René Auberjonois

American actor and director (1940–2019)

This article is about the American actor. For his grandfather, the Swiss artist, see René Auberjonois (painter).

René Auberjonois

Auberjonois in 2013

Born|

René Marie Murat Auberjonois

(1940-06-01)June 1, 1940

Manhattan, New York, U.S.

Died| December 8, 2019(2019-12-08) (aged 79)

Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Education| Carnegie Mellon University (BFA)
Occupations|

* Actor
* director

Years active| 1962–2019
Spouse|

Judith Helen Mihalyi

(m. 1963)​

Children| 2; including Remy Auberjonois
Parents|

* Fernand Auberjonois (father)
* Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline Murat (mother)

Relatives|

* René Auberjonois (grandfather)
* Joachim Murat (great-great-great-grandfather)
* Caroline Bonaparte (great-great-great-grandmother)

René Marie Murat Auberjonois (/rəˈneɪ oʊˌbɛərʒənˈwɑː/;[1] June 1, 1940 – December 8, 2019) was an American actor and director. He was best known for playing Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999) and Clayton Endicott III on Benson (1979-1986).

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.

## Early life[edit]

René Marie Murat Auberjonois was born June 1, 1940, in Manhattan, New York City.[2] His father, Swiss-born Fernand Auberjonois, was a Cold War-era foreign correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer. Auberjonois' mother, Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline Murat, was a great-great-granddaughter of Joachim Murat (one of Napoleon's marshals and King of Naples during the First French Empire), and his wife—Napoleon's youngest sister—Caroline Bonaparte. Auberjonois had a sister and a brother, and two half-sisters from his mother's first marriage.[3] Auberjonois wrote that his French family name, an uncommon one in the United States, means "armorer."[4]

Auberjonois' grandfather, also René Auberjonois, was a Swiss post-Impressionist painter. His maternal grandmother, Hélène Macdonald Stallo, was an American from Cincinnati, Ohio; his maternal grandfather's mother was a Russian noblewoman, Eudoxia Michailovna Somova, and his maternal grandfather's paternal grandmother, Caroline Georgina Fraser, who was the wife of Prince Napoleon Lucien Charles Murat, was a Scottish-American from Charleston, South Carolina.

Auberjonois' family moved to Paris after World War II. After a few years in France, the family moved back to the United States and joined the South Mountain Road artists' colony in Rockland County, New York, whose residents included Burgess Meredith, John Houseman, and Lotte Lenya.[5]

The Auberjonois family also lived for a time in London, where Auberjonois completed high school while studying theatre.[6] To complete his education, he attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts in 1962.[7]

Auberjonois was a member of the original faculty of Juilliard's Drama Division when it opened in 1968 under John Houseman.[8][9][10]

## Career[edit]

### Theater[edit]

After college, Auberjonois worked with several different theatre companies, beginning at the prestigious Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., and then he traveled between Los Angeles, California, and New York, working in numerous theatre productions. He helped found the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music Repertory Company in New York City. He was a member of the Peninsula Players summer theater program during the 1962 season.[11]

In 1968, Auberjonois landed a role on Broadway, and appeared in three plays that season: as Fool to Lee J. Cobb's King Lear (the longest running production of the play in Broadway history), as Ned in A Cry of Players (which played in repertory with King Lear), opposite Frank Langella, and as Marco in Fire! In 1969, he earned a Tony Award for his performance as Sebastian Baye alongside Katharine Hepburn in Coco.[12]

He received Tony nominations for his roles in Neil Simon's The Good Doctor (1973) opposite Christopher Plummer; as the Duke in Big River (1984), winning a Drama Desk Award; and, memorably, as Buddy Fidler/Irwin S. Irving in City of Angels (1989), written by Larry Gelbart and Cy Coleman.[12]

Auberjonois' other Broadway appearances included Malvolio in Twelfth Night (1972); Scapin in Tricks (1973); Mr. Samsa in Metamorphosis (1989); Professor Abronsius in Dance of the Vampires, the English-language version of Jim Steinman's musical adaptation of Tanz der Vampire; and Jethro Crouch in Sly Fox (2004), for which he was nominated for Outstanding Featured Actor In A Play, an Outer Critics Circle Award.[13][citation needed]

Auberjonois appeared many times at the Mark Taper Forum, notably as Malvolio in Twelfth Night and as Stanislavski in Chekhov in Yalta. As a member of the Second Drama Quartet,[14] he toured with Ed Asner, Dianne Wiest, and Harris Yulin. He appeared in the Tom Stoppard and André Previn work, Every Good Boy Deserves Favor, at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C., and the Metropolitan Opera in New York.[15][16]

He directed many theatrical productions, and starred in the Washington, D.C. production of 12 Angry Men (2004), where he portrayed "Juror #5" to Roy Scheider's "#8" and Robert Prosky's "#3". He made his debut at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. in 2008 as the titular character in Molière's The Imaginary Invalid.

He was on the advisory board of Sci-Fest LA, the first annual Los Angeles Science Fiction One-Act Play Festival, held in May 2014.[17]

In 2018, Auberjonois was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.[18]

### Films[edit]

Auberjonois played Father Mulcahy in the original film version of M*A*S*H. His subsequent film roles included the gangster Tony in Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach (1988), and Reverend Oliver in The Patriot (2000). He made cameo appearances in a number of films, including: Dr. Burton, a mental asylum doctor patterned after Tim Burton, in Batman Forever (1995), and a bird expert who gradually transforms into a bird in Robert Altman's 1970 film Brewster McCloud. He appeared as Colonel West in the 1991 Star Trek film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. His other notable film appearances include: McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Images (1972), Pete 'n' Tillie (1972), The Hindenburg (1975), King Kong (1976), The Big Bus (1976), Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), Where the Buffalo Roam (1980), Walker (1987), My Best Friend Is a Vampire (1987), The Feud (1989), Inspector Gadget (1999), and Eulogy (2004).

Auberjonois portrayed the character of Straight Hollander in the 1993 Miramax film The Ballad of Little Jo. He voiced Professor Genius in Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland, Louis the Chef in the 1st and 2nd Little Mermaid films, Flanagan in Cats Don't Dance, the Butler in Joseph: King of Dreams, and André in Planes: Fire & Rescue.

In 2019, Auberjonois portrayed the title role in Raising Buchanan as U.S. president James Buchanan.

### Television[edit]

Auberjonois (right) with Star Trek: Deep Space Nine co-stars Armin Shimerman (left) and Nana Visitor (center)

In addition to having been a regular actor on three television shows (Benson, a situation comedy; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in science fiction; and Boston Legal, a legal comedy drama), Auberjonois guest starred on many television series, including; Nash Bridges, Ellery Queen, Family, Grey's Anatomy, The Rockford Files, Charlie's Angels, Starsky & Hutch, Wonder Woman, Harry O, The Jeffersons, The Outer Limits, Night Gallery, Hart to Hart, Matlock, Murder, She Wrote, The Bionic Woman, Frasier, Judging Amy, Chicago Hope, The Bob Newhart Show, Star Trek: Enterprise, Stargate SG-1, Warehouse 13, Archer, L.A. Law, The Practice (for which he received an Emmy nomination, playing a different character than the one he played on The Practice spinoff Boston Legal), Saving Grace, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Criminal Minds, NCIS, The Good Wife, The Librarians, and Madam Secretary.

His television film credits include The Rhinemann Exchange, The Dark Secret of Harvest Home, Disney's Geppetto, Gore Vidal's Billy The Kid, the remake of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, and the Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (2000) miniseries. He portrayed the character Fortunato in an episode of American Masters entitled "Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul" (1995). He received a third Emmy Award nomination for his performance in ABC's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. He played NASA scientist Dr. Felix Blackwell in the episode "Phoenix" on NCIS.

Auberjonois as Odo in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine

Auberjonois voiced animated roles, including characters on Snorks, Batman: The Animated Series, Leonard McLeish on Pound Puppies (2010), Avatar: The Last Airbender, Master Fung in the first episodes of Xiaolin Showdown (before being replaced by Maurice LaMarche), Azmuth on Ben 10: Omniverse, Renard Dumont on The Legend of Tarzan, Justice League Unlimited, Max Steel, Fantastic Max, Challenge of the GoBots (as the treacherous "Dr. Braxis"), Archer, Young Justice, Random! Cartoons, and Avengers Assemble. He lent his voice talents to the 2001 Public Broadcasting System (PBS) American Experience documentary "Woodrow Wilson" as the title character, along with the 2003 PBS historical documentary Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites.

Auberjonois directed television shows, including Marblehead Manor, and various episodes of Deep Space Nine.

### Voice acting[edit]

Pictured in 2010

Auberjonois was active in radio drama. He read "The Stunt" by Mordechai Strigler for the National Public Radio (NPR) series Jewish Stories From the Old World to the New, and he recorded novels on tape. On PRI, he was featured numerous times on Selected Shorts, reading works of dramatic fiction. His voice was heard in Disney's The Little Mermaid (receiving alphabetical top billing as Louis the Chef and singing "Les Poissons"), and as The Skull in The Last Unicorn.

He did voice work on the Challenge of the GoBots series in 1980s as Dr. Braxis and was the voice of Peter Parker on the 1972 Buddah Records Spider-Man LP "From Beyond the Grave" (BDS 5119), a radio-style narrative replete with sound effects and rock and roll song interludes.

He voice acted in The Last Unicorn as the Skull that guards the clock that serves as an entryway into the Red Bull's lair. Beagle praised Auberjonois' performance, saying "he could have played any role in that movie and I would have been happy ... He's that talented."

In 1984–1985, he lent his voice to DeSaad, an associate of the villainous Darkseid on the animated series Super Friends. From 1986 to 1987, he voiced Alvinar in the cartoons series Wildfire. He also provided the voice of Professor Genius in Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland.

He provided the voice for Janos Audron, an ancient vampire in the Legacy of Kain video game series; he was in Soul Reaver 2, Blood Omen 2, and Legacy of Kain: Defiance. He provided the voice of Angler in the Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End video game. He voice-played General Zod in the Joseph Ruby-Kenneth Spears animated Superman series episode titled "The Hunter".

Auberjonois provided minor character voices for Justice League, reprising his role as DeSaad, and additionally voicing villain Kanjar Ro and Green Lantern Galius Zed.

In 2003, he provided the voice of Natori in the English dubbed version of semi-sequel to the Hayao Miyazaki film Whisper of the Heart, The Cat Returns. He reprised an animated version of his character Odo from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine in a cutaway joke in Family Guy's Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story. The cutaway featured a more humanoid-faced Odo threatening Stewie's alleged cousin Quark Griffin. Auberjonois also lent his voice to Skylanders: SuperChargers.[19]

In 2011, he voiced villain Mark Desmond in Cartoon Network's Young Justice. He was also the voice of Leonard McLeish in the Pound Puppies series, Pepé Le Pew in 2011 on The Looney Tunes Show, Azmuth in Ben 10: Omniverse, and Ebony Maw in Avengers Assemble.[20]

#### Video games[edit]

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One of Auberjonois' earliest forays into video game voice acting was the role of Janos Audron in Soul Reaver 2; he continued to voice the character in subsequent releases in the Legacy of Kain series. According to a behind-the-scenes featurette in Soul Reaver 2, showing candid discussions among the voice actors during recording, he was surprised at the quality of the writing, asking, "This is for a video game?!" when the purpose of the recordings was brought to light.

Auberjonois provided the voice of Karl Schäfer, the honourable German explorer in the video game Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, and Mr. House, the reclusive New Vegas casino owner in the 2010 video game Fallout: New Vegas. He also voiced Dr. Ignatio Mobius in Command & Conquer: Renegade. He reprised his role as Odo in the game Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen. In June, 2018 he reprised his role as Odo in the massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star Trek Online.[21]

## Personal life[edit]

Auberjonois was married to his wife Judith Mihalyi from 1963 until his death in 2019. They had two children, a daughter, and a son, Rèmy.[22]

### Illness and death[edit]

In an interview with Compassion & Choices Magazine, Judith Auberjonois revealed that René underwent chemotherapy for lung cancer in 2018. It was discovered in 2019 that the cancer had spread to his brain. Due to the potential for serious cognitive side effects, Auberjonois chose not to pursue the whole-brain radiation treatment suggested by his doctors.[23]

As a resident of California, Auberjonois decided to seek medical aid in dying under the California End of Life Option Act.[23][24] On December 6, 2019, he spent his final hours with his family at his home in Los Angeles reminiscing over photos and listening to music.[24] He then took the medication prescribed for assisted suicide and died two days later at the age of 79. The California End of Life Option Act stipulates that death certificates should list the underlying terminal illness as the cause of death, rather than the use of life-ending medications.[25] His cause of death was given as metastatic lung cancer.[2][26]

## Filmography[edit]

### Live-action[edit]

List of live-action performances in film  Year | Title | Role | Notes

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1964 | Lilith | Howie | Uncredited
1968 | Petulia | Fred Six
1970 | M*A*S*H | Father John Patrick "Dago Red" Mulcahy |
Brewster McCloud | The Lecturer |
1971 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | Pat Sheehan |
1972 | Images | Hugh |
Pete 'n' Tillie | Jimmy Twitchell |
1975 | The Hindenburg | Major Napier |
1976 | The Big Bus | Father Kudos |
King Kong | Roy Bagley |
1978 | Eyes of Laura Mars | Donald Phelps |
1980 | Where the Buffalo Roam | Harris |
1986 | 3:15 The Moment of Truth | Principal Horner |
The Christmas Star | Mr Sumner |
1987 | My Best Friend Is a Vampire | Modoc |
Walker | Major Siegfried Henningson |
1988 | Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach | Tony |
1989 | The Feud | Reverton |
1991 | The Lost Language of Cranes | Geoffrey Lane |
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | Colonel West | Uncredited
1992 | The Player | René Auberjonois |
1993 | The Ballad of Little Jo | Straight Hollander |
1995 | Batman Forever | Dr. Burton |
1997 | Snide and Prejudice | Dr. Sam Cohen |
Los Locos: Posse Rides Again | Presidente |
1999 | Inspector Gadget | Dr. Artemus Bradford |
2000 | The Patriot | Reverend Oliver |
We All Fall Down | Tim |
2001 | Burning Down the House | Pierre |
The Princess Diaries | Voice of Philippe Renaldi | Uncredited
2004 | Eulogy | Parson Banke |
2015 | This Is Happening | Cal Plotz |
2016 | Certain Women | Albert |
Blood Stripe | Art |
2019 | The Circuit |  |
Windows on the World | Maury |
Raising Buchanan | President James Buchanan |
First Cow | Man with Raven |
TBA | Cortex | Parks | Posthumous release,
final film role
List of live-action performances in television  Year | Title | Role | Notes

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|
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1966 | NET Playhouse | Ofoeti | Episode: "Ofoeti"
1971 | The Mod Squad | Nelson/Endicott Faraday | Episode: "We Spy"
McMillan & Wife | Andre Stryker | Episode: "Once Upon a Dead Man"
The Birdmen (a.k.a. Escape of the Birdmen) | Halden Brevik / Olav Volda | Television film
Night Gallery | William Sharsted | Episode: "Camera Obscura"
1972 | NET Playhouse | George Washington | Episode: "Portrait of the Hero as a Young Man"
1973 | Love, American Style | George | Episode: "Love and the Spaced-Out Chick"
Conflict | Monceau | Episode: "Incident at Vichy"
1974 | Theatre in America | Edgar | Episode: "King Lear"
Ben Franklin in Paris | King Louis XVI | Episode: "The Ambassador"
1975 | Harry O | Rabbit | Episode: "Anatomy of a Frame"
The Jeffersons | Inspector Keller | Episode: "Harry and Daphne"
The Bob Newhart Show | Dr. Alan Durocher | Episode: "Shrinks Across the Sea"
1976 | Baa Baa Black Sheep | Matthew Hooper | Episode: "Small War"
1976-1977 | Rhoda | Dr. John Fox | 2 episodes
1977  | The Bionic Woman | Pierre Lambert | Episode: "The DeJon Caper"
Man From Atlantis | Havergal | Episode: "Crystal Water, Sudden Death"
1979 | The Rockford Files | Masters | Episode: "With the French Heel Back, Can the Nehru Jacket Be Far Behind?"
Family | Alvin | Episode: "Ballerina"
Wonder Woman | James Kimball | Episode: "Spaced Out"
CBS Library | Ichabod Crane | Episode: "Once Upon A Midnight Scary" (segment "The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow")
Charlie's Angels | Freddie Fortune | Episode: "Angels on Skates"
Mrs. Columbo | Monsieur Gerard | Episode: "Word Games"
Hart to Hart | Donald Springfield | Episode: "Max in Love"
1979–1980 | The Wild Wild West Revisited | Captain Sir David Edney | Television film
1980 | Tenspeed and Brown Shoe | Marty Boxx | Episode: "Untitled"[27]
1980–1986 | Benson | Clayton Endicott III | 135 episodes
1986 | Blacke's Magic | Arthur Pym | Episode: "Wax Poetic"
1987–1988 | Murder, She Wrote | Professor Harry Papasian/
Captain Walker Thorn | 2 episodes
1988 | L.A. Law | Kevin Richardson | Episode: "The Son Also Rises"
1989 | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | Merlin | Television film
1992 | Eerie, Indiana | The Donald | Episode: "Zombies in P.J.s."
1993–1999 | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | Odo | 173 episodes
1998 | The Outer Limits | Dlavan | Episode: "Promised Land"
The Sally Hemmings Movie |  |
1999 | Chicago Hope | Dr. Walter Perry | Episode: "Oh What a Piece of Work Is Man"
2000 | Stargate SG-1 | Alar | Episode: "The Other Side"
The Practice | Judge F. Mantz | 2 episodes
2001 | Frasier | Professor William Tewksbury | 2 episodes
Nash Bridges | Hagen Bridges | Episode: "The Partner"
2002 | Star Trek: Enterprise | Ezral | Episode: "Oasis"
2004–2008 | Boston Legal | Paul Lewiston | 71 episodes
2010 | It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia | Dr. Larry Meyers | Episode: "The Gang Gets A New Member"
2010–2014 | Warehouse 13 | Hugo Miller | 4 episodes
2011 | Criminal Minds | Colonel Ron Massey | Episode: "Self-Fulfilling Prophecy"
2012 | Grey's Anatomy | Neil Sheridan | Episode: "Support System"
NCIS | Dr. Felix Blackwell  | Episode "Phoenix"
2013 | 1600 Penn | Winslow Hannum | 2 episodes
The Good Wife | Coroner Claypool | Episode: "Invitation to an Inquest"
2015  | The Librarians | Town librarian  | Episode: "And the Fables of Doom" (season 1)
2016 | Madam Secretary | Walter Nowack | 4 episodes

### Animation[edit]

List of voice performances in films[28] Year | Title | Role | Notes

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1982 | The Last Unicorn | The Skull |
1989 | The Little Mermaid | Chef Louis | [29]
1992 | Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland | Professor Genius | [29]
1997 | Cats Don't Dance | Flanigan | [29]
2000 | The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea | Chef Louis | Direct-to-video[29]
An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island | Dithering
Joseph: King of Dreams | Butler
2002 | The Cat Returns | Natori | [29]
Tarzan & Jane | Renard Dumont | Direct-to-video
2005 | Geppetto's Secret | Mr. Sneap |
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story | Odo | Direct-to-video
2007 | Chill Out, Scooby-Doo! | Alphonse LaFleur[29]
2014 | Planes: Fire & Rescue | André | [29]
List of voice performances in animated series  Year | Title | Role | Notes

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1980–1981 | The Flintstone Comedy Show | Various roles |
1984 | Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show | DeSaad | Episode: "Darkseid's Golden Trap"
Challenge of the GoBots | Dr. Zebediah Braxis | 3 episodes
1985 | The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians | Desaad | 6 episodes
1986 | Wildfire | Alvinar | 6 episodes
1987 | The New Adventures of Jonny Quest | Various roles | 13 episodes
Snorks | Dr. Strangesnork / Additional Voices | 42 episodes
Pound Puppies | Poodle/Pierre | 2 episodes
1988 | DuckTales | Dr. Nogood | Episode: "Double-O Duck"
The Completely Mental Misadventures of Ed Grimley | Various roles | 13 episodes
Superman | General Zod | Episode: "The Hunter"
1989 | The Smurfs | Various roles |
1991–1993 | The Pirates of Dark Water | Kangent | 16 episodes
1991–1992 | Tom & Jerry Kids | Hungry Pierre | 2 episodes
1992 | Batman: The Animated Series | Dr. March | 2 episodes[29]
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles | Professor Chumley | Episode: "Super Irma"
Raw Toonage | Chef Louis | Episode: "Draining Cats and Dogs/Mars vs. Man"
1993 | Marsupilami | Chef Louis | 3 episodes
Bonkers | Winston Prickley | Episode: "Love Stuck"
1994 | Rugrats | Jonathan Kraskell | Episode: "Mommy's Little Assets"[29]
The Little Mermaid | Chef Louis | Episode: "Ariel's Treasures"
Aladdin | Nefir Hasenuf | 3 episodes
1995–1996 | The Savage Dragon | Horde | 3 episodes
1996 | The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century | Jean Jaurès / Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | 3 episodes
Richie Rich | Richard Rich, Chef Pierre, Professor Keenbean | 13 episodes
1997 | Captain Simian & the Space Monkeys | Gardener / Alien Gladioluses | Episode: "Escape from the Plant of the Apes"[29]
Extreme Ghostbusters | College professor | Episode: "Fallout"
1999 | Men in Black: The Series | Quin'toon | Episode: "The Lost Continent Syndrome"
Xyber 9: New Dawn | Xyber 9 | 22 episodes
2000 | The Wild Thornberrys | Merrick Dash | Episode: "Happy Old Year"[29]
2001–2002 | The Legend of Tarzan | Renard Dumont | 12 episodes
Max Steel | Dr. David Klimo / Bio-Constrictor
Train Conductor | 3 episodes
2001 | House of Mouse | Chef Louis | Episode: "Goofy's Menu Magic"
2001–2004 | Justice League | Kanjar Ro, Galius Zed, DeSaad | 3 episodes[29]
2003 | The Mummy | Scarab | 2 episodes
Xiaolin Showdown | Master Fung | Season 1[29]
2005 | Avatar: The Last Airbender | Gan Jin Leader, Mechanist | 4 episodes[29]
Duck Dodgers | McChirpy | Episode: "Bonafide Heroes"[29]
2009 | Random! Cartoons | Hornswiggle | Episode: "Hornswiggle"
2010 | The Cartoonstitute | Le Door | Episode: "Le Door"
Archer | Manfred / Cardinal Giancarlo Corelli | 3 episodes
Young Justice | Mark Desmond / Blockbuster | 2 episodes[29]
2011–2012 | The Looney Tunes Show | Pepé Le Pew | 3 episodes[29]
2012–2014 | Ben 10: Omniverse | Azmuth, Galvan Security Officer | 6 episodes[29]
2010–2013 | Pound Puppies | Leonard McLeish | 49 episodes[29]
2014 | Wander Over Yonder | Maurice | Episode: "The Lonely Planet"[29]
2015 | Buddy: Tech Detective | Gramps | Television film
Avengers Assemble | Ebony Maw, World Leader #1 | 2 episodes[29]
2019 | The Tom and Jerry Show | Butler | Episode: "Battle of the Butlers"[29]
2022 | Star Trek: Prodigy | Odo | Episode: "Kobayashi"
Archive recordings

### Video games[edit]

Year  | Title  | Voice role  | Notes

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1996 | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Harbinger | Odo | [29]
1999 | Gabriel Knight 3: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned | Taxi Driver, Bigout | [29]
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen | Odo |
2000 | Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 2 | Janos Audron | [29]
Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen 2 | Janos Audron, Beast
2002 | Command & Conquer: Renegade | Dr. Ignatio Mobius | [29]
New Legends | Topo / Kang |
2003 | Legacy of Kain: Defiance | Janos Audron | [29]
2009 | Uncharted 2: Among Thieves | Karl Schäfer | [29]
2010 | Fallout: New Vegas | Robert House | [29]
2011 | Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception | Karl Schäfer | [29]
2013  | Ben 10: Omniverse 2 | Azmuth  | [29]
2015 | Skylanders: SuperChargers | Pomfrey Lefuzzbutton |
2018 | Star Trek Online | Odo | Victory is Life expansion[29]

## Deep Space Nine directorial credits[edit]

List of Deep Space Nine directorial credits  Year | Season | Episode

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1995 | Season 3 | "Prophet Motive"
"Family Business"
Season 4 | "Hippocratic Oath"
"The Quickening"
Season 5 | "Let He Who Is Without Sin..."
1996 | "Ferengi Love Songs"
1997 | Season 6 | "Waltz"
1998 | Season 7 | "Strange Bedfellows"

## Book narrations[edit]

Auberjonois' voice talents also included book narrations.

### The Pendergast novels[edit]

* The Cabinet of Curiosities (2002)
* Still Life with Crows (2003)
* Diogenes Trilogy
* Brimstone (2004)
* Dance of Death (2005)
* The Book of the Dead (2006)
* The Wheel of Darkness (2007)
* Cemetery Dance (2009)
* Helen Trilogy
* Fever Dream (2010)
* Cold Vengeance (2011)
* Two Graves (2012)
* White Fire (2013)
* Blue Labyrinth (2014)
* Crimson Shore (2015)
* The Obsidian Chamber (2016)
* City of Endless Night (2018)
* Verses for the Dead (2018)

### Other books[edit]

Title  | Author/Contributors  | Year

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Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris | Eric Jager | 2014
World War Z: The Complete Edition (Movie Tie-in Edition): An Oral History of the Zombie War | Max Brooks | 2013
The Bull Dancers | Jay Lake | 2010
The Rise and Fall of
Khan Noonien Singh, Vol. 2
(Star Trek: The Eugenics Wars) | Greg Cox | 2002
Frenchtown Summer | Robert Cormier | 2000
Isaac Asimov Countdown 2000 | edited by
Martin H. Greenberg | 1999
Talismans of Shannara | Terry Brooks | 1998
The Last Day | Glenn Kleier  | 1997
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly | Jean-Dominique Bauby | 1997
Shadow Dawn | George Lucas
and Chris Claremont | 1996
Mind Slash Matter | Edward Wellen | 1995
Shadow Moon | George Lucas
and Chris Claremont | 1995
The Cricket in Times Square | George Selden | 1995
Batman Forever | Peter David | 1995
Last Defender of Camelot | Roger Zelazny | 1995
Unicorn Variation | Roger Zelazny | 1995
The Fourth Procedure | Stanley Pottinger | 1995
Star Trek Deep Space Nine:
Warped | K. W. Jeter | 1995
The List of 7 | Mark Frost | 1994
Star Trek Deep Space Nine:
Fallen Heroes | Dafydd ab Hugh | 1994
Slaves of Sleep &
The Masters of Sleep | L. Ron Hubbard | 1993
Murder at the National Cathedral | Margaret Truman | 1993
Body and Soul | Frank Conroy | 1993

## References[edit]

1. ^ Video Greeting from Rene Auberjonois on YouTube
2. ^ a b "René Auberjonois, a 'Deep Space Nine' Star, Dies at 79". The New York Times. December 8, 2019. Archived from the original on December 9, 2019.
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Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Musical

1975–2000|

* Ted Ross (1975)
* George Rose (1976)
* Ken Bichel / Michael Mark / John Miller / Joseph Saulter (1977)
* Kevin Kline (1978)
* Ken Jennings (1979)
* Bob Gunton (1980)
* Tony Azito (1981)
* Cleavant Derricks (1982)
* Charles Coles (1983)
* Martin Vidnovic (1984)
* René Auberjonois (1985)
* Michael Rupert (1986)
* Michael Maguire (1987)
* Robert Westenberg (1988)
* Michael Jeter (1990)
* Bruce Adler (1991)
* Scott Waara (1992)
* Mark Michael Hutchinson (1993)
* Jarrod Emick (1994)
* Wilson Jermaine Heredia (1996)
* Joel Grey (1997)
* Gregg Edelman (1998)
* Roger Bart (1999)
* Stephen Spinella (2000)

2001–2022|

* Gary Beach (2001)
* Shuler Hensley (2002)
* Dick Latessa (2003)
* Raúl Esparza (2004)
* Denis O'Hare (2005)
* Jim Dale (2006)
* Gavin Lee (2007)
* Boyd Gaines (2008)
* Gregory Jbara (2009)
* Christopher Fitzgerald (2010)
* John Larroquette (2011)
* Michael McGrath (2012)
* Bertie Carvel (2013)
* James Monroe Iglehart (2014)
* Christian Borle (2015)
* Christopher Fitzgerald (2016)
* Gavin Creel (2017)
* Gavin Lee (2018)
* André De Shields (2019)
* Christian Borle (2020)
* No Award (2021)
* Matt Doyle (2022)

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Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical

1947–1975|

* David Wayne (1947)
* Myron McCormick (1950)
* Russell Nype (1951)
* Yul Brynner (1952)
* Hiram Sherman (1953)
* Harry Belafonte (1954)
* Cyril Ritchard (1955)
* Russ Brown (1956)
* Sydney Chaplin (1957)
* David Burns (1958)
* Russell Nype / Leonard Stone (1959)
* Tom Bosley (1960)
* Dick Van Dyke (1961)
* Charles Nelson Reilly (1962)
* David Burns (1963)
* Jack Cassidy (1964)
* Victor Spinetti (1965)
* Frankie Michaels (1966)
* Joel Grey (1967)
* Hiram Sherman (1968)
* Ron Holgate (1969)
* René Auberjonois (1970)
* Keene Curtis (1971)
* Larry Blyden (1972)
* George S. Irving (1973)
* Tommy Tune (1974)
* Ted Ross (1975)

1976–2000|

* Sammy Williams (1976)
* Lenny Baker (1977)
* Kevin Kline (1978)
* Henderson Forsythe (1979)
* Mandy Patinkin (1980)
* Hinton Battle (1981)
* Cleavant Derricks (1982)
* Charles Coles (1983)
* Hinton Battle (1984)
* Ron Richardson (1985)
* Michael Rupert (1986)
* Michael Maguire (1987)
* Bill McCutcheon (1988)
* Scott Wise (1989)
* Michael Jeter (1990)
* Hinton Battle (1991)
* Scott Waara (1992)
* Anthony Crivello (1993)
* Jarrod Emick (1994)
* George Hearn (1995)
* Wilson Jermaine Heredia (1996)
* Chuck Cooper (1997)
* Ron Rifkin (1998)
* Roger Bart (1999)
* Boyd Gaines (2000)

2001–present|

* Gary Beach (2001)
* Shuler Hensley (2002)
* Dick Latessa (2003)
* Michael Cerveris (2004)
* Dan Fogler (2005)
* Christian Hoff (2006)
* John Gallagher Jr. (2007)
* Boyd Gaines (2008)
* Gregory Jbara (2009)
* Levi Kreis (2010)
* John Larroquette (2011)
* Michael McGrath (2012)
* Gabriel Ebert (2013)
* James Monroe Iglehart (2014)
* Christian Borle (2015)
* Daveed Diggs (2016)
* Gavin Creel (2017)
* Ari'el Stachel (2018)
* André De Shields (2019)
* Danny Burstein (2020/21)
* Matt Doyle (2022)
* Alex Newell (2023)

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