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He went on to earn three more Tony nominations for performances in Neil Simon&#8217;s The Good Doctor (1973), Roger Miller&#8217;s Big River (1985), and Cy Coleman&#8217;s City of Angels (1989); he won a Drama Desk Award for Big River.<\/p>\n<p>A screen actor with more than 200 credits, Auberjonois was most famous for portraying characters in the main casts of several long-running television series, including Clayton Endicott III on Benson (1980\u20131986), for which he was an Emmy Award nominee; and Paul Lewiston on Boston Legal (2004\u20132008). In films, Auberjonois appeared in several Robert Altman productions, notably Father John Mulcahy in the film version of M-A-S-H (1970); the expedition scientist Roy Bagley in King Kong (1976); Chef Louis in The Little Mermaid (1989), in which he sang &#8220;Les Poissons&#8221;; and Reverend Oliver in The Patriot (2000). 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