René Auberjonois
ActingRené 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
Louis (voice)
The Princess Diaries
Philippe Renaldi (uncredited)
The Patriot
Reverend Oliver
Batman Forever
Dr. Burton
Joseph: King of Dreams
Butler (voice)
The Player
René Auberjonois
M*A*S*H
Father John Mulcahy
The Last Unicorn
The Skull (voice)
King Kong
Roy Bagley
Planes: Fire & Rescue
Concierge (voice)
Filmography — Acting
The Little Mermaid
Louis (voice)
The Princess Diaries
Philippe Renaldi (uncredited)
The Patriot
Reverend Oliver
Batman Forever
Dr. Burton
Joseph: King of Dreams
Butler (voice)
The Player
René Auberjonois
M*A*S*H
Father John Mulcahy
The Last Unicorn
The Skull (voice)
King Kong
Roy Bagley
Planes: Fire & Rescue
Concierge (voice)
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
Tony
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Colonel West (uncredited)
Cats Don't Dance
Flanigan (voice)
Tarzan & Jane
(voice)
Inspector Gadget
Artemus Bradford
First Cow
Man with Raven
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
Odo (voice)
Images
Hugh
Certain Women
Albert
Eyes of Laura Mars
Donald Phelps
Geppetto
Prof Buonragazzo
Petulia
Fred Six (uncredited)
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Sheehan
The Big Bus
Father Kudos
Walker
Maj. Siegfried Hennington
Chill Out, Scooby-Doo!
Alphonse LaFleur (voice)
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
Dithering (voice)
Lilith
Howie (uncredited)
Where the Buffalo Roam
Harris
Eulogy
Parson Banke
Brewster McCloud
The Lecturer
The Captains
Self
The Little Mermaid Live!
Louis (archive footage) (voice)
The Hindenburg
Major Napier
My Best Friend Is a Vampire
Modoc
What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Self
Longarm
Gov. Lew Wallace
Altman on His Own Terms
Self
The Lost Language of Cranes
Geoffrey Lane
The Wild Wild West Revisited
Capt. Sir David Edney
The Ballad of Little Jo
Streight Hollander
The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
Chef Louis (voice)
The Birdmen
Halden Brevik / Olav Volda
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
James Callender
More Wild Wild West
Capt. Sir David Edney
Get a Life!
Himself
Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond
Self
The Kid From Nowhere
Howard
Absolute Strangers
Quinn
The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations
Self
The Sands of Time
Prime Minister
A Smoky Mountain Christmas
Ned
This Is Happening
Cal Plotz
Windows on the World
Maury
Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
Marquis
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior
Odo
The Sixth Gun
Von Allen / Montcrief
Pete 'n' Tillie
Jimmy Twitchell
3:15 the Moment of Truth
Horner
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes
Himself
The Smurfs Christmas Special
Stranger (voice)
King Lear
Edgar
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Merlin
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
James Parton (voice)
The Tale of the Frog Prince
King Ulrich
The Making of Fallout: New Vegas
Self
Los Locos
Presidente
Sleeping Beauty
King Boris
Snide and Prejudice
Dr. Sam Cohen
Once Upon a Dead Man
Andre Stryker
The Christmas Star
Sumner
Woodrow Wilson
Self - voice
Raising Buchanan
President James Buchanan
We All Fall Down
Tim
Panache
Panache
Way Out on a Limb
Self
Burning Down the House
Pierre
Incident at Vichy
Monceau, An Actor
Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
Self
Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends
Himself
Geppetto's Secret
Mr. Sneap
Once Upon a Midnight Scary
Ichabod Crane
Shirts/Skins
Sidney Krebs
The Circuit
Wild Card
Jake Spence
The Feud
Reverton
Hornswiggle
Hornswiggle (voice)
Blood Stripe
Art
Timeless Tales from Hallmark: Puss in Boots
voice
Dispatches from Nicaragua
Scooby-Doo: Agence toutou risques, vol. 2 : Le fantôme de la télé
(voice)
Scooby-Doo: Agence toutou risques, vol. 1 : Le voleur de vélo
(voice)
Evermore
Grandpa
Le Door
Le Door
Upcoming Season
Roberts
Cortex
Parks
Way Out on a Limb
Teenage Tease
Witness to Hope: The Life of Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II
Narrator (voice)
Planes: Fire & Rescue — Cad Spinner
André (voice)