Godspeed, Charles.

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Actor David Ogden Stiers, best known for playing Charles Emerson Winchester III on the TV show, MASH, has passed away at age 75 from bladder cancer. He will be missed.

I also know him as Cogsworth from the Animated Beauty and the Beast.

Charles: "Don’t you see? Your hand may be stilled, but your gift cannot be silenced if you refuse to let it be... The gift does not lie in your hands. I have hands, David. Hands that can make a scalpel sing. More than anything in my life I wanted to play, but I do not have the gift. I can play the notes, but I cannot make the music. You have performed Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Chopin. Even if you never do so again, you've already known a joy that I will never know as long as I live. Because the true gift is in your head and in your heart and in your soul. Now you can shut it off forever, or you can find new ways to share your gift with the world: through the baton, the classroom, or the pen. As to these works, they’re for you, because you and the piano will always be as one."

oh god, i saw the title and thought you were taking about the heir to the throne.

i just want to see a coronation in my lifetime. 1953 was eons ago.

So I had to look this guy up. I've watched some mash episodes here and there. What caught my attention is he was in what looks like an interesting old movie about a school for special needs kids.

Because of the generation Stiers had been born in, it was difficult for him to be upfront with his own sexuality, save with only those close to him. But just a few years ago, he publicly came out as gay, God bless him.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9PGIAO92T-g

The crown jewel of a MASH collection , most fans are missing it (no sgd cast photo has ever surfaced although I did see a sgd book by the cast)