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Cobb's King Lear (the longest running production of the play in Broadway history), as Ned in A Cry of Players (which played in repertory with King Lear), opposite Frank Langella, and as Marco in Fire! In 1969, he earned a Tony Award for his performance as Sebastian Baye alongside Katharine Hepburn in Coco. In 1968, Auberjonois landed a role on Broadway, and appeared in three plays that season: as Fool to Lee J. He was a member of the Peninsula Players summer theater program during the 1962 season. He helped found the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music Repertory Company in New York City. Career Theatre Īfter 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. To complete his education, he attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University), and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the College of Fine Arts in 1962.

The Auberjonois family also lived for a time in London, where Auberjonois completed high school while studying theatre. After a few years in France, the family moved back to the United States and joined the South Mountain Road artists' colony in Rockland County, New York, whose residents included Burgess Meredith, John Houseman, and Lotte Lenya. His maternal grandmother, Hélène Macdonald Stallo, was an American from Cincinnati, Ohio his maternal grandfather's mother was a Russian noblewoman, Eudoxia Michailovna Somova, and his maternal grandfather's paternal grandmother, Caroline Georgina Fraser, who was the wife of Prince Napoleon Lucien Charles Murat, was an American from Charleston, South Carolina.Īuberjonois' family moved to Paris after World War II. Auberjonois wrote that his French family name, an uncommon one in the United States, means ' armorer.' Īuberjonois' grandfather, also René Auberjonois, was a Swiss post-Impressionist painter. Auberjonois had a sister and a brother, and two half-sisters from his mother's first marriage. Auberjonois' mother, Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline Murat, was a great-great-granddaughter of Joachim Murat (one of Napoleon's marshals and King of Naples during the First French Empire), and his wife-Napoleon's youngest sister- Caroline Bonaparte. His father, Swiss-born Fernand Auberjonois, was a Cold War-era foreign correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-nominated writer.

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In the American animated musical comedy film Cats Don't Dance (1997), Auberjonois voiced Flanagan.Īuberjonois also performed as a voice actor in several video games, animated series and other productions.Īuberjonois was born June 1, 1940, in New York City. In films, Auberjonois appeared in several Robert Altman productions, notably Father John Mulcahy in the film version of M*A*S*H (1970) the expedition scientist Roy Bagley in King Kong (1976) Chef Louis in The Little Mermaid (1989), in which he sang ' Les Poissons' and Reverend Oliver in The Patriot (2000). He went on to earn three more Tony nominations for performances in Neil Simon's The Good Doctor (1973), Roger Miller's Big River (1985), and Cy Coleman's City of Angels (1989) he won a Drama Desk Award for Big River.Ī screen actor with more than 200 credits, Auberjonois was most famous for portraying characters in the main casts of several long-running television series, including Clayton Endicott III on Benson (1980–1986), for which he was an Emmy Award nominee Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999) and Paul Lewiston on Boston Legal (2004–2008). He first achieved fame as a stage actor, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1970 for his portrayal of Sebastian Baye opposite Katharine Hepburn in the André Previn- Alan Jay Lerner musical Coco. René Murat Auberjonois ( / r ə ˈ n eɪ oʊ ˌ b ɛər ʒ ə n ˈ w ɑː/ J– December 8, 2019) was an American actor and director. Caroline Bonaparte (great-great-great-grandmother).Joachim Murat (great-great-great-grandfather).

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