Rene Auberjonois, actor featured in 'Star Trek' and Altman films, dies at 79
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Source: Washington Post
Ren Auberjonois, a prolific actor best known for his roles on the television shows "Benson" and "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and his part in the 1970 film "M.A.S.H." playing Father Mulcahy, died Dec. 8 at his home in Los Angeles. He was 79. The cause was metastatic lung cancer, said his son, Rmy-Luc Auberjonois.
Mr. Auberjonois worked constantly as a character actor through several periods and forms, from the dynamic theater 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. For film fans of the 1970s, he was Father John Mulcahy, the military chaplain who played straight man to the doctors' antics in "M.A.S.H." It was his first significant film role and the first of several for director Robert Altman.
For sitcom watchers of the 1980s, he was Clayton Runnymede Endicott III, the hopelessly highbrow chief of staff at a governor's mansion on "Benson," the ABC series whose title character was a butler played by Robert Guillaume. And for sci-fi fans of the 1990s and convention-goers ever since, he was Odo, the shape-shifting Changeling and head of space-station security on "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine." "I am all of those characters, and I love that," Auberjonois said in a 2011 interview with the "Star Trek" website. "I also run into people, and they think I'm their cousin or their dry cleaner. I love that, too."
Ren Marie Murat Auberjonois was born in New York City on June 1, 1940, the son of Fernand Auberjonois, a Swiss-born foreign correspondent for U.S. newspapers, and the grandson of a Swiss postimpressionist painter also named Ren Auberjonois.
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Oh damn. ODO!!!!!
Loved him in Benson and DS9. What a loss. R.I.P.
MustLoveBeagles
(11,563 posts)I love the photo with John Ritter, also gone too soon.
BumRushDaShow
(127,270 posts)and he was only 55.
greyl
(22,990 posts)For the past 16 years I've seen him more often in Bad Santa and It than Three's Company. Was nice to see his son in Joan of Arcadia. Feel like he would have made an appearance on Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee eventually.
cstanleytech
(26,080 posts)Quackers
(2,256 posts)We will miss you.
amb123
(1,576 posts)Hot Lips Hoolihan: "I wonder how a degenerated person like that could have reached a position of responsibility in the Army Medical Corp?"
Father Mulcahy: "He was drafted."
RIP Rene Auberjonois
oasis
(49,150 posts)CBHagman
(16,968 posts)He was performing Moliere and very much at home in the work.
mackdaddy
(1,520 posts)Preston and Child wrote a whole series and Rene Auberjonois was excellent in his portrayal of this character. He will be missed in this and all of the other characters he brought to life.
iluvtennis
(19,756 posts)rwsanders
(2,585 posts)all. Great themes from 2 great shows.
So long Odo
ProfessorGAC
(64,413 posts)The first lasting recollection of one of his roles was in Eyes of Laura Mars.
He was a creepy character in that.
Loved him in the Benson & STDS9 roles.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)And her husband, Marshall Murat.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,438 posts)He should have got an Emmy for his role as Odo.