Photo: David Ogden Stiers | By Stacy Carey, Closer Weekly | David Ogden Stiers, beloved by fans for playing Major Charles Emerson Winchester III on MAS*H, would have turned 84 years old October 31. While Stiers is most remembered as his iconic television character, he had some notable accomplishments off screen that fans may not have known about.
According to Playbill, Stiers spent several years acting on Broadway and also attended Juilliard. TV Guide also noted that Stiers was a trained French horn player.
Fans of MAS*H may remember that Stiers’ personal love and talent for music was once comically incorporated into the show.
In the episode titled “The Smell of Music,” which aired in season 6, Stiers’ character played a French horn while trying to relax.
However, Captain Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce (Alan Alda) and Captain B.J. Honeycutt (Mike Farrell) were just coming off a 72-hour stretch of back-to-back surgeries.
As the website Horn Matters shared, Pierce and Honeycutt made it clear they were in no mood for the horn playing, and they went to great lengths to get Winchester to stop.
While Stiers played the French horn beautifully in his real life, as Winchester, he was painfully bad.
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