René Auberjonois
Acting • Born 1940-06-01 – Died 2019-12-08
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.
Filmography
205 credits
Inspector Gadget
Movie • 1999
Artemus Bradford
Batman Forever
Movie • 1995
Dr. Burton
Scooby-Doo: Agence toutou risques, vol. 2 : Le fantôme de la télé
Movie • 2007
(voice)
Scooby-Doo: Agence toutou risques, vol. 1 : Le voleur de vélo
Movie • 2007
(voice)
The Little Mermaid
Movie • 1989
Louis (voice)
The Last Unicorn
Movie • 1982
The Skull (voice)
M*A*S*H
Movie • 1970
Father John Mulcahy
The Player
Movie • 1992
René Auberjonois
King Kong
Movie • 1976
Roy Bagley
Geppetto
Movie • 2000
Prof Buonragazzo
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
Movie • 1998
Dithering (voice)
Lilith
Movie • 1964
Howie (uncredited)
3:15 the Moment of Truth
Movie • 1986
Horner
Brewster McCloud
Movie • 1971
The Lecturer
Where the Buffalo Roam
Movie • 1980
Harris
The Circuit
Movie • 2019
Chill Out, Scooby-Doo!
Movie • 2007
Alphonse LaFleur (voice)
The Christmas Star
Movie • 1986
Sumner
Walker
Movie • 1987
Maj. Siegfried Hennington
Eyes of Laura Mars
Movie • 1978
Donald Phelps
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Movie • 1971
Sheehan
Images
Movie • 1972
Hugh
Hornswiggle
Movie • 2008
Hornswiggle (voice)
Joseph: King of Dreams
Movie • 2000
Butler (voice)
The Kid From Nowhere
Movie • 1982
Howard
The Hindenburg
Movie • 1975
Major Napier
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior
Movie • 1995
Odo
The Big Bus
Movie • 1976
Father Kudos
The Ballad of Little Jo
Movie • 1993
Streight Hollander
The Lost Language of Cranes
Movie • 1992
Geoffrey Lane
The Wild Wild West Revisited
Movie • 1979
Capt. Sir David Edney
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Movie • 1989
Merlin
Witness to Hope: The Life of Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II
Movie • 2002
Narrator (voice)
Pete 'n' Tillie
Movie • 1972
Jimmy Twitchell
Woodrow Wilson
Movie • 2002
voice
Get a Life!
Movie • 2012
Himself
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
Movie • 2000
James Callender
The Birdmen
Movie • 1973
Halden Brevik / Olav Volda
Burning Down the House
Movie • 2001
Pierre
The Sixth Gun
Movie • 2013
Von Allen / Montcrief
Shirts/Skins
Movie • 1973
Sidney Krebs
The Feud
Movie • 1989
Reverton
Le Door
Movie • 2009
Le Door
Snide and Prejudice
Movie • 1997
Dr. Sam Cohen
My Best Friend Is a Vampire
Movie • 1987
Modoc
Eulogy
Movie • 2004
Parson Banke
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
Movie • 1992
Marquis
Evermore
Movie • 2013
Grandpa
Panache
Movie • 1976
Panache
Planes: Fire & Rescue
Movie • 2014
Concierge (voice)
The Sands of Time
Movie • 1992
Prime Minister
Los Locos
Movie • 1997
Presidente
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes
Movie • 1993
Himself
Cortex
Movie
Parks
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
Movie • 2000
Chef Louis (voice)
Tarzan & Jane
Movie • 2002
(voice)
Absolute Strangers
Movie • 1991
Quinn
Longarm
Movie • 1988
Gov. Lew Wallace
Certain Women
Movie • 2016
Albert
The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations
Movie • 1996
Self
The Captains
Movie • 2011
Self
The Patriot
Movie • 2000
Reverend Oliver
Blood Stripe
Movie • 2016
Art
The Smurfs Christmas Special
Movie • 1982
Stranger (voice)
A Smoky Mountain Christmas
Movie • 1986
Ned
Sleeping Beauty
Movie • 1983
King Boris
The Tale of the Frog Prince
Movie • 1982
King Ulrich
More Wild Wild West
Movie • 1980
Capt. Sir David Edney
Wild Card
Movie • 1992
Jake Spence
Once Upon a Midnight Scary
Movie • 1979
Ichabod Crane
This Is Happening
Movie • 2015
Cal Plotz
Cats Don't Dance
Movie • 1997
Flanigan (voice)
The Princess Diaries
Movie • 2001
Philippe Renaldi (uncredited)
Petulia
Movie • 1968
Fred Six (uncredited)
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Movie • 2018
Self
Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends
Movie • 2003
Himself
Windows on the World
Movie • 2019
Maury
Dispatches from Nicaragua
Movie • 2008
Teenage Tease
Movie • 1971
Once Upon a Dead Man
Movie • 1971
Andre Stryker
Raising Buchanan
Movie • 2019
President James Buchanan
First Cow
Movie • 2020
Man with Raven
We All Fall Down
Movie • 1999
Tim
Way Out on a Limb
Movie • 2016
Self
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
Movie • 2005
Odo (voice)
Incident at Vichy
Movie • 1973
Monceau, An Actor
King Lear
Movie • 1974
Edgar
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
Movie • 2007
James Parton (voice)
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
Movie • 1988
Tony
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
Movie • 2000
Self
Upcoming Season
Movie • 1975
Roberts
Geppetto's Secret
Movie • 2005
Mr. Sneap
Altman on His Own Terms
Movie • 2000
Self
Timeless Tales from Hallmark: Puss in Boots
Movie • 1991
voice
The Making of Fallout: New Vegas
Movie • 2010
Self
Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond
Movie • 1996
Self
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Movie • 1991
Colonel West (uncredited)
The Little Mermaid Live!
Movie • 2019
Louis (archive footage) (voice)
Way Out on a Limb
Movie • 2016
Nash Bridges
TV • 1996
Hagen Bridges
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Prof. Harry Papasian
The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
TV • 2000
Star Trek: Enterprise
TV • 2001
Ezral
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
TV • 1993
Odo
The Rookies
TV • 1972
Family Guy
TV • 1999
Odo (voice)
Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
TV • 1980
Mrs. Columbo
TV • 1979
Rhoda
TV • 1974
Xiaolin Showdown
TV • 2003
Master Fung (voice)
Challenge of the GoBots
TV • 1984
DuckTales
TV • 1987
Dr. Nogood (voice)
L.A. Law
TV • 1986
Kevin Richardson
Starsky & Hutch
TV • 1975
Judging Amy
TV • 1999
Judge Jackson Keeler
Benson
TV • 1979
Clayton Endicott III
Matlock
TV • 1986
Leo Brodsky
The Bionic Woman
TV • 1976
Doogie Howser, M.D.
TV • 1989
The Legend of Tarzan
TV • 2001
Renard Dumont (voice)
The Jeffersons
TV • 1975
Disney's House of Mouse
TV • 2001
Aladdin
TV • 1994
Nefir Hasenuf (voice)
Charlie's Angels
TV • 1976
Terrence
Frasier
TV • 1993
William Tewksbury
The Mod Squad
TV • 1968
Man from Atlantis
TV • 1977
Havergal
The Practice
TV • 1997
Judge F. Mantz
Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys
TV • 1996
Gardener / Alien Gladioluses (voice)
Hart to Hart
TV • 1979
Springfield
Snorks
TV • 1984
Dr. Strangesnork
Night Gallery
TV • 1970
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV • 1982
King Boris
Wonder Woman
TV • 1975
Kimball
Stargate SG-1
TV • 1997
Alar
Chicago Hope
TV • 1994
Walter Kerry
Harry O
TV • 1974
Wildfire
TV • 1986
The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
TV • 1985
Desaad (voice)
Saving Grace
TV • 2007
Father Patrick Murphy
Archer
TV • 2009
Mannfred (voice)
Blacke's Magic
TV • 1986
The Savage Dragon
TV • 1995
Horde (voice)
Just Friends
TV • 1979
Raw Toonage
TV • 1992
Chef Louie (voice)
Ben 10: Omniverse
TV • 2012
Azmuth (voice)
Marsupilami
TV • 1993
Chef Louie (voice)
Young Justice
TV • 2010
Mark Desmond (voice)
Justice League
TV • 2001
Kanjar-Ro / Galius Zed / Guardian of Oa (voice)
Justice League
TV • 2001
Desaad / General Steppenwolf / Minion (voice)
The Wild Thornberrys
TV • 1998
Merrick Dash (voice)
Justice League
TV • 2001
Galius Zed / Kalanorian (voice)
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
TV • 2005
Dr. Larry Meyers
Batman: The Animated Series
TV • 1992
Dr. March (voice)
Richie Rich
TV • 1996
Richard Rich, Chef Pierre, Professor Keenbean
Warehouse 13
TV • 2009
Hugo Miller
Super Friends
TV • 1973
Desaad (voice)
The Looney Tunes Show
TV • 2011
Pepé Le Pew (voice)
Boston Legal
TV • 2004
Paul Lewiston
Pound Puppies
TV • 2010
McLeish (voice)
Star Trek: Prodigy
TV • 2021
Odo (voice)
Random! Cartoons
TV • 2008
Hornswiggle / Apeman #2 (voice)
The Outer Limits
TV • 1995
Dlavan
The Good Wife
TV • 2009
Coroner Claypool
Murder, She Wrote
TV • 1984
Homicide Captain Walker Thorn
Xyber 9: New Dawn
TV • 1999
Xyber 9 (voice)
The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
TV • 1978
Jack Stump
Eerie, Indiana
TV • 1991
The Donald
American Experience
TV • 1988
Woodrow Wilson (voice)
American Experience
TV • 1988
Alexander Hamilton (voice)
The Rhinemann Exchange
TV • 1977
Dr. Eugene Lyons
The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
TV • 1974
Baa Baa Black Sheep
TV • 1976
Matthew Hooper
Criminal Minds
TV • 2005
Colonel Ron Massey
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV • 1982
King Ulrich
Extreme Ghostbusters
TV • 1997
BlackBoxTV Presents
TV • 2010
Rudy
The Rockford Files
TV • 1974
Masters
The Jetsons
TV • 1962
(voice)
Masters of Sex
TV • 2013
Dr. George Papanikolaou
Wander Over Yonder
TV • 2013
Maurice (voice)
Grey's Anatomy
TV • 2005
Neil Sheridan
Beyond Westworld
TV • 1980
Power
Charlie's Angels
TV • 1976
Freddie Fortune
Archer
TV • 2009
Cardinal Giancarlo Morelli (voice)
The Captains Close Up
TV • 2013
Self
Lucky Luke
TV • 1992
Mr. Edgar Rockbottom / Mendez
1600 Penn
TV • 2012
Winslow Hannum
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
TV • 2000
James Callender
The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
TV • 1996
Jean Jaures / Mustafa Kemal Ataturk (voice)
Tom & Jerry Kids Show
TV • 1990
Pierre (voice)
Avatar: The Last Airbender
TV • 2005
Mechanist (voice)
The Librarians
TV • 2014
Mr. McGuire
Great Performances
TV • 1971
Edgar
Avatar: The Last Airbender
TV • 2005
Gan Jin Leader (voice)
Duck Dodgers
TV • 2003
McChirpy (voice)
Madam Secretary
TV • 2014
Walter Nowack
Mrs. Columbo
TV • 1979
Monsieur Gerard
NCIS
TV • 2003
Dr. Felix Blackwell
Bruno the Kid
TV • 1996
Leonardo Linguini (voice)
Ellery Queen
TV • 1975
Marcel Fourchet
Superman
TV • 1988
General Zod (voice)
Saturday Night Live
TV • 1975
Roberts (uncredited)
Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future
TV • 2002
Kuffka (voice)
Matlock
TV • 1986
Doug Michaels