possibly the most unique role that David Ogden Stiers portrayed in his career as a regular on television. Steirs played a character named Mr. Bauer, a delusional man who dines at the pizza place and seems to believe that things he sees in films are actually things that happened in his own life. It was a fantastic comedic role for Stiers, and unlike anything else that he has ever really done.