Music video PING
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!
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.
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.
An awesome actor... Virtually impossible to find that kind these days... R.I.P.