# RIP Rene Auberjonois **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [December 9, 2019, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571 "2019-12-09T00:02:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 7:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/21 "2019-12-09T07:18:27Z")
he was in so many cartoons also… I think at one point in the 80s/90s he almost quit physical acting because HB had him working 18 hours a day ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/22 "2019-12-09T13:25:13Z")
It’s a weird thing for me to remember, but Rene also played The Duke in _Big River_, the Broadway musical adaptation of _Huckleberry Finn_. We have the original cast album, and his voice is clearly recognizable in a couple of songs. It was the first time that I realized that he sang. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/23 "2019-12-09T13:49:24Z")
He was terrific in DS9, and will be missed. RIP. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/24 "2019-12-09T13:52:14Z")
Just to add that he was in Boston Legal too… ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/25 "2019-12-09T13:55:58Z")
He’s been reading several of the Douglas Preston /Lincoln Childs “Agent Pendergast” audiobooks over the past few years. He’s apparently done a lot of voice work, narrating and doing cartoon voices, as well. I remember him in the awful 1976 _King Kong_, but completely missed him in the Altman _MASH_ and the TV _Birdmen_ movie. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/26 "2019-12-09T14:00:05Z")
Had memorable guest roles on _The Bob Newhart Show_ and _The Rockford Files_, too. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/27 "2019-12-09T15:34:13Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > **MAJ MARGARET “HOT LIPS” HOULIHAN:** (_Complaining about CPT BF “Hawkeye” Pierce_) How did a man like that rise to a position of responsibility in the United States Army?!? > > **FR FRANCIS MULCAHY:** (_Looking up from his rosary_) He was drafted. > > RIP, Rene. ☹ He claimed to have ad-libbed that line in one of the rehearsals and it just stuck. I learned in reading his obit that he used to sign photos of Odo’s bucket at convention appearances. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/28 "2019-12-09T16:04:18Z")
He also had a cameo at the end of _Batman Forever_ as the director of Arkham Asylum. ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/29 "2019-12-09T16:31:03Z")
He voiced the “Les Poissons” song in _The Little Mermaid._ ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/30 "2019-12-09T16:35:10Z")
> [@Gyrate](#): > > He claimed to have ad-libbed that line in one of the rehearsals and it just stuck. > > I learned in reading his obit that he used to sign photos of Odo’s bucket at convention appearances. The original script had (lifted pretty much word for word from the novel): Hot Lips: I wonder how a degenerated person like you could have reached a position of responsibility in the Army Medical Corps. Hawkeye: Sister, if I knew the answer to that I sure as hell wouldn’t be here. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/31 "2019-12-09T18:38:08Z")
I saw him on Broadway as the lead in City of Angels. Great actor. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/32 "2019-12-09T18:59:04Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > he was in so many cartoons also… I think at one point in the 80s/90s he almost quit physical acting because HB had him working 18 hours a day Heh, now that you mention it, I remember him as DeSaad (Darkseid’s sadistic evil-scientist minion) in the later versions of _Super Friends_. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/33 "2019-12-09T20:01:00Z")
I remember hearing about his casting as Odo in the early pre-production days of DS9, and thinking “Really? HIM??” A lot of the characters he had played up to then were foppish, if not downright wimps. Comes the first episode of DS9, where he slam’s Nog’s burglary accomplice into the wall, then marches right up to Sisko and growls “I don’t allow phasers on the Promenade!” _Never mind,_ I backpedal, _forget I said anything._ I continued to be impressed with Rene all throughout DS9 (and after) but I will always hold one line he delivered close to my heart: “Do they still sing songs about The Great Tribble Hunt?!” RIP, Mr. Auberjonois. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/34 "2019-12-09T20:28:41Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > **MAJ MARGARET “HOT LIPS” HOULIHAN:** (_Complaining about CPT BF “Hawkeye” Pierce_) How did a man like that rise to a position of responsibility in the United States Army?!? > > **FR FRANCIS MULCAHY:** (_Looking up from his rosary_) He was drafted. > > RIP, Rene. ☹ \I think it was his breviary (a book that contains readings which priests typically recite as part of their daily routine).\ The scene that comes to mind is when Father Mulcahy happens upon Our Gang while they’re listening to Hot Lips and Frank going at it hot ‘n’ heavy via a mike that had been slipped into the tent. At first he thinks they’re listening to the “Battling Bickersons;” his take when he realizes what he’s hearing is priceless. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/35 "2019-12-09T20:43:41Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > **MAJ MARGARET “HOT LIPS” HOULIHAN:** (_Complaining about CPT BF “Hawkeye” Pierce_) How did a man like that rise to a position of responsibility in the United States Army?!? > > **FR FRANCIS MULCAHY:** (_Looking up from his rosary_) He was drafted. > > RIP, Rene. ☹ “Blessing the jeep,” was his idea. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/36 "2019-12-09T20:58:32Z")
Odo is part of the Great Link now. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/37 "2019-12-09T21:05:38Z")
RIP, dear Odo. ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/38 "2019-12-09T21:29:23Z")
RIP, Odo. Honestly, though, I’ll always remember Rene for delivering a great zinger\* on _The Rockford Files_: **Some jerk** _[having just been offended]_ In my father’s day, we would be in the _bois_ with pistols. **Rene’s character** Oh? You know who he was? I confess that the implication of Masters’ line didn’t hit me until about 15 seconds after it was said. I blame the gratuitous French in the set-up line. \*considering it was prime time network TV in 1979. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/39 "2019-12-09T21:42:17Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > \I think it was his breviary (a book that contains readings which priests typically recite as part of their daily routine).\ To quote a GI on the TV series: “I’m sorry, Father. I’m not Catholic.”\* ☹ \*To which the other Fr Mulcahy (William Christopher) replied: “Would you like to be?” :o ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/40 "2019-12-09T21:55:19Z")
Damn. Now I’m not going to be able to ruthlessly murder [his character in Fallout: New Vegas](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Robert_House) without feeling a twinge of guilt. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571.md?page=3)