
René Auberjonois
Born: 1940-06-01
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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. 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

The Patriot

The Princess Diaries

Batman Forever

Inspector Gadget

The Wild Wild West Revisited

Dispatches from Nicaragua

The Big Bus

The Making of Fallout: New Vegas

Tarzan & Jane

First Cow

Walker

Joseph: King of Dreams

M*A*S*H

The Lost Language of Cranes

Geppetto

The Feud

Lilith

Absolute Strangers

Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland

King Kong

Woodrow Wilson

Planes: Fire & Rescue

Petulia

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

The Captains

Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach

Los Locos

Eulogy

The Last Unicorn

Incident at Vichy

Le Door

Longarm

King Lear

The Sands of Time

McCabe & Mrs. Miller

Once Upon a Dead Man

The Player

Raising Buchanan

Cats Don't Dance

Wild Card

Blood Stripe

Way Out on a Limb

Certain Women

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal

Chill Out, Scooby-Doo!

An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island

Windows on the World

Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story

Eyes of Laura Mars

Pete 'n' Tillie

Hornswiggle

Teenage Tease

The Hindenburg

The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea

The Sixth Gun

Where the Buffalo Roam

What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

This Is Happening

Brewster McCloud

Witness to Hope: The Life of Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II

Upcoming Season

The Christmas Star

Snide and Prejudice

The Little Mermaid Live!

Images

The Ballad of Little Jo

More Wild Wild West

Burning Down the House

My Best Friend Is a Vampire

Once Upon a Midnight Scary

Get a Life!

Scooby-Doo: Agence toutou risques, vol. 2 : Le fantôme de la télé

Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life

A Smoky Mountain Christmas

3:15 the Moment of Truth

Scooby-Doo: Agence toutou risques, vol. 1 : Le voleur de vélo

The Circuit

The Tale of the Frog Prince

Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond

The Birdmen

Shirts/Skins

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes

Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency

Sleeping Beauty

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior

Altman on His Own Terms

The Smurfs Christmas Special

Panache

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

The Kid From Nowhere

Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends
