# 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:** 13\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/41 "2019-12-09T22:07:20Z")
I last mentioned him in this [thread](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=22017513) just a couple weeks ago. Hey, I was wishing him ill, it just seemed that time was running out. Obligatory IMDb [link](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0041281/). (Should have been given already.) _MASH_ (1970) was his first credited role. Has several things coming out. What a career. I think his _Benson_ role created an image of him as a bad guy but he played nice guys really well. Did a lot of voice work, often listed as “additional voices”. And there’s his role in _The Player_ where he played … Rene Auberjonois. ---
**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, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/42 "2019-12-09T22:13:23Z")
> [@ftg](#): > > Hey, I was wishing him ill, it just seemed that time was running out. I, uh, think you missed a contraction there … son? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2019, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/43 "2019-12-09T22:29:00Z")
He was also great as a cat burglar in “Spaced Out”, a Wonder Woman episode set at a science fiction convention. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/44 "2019-12-10T03:52:49Z")
Farewell Rene, May you be one with the Great Link… He was also the voice of the German assassin Manfred in Archer… And the vampire Modoc (no, not MODOK…) in “My best friend is a vampire”, probably the first video I saw him in, a cheap throwaway formulaic teen comedy-“horror” ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/45 "2019-12-10T04:11:45Z")
Aww, that’s sad. He’ll always be Dago Red to me > [@OttoDaFe](#): > > 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. Here’s the clip: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpmdYRs4lEs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpmdYRs4lEs) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/46 "2019-12-10T05:46:31Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > He’s been reading several of the Douglas Preston /Lincoln Childs “Agent Pendergast” audiobooks over the past few years. That was my first thought: I don’t know how I’ll listen to upcoming books in the series… he WAS Agent Pendergast. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/47 "2019-12-10T12:40:31Z")
For some reason, after “Benson” and “DS9” I always think of him as the priest in “The Big Bus”. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/48 "2019-12-10T14:44:34Z")
Never saw him in _Benson_, but I was big fan of him as Odo on _DS9_. Remarkably expressive through that prosthetic mask. I actually first saw him when I was a kid - he played a young George Washington in a public-television movie about the outbreak of the French and Indian War. (This would have just been a few years after _M_A_S_H\*). He was pretty good in it, too, as I recall. May he rest in peace. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/49 "2019-12-10T16:56:21Z")
Another fun role of his was that of the talking skeleton in _The Last Unicorn_. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2019, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/50 "2019-12-10T19:47:15Z")
> [@Dendarii\_Dame](#): > > He was also great as a cat burglar in “Spaced Out”, a Wonder Woman episode set at a science fiction convention. I think that was the first thing I saw him in: the guy who’s clearly in over his head, but keeps thinking he can just talk his way out of problem after problem by making stuff up as he goes along, and the whole thing’s about to fall apart but he keeps grinning like an idiot who thinks he’s got it made, and — wait, did that all just work out? So we haven’t been watching some psychotic level of overconfidence; he really _can_ just cheerfully improvise a getaway plan on the fly, and then call it a day? ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2019, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/51 "2019-12-11T17:57:51Z")
Benson is one of the first shows I remember watching with my parents. The first time I saw Clayton on DS9 I was rather confused, but I soon forgot Clayton and thought only of Odo when I saw the name of Rene Auberjonois. It was a joy to see him turn up in Warehouse 13 (itself underrated) and to see another facet. RIP ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2019, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/52 "2019-12-11T23:39:13Z")
I first noticed him, I think, in the movie “The Eyes of Laura Mars,” in 1978. That may have been one of his effeminate roles that someone mentioned above, I don’t remember for sure, but I think he played a friend/assistant of Faye Dunaway’s title character. I think he might have been a suspect in the murders for a while during the movie. Turns out it wasn’t him. ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571/53 "2019-12-12T13:56:06Z")
I also just remembered; he had a fun bit in the first episode (and one other I believe) of [Fairy Tale Theater](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0575517/fullcredits/?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-rene-auberjonois/844571.md?page=2)