Posted on 12/31/2019 10:43:58 AM PST by mairdie
A memorial video for René Auberjonois (1940-2019) as Odo in Deep Space 9 - Who I Was Born to Be, by Susan Boyle
IMDB:
René Murat Auberjonois was born on June 1, 1940 in New York City, to Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline (Murat), who was born in Paris, and Fernand Auberjonois, who was Swiss-born. René was born into an already artistic family, which included his grandfather, a well-known Swiss painter, and his father, a Pulitzer-nominated writer and Cold War-era foreign correspondent.
He acted from 1964-2019, playing the Governor on Benson, Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Father Mulcahy in the movie MASH, a law partner on Boston Legal, and sang as Chef Louis in The Little Mermaid 2.
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The video can be played and downloaded at my website:
http://www.iment.com/maida/tv/st/video/DS9-Rene-Auberjonois-Memorial-Who-I-Was-Born-To-Be-07.htm
I love him as Reverend Oliver in “The Patriot”. RIP
He wasn’t the governor on Benson, but rather, the governor’s flunkie.
I always thought, why would anyone want to ban Odo? He was a great character!
Thanks for the correction. The first season is on the top shelf of the DVD bookcase in a room with a ten foot high ceiling and I keep staring at it but am hesitant to carry the library ladder over and go climbing for it. I think I’d better.
Love it!
It’s been a long time since I saw that show. Rene was great in everything he was in.
His mother’s name sounds very Old Europe, comprised of SIX different first names! I picture a family rich aristocrats in a Tudor mansion.
A drawing room with high vaulted ceilings. Walls lined with embossed damask linen. Large portraits of her ancestors hang on those walls. Uniformed Generals glowering, Silken Gowned ladies peering down at all the visitors.
Someone is playing an organ. The soft melodies of
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme’ (Sleepers Awake!) by J.S. Bach fill the room and the corridors.
You mean I shouldn’t have used Susan Boyle?
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The Auberjonois family moved to Paris shortly after World War II, and it was there that René made an important career decision at the age of six. When his school put on a musical performance for the parents, little René was given the honor of conducting his classmates in a rendition of “Do You Know the Muffin Man?”. When the performance was over, René took a bow, and, knowing that he was not the real conductor, imagined that he had been acting. He decided then and there that he wanted to be an actor. After leaving Paris, the Auberjonois family moved into an Artist’s Colony in upstate New York.
At an early age, René was surrounded by musicians, composers and actors. Among his neighbors were Helen Hayes, Burgess Meredith and John Houseman, who would later become an important mentor. Houseman gave René his first theater job at the age of 16, as an apprentice at a theater in Stratford, Connecticut. René would later teach at Juilliard under Houseman. René attended Carnegie-Mellon University and studied theater completely, not only learning about acting but about the entire process of producing a play. After graduating from CMU, René acted with various theater companies, including San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theater and Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum. In 1969, he won a role in his first Broadway musical, “Coco” (with Katharine Hepburn), for which he won a Tony Award.
Regarding his parents and connection to Napoleon I:
Fernand Auberjonois was born in Valeyres-sous-Montagny, near Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland., the son of René Auberjonois (1872–1957), one of Switzerland’s best-known post-Impressionist painters. He married into European (Napoleonic) royalty. His wife was Princess Laure Louise Napoléone Eugénie Caroline Murat (Paris, 13 November 1913 – New York City, 10 May 1986), a descendant of Napoleon Bonaparte’s sister Caroline and her husband Joachim Murat, King of Naples and King of Sicily. They married in November 1939. The couple’s son, actor René Auberjonois, was born in 1940. He died in Cork, Ireland, at the age of 93.
Susan B. is a great singer. I haven’t heard a lot about her in the last few years. Maybe her life has settled down.
I think she was refusing to move from her very modest dwelling even though she could afford more. I also recall hearing that her brother was sort of a leech and kept asking for money.
An awesome actor... Virtually impossible to find that kind these days... R.I.P.
Self portrait
Thank you.
One of the best ones on DS9.
Wow. Didn’t realize until just now that I am related to him. My mother’s father dropped the “t” from his last name when he moved to America, but we always knew we were related to the Murat family and, by marriage, Napoleon .
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