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BumRushDaShow

(127,270 posts)
Sun Dec 8, 2019, 09:45 PM Dec 2019

Rene Auberjonois, actor featured in 'Star Trek' and Altman films, dies at 79

Last edited Mon Dec 9, 2019, 08:14 AM - Edit history (2)

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.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/rene-auberjonois-actor-featured-in-star-trek-and-altman-films-dies-at-79/2019/12/08/3f59c822-1a0d-11ea-b4c1-fd0d91b60d9e_story.html



Oh damn. ODO!!!!!

Loved him in Benson and DS9. What a loss. R.I.P.


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Rene Auberjonois, actor featured in 'Star Trek' and Altman films, dies at 79 (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 2019 OP
Oh no MustLoveBeagles Dec 2019 #1
Amazing that it's been 16 years since John Ritter died BumRushDaShow Dec 2019 #6
yeah. John Ritter greyl Dec 2019 #9
Damn!! And I agree I loved him in both shows as well. cstanleytech Dec 2019 #2
RIP, Odo. Quackers Dec 2019 #3
+1 Quemado Dec 2019 #7
He was drafted amb123 Dec 2019 #4
A most interesting film/tv career. R.I.P. Rene. oasis Dec 2019 #5
I saw him onstage in D.C. years ago... CBHagman Dec 2019 #8
I really enjoyed his narration of the Pendergast character AudioBooks mackdaddy Dec 2019 #10
Loved him as Odo on Deep Space Nine. Rest in peace Mr. Auberjonois. iluvtennis Dec 2019 #11
Star Trek and MASH, both very influential in my life. Strive for the stars, and have mercy towards rwsanders Dec 2019 #12
Bummer! ProfessorGAC Dec 2019 #13
He was also a direct descendant of Napoleon's sister Fortinbras Armstrong Dec 2019 #14
An incredibly versatile and gifted actor Miguelito Loveless Dec 2019 #15
I never realized that was him in MASH. Gidney N Cloyd Dec 2019 #16

greyl

(22,990 posts)
9. yeah. John Ritter
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 12:42 AM
Dec 2019

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.



amb123

(1,576 posts)
4. He was drafted
Sun Dec 8, 2019, 10:32 PM
Dec 2019

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

mackdaddy

(1,520 posts)
10. I really enjoyed his narration of the Pendergast character AudioBooks
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 01:22 AM
Dec 2019

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.

rwsanders

(2,585 posts)
12. Star Trek and MASH, both very influential in my life. Strive for the stars, and have mercy towards
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 02:11 AM
Dec 2019

all. Great themes from 2 great shows.

So long Odo

ProfessorGAC

(64,413 posts)
13. Bummer!
Mon Dec 9, 2019, 08:02 AM
Dec 2019

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.

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