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René Auberjonois
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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.
Notable films
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Certain Women
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Eyes of Laura Mars
Appears in a KinoChain journey
Batman Forever
As Dr. Burton
The Little Mermaid
As Louis (voice)
M*A*S*H
As Father John Mulcahy
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
As Tony
The Patriot
As Reverend Oliver
Chains
KinoChain journeys
Public chains that pass through their films — or name them as a bridge.
The Open Road Reclaimed - Women Who Drive Away
From the dust of the American West to the neon of Tokyo, these eight films trace a lineage of women who take to the road not to flee, but to find themselves.
5 films
The Face Is the First Casualty
From Gotham's newest monster to silent Hollywood's phantom and Cronenberg's surgical twins, a chain about bodies rebuilt by the industries that broke them.
8 films
The Shoot as a Ritual of Ownership
A chain of eight films where the hunt is never really about the animal. Wild boar, kestrels, rabbits and pheasants watch while landowners, farmers and hired gun...
8 films
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First Cow
2020 · Man with Raven
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
2018 · Self
Certain Women
2016 · Albert
The Captains
2011 · Self
Chill Out, Scooby-Doo!
2007 · Alphonse LaFleur (voice)
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
2005 · Odo (voice)
Geppetto's Secret
2005 · Mr. Sneap
Eulogy
2004 · Parson Banke
The Patriot
2000 · Reverend Oliver
Batman Forever
1995 · Dr. Burton
The Little Mermaid
1989 · Louis (voice)
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
1988 · Tony
Eyes of Laura Mars
1978 · Donald Phelps
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971 · Sheehan
M*A*S*H
1970 · Father John Mulcahy