Ogden may refer to:

People[link]

Surname[link]

• Aaron Ogden, governor of New Jersey
• Bud Ogden, American professional basketball player
• Carlos C. Ogden, American Medal of Honor recipient
• Charles Ogden (children's writer)
• Charles Kay Ogden, Cambridge University linguist, inventor of Basic English
• Charles Richard Ogden, Canadian politician
• Chris 'Godhammer' Ogden, Reichstag of Poetry, Somerset House of Prose
• David W. Ogden, Deputy Attorney General of the United States
• Darius A. Ogden (1813-1889), New York politician
• Elias B. D. Ogden (1800-1865), Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
• Eric Ogden, British politician
• Frederick B. Ogden (1827-1893), 8th Mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey
• John B. Ogden (1812-1889), American lawyer and judge
• Jonathan Ogden, American football offensive tackle
• Jonathan Ogden (surgeon)
• Nigel Ogden, British theatre organist
• Peter Skene Ogden, alternately Skeene, Skein or Skeen, a Canadian explorer of the American West
• Ralph Ogden, American professional basketball player
• Schubert Ogden, pioneer in the field of Process Theology
• William Ogden (disambiguation)

See also

• John Ogdon, pianist

Given name[link]

• Ogden L. Mills, an American businessman and politician
• Ogden Nash, an American poet
• Ogden R. Reid, a member of the United States House of Representatives
• Ogden Rood, an American physicist
• David Ogden Stiers, actor

Fictional characters[link]

• Hilda Ogden, a character in the British television series Coronation Street
• Irma Ogden, a character in the British television series Coronation Street
• Ogden Wernstrom, a character from the television series Futurama

Places[link]

In Canada:

• Ogden, Calgary, in Calgary, Alberta
• Ogden, Quebec, a small municipality in the Eastern Townships.
• Ogdensville, British Columbia or Ogden City, alternate names for gold rush-era Seymour Arm, British Columbia
• Ogden, British Columbia, an unincorporated locality in the Bridge River Country of British Columbia
• Ogden Point, a landmark breakwater, lighthouse and port facility in Victoria, British Columbia
• Ogden, Nova Scotia

In England:

• Ogden, West Yorkshire

In the United States:

• Ogden, Arkansas
• Ogden, Illinois
• Ogden, Iowa
• Ogden, Kansas
• Ogden, New York
• Ogden, North Carolina
• Ogden, Utah, the largest city with the name
• Ogden Dunes, Indiana
• Ogden Township, Michigan
• Ogdensburg, New York
• North Ogden, Utah
• South Ogden, Utah
• Mount Ogden, Utah
• The Ogden Theater in Denver

Rivers[link]

In England: River Ogden, Lancashire

In the United States:

• Ogden Creek, a tributary of Back Creek in New Jersey
• Ogden River, Utah

Ships[link]

• USS Ogden (PF-39), commissioned in 1943, and received three battle stars for World War II service; named after Ogden, Utah
• USS Ogden (LPD-5), an Austin-class amphibious transport dock; also named after Ogden, Utah

Other uses[link]

• Ogden (horse), a British-American Thoroughbred racehorse
• Ogden (hyperelastic model), hyperelastic material model, used in continuum mechanics to model rubberlike material behaviour
• Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake, a concept album by the British rock band The Small Faces
• Ogden tables, actuarial tables produced by the United Kingdom Government Actuary's Department, used for calculating future losses in personal injury and fatal accident cases
• Ogden (film), a short film loosely based on the politician Ogden L. Mills

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Frederic Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 – May 19, 1971) was an American poet well known for his light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, the New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry".^[1] Ogden Nash wrote over 500 pieces of comic verse. The best of his work was published in 14 volumes between 1931 and 1972.

Early life[link]

Nash was born in Rye, New York. His father owned and operated an import-export company, and because of business obligations, the family relocated often. Nash was descended from the brother of General Francis Nash, who gave his name to Nashville, Tennessee.^[2]

His family lived briefly in Savannah, GA in a carriage house owned by Juliette Gordon Low, founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA; he wrote a poem about Mrs. Low's House. After graduating from St. George's School in Middletown, Rhode Island, Nash entered Harvard University in 1920, only to drop out a year later. He returned to St. George's to teach for a year and left to work his way through a series of other jobs, eventually landing a position as an editor at Doubleday publishing house, where he first began to write verse.

Nash moved to Baltimore, Maryland, He lived in Baltimore for most of his life, from 1934 until his death in 1971. Nash thought of Baltimore as home. After his return from a brief move to New York, he wrote "I could have loved New York had I not loved Balti-more."

His first job in New York was as a writer of the streetcar card ads for a company that previously had employed another Baltimore resident, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Nash loved to rhyme. "I think in terms of rhyme, and have since I was six years old," he stated in a 1958 news interview.^[3] He had a fondness for crafting his own words whenever rhyming words did not exist, though admitting that crafting rhymes was not always the easiest task.^[3]

In 1931 he married Frances Leonard.^[4] He published his first collection of poems, Hard Lines, that same year, earning him national recognition. Some of his poems reflected an anti-establishment feeling. For example, one verse, entitled Common Sense, asks:

Why did the Lord give us agility,

If not to evade responsibility?

Writing career[link]

When Nash wasn't writing poems, he made guest appearances on comedy and radio shows and toured the United States and the United Kingdom, giving lectures at colleges and universities.

Nash was regarded respectfully by the literary establishment, and his poems were frequently anthologized even in serious collections such as Selden Rodman's 1946 A New Anthology of Modern Poetry.

Nash was the lyricist for the Broadway musical One Touch of Venus, collaborating with librettist S. J. Perelman and composer Kurt Weill. The show included the notable song "Speak Low". He also wrote the lyrics for the 1952 revue Two's Company.

Nash and his love of the Baltimore Colts were featured in the December 13, 1968 issue of Life,^[5] with several poems about the American football team matched to full-page pictures. Entitled "My Colts, verses and reverses," the issue includes his poems and photographs by Arthur Rickerby. "Mr. Nash, the league leading writer of light verse (Averaging better than 6.3 lines per carry), lives in Baltimore and loves the Colts," it declares. The comments further describe Nash as "a fanatic of the Baltimore Colts, and a gentleman." Featured on the magazine cover is defensive player Dennis Gaubatz, number 53, in midair pursuit with this description: "That is he, looming 10 feet tall or taller above the Steelers' signal caller...Since Gaubatz acts like this on Sunday, I'll do my quarterbacking Monday." Memorable Colts Jimmy Orr, Billy Ray Smith, Bubba Smith, Willie Richardson, Dick Szymanski and Lou Michaels contribute to the poetry.

Among his most popular writings were a series of animal verses, many of which featured his off-kilter rhyming devices. Examples include "If called by a panther / Don't anther"; "Who wants my jellyfish? / I'm not sellyfish!". This is his ode to the llama:

The one-L lama,

He's a priest.

The two-L llama,

He's a beast.

And I would bet

A silk pajama

There isn't any

Three-L lllama.

(Nash appended a footnote to this poem: "The author's attention has been called to a type of conflagration known as a three-alarmer. Pooh."^[6])

Death and subsequent events[link]

Nash died at Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital on May 19, 1971, from Crohn's disease aggravated by a lactobacillus infection transmitted by improperly prepared cole slaw.^[1] He is interred in East Side Cemetery in North Hampton, New Hampshire.

A biography, Ogden Nash: the Life and Work of America's Laureate of Light Verse, was written by Douglas M. Parker, published in 2005 and in paperback in 2007. The book was written with the cooperation of the Nash family, and quotes extensively from Nash's personal correspondence as well as his poetry.

His daughter Isabel was married to noted photographer Fred Eberstadt, and his granddaughter, Fernanda Eberstadt, is an acclaimed author. Nash had one other daughter, Linell Nash Smith.

Poetic style[link]

Nash was best known for surprising, pun-like rhymes, sometimes with words deliberately misspelled for comic effect, as in his retort to Dorothy Parker's humorous dictum, Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses:

A girl who is bespectacled

She may not get her nectacled

But safety pins and bassinets

Await the girl who fassinets.

He often wrote in an exaggerated verse form with pairs of lines that rhyme, but are of dissimilar length and irregular meter:

Once there was a man named Mr. Palliser and he asked his wife, May I be a gourmet?

And she said, You sure may,

But she also said, If my kitchen is going to produce a Cordon Blue,

It won't be me, it will be you,

And he said, You mean Cordon Bleu?

And she said to never mind the pronunciation so long as it was him and not heu.

Nash's poetry was often a playful twist of an old saying or poem. He expressed this playfulness in what is perhaps his most famous rhyme. Nash observed the following in a turn of Joyce Kilmer's words: "I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree."

I think that I shall never see

A billboard lovely as a tree.

Indeed, unless the billboards fall

I'll never see a tree at all.^[7]

Similarly, in Reflections on Ice-Breaking he wrote:

Candy

Is dandy

But liquor

Is quicker.

He also commented:

I often wonder which is mine:

Tolerance, or a rubber spine?

His one-line observations are often quoted.

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.

Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.

Other poems[link]

Nash was a baseball fan, and he wrote a poem titled "Line-Up for Yesterday", an alphabetical poem listing baseball immortals.^[8] Published in Sport magazine in January 1949, the poem pays tribute to the baseball greats and to his own fanaticism, in alphabetical order. Here is a sampling from his A to Z list:^[9]

C is for Cobb, Who grew spikes and not corn, And made all the basemen Wish they weren't born.

D is for Dean, The grammatical Diz, When they asked, Who's the tops? Said correctly, I is.

E is for Evers, His jaw in advance; Never afraid To Tinker with Chance.

F is for Fordham And Frankie and Frisch; I wish he were back With the Giants, I wish.

Nash particularly loved Baltimore sports teams.

Nash wrote humorous poems for each movement of the Camille Saint-Saëns orchestral suite The Carnival of the Animals, which are sometimes recited when the work is performed. The original recording of this version was made by Columbia Records in the 1940s, with Noël Coward reciting the poems and Andre Kostelanetz conducting the orchestra.

Ogden Nash stamp[link]

The US Postal Service released a postage stamp featuring Ogden Nash and six of his poems on the centennial of his birth on 19 August 2002. The six poems are "The Turtle," "The Cow," "Crossing The Border," "The Kitten," "The Camel" and "Limerick One." It was the first stamp in the history of the USPS to include the word "sex," although as a synonym for gender. It can be found under the "O" and is part of "The Turtle". The stamp is the 18th in the Literary Arts section. Four years later, the first issue took place in Baltimore on August 19. The ceremony was held at the home that he and his wife Frances shared with his parents on 4300 Rugby Road, where he did most of his writing.

Bibliography[link]

• Candy is Dandy by Ogden Nash, Anthony Burgess, Linell Smith, and Isabel Eberstadt. Carlton Books Ltd, 1994. ISBN 0-233-98892-0
• Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight by Ogden Nash and Lynn Munsinger. Little, Brown Young Readers, 1999. ISBN 0-316-59905-0
• I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Ogden Nash. Buccaneer Books, 1994. ISBN 1-56849-468-8
• The Old Dog Barks Backwards by Ogden Nash. Little Brown & Co, 1972. ISBN 0-316-59804-6
• Ogden Nash's Zoo by Ogden Nash and Etienne Delessert. Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, 1986. ISBN 0-941434-95-8
• Pocket Book of Ogden Nash by Ogden Nash. Pocket, 1990. ISBN 0-671-72789-3
• Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash by Ogden Nash. Black Dog & Levanthal Publishing, 1995. ISBN 1-884822-30-8
• The Tale of Custard the Dragon by Ogden Nash and Lynn Munsinger. Little, Brown Young Readers, 1998. ISBN 0-316-59031-2
• Bed Riddance by Ogden Nash. Little Brown & Co, 1969. ASIN B000EGGXD8
• "Versus" by Ogden Nash. Little, Brown, & Co, 1949.
• Good Intentions by Ogden Nash. Little Brown & Co, 1942. ISBN 978-1-125-65764-5
• "The Face is Familiar: The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash" by Ogden Nash. Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1941.
• There's Always Another Windmill by Ogden Nash. Little Brown & Co, 1968. ISBN 0-316-59839-9
• Private Dining Room by Ogden Nash. Little Brown & Co, 1952. ASIN B000H1Z8U4
• Many Long Years Ago by Ogden Nash. Little Brown & Co, 1945. ISBN B000OELG1O
• You Can't Get There From Here by Ogden Nash. Little Brown & Co, 1953.
• I'm a Stranger Here Myself by Ogden Nash. Little Brown & Co, 1938

Individual poems[link]

• "What I Know About Life" The New Yorker 24/47 (15 January 1949) : 35
• "Carnival of Animals" The New Yorker 25/48 (7 January 1950) : 26

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Ogden Nash

• "American Poems: Ogden Nash". http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/nash/.  Includes a list of over a hundred Ogden Nash poems. Most or all are under copyright and therefore not available online.
• Ogden Nash at Find a Grave
• Blogden Nash Catalogs the global reach and influence of Ogden Nash on contemporary life.
• Ogden Nash's Collection at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin

Page McConnell
McConnell with Phish at Red Rocks Amphitheater July 30, 2009
Background information
Birth name	Page Samuel McConnell
Also known as	The Chairman of the Boards, Leo
Born	(1963-05-17) May 17, 1963 (age 49) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States
Genres	Alternative rock, rock, jazz, electronica
Occupations	Musician, songwriter
Instruments	Keyboards, piano, theremin, upright bass, Hammond B-3 Organ
Years active	1981–present
Labels	Sony BMG
Associated acts	Phish, Vida Blue, Tenacious D, Phil Lesh and Friends, Spam Allstars, Travis, Porter Batiste Stoltz
Website	Official website

Page Samuel McConnell (born May 17, 1963 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)^[1] is an American multi-instrumentalist most noted for his work as a songwriter and keyboardist with the American rock band Phish.

In addition to being a member of Phish since 1985, McConnell has also had several musical liaisons during his career, including an instrumental trio named Vida Blue. He released his first solo album, featuring original compositions, in 2007.

Background[link]

McConnell was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1963. By age four he was learning to play the piano, and when his family relocated to Basking Ridge, New Jersey, in 1969 he continued his musical studies, eventually playing in bands with friends by his seventh grade.^[1] His father, Dr. Jack B. McConnell, worked at McNeil Laboratories and helped to develop Tylenol and the MRI. The elder McConnell then started a free health clinic for kids that was staffed by retired health workers in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

McConnell spent a year at Gill St. Bernard's School, in Gladstone, New Jersey before moving away. McConnell spent his senior year of high school at Lawrence Academy at Groton, in Groton, Massachusetts, and then attended Southern Methodist University from Fall 1982 to Spring 1984, where he joined Kappa Alpha Order. McConnell transferred to Goddard College that fall and graduated in December 1987. This is where he met his mentor, Karl Boyle, and wrote his senior study, The Art of Improvisation under Boyle's guidance.

McConnell joined Phish in 1985^[1] and played with the band for the first time on May 3 of that year.^[2] McConnell has written a number of Phish originals including "Cars Trucks Buses," "Magilla," "Army of One," "I Been Around," "Windy City," and "If I Told You." He has also coauthored numerous other songs with the band.^[3]

Other musical projects[link]

In 1997, McConnell played keyboards on the title track of Scottish band Travis' debut album Good Feeling. The album was produced by Steve Lillywhite, who also produced Phish's 1996 Billy Breathes album.

In 2001, McConnell appeared on Tenacious D's debut album. That fall, he joined the band on stage for a show at the Higher Ground nightclub in Winooski, Vermont.

With Oteil Burbridge and Russell Batiste, McConnell was the founding member of Vida Blue.

After a two-year hiatus from the music industry following the breakup of Phish, McConnell returned as a solo artist, recording an album of all new material in 2006. This eponymous album was released April 17, 2007 through Sony/BMG’s Legacy Recordings. On signing with Legacy, McConnell has stated, "I know a lot of people on the internet, and that's certainly an option — especially these days and especially if you're catering to the Phish fans who already know who I am. But I wanted a little bit more than that... I was proud of the record, and I wanted as many people as possible to hear it when I was done with it."^[4]

The album features Phish bandmates Jon Fishman, Trey Anastasio, and Mike Gordon, though they all play on separate tracks.

McConnell headlined the High Sierra Music Festival in July 2007, which was held in Quincy, CA. His touring band features multi-instrumentalist Jared Slomoff, guitarist Adam Zimmon, bassist Rob O'Dea, and drummer Gabe Jarrett. Said McConnell, "I have a really good feeling about this group. It feels like a band, although it's in its infancy right now. It really does feel like there is a collective consciousness."^[4]

Instruments[link]

Page McConnell's current rig includes:

- a Yamaha C7 concert grand (7'6") piano (since 2.3.93),

- a Hammond B3 organ with a Leslie 122 speaker (modified with individual percussion and chorus output knobs for a more tuned effect),

- a 1969 Fender Rhodes Silver Sparkle Top Suitcase 73 Model electric piano,

- a Hohner D6 Clavinet (often used in sync with a wah-wah pedal),

- a Moog Little Phatty (sometimes switched out for a Prophet '08),

- and a Yamaha CS-60 polyphonic synthesizer.

- Since 2009, Page has been using a Moog Liberation Keytar when playing Edgar Winter's "Frankenstein" with Phish

- In 2010, Page brought back his Wurlitzer 106p electric piano to his live rig

- In 2011, he brought back his theremin for the first time since 1997

In the past, his rig has included a Moog Source, Alesis Andromeda A6 & a Yamaha Motif.

Page also plays the melodica though not with Phish.

The Rhodes as well as the clavinet are sometimes played through a Maestro Phase Shifter (recently changed to an MXR Phase 90).

Page played bass on Phish's one-off cover of Little Feat's Willin' & the Phish original Rocko William, though it has not been performed since 1997. He also played upright bass during the band's acoustic bluegrass numbers, though not since 1994.

He also plays drums on the Phish song Walfredo.

Albums[link]

1. Page McConnell (April 17, 2007)

References[link]

1. ^ ^{a b c} Leggett, Steve (2010). "Page McConnell Biography". AllMusic AMG P-103556. Rovi Corporation. http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p103556/biography. Retrieved 6 February 2010. 
2. ^ Phish.net Setlisths:1985 Accessed: August 04, 2011.
3. ^ The Phish Companion
4. ^ ^{a b} Metzger, John (May 2007). "A Fresh Start with Page McConnell". Music Box Magazine. http://www.musicbox-online.com/interviews/page-mcconnell-05292007.html. Retrieved 2007-08-21. 

External links[link]

• pagemcconnell.com - Official Website
• Phish.com - Official Phish Website
• 'The Art of Improvisation' - Page's senior study from Goddard College
• Jack B. McConnell, M.D

David Ogden Stiers (born October 31, 1942) is an American actor, director, vocal actor, and musician, noted for his roles in Disney movies, as well as his performances in the television series M*A*S*H as Major Charles Emerson Winchester III and the science 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.

Early life and education[link]

Stiers was born in Peoria, Illinois, the son of Margaret Elizabeth (née Ogden) and Kenneth Truman Stiers.^[1] He attended Urbana High School, at the same time as film critic Roger Ebert.^[2] He later relocated to Eugene, Oregon, where he graduated from North Eugene High School and briefly attended the University of Oregon.^[3]

He later ventured to San Francisco, where he performed with the California Shakespeare Theater, San Francisco Actors Workshop, and the improv group The Committee, whose members included Rob Reiner and Howard Hesseman. Stiers studied at the Juilliard School. During his studies, Stiers was mentored by actor John Houseman and would later join his City Center Acting Company.^[4]

Career[link]

Early acting credits[link]

Stiers first appeared in the Broadway production The Magic Show in 1974 in the minor role of Feldman. Later his early credits include The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Kojak, and Rhoda. Stiers also appeared in the pilot of Charlie’s Angels as the team's chief back-up.^[5]

[edit] M*A*S*H (1977–1983)

In 1977, Stiers joined the cast of the now iconic CBS-TV sitcom M*A*S*H. As Major Charles Emerson Winchester III, Stiers filled the void created by the departure of actor Larry Linville's Frank Burns character. In contrast to the buffoonish Burns, Winchester was a well-spoken and talented surgeon who presented a different type of foil to Alan Alda's Hawkeye Pierce and Mike Farrell's B.J. Hunnicutt. Burns usually served as the butt of practical jokes instigated by Hawkeye or B.J., and his surgical skills were often harshly criticized. Charles, however, presented a challenge to his colleagues' displays of irreverence because his surgical skills could match or even outshine theirs; his aristocratic manner and aversion to the puerile behavior served as the target for his fellow surgeons' barbs and jokes. At times, however, Winchester could align himself with Hawkeye and B.J. and held considerable admiration for CO Col. Sherman T. Potter. For his portrayal of the pompous but nonetheless multidimensional Boston aristocrat, Stiers received two Emmy Award nominations.

Other television work[link]

Following the completion of M*A*S*H, Stiers expanded his work on television with regular guest appearances on North and South; Star Trek: The Next Generation; Murder, She Wrote; Touched by an Angel; Wings; and Frasier, along with a recurring role in Season 1 of Two Guys and a Girl as Mr. Bauer. In 1984, he portrayed United States Olympic Committee founder, William Milligan Sloane in the NBC miniseries, The First Olympics: Athens, 1896. He also had guest appearances on ALF and Matlock. He appeared in two unsuccessful television projects, Love & Money and Justice League of America (as the Martian Manhunter). In 2002, Stiers started a recurring role as the Reverend Purdy on the successful USA Network series The Dead Zone with Anthony Michael Hall. In 2006, he was cast as the recurring character Oberoth in Stargate Atlantis. Stiers also appeared in several Perry Mason made-for-TV movies in the 1980s as District Attorney Michael Reston.

Film work[link]

Stiers's early films included Jack Nicholson’s Drive, He Said and the George Burns comedy Oh, God! He followed up with roles in Harry's War, Better Off Dead, The Man With One Red Shoe, The Accidental Tourist, Iron Will, Doc Hollywood, Jungle 2 Jungle, and Krippendorf's Tribe. During the 1990s, Stiers joined Woody Allen’s ensemble casts in Another Woman, Shadows and Fog, Mighty Aphrodite, Everyone Says I Love You, and The Curse of the Jade Scorpion. Stiers has provided his vocal talents for a number of Disney movies, including Beauty and the Beast, Pocahontas, and Lilo and Stitch. He also voiced the character Kamaji in Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away and the engineer Piccolo in Porco Rosso. His most recent film appearance was in the 2001 film The Majestic, with Jim Carrey.

Vocal work[link]

Stiers has provided voice work for dozens of film and television projects. His first work was on one of George Lucas’ earliest films, the critically acclaimed THX 1138, in which he was incorrectly billed as "David Ogden Steers". Stiers has voiced PBS documentary films such as Ric Burns’ project New York: A Documentary Film and several episodes of the documentary television series The American Experience,^[6] 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 has collaborated with Disney on eight animated features, such as Beauty and the Beast (as Cogsworth, also opening narration), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (as the Archdeacon), Pocahontas (as Governor Ratcliffe and Wiggins), Atlantis: The Lost Empire (as Mr. Harcourt), and Lilo and Stitch (as Jumba Jookiba). He also lent his voice to the direct-to-video Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman (2003) as the Penguin. Stiers also did voice work for Solovar in a two-part episode "The Brave and The Bold" in Justice League and voiced Solovar again in a Justice League Unlimited episode "Dead Reckoning". He also voiced Gryzlikoff in Darkwing Duck and Mr. Jolly in Teacher's Pet. He also voiced the king and prime minister in a short film, The Cat That Looked at a King, in 2004. In Hoodwinked (2005), the animated movie partly based on Little Red Riding Hood, Stiers voiced the role of Nicky Flippers, the frog detective dispatched to Granny's house. He voiced Pop's father, Mr. Maellard, in the animated TV series Regular Show, which debuted in 2010.

Stiers has also lent his voice to several video games, including Icewind Dale, Kingdom Hearts II, Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, as Jeff Zandi in Uru: Ages Beyond Myst, and as Esher in Myst V: End of Ages.

Music[link]

Stiers is the associate conductor for the Newport Symphony Orchestra and the Ernest Bloch Music Festival.^[7] He has guest conducted over 70 orchestras around the world, including the Oregon Mozart Players, the Vancouver Symphony, the Yaquina (Ore.) Chamber Orchestra, as well as orchestras in San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles, Chicago and Toronto.^[8][9][10]

References[link]

External links[link]

• David Ogden Stiers at the Internet Movie Database
• David Ogden Stiers at the Internet Broadway Database
• David Ogden Stiers at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
• Works by or about David Ogden Stiers in libraries (WorldCat catalog)