"We did not know at that time that either one of us was gay, and we just hung out as best friends," David Hyde Pierce tells PEOPLE about first meeting his now-husband, Brian Hargrove, in 1982 ...

Although he'd been acting on stage and screen beforehand, most people first were introduced to David Hyde Pierce via his role as Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom "Frasier." Pierce was, in the long ...