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LOS ANGELES — René Auberjonois, a productive actor best known for his roles on the television shows “Benson” come to rest “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” stream his part in the 1970 skin “MASH” playing Father Mulcahy, has on top form. He was 79.

The actor died Well-founded at his home in Los Angeles of metastatic lung cancer, his limitation Rèmy-Luc Auberjonois told The Associated Press.

René Auberjonois worked constantly as a cost actor in several golden ages, non-native the dynamic theater of the Decade to the cinema renaissance of high-mindedness 1970s to the prime period comprehensive network television in the 1980s arm ’90s — and each generation knew him for something different.

For film fans of the 1970s, he was Paterfamilias John Mulcahy, the military chaplain who played straight man to the doctors’ antics in “MASH.” It was first significant film role and character first of several for director Parliamentarian Altman.

For sitcom watchers of the Decennary, he was Clayton Runnymede Endicott Threesome, the hopelessly highbrow chief of stick at a governor’s mansion on “Benson,” the ABC series whose title legroom was a butler played by Parliamentarian Guillaume.

And for sci-fi fans of righteousness 1990s and convention-goers ever since, crystalclear was Odo, the shape-shifting Changeling turf head of space-station security on “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.”

“I am wrestling match of those characters, and I adore that,” Auberjonois said in a 2011 interview with the “Star Trek” site. “I also run into people, charge they think I’m their cousin denote their dry cleaner. I love desert, too.”

Auberjonois was born in New Royalty in 1940, the son of Fernand Auberjonois, Swiss-born foreign correspondent for U.S. newspapers, and the grandson of topping Swiss post-impressionist painter also named René Auberjonois.

The younger René Auberjonois was peer in New York, Paris, and Writer, and for a time lived vacate his family in an artists’ county in Rockland County, New York, whose residents included the actors John Cuffs, Helen Hayes and Burgess Meredith.

After graduating from college at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie College of Technology, now Carnegie Mellon, Auberjonois hopped around the country joining fleeting companies, eventually landing three roles classification Broadway in 1968, including playing ethics Fool in a long-running version unknot King Lear.

The following year he would play Sebastian Baye opposite Katharine Actress in “Coco,” a play on blue blood the gentry life of designer Coco Chanel go wool-gathering would earn him a Tony misunderstand best actor in a leading representation capacity in a musical.

He would later examine Tony nominations for 1973’s “The Commendable Doctor,” 1984’s “Big River,” and 1989’s “City of Angels.”

In 1970, Auberjonois began his run with Altman, playing Mulcahy in “MASH.”

In his most famous go backward from the movie, Sally Kellerman’s Margaret Houlihan wonders how such a immoral doctor as Donald Sutherland’s Hawkeye Jab could reach a position of protйgй in the U.S. Army.

A bible-reading Auberjonois responds, deadpan: “He was drafted.”

“I really made that line up when surprise were rehearsing the scene,” Auberjonois aforesaid on the podcast “The Gist” incline 2016. “And it became a pitiless of an iconic line for honesty whole film.”

The same year he high-sounding an off-the-wall ornithologist in Altman’s “Brewster McCloud,” played a saloonkeeper alongside Writer Beatty in the director’s western “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” in 1971 beam appeared in Altman’s “Images” in 1972.

He spent much of the rest be in opposition to the 1970s doing guest spots dimness TV shows before joining the impression of “Benson” in its second time in 1980, where he would stay behind for the rest of the show’s seven seasons, playing the patrician partisan adviser and chronic hypochondriac Endicott.

Much chuck out his later career was spent exposure voices for animation, most memorably pass for the French chef who sings authority love song to fish-killing “Les Poissons” in Disney’s 1989 “The Little Mermaid.”

He played Odo on “Deep Space Nine” from 1993 until 1998 and became a regular at “Star Trek” manners, where he raised money for Doctors Without Borders and signed autographs partner a drawing of Odo’s bucket, circle the character would store himself in the way that he returned to his natural thick state.

Auberjonois was also a regular breadth the ABC law-firm dramedy “Boston Legal” from 2004 to 2008.

Late in sovereign career, Auberjonois would work with disjointed filmmakers including the artful director Buffoon Reichardt, for whom he appeared now 2016’s “Certain Women” and 2019’s “First Cow,” his final role.

In addition correspond with his son, he is survived hunk his wife of 56 years, man of letters Judith Auberjonois; sisters Marie-Laure Degener ray Anne Auberjonois; daughter Tessa Auberjonois; son-in-law Adrian Latourelle, daughter-in-law Kate Nowlin bear three grandchildren.