René Auberjonois
Actor
- Born
- June 1, 1940 · New York City, New York, USA
- Died
- December 8, 2019 (age 79)
René Auberjonois (June 1, 1940 – December 8, 2019) was an American actor, best known for playing Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Clayton Endicott III on Benson.
He first achieved fame as a stage actor, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1970 for his portrayal of Sebastian Baye opposite Katharine Hepburn in the André Previn-Alan Jay Lerner musical Coco. He went on to earn three more Tony nominations for performances in Neil Simon's The Good Doctor (1973), Roger Miller's Big River (1985), and Cy Coleman's City of Angels (1989); he won a Drama Desk Award for Big River.
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A screen actor with more than 200 credits, Auberjonois was most famous for portraying characters in the main casts of several long-running television series, including Clayton Endicott III on Benson (1980–1986), for which he was an Emmy Award nominee; and Paul Lewiston on Boston Legal (2004–2008). In films, Auberjonois appeared in several Robert Altman productions, notably Father John Mulcahy in the film version of M-A-S-H (1970); the expedition scientist Roy Bagley in King Kong (1976); Chef Louis in The Little Mermaid (1989), in which he sang "Les Poissons"; and Reverend Oliver in The Patriot (2000). In the American animated musical comedy film Cats Don't Dance (1997), Auberjonois voiced Flanagan.
Auberjonois also performed as a voice actor in several video games, animated series and other productions.
Known for
The Little Mermaid
November 17, 1989
Batman Forever
June 16, 1995
The Princess Diaries
August 3, 2001
The Patriot
June 28, 2000
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
January 23, 2000
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
December 6, 1991
Inspector Gadget
July 23, 1999
M*A*S*H
February 18, 1970
Joseph: King of Dreams
November 7, 2000
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
March 17, 1988
The Player
May 8, 1992
King Kong
December 15, 1976
Acting103
- 2020First Cow as Man with Raven
- 2019The Little Mermaid Live! as Louis (archive footage) (voice)
- 2019Raising Buchanan as President James Buchanan
- 2019Windows on the World as Maury
- 2019The Circuit
- 2018What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Self
- 2016Way Out on a Limb as Self
- 2016Way Out on a Limb
- 2016Certain Women as Albert
- 2016Blood Stripe as Art