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Rene Auberjonois

ActorBorn 1940, died 2019On stage 1968 to 200413 productions on this page

René Marie Murat Auberjonois ( rə-NAY oh-BAIR-zhən-WAH; June 1, 1940 – December 8, 2019) was an American actor. He was a Tony Award and Drama Desk Award winner, and a three-time Emmy Award (two Primetime, one Daytime) nominee, among other accolades. He first achieved fame as a stage actor, winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1970 for his portrayal of Sebastian Baye opposite Katharine Hepburn in the André Previn-Alan Jay Lerner musical Coco. He went on to earn three more Tony nominations for performances in Neil Simon's The Good Doctor (1973), Roger Miller's Big River (1985), and Cy Coleman's City of Angels (1989); he won a Drama Desk Award for Big River. In 2018, A…

On stage

13 productions, 36 years

1968

A Cry of PlayersBroadway Vivian Beaumont Theater. Original. Directed by Gene Frankel

72 performances

1968

King LearBroadway Vivian Beaumont Theater. Revival. Directed by Gerald Freedman

72 performances

1969

CocoBroadway Mark Hellinger Theatre. Original. Directed by Michael Benthall

329 performances

1969

Fire!Broadway Longacre Theatre. Original. Directed by Charles Werner Moore

6 performances

1972

Twelfth NightBroadway Vivian Beaumont Theater. Revival. Directed by Ellis Rabb

44 performances

1973

The Good DoctorBroadway Eugene Oneill Theatre. Original. Directed by A. J. Antoon

208 performances

1973

TricksBroadway Alvin Theatre. Original. Directed by Jon Jory

8 performances

1979

Break a LegBroadway Palace Theatre. Original. Directed by Charles Nelson Reilly

1 performance

1985

Big RiverBroadway Eugene O'Neill Theatre. Original. Directed by Des McAnuff

1,005 performances

1989

City of AngelsBroadway Virginia Theatre. Original. Directed by Michael Blakemore

879 performances

1989

MetamorphosisBroadway Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Original

97 performances

2002

Dance of the VampiresBroadway Minskoff Theatre. Original. Directed by John Rando

56 performances

2004

Sly FoxBroadway Ethel Barrymore Theatre. Revival. Directed by Arthur Penn

173 performances

Worked with more than once

12 names

Ren Auberjonois 8 productions
Robert Phalen 3 productions
William Myers 2 productions
Virgilia Chew 2 productions
Tom Sawyer 2 productions
Susan Tyrrell 2 productions
Stephen Elliott 2 productions
Samual Blue Jr 2 productions
Ruth Attaway 2 productions
Ronald Weyand 2 productions
Robert Molock 2 productions
Robert Levine 2 productions

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