RIP Rene Auberjonois

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I last mentioned him in this thread just a couple weeks ago. Hey, I was wishing him ill, it just seemed that time was running out.

Obligatory IMDb link. (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.

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I, uh, think you missed a contraction there … son? :wink:

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He was also great as a cat burglar in “Spaced Out”, a Wonder Woman episode set at a science fiction convention.

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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”

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Aww, that’s sad. He’ll always be Dago Red to me

Here’s the clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpmdYRs4lEs

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That was my first thought: I don’t know how I’ll listen to upcoming books in the series… he WAS Agent Pendergast.

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For some reason, after “Benson” and “DS9” I always think of him as the priest in “The Big Bus”.

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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 MASH*). He was pretty good in it, too, as I recall.

May he rest in peace.

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Another fun role of his was that of the talking skeleton in The Last Unicorn.

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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?

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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

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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.

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I also just remembered; he had a fun bit in the first episode (and one other I believe) of Fairy Tale Theater.