Army.Ī bible-reading Auberjonois responds, deadpan: “He was drafted.” In his most famous exchange from the movie, Sally Kellerman’s Margaret Houlihan wonders how such a degenerate doctor as Donald Sutherland’s Hawkeye Pierce could reach a position of responsibility in the U.S. In 1970, Auberjonois began his run with Altman, playing Mulcahy in “M.A.S.H.” He would later see Tony nominations for 1973’s “The Good Doctor,” 1984’s “Big River,” and 1989’s “City of Angels.” The following year he would play Sebastian Baye opposite Katharine Hepburn in “Coco,” a play on the life of designer Coco Chanel that would earn him a Tony for best actor in a leading role in a musical. The younger René Auberjonois was raised in New York, Paris, and London, and for a time lived with his family in an artists’ colony in Rockland County, New York, whose residents included the actors John Houseman, Helen Hayes and Burgess Meredith.Īfter graduating from college at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Institute of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon, Auberjonois hopped around the country joining theater companies, eventually landing three roles on Broadway in 1968, including playing the Fool in a long-running version of King Lear. newspapers, and the grandson of a Swiss post-impressionist painter also named René Auberjonois. When I look out to the stars, I shall think of you, friend.”Īuberjonois was born in New York in 1940, the son of Fernand Auberjonois, Swiss-born foreign correspondent for U.S. He was a wonderful, caring, and intelligent man. George Takei tweeted: “”Star Trek fans knew him as Odo from Deep Space Nine. I will keep you in my thoughts and remember a wonderful friendship with René.” To Judith, Tessa & Remy I send you my love & strength. William Shatner said that “to sum up his life in a tweet is nearly impossible.
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