Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actor René Auberjonois, who played Changeling Odo, dies at 79
Prolific actor René Auberjonois, best known for his role as shape-shifter Changeling Odo in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, has died at the age of 79.
The actor died Sunday at his home in Los Angeles of metastatic lung cancer, his son son Rèmy-Luc confirmed to the Associated Press.
Auberjonois also appeared as the character Paul Lewiston in 71 episodes of the TV drama Boston Legal. He is also known for his roles in Benson, The Practice (which earned him an Emmy nod), Stargate SG-1, Warehouse 13, Star Trek: Enterprise, Frasier, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Murder, She Wrote, and The Jeffersons, to name a few.
Auberjonois has starred in numerous films such as director Robert Altman's M.A.S.H. in which he played Father Mulcahy. He appeared in other Altman movies such as McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Brewster McCloud, and Images. Auberjonois also appeared in the 1976 King Kong movie, The Patriot, Batman Forever, and Eyes of Laura Mars.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @11:44AM
always wondered where that hole palpatine fell into ... errr... was thrown into lead.
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @12:57PM
Why are you wasting our time with this shit
(Score: 4, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday December 09 2019, @01:20PM
He was no Alan Rickman but he was a better actor than a large majority of the folks he ever shared screen time with.
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(Score: 5, Interesting) by barbara hudson on Monday December 09 2019, @01:52PM (2 children)
link [deadline.com] Rumour is his last words were "Don't let them take me - they're not human "
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @11:51PM (1 child)
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday December 10 2019, @12:38AM
Damn, now who will she reenact her rape-scenes with? Well, Michael Dorn and Jonathan Frakes are still alive, last I checked.
(Score: 2) by Bot on Monday December 09 2019, @03:53PM (3 children)
Real pity he's gone. His impression of a bird was truly outstanding.
He is also the easiest actor to replace via cgi because half the work is cgi already, so I guess we will hear from odo in the future. Even you meatbags - if you can make it to the future.
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(Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Monday December 09 2019, @07:18PM (1 child)
Sort of a shallow fake?
But I liked his characterizations generally that I saw. Not just Odo but also as Clayton Endicott III.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 09 2019, @09:16PM
He'll always be "that guy from Benson, but no, not Benson .." to me.
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Tuesday December 10 2019, @12:36AM
I'll never forget the Mad Magazine parody [ebayimg.com] of DS9, in which Odo's character is instead named "Odor." There's a panel where he morphs into a door so that Jadzia Dax can keep "pulling him off" (implying that he morphed his dick into the doorknob). Then Jadzia gives up and says something like, "this door won't open, I'm gonna have to kick the doorknob!" showing Odor sneakily morphing away in fear.
Besides that, Odo was probably my most favorite character besides Quark (though post-monkey Sisko was pretty badass once they gave him the Shaft [media-amazon.com] makeover).