George Gaynes
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. George Gaynes (born George Jongejans; May 16, 1917 Helsinki) is a Finnish-born American actor of stage, screen and television. He may be best-known as Commandant Eric Lassard in the Police Academy series, and to television fans as the curmudgeonly Henry Warnimont on the NBC series Punky Brewster, in which his wife, Allyn Ann McLerie, guest-starred as his love interest, and as Frank Smith, the mob boss brought down by Luke Spencer (Anthony Geary) on the soap opera General Hospital. Description above from the Wikipedia article George Gaynes, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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- Born:
- May 16, 1917 In Helsinki, Finland
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 63
- First Appeared:
- In the series Search for Tomorrow 1951-09-03
- Latest Project:
- Movie Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition 2009-12-15
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition | Self (archive footage) | 2009-12-15 |
| Movie | Just Married | Father Robert | 2003-01-08 |
| Movie | Wag the Dog | Senator Nole | 1997-12-25 |
| Movie | The Crucible | Judge Samuel Sewall | 1996-11-27 |
| Movie | The Fantastic Four | Professor | 1994-05-31 |
| Movie | Police Academy: Mission to Moscow | Commandant Lassard | 1994-06-09 |
| Movie | Vanya on 42nd Street | Serybryakov | 1994-10-19 |
| Series | Chicago Hope | Unknown | 1994-09-18 |
| Movie | Stepmonster | Norman | 1993-02-24 |
| Series | Hearts Afire | Senator Strobe Smithers | 1992-09-14 |
| Movie | Police Academy 6: City Under Siege | Lassard | 1989-03-09 |
| Movie | Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach | Lassard | 1988-03-17 |
| Movie | Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol | Commandant Lassard | 1987-04-02 |
| Movie | Ternosecco | Don Salvatore | 1987-01-16 |
| Series | The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd | 1987-05-21 | |
| Movie | A Taxi Driver in New York | l'ammiraglio | 1987-11-06 |
| Series | Matlock | Unknown | 1986-03-03 |
| Movie | Police Academy 3: Back in Training | Commandant Lassard | 1986-03-20 |
| Movie | Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment | Commandant Lassard | 1985-03-28 |
| Series | It's Punky Brewster | 1985-09-14 | |
| Series | Punky Brewster | Henry Warnimont | 1984-09-16 |
| Movie | Police Academy | Commandant Lassard | 1984-03-22 |
| Series | Blue Thunder | Unknown | 1984-01-06 |
| Movie | Mom's On Strike | The Commander | 1984-11-14 |
| Movie | Micki + Maude | Dr. Eugene Glztszki | 1984-12-21 |
| Movie | It Came Upon the Midnight Clear | Arch Angel | 1984-12-15 |
| Movie | I'm Going to Be Famous | 1983-01-01 | |
| Movie | To Be or Not to Be | Ravitch | 1983-12-16 |
| Movie | Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | Dr. Forrest | 1982-05-21 |
| Movie | Tootsie | John Van Horn | 1982-12-17 |
| Series | Hotel | Unknown | 1982-08-21 |
| Movie | Evita Peron | Evita's Doctor | 1981-02-23 |
| Movie | Altered States | Dr. Wissenschaft | 1980-12-25 |
| Series | Scruples | John Prince | 1980-02-25 |
| Movie | Breaking Up Is Hard to Do | Wiley | 1979-09-05 |
| Series | WKRP in Cincinnati | Unknown | 1978-09-18 |
| Movie | The Girl in the Empty Grave | David Alden | 1977-09-20 |
| Series | City of Angels | Unknown | 1976-02-03 |
| Series | The Quest | Unknown | 1976-05-13 |
| Movie | The Flying Misfits | Maj. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault | 1976-09-21 |
| Movie | Nickelodeon | Reginald Kingsley | 1976-12-21 |
| Series | Quincy, M.E. | Unknown | 1976-10-03 |
| Movie | Trilogy of Terror | Dr. Chester Ramsey | 1975-03-04 |
| Movie | The Boy Who Cried Werewolf | Dr Marderosian | 1973-08-01 |
| Movie | The Way We Were | El Morocco Captain | 1973-10-17 |
| Movie | Slaughter's Big Rip Off | Warren | 1973-08-31 |
| Series | Search | Unknown | 1972-09-13 |
| Movie | Doctors' Wives | Paul McGill | 1971-02-03 |
| Series | Columbo | Everett | 1971-09-15 |
| Series | Cannon | Unknown | 1971-09-14 |
| Series | McCloud | Unknown | 1970-02-17 |
| Movie | Marooned | Mission Director | 1969-12-11 |
| Series | Hawaii Five-O | Unknown | 1968-09-20 |
| Series | Mannix | Unknown | 1967-09-16 |
| Movie | The Group | Brook Latham | 1966-03-04 |
| Series | Mission: Impossible | Unknown | 1966-09-17 |
| Series | Hogan's Heroes | Unknown | 1965-09-17 |
| Movie | Joy House | 1964-06-12 | |
| Series | The Patty Duke Show | Unknown | 1963-09-18 |
| Series | The Gallant Men | Unknown | 1962-10-05 |
| Movie | One Touch of Venus | Whitelaw Savory | 1955-08-27 |
| Series | Cheyenne | Unknown | 1955-09-20 |
| Series | Search for Tomorrow | 1951-09-03 |