May Whitty

"I have everything Betty Grable has - I've just had it longer". René Auberjonois married Judith Mahalyi in 1962 with whom he has two children, Tessa Auberjonois and Remy Auberjonois. Quote. He was presented with a Tony Award for his performance. She continued to act for the remainder of her life and died in Beverly Hills, California from cancer. Webster died in 1947. After graduating CMU, he worked with several different companies, eventually landing a role on Broadway in 1969, where he played alongside Katharine Hepburn in Coco. It was one such part, as Lady Beldon in Mrs Miniver (1942), that brought her a second Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. To complete his education, he enrolled at Carnegie-Mellon University.

She moved to the US in 1939 and appeared both on stage and in Hollywood films where she usually played wealthy dowagers. He stated in a 1993 interview that Houseman was the person who had most influenced his career. This led to several supporting roles in films including that of Miss Froy in Alfred Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes (1938). They worked together again later, when he taught under Houseman at The Juilliard School. She made her first major film appearance, recreating her stage role in the film Night Must Fall (1937), and received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. One of the most influential contacts Auberjonois made during this period was Houseman, who gave him his first job in the theater at 16 years old, as an apprentice. In 1918 she was made Dame of the British Empire in recognition for her charitable work during World War I. The environment only confirmed his decision to act, and he made important contacts that were to advance his career.

Her stage career continued for the rest of her life. When the family later moved back to the United States, it was to join an artist's colony in upstate New York whose other residents included Burgess Meredith, John Houseman and Helen Hayes. She married the actor Ben Webster in 1892 and in 1895 they visisted the United States where Whitty appeared on Broadway. Auberjonois' family moved to Paris after World War II, where at an early age he decided to become an actor. Born in Liverpool, England Whitty made her first stage appearance in Liverpool in 1881 before moving to London to appear in the West End. His father, Fernand Auberjonois (1910-2004), was a Cold War era foreign correspondant, and his grandfather, also named René Auberjonois, was a Swiss post-Impressionist painter. Dame May Whitty (June 19, 1865 - May 29, 1948) was a British theater and cinema actress. On his mother's side, René is descended from Joachim Murat, King of Naples, and his wife Caroline Bonaparte, sister of the Emperor Napoleon.

René Auberjonois's mother was Princess Laure of Murat. West in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, and as the gangster Tony in Police Academy V: Mission to Miami. Some of the other roles he had played over the years include Father John Patrick 'Dago Red' Mulcahy in the movie version of M*A*S*H, Chef Louis in Disney's The Little Mermaid, Col. René Murat Auberjonois (born June 1, 1940 in New York, New York) is an American actor best known for his early 1980s role as Clayton Endicott III on the television show Benson and his role as Odo on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.