David Ogden Stiers

David Ogden Stiers was an American actor best known for his eleven-year run as the pompous, cultured Major Charles Winchester III on M*A*S*H (CBS, 1977–1983) and for voice roles in numerous Disney animated films including Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Pocahontas (1995). He came out as gay in a 2009 interview with KINK FM radio in Portland, Oregon — many years after his most prominent work — saying he wished he had come out sooner. Stiers was warmly received when he came out and spent his final years as an advocate for LGBTQ+ equality.