Subj : RIP: Rene' Auberjonois
To   : All
From : Lupine Furmen
Date : Mon Dec 09 2019 00:02:02

 in 2016. "And it became a kind of an iconic line
for the whole film."

The same year he played an off-the-wall ornithologist in Altman's Brewster
McCloud, played a saloonkeeper alongside Warren Beatty in the director's
Western McCabe & Mrs. Miller in 1971 and appeared in Altman's Images in 1972. 

Auberjonois spent much of the rest of the 1970s doing guest spots on TV shows
before joining the cast of Benson in its second season in 1980, where he
would remain for the rest of the show's seven seasons, playing the patrician
political advisor and chronic hypochondriac Endicott. 

Much of his later career was spent doing voices for animation, most memorably
as the French chef who sings the love song to fish-killing Les "Poissons" in
Disney's 1989 The Little Mermaid.

Auberjonois played Odo on Deep Space Nine from 1993-1998 and became a regular
at Star Trek conventions, where he raised money for Doctors Without Borders
and signed autographs with a drawing of Odo's bucket, where the character
would store himself when he returned to his natural gelatinous state. 

Auberjonois was also a regular on the ABC law-firm dramedy Boston Legal from
2004-2008.

Late in his career, Auberjonois would work with independent filmmakers,
including the artful director Kelly Reichardt, for whom he appeared in 2016's
Certain Women and 2019's First Cow, his final role. 

He is survived by his wife of 56 years, Judith, and their two children, Tessa
and Remy.

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