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

The Way We Were

17 October, 1973

The Fantastic Four

31 May, 1994

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow

9 June, 1994

To Be or Not to Be

16 December, 1983

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

21 May, 1982

Vanya on 42nd Street

19 October, 1994

Tootsie

17 December, 1982

Police Academy

22 March, 1984

Micki & Maude

21 December, 1984

Wag the Dog

25 December, 1997

Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition

15 December, 2009

Joy House

12 June, 1964

Trilogy of Terror

4 March, 1975

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

15 December, 1984

A Taxi Driver in New York

6 November, 1987

Nickelodeon

21 December, 1976

Doctors' Wives

3 February, 1971

Ternosecco

16 January, 1987

Mom's On Strike

14 November, 1984

Police Academy 3: Back in Training

20 March, 1986

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

2 April, 1987

Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment

28 March, 1985

Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach

17 March, 1988

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege

9 March, 1989

Woman of the Year

28 July, 1976

The Flying Misfits

21 September, 1976

Stepmonster

24 February, 1993

The Girl in the Empty Grave

20 September, 1977

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

5 September, 1979

Evita Peron

23 February, 1981

Marooned

11 December, 1969

Slaughter's Big Rip-Off

31 August, 1973

Altered States

25 December, 1980

I'm Going to Be Famous

1 January, 1983

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf

1 August, 1973

One Touch of Venus

27 August, 1955

Just Married

8 January, 2003

The Crucible

27 November, 1996

Song of the Succubus

7 March, 1975

The Group

4 March, 1966

PT 109

26 June, 1963

Columbo

1971

The Gallant Men

1962

WKRP in Cincinnati

1978

Matlock

1986

Hawaii Five-O

1968

Quincy, M.E.

1976

Hearts Afire

1992

Hotel

1982

Hogan's Heroes

1965

Cannon

1971

Chicago Hope

1994

It's Punky Brewster

1985

The Quest

1976

Carter Country

1977

Search

1972

McCloud

1970

City of Angels

1976

The New Lassie

1989

The Patty Duke Show

1963

Blue Thunder

1984

Stockard Channing: In Just Friends

1979

Punky Brewster

1984

Police Academy: The Series

1997

Bonanza

1959

Mission: Impossible

1966

The Six Million Dollar Man

1974

Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II

1976

Baa Baa Black Sheep

1976

Scruples

1980

Cheyenne

1955

McMillan & Wife

1971

Dinosaurs

1991

Sliders

1995

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

1987

Delvecchio

1976

Cheers

1982

Columbo

1971

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

1962

Mannix

1967