
René Auberjonois
Department: Acting
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.
Known For

Inspector Gadget
1999

Batman Forever
1995

Scooby-Doo: Agence toutou risques, vol. 2 : Le fantôme de la télé
2007

Scooby-Doo: Agence toutou risques, vol. 1 : Le voleur de vélo
2007

The Little Mermaid
1989

The Last Unicorn
1982

M*A*S*H
1970

The Player
1992

King Kong
1976

Geppetto
2000

An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island
1998

Lilith
1964

3:15 the Moment of Truth
1986

Brewster McCloud
1971

Where the Buffalo Roam
1980

The Circuit
2019

Chill Out, Scooby-Doo!
2007

The Christmas Star
1986

Walker
1987

Eyes of Laura Mars
1978

McCabe & Mrs. Miller
1971

Images
1972

Hornswiggle
2008

Joseph: King of Dreams
2000

The Kid From Nowhere
1982

The Hindenburg
1975

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - The Way of the Warrior
1995

The Big Bus
1976

The Ballad of Little Jo
1993

The Lost Language of Cranes
1992

The Wild Wild West Revisited
1979

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1989

Witness to Hope: The Life of Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II
2002

Pete 'n' Tillie
1972

Woodrow Wilson
2002

Get a Life!
2012

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
2000

The Birdmen
1973

Burning Down the House
2001

The Sixth Gun
2013

Shirts/Skins
1973

The Feud
1989

Le Door
2009

Snide and Prejudice
1997

My Best Friend Is a Vampire
1987

Eulogy
2004

Ned Blessing: The True Story Of My Life
1992

Evermore
2013

Panache
1976

Planes: Fire & Rescue
2014

The Sands of Time
1992

Los Locos
1997

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine - Behind the Scenes
1993

Cortex
—

The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
2000

Tarzan & Jane
2002

Absolute Strangers
1991

Longarm
1988

Certain Women
2016

The Making of Star Trek Deep Space Nine Trials And Tribble-ations
1996

The Captains
2011

The Patriot
2000

Blood Stripe
2016

The Smurfs Christmas Special
1982

A Smoky Mountain Christmas
1986

Sleeping Beauty
1983

The Tale of the Frog Prince
1982

More Wild Wild West
1980

Wild Card
1992

Once Upon a Midnight Scary
1979

This Is Happening
2015

Cats Don't Dance
1997

The Princess Diaries
2001

Petulia
1968

What We Left Behind: Looking Back at Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
2018

Trials and Tribble-ations: Uniting Two Legends
2003

Windows on the World
2019

Dispatches from Nicaragua
2008

Teenage Tease
1971

Once Upon a Dead Man
1971

Raising Buchanan
2019

First Cow
2020

We All Fall Down
1999

Way Out on a Limb
2016

Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
2005

Incident at Vichy
1973

King Lear
1974

Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil & The Presidency
2007

Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
1988

Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H'
2000

Upcoming Season
1975

Geppetto's Secret
2005

Altman on His Own Terms
2000

Timeless Tales from Hallmark: Puss in Boots
1991

The Making of Fallout: New Vegas
2010

Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond
1996

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
1991

The Little Mermaid Live!
2019

Way Out on a Limb
2016

Nash Bridges
1996

Murder, She Wrote
1984

The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne
2000

Star Trek: Enterprise
2001

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
1993

The Rookies
1972

Family Guy
1999

Tenspeed and Brown Shoe
1980

Mrs. Columbo
1979

Rhoda
1974

Xiaolin Showdown
2003

Challenge of the GoBots
1984

DuckTales
1987

L.A. Law
1986

Starsky & Hutch
1975

Judging Amy
1999

Benson
1979

Matlock
1986

The Bionic Woman
1976

Doogie Howser, M.D.
1989

The Legend of Tarzan
2001

The Jeffersons
1975

Disney's House of Mouse
2001

Aladdin
1994

Charlie's Angels
1976

Frasier
1993

The Mod Squad
1968

Man from Atlantis
1977

The Practice
1997

Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys
1996

Hart to Hart
1979

Snorks
1984

Night Gallery
1970

Faerie Tale Theatre
1982

Wonder Woman
1975

Stargate SG-1
1997

Chicago Hope
1994

Harry O
1974

Wildfire
1986

The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
1985

Saving Grace
2007

Archer
2009

Blacke's Magic
1986

The Savage Dragon
1995

Just Friends
1979

Raw Toonage
1992

Ben 10: Omniverse
2012

Marsupilami
1993

Young Justice
2010

Justice League
2001

Justice League
2001

The Wild Thornberrys
1998

Justice League
2001

It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
2005

Batman: The Animated Series
1992

Richie Rich
1996

Warehouse 13
2009

Super Friends
1973

The Looney Tunes Show
2011

Boston Legal
2004

Pound Puppies
2010

Star Trek: Prodigy
2021

Random! Cartoons
2008

The Outer Limits
1995

The Good Wife
2009

Murder, She Wrote
1984

Xyber 9: New Dawn
1999

The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
1978

Eerie, Indiana
1991

American Experience
1988

American Experience
1988

The Rhinemann Exchange
1977

The Lives of Benjamin Franklin
1974

Baa Baa Black Sheep
1976

Criminal Minds
2005

Faerie Tale Theatre
1982

Extreme Ghostbusters
1997

BlackBoxTV Presents
2010

The Rockford Files
1974

The Jetsons
1962

Masters of Sex
2013

Wander Over Yonder
2013

Grey's Anatomy
2005

Beyond Westworld
1980

Charlie's Angels
1976

Archer
2009

The Captains Close Up
2013

Lucky Luke
1992

1600 Penn
2012

Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
2000

The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
1996

Tom & Jerry Kids Show
1990

Avatar: The Last Airbender
2005

The Librarians
2014

Great Performances
1971

Avatar: The Last Airbender
2005

Duck Dodgers
2003

Madam Secretary
2014

Mrs. Columbo
1979

NCIS
2003

Bruno the Kid
1996

Ellery Queen
1975

Superman
1988

Saturday Night Live
1975

Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future
2002

Matlock
1986

Tony Awards
1956