Star Trek: Deep Space Nine star René Auberjonois has died. The actor was 79 years old. Auberjonois’ son, Remy-Luc Auberjonois, tells The Associated Press that his father died from metastatic lung cancer on Sunday at his home in Los Angeles. While Auberjonois is known to Star Trek fans for playing Odo, the changeling security chief on Deep Space Nine’s titular space station, his career also includes roles on the shows Benson and Boston Legal and playing Father Mulcahy in the 1970 film M*A*S*H. He also voiced Chef Louis in Disney’s The Little Mermaid, singing the “Les Poissons,” and voiced The Skull in The Last Unicorn.

In addition to playing Odo in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Auberjonois directed eight episodes of the series: “Prophet Motive,” “Family Business,” “Hippocratic Oath,” “The Quickening,” “Let He Who Is Without Sin…,” “Ferengi Love Song,” “Waltz,” and “Strange Bedfellows.” Auberjonois also has an uncredited role as Colonel West in the film Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (his scenes were cut from the theatrical release and restored in the home media releases) and played the character Ezral in Star Trek: Enterprise.

Auberjonois is survived by his wife, writer Judith Auberjonois, who he married 56 years ago, his sisters Marie-Laure Degener and Anne Auberjonois; his son Remy-Luc Auberjonois, his daughter Tessa Auberjonois, his son-in-law Adrian Latourelle, his daughter-in-law Kate Nowlin, and his three grandchildren.

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