George Gaynes
Born: 1917-05-16 in Helsinki, Finland
Died: 2016-02-15
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2009
- Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition as Self (archive footage)
2003
- Just Married as Father Robert
1997
- Wag the Dog as Senator Nole
- Police Academy: The Series as Commandant Eric Lassard
1996
- The Crucible as Judge Samuel Sewall
1995
- Sliders as Old Quinn Mallory
1994
- Chicago Hope as Brook Austin
- Vanya on 42nd Street as Serybryakov
- The Fantastic Four as Professor
- Police Academy: Mission to Moscow as Commandant Lassard
1993
- Stepmonster as Norman
1992
- Hearts Afire as Senator Strobe Smithers
1991
- Dinosaurs as Elder in Chief (voice)
1989
- Police Academy 6: City Under Siege as Lassard
- The New Lassie
1988
- Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach as Lassard
1987
- The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd as Arthur Feldman
- Ternosecco as Don Salvatore
- Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol as Commandant Lassard
- A Taxi Driver in New York as l'ammiraglio
1986
- Matlock as Judge Hollis D. Dunaway
- Police Academy 3: Back in Training as Commandant Lassard
1985
- Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment as Commandant Lassard
- It's Punky Brewster
1984
- Police Academy as Commandant Lassard
- Punky Brewster as Henry Warnimont
- Blue Thunder as Dr. Willi Von Hartig
- Micki & Maude as Dr. Eugene Glztszki
- Mom's On Strike as The Commander
- It Came Upon the Midnight Clear as Arch Angel
1983
- To Be or Not to Be as Ravitch
- I'm Going to Be Famous
1982
- Cheers as Malcolm Kramer
- Hotel
- 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
- Scruples as John Prince
1979
- Breaking Up Is Hard to Do as Wiley
- Just Friends as Rock La Rue
1978
- WKRP in Cincinnati as Henri
1977
- The Girl in the Empty Grave as David Alden
- Carter Country
1976
- Quincy, M.E.
- Baa Baa Black Sheep as Claire Lee Chennault
- Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II as Max Vincent
- The Flying Misfits as Maj. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault
- The Quest
- City of Angels
- Delvecchio as Commissioner Schaub
- Woman of the Year as Harding
- Nickelodeon as Reginald Kingsley
1975
- Trilogy of Terror as Dr. Chester Ramsey
- Song of the Succubus as C.J. Meredith
1974
- The Six Million Dollar Man as General Wiley
1973
- The Way We Were as El Morocco Captain
- The Boy Who Cried Werewolf as Dr Marderosian
- Slaughter's Big Rip-Off as Warren
1972
1971
- Columbo as Everett
- Cannon
- McMillan & Wife as Burton Rhoner
- Doctors' Wives as Paul McGill
1970
1969
- Marooned as Mission Director
1968
- Hawaii Five-O as Thurman Elliott
1967
- Mannix as Professor Brendan
1966
- Mission: Impossible as Dr. Paul van Bergner
- The Group as Brook Latham
1965
1964
1963
- PT 109 as PT Flotilla Captain (uncredited)
- The Patty Duke Show
1962
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour as Mr. Campbell
- The Gallant Men
1959
- Bonanza as Senator Purdy
- Hawaiian Eye as Roger Korvin
1955
- Cheyenne as Rod Delaplane
- One Touch of Venus as Whitelaw Savory