George Gaynes

Personal Info

Birthday

May 16, 1917

Day of Death

2016-02-15

(98 years old)

Place of Birth

Helsinki, Finland

Also Known As

جورج گینز

George Gaynes

Biography

George Gaynes (1917–2016) is a Finnish-born American actor of stage, screen and television. He may be best-known as Commandant Eric Lassard in the Police Academy film series, and to television fans as Henry Warnimont on Punky Brewster.

Known For

Columbo

Mannix

Bonanza

Cheers

Chicago Hope

Cheyenne

Mission: Impossible

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

Filmography

2009
Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
as Self (archive footage)
2003
Just Married
as Father Robert
1997
Wag the Dog
as Senator Nole
1996
The Crucible
as Judge Samuel Sewall
1994
Vanya on 42nd Street
as Serybryakov
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
as Commandant Lassard
The Fantastic Four
as Professor
1993
Stepmonster
as Norman
1989
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
as Lassard
1988
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
as Lassard
1987
A Taxi Driver in New York
as l'ammiraglio
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
as Commandant Lassard
Ternosecco
as Don Salvatore
1986
Police Academy 3: Back in Training
as Commandant Lassard
1985
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
as Commandant Lassard
1984
Micki & Maude
as Dr. Eugene Glztszki
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
as Arch Angel
Mom's On Strike
as The Commander
Police Academy
as Commandant Lassard
1983
To Be or Not to Be
as Ravitch
1982
Tootsie
as John Van Horn
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as Dr. Forrest
1981
Evita Peron
as Evita's Doctor
1980
Altered States
as Dr. Wissenschaft
1979
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
as Wiley
1977
The Girl in the Empty Grave
as David Alden
1976
Nickelodeon
as Reginald Kingsley
The Flying Misfits
as Maj. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault
Woman of the Year
as Harding
1975
Song of the Succubus
as C.J. Meredith
Trilogy of Terror
as Dr. Chester Ramsey
1973
The Way We Were
as El Morocco Captain
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
as Warren
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
as Dr Marderosian
1971
Doctors' Wives
as Paul McGill
1969
Marooned
as Mission Director
1966
The Group
as Brook Latham
1963
PT 109
as PT Flotilla Captain (uncredited)
1955
One Touch of Venus
as Whitelaw Savory