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YES, THEY SAID THAT…
Quotes from Famous Peorians
DAVID OGDEN STIERS
“
I made my acting debut at age six as “third chorus member from the left”
in a grade-school production of Little Black Sambo. I wasn’t an attention hog,
except that I could usually use jokes, or acting goofy, as a way of making my
teachers overlook the fact that I hadn’t done my homework. I acted whenever
opportunity presented itself: Kiwanis luncheons, church basements (I didn’t
care), doing school plays and summer theater.”
Starlog Magazine – October 1992
Born at St. Francis Hospital in Peoria on Oct. 31, 1942. David was raised in
Peoria Heights and Chillicothe and is considered one of his generation’s most
prolific actors of stage, screen, television and concert halls.
