The actress was best known for playing Lt. Nurse Kellye Yamato on 'M.A.S.H.'.

Auberjonois worked constantly as a character actor in several golden ages, from the dynamic theatre of the 1960s to the cinema renaissance of the 1970s to the prime period of network television in the 1980s and '90s -- and each generation knew him for something different.

'The reason I want to talk about it in public is that I was diagnosed three and a half years ago and I've had a full life since then,' the former 'M.A.S.H.' star said.