‘Star Trek: Deep Space Nine’ Actor Rene Auberjonois Dies during 79

The actor best famous for his roles on radio shows “Benson” and “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,” René Auberjonois has died. He was 79 years old.

The actor died in his home on Sunday, Dec. 8, 2019, in Los Angeles. He died of metastatic lung cancer, according to his son, Remy Auberjonois.

Auberjonois worked consistently as a impression actor in several golden ages: From a energetic museum in a 1960s to a cinema rebirth of a 1970s to a duration of network radio in a ‘80s and ‘90s. Each era knew him for conflicting roles.

Movie fans in a ‘70s knew him as Father John Mulcahy, a troops clergyman who played true male to a doctors’ antics in “M*A*S*H.” This was his initial poignant film role.

Sitcom viewers in a ‘80s knew Auberjonois as Clayton Runnymede Endicott III, a hopelessly high-brow arch of staff during a governor’s palace on “Benson,” a ABC array whose pretension impression was a servant played by Robert Guillaume.

Sci-fi fans in a ‘90s knew him as Odo, a shape-shifting Changeling and conduct of space-station confidence on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.”

In an talk with a “Star Trek” website, Auberjonois said, “I am all of those characters, and we adore that. we also run into people, and they consider I’m their cousin or their dry cleaner. we adore that too.”

Auberjonois was innate in New York in 1940. His relatives where Fernand Auberjonois, Swiss-born unfamiliar match for U.S. newspapers, and a grandson of a Swiss post-impressionist painter also named René Auberjonois.

The actor was lifted in New York, London, and Paris. For a time he lived with his family in an artists’ cluster in Rockland County, New York. The residents enclosed actors John Houseman, Helen Hayes, and Burgess Meredith.

After graduating from Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon, Auberjonois trafficked around a nation fasten museum companies, eventually, he landed 3 roles on Broadway in 1968. One of a 3 roles enclosed personification a Fool in a long-running chronicle of “King Lear.”

In 1969, he would play Sebastian Baye conflicting Katherine Hepburn in “Coco.” It was a play about a life of engineer Coco Chanel. This purpose would acquire Auberjonois a Tony for best actor in a heading purpose in a musical.

Later, he would accept Tony nominations for his roles in 1973’s “The Good Doctor,” 1984’s “Big River,” and 1989’s “City of Angels.”

In 1970, Auberjonois began his run with executive Robert Altman, personification Mulcahy in “M*A*S*H.”

In his many famous sell from a movie, Sally Kellerman’s Margaret Houlihan wonders how such a trouble-maker alloy as Capt. Benjamin Franklin Pierce, aka “Hawkeye,” could strech a position of shortcoming in a U.S. Army.

A Bible-reading Auberjonois responds, deadpan, “He was drafted.”

In 2016, a actor spoke on a podcast, “The Gist,” “I indeed done that line adult when we were rehearsing a scene. And it became a kind of iconic like for a whole film.”

Additionally, in 2016, he played an off-the-wall ornithologist in Altman’s “Brewster McCloud,” and a saloonkeeper alongside Warren Beatty in a director’s Western “McCabe Mrs. Miller,” in 1971 and seemed in Altman’s “Images” in 1972.

Auberjonois spent many of a ‘70s personification guest spots on radio shows before he assimilated a expel of “Benson” in a second deteriorate in 1980. There he would sojourn for a rest of a show’s 7 seasons. He played a blue-blooded domestic confidant and ongoing hypochondriac Endicott.

Later in his career, Auberjonois would do voice behaving for charcterised movies. His many noted charcterised purpose was as a French cook who sings “Les Poissons” in Disney’s 1989, “The Little Mermaid.”

From 1993 to 1998, he played Odo on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.” Additionally, he became a unchanging during “Star Trek” conventions. At these conventions, he lifted income for Doctors Without Borders and sealed autographs with a sketch of Odo’s bucket, where a impression would store himself when he returned to his healthy gooey state.

From 2004-2008, Auberjonois was a unchanging on ABC’s “Boston Legal.”

More recently in his career, Auberjonois worked with eccentric filmmakers, including executive Kelly Reichardt, for whom he seemed in a 2016 film, “Certain Women” and a 2019 film “First Cow.” This was his final role.

Auberjonois is survived by his mother of 56 years, Judith, and their dual children, Tessa and Remy.

By Jeanette Vietti

Sources:

Hollywood Reporter: René Auberjonois, ‘Star Trek’ and ‘Benson’ Actor, Dies during 79
Washington Post: René Auberjonois, actor featured in ‘Star Trek’ and Altman films, dies during 79
Comic Book: Star Trek Stars Mourn a Loss of Rene Auberjonois

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