{"id":7428,"date":"2019-12-09T15:39:34","date_gmt":"2019-12-09T20:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=7428"},"modified":"2019-12-09T15:39:34","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T20:39:34","slug":"rene-auberjonois-benson-and-deep-space-nine-star-dies-at-79","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/09\/rene-auberjonois-benson-and-deep-space-nine-star-dies-at-79\/","title":{"rendered":"Ren\u00e9 Auberjonois, &#8220;Benson&#8221; and &#8220;Deep Space Nine&#8221; Star, Dies at 79"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7418\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-by-kyle-cassidy-dsc_8245-600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-by-kyle-cassidy-dsc_8245-600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-by-kyle-cassidy-dsc_8245-600-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-by-kyle-cassidy-dsc_8245-600-560x285.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-by-kyle-cassidy-dsc_8245-600-260x132.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-by-kyle-cassidy-dsc_8245-600-160x81.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Rene Auberjonois, known for his roles in &#8220;<em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em>,&#8221; &#8220;<em>Benson<\/em>&#8221; and as Father Mulcahy in the 1970s film &#8220;<em>M.A.S.H<\/em>.,&#8221; has died at age 79.<\/p>\n<p>Auberjonois&#8217; son, R\u00e8my-Luc Auberjonois, told The Associated Press that his father died on Sunday at his Los Angeles home of metastatic lung cancer.<\/p><div id=\"morty-2526586849\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Auberjonois&#8217; first major movie role was as Father Mulcahy in the 1970 film <em>\u201cM.A.S.H.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the 1980s, he played Clayton Runnymede Endicott III, a snooty staffer in a governor\u2019s mansion on \u201c<em>Benson<\/em>.\u201d And in the 1990s, he played the shape-shifting alien Odo on \u201c<em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Auberjonois was born in New York City. His father, Swiss-born Fernand Auberjonois (1910\u20132004), was a Cold War-era foreign correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer. His paternal grandfather, also named Ren\u00e9 Auberjonois, was a Swiss post-Impressionist painter. His mother, Princess Laure Louise Napol\u00e9one Eug\u00e9nie Caroline Murat (1913\u20131986), was a great-great-granddaughter of Joachim Murat, one of Napoleon&#8217;s marshals and King of Naples during the First French Empire, and his wife, Caroline Bonaparte, Napoleon&#8217;s youngest sister.<\/p>\n<p>Auberjonois wrote that his French family name, an uncommon one in the U.S., means &#8220;armorer&#8221;, or one who makes armor.<\/p><div id=\"morty-3573648507\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Auberjonois had a sister and a brother, and two half-sisters from his mother&#8217;s first marriage. His family moved to Paris, France, after World War II, where at an early age he decided to become an actor.<\/p>\n<p>After a few years in France, the family moved back to the United States and joined an artists&#8217; colony in Rockland County, New York, whose residents included Burgess Meredith, John Houseman, and Helen Hayes. The Auberjonois family also lived in London, United Kingdom, where Auberjonois completed high school while studying theatre. To complete his education, he attended and graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University) in 1962.<\/p>\n<p>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 Theatre in San Francisco, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music Repertory Company in New York. He was a member of the Peninsula Players summer theater program during the 1962 season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-bw.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7420 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-bw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"364\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-bw.jpg 364w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-bw-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-bw-260x304.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-bw-160x187.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 364px) 100vw, 364px\" \/><\/a>In 1968, Auberjonois landed a role on Broadway and appeared in three plays simultaneously: as Fool to Lee J. Cobb&#8217;s <em>King Lear<\/em> (the longest-running production of the play in Broadway history), as Ned in <em>A Cry of Players<\/em> (opposite Frank Langella), and as Marco in<em> Fire!<\/em> In 1969, he earned a Tony Award for his performance as Sebastian Baye alongside Katharine Hepburn in <em>Coco<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>He received Tony nominations for his roles in Neil Simon&#8217;s <em>The Good Doctor<\/em> (1973) opposite Christopher Plummer; as the Duke in <em>Big River<\/em> (1984), winning a Drama Desk Award; and, memorably, as Buddy Fidler\/Irwin S. Irving in <em>City of Angels<\/em> (1989), written by Larry Gelbart and Cy Coleman.<\/p>\n<p>Other Broadway appearances included Malvolio in <em>Twelfth Night<\/em> (1972); Scapin in <em>Tricks<\/em> (1973); Mr. Samsa in <em>Metamorphosis<\/em> (1989); Professor Abronsius in <em>Dance of the Vampires<\/em> (musical), the English-language version of Jim Steinman&#8217;s musical adaptation of <em>Tanz der Vampire<\/em>; and Jethro Crouch in <em>Sly Fox<\/em> (2004), for which he was nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award.<\/p>\n<p>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, he toured with Ed Asner, Dianne Wiest, and Harris Yulin. He appeared in the Tom Stoppard and Andr\u00e9 Previn work, <em>Every Good Boy Deserves Favor<\/em>, at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the Metropolitan Opera in New York.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-ds9.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7425 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-ds9-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-ds9-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-ds9-1024x815.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-ds9-768x612.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-ds9-1536x1223.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-ds9-560x446.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-ds9-260x207.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-ds9-160x127.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-ds9.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Auberjonois directed many theatrical productions, and starred in the Washington D.C. production of <em>12 Angry Men<\/em> (2004), where he portrayed &#8220;Juror #5&#8221; to Roy Scheider&#8217;s &#8220;#8&#8221; and Robert Prosky&#8217;s &#8220;#3&#8221;. He made his debut at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., as the titular character in Moli\u00e8re&#8217;s The Imaginary Invalid through July 27, 2008.<\/p>\n<h3>Films<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7424\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7424\" style=\"width: 320px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-mash.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7424 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-mash.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-mash.jpg 320w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-mash-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-mash-260x195.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-mash-160x120.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7424\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rene Auberjonois as Father John Mulcahy in &#8220;MASH&#8221; (1970) Twentieth Century Fox<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Auberjonois played Father Mulcahy in the original film version of <em>MASH<\/em>. His subsequent film roles included the gangster Tony in <em>Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach<\/em> (1988), and Reverend Oliver in <em>The Patriot<\/em> (2000). He made cameo appearances in a number of films, including Dr. Burton, a mental asylum doctor patterned after Tim Burton, in <em>Batman Forever<\/em> (1995), and a bird expert who gradually transforms into a bird in Robert Altman&#8217;s 1970 film <em>Brewster McCloud<\/em>. He appeared as Colonel West in the 1991 <em>Star Trek<\/em> film <em>Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country<\/em>. Other notable film appearances have included: <em>McCabe &amp; Mrs. Miller<\/em> (1971), <em>Images<\/em> (1972), <em>Pete &#8216;n&#8217; Tillie<\/em> (1972), <em>The Hindenburg<\/em> (1975), <em>King Kong<\/em> (1976), <em>The Big Bus<\/em> (1976), <em>Eyes of Laura Mars<\/em> (1978), <em>Where The Buffalo Roam<\/em> (1980), <em>Walker<\/em> (1987), <em>My Best Friend Is a Vampire<\/em> (1988), <em>The Feud<\/em> (1989), <em>Inspector Gadget<\/em> (1999), and <em>Eulogy<\/em> (2004).<\/p>\n<p>Auberjonois portrayed the character of Straight Hollander in the 1993 Miramax film <em>The Ballad of Little Jo<\/em>. He voiced Professor Genius in <em>Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland<\/em>, Louis the Chef in the 1st and 2nd <em>Little Mermaid<\/em> films, Flanagan in <em>Cats Don&#8217;t Dance<\/em>, the Butler in <em>Joseph: King of Dreams<\/em>, and the concierge in <em>Planes: Fire &amp; Rescue<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>Television<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-benson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-7421 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-benson-268x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-benson-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-benson-260x291.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-benson-160x179.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-benson.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 268px) 100vw, 268px\" \/><\/a>In addition to having been a regular actor on three TV shows (<em>Benson<\/em>, a situation comedy; <em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em> in science fiction; and <em>Boston Legal<\/em>, a legal dramedy),<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-benson-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-7422 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-benson-2-300x222.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-benson-2-300x222.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-benson-2-260x193.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-benson-2-160x119.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-benson-2.jpg 471w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Auberjonois guest-starred on many television series, including <em>Ellery Queen<\/em>, <em>Family<\/em>, <em>Grey&#8217;s Anatomy<\/em>, <em>The Rockford Files<\/em>, <em>Charlie&#8217;s Angels<\/em>, <em>Starsky &amp; Hutch<\/em>, <em>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<\/em> (for which he received an Emmy nomination, playing a different character than the one he played on <em>The Practice<\/em> spinoff <em>Boston Legal<\/em>), <em>Saving Grace, It&#8217;s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Criminal Minds, NCIS, The Good Wife, The Librarians<\/em>, and <em>Madam Secretary<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7426\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7426\" style=\"width: 237px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-star-trek-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7426 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-star-trek-2-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-star-trek-2-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-star-trek-2-810x1024.jpg 810w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-star-trek-2-768x971.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-star-trek-2-1215x1536.jpg 1215w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-star-trek-2-560x708.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-star-trek-2-260x329.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-star-trek-2-160x202.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-star-trek-2.jpg 1266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ren\u00e9 Auberjonois on &#8220;Deep Space 9&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His television movie credits include <em>The Rhinemann Exchange<\/em>, <em>The Dark Secret of Harvest Home<\/em>, Disney&#8217;s <em>Geppetto<\/em>, Gore Vidal&#8217;s <em>Billy The Kid<\/em>, the remake of <em>A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur&#8217;s Court<\/em>, and the <em>Sally Hemings: An American Scandal<\/em> (2000) miniseries. He portrayed the character, Fortunato, in an episode of <em>American Masters<\/em> entitled &#8220;Edgar Allan Poe: Terror of the Soul&#8221; (1995). He received a third Emmy Award nomination for his performance in ABC&#8217;s <em>The Legend of Sleepy Hollow<\/em>. He played NASA scientist, Dr. Felix Blackwell, in the episode &#8220;Phoenix&#8221; on <em>NCIS<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7423\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-warehouse-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-7423 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-warehouse-13-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-warehouse-13-300x250.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-warehouse-13-260x216.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-warehouse-13-160x133.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/rene-auberjonois-warehouse-13.jpg 351w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ren\u00e9 Auberjonois in Warehouse 13<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Auberjonois voiced animated roles, including characters on Snorks, <em>Batman: The Animated Series<\/em>, Leonard McLeish on <em>Pound Puppies<\/em> (2010), <em>Avatar the Last Airbender<\/em>, Master Fung in the first episodes of <em>Xiaolin Showdown<\/em> (before being replaced by Maurice LaMarche), Azmuth on <em>Ben 10 Omniverse<\/em>, Renard Dumont on <em>The Legend of Tarzan<\/em>, <em>Justice League Unlimited, Max Steel, Fantastic Max, Challenge of the Gobots<\/em> (as the treacherous &#8220;Dr. Braxis&#8221;), <em>Archer, Young Justice, Random! Cartoons<\/em>, and <em>Avengers Assemble<\/em>. He lent his voice talents to the 2001 Public Broadcasting System (PBS) American Experience documentary, &#8220;<em>Woodrow Wilson<\/em>&#8220;, as the title character, along with the 2003 PBS historical documentary Kingdom of <em>David: The Saga of the Israelites<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Auberjonois directed TV shows, including <em>Marblehead Manor<\/em>, and various episodes of <em>Deep Space Nine<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rene Auberjonois, known for his roles in &#8220;Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,&#8221; &#8220;Benson&#8221; and as Father Mulcahy in the 1970s film &#8220;M.A.S.H.,&#8221; has died at age 79. Auberjonois&#8217; son, R\u00e8my-Luc Auberjonois, told The Associated Press that his father died on Sunday at his Los Angeles home of metastatic lung cancer. 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