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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
May 16, 1917
Died
February 15, 2016
Place of Birth
Helsinki, Finland
Also Known As
- جورج گینز
George Gaynes
1.1 Popularity
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
0.0
Self (archive footage)
Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
2009
5.8
Father Robert
Just Married
2003
6.9
Senator Nole
Wag the Dog
1997
5.8
Commandant Eric Lassard
Police Academy: The Series
1997
6.6
Judge Samuel Sewall
The Crucible
1996
7.6
Old Quinn Mallory
Sliders
1995
6.5
Serybryakov
Vanya on 42nd Street
1994
7.2
Brook Austin
Chicago Hope
1994
4.6
Commandant Lassard
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
1994
4.4
Professor
The Fantastic Four
1994
Credits
Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
as Self (archive footage)
2009
0.0
Just Married
as Father Robert
2003
5.8
Wag the Dog
as Senator Nole
1997
6.9
Police Academy: The Series
as Commandant Eric Lassard
1997
5.8
The Crucible
as Judge Samuel Sewall
1996
6.6
Sliders
as Old Quinn Mallory
1995
7.6
Vanya on 42nd Street
as Serybryakov
1994
6.5
Chicago Hope
as Brook Austin
1994
7.2
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
as Commandant Lassard
1994
4.6
The Fantastic Four
as Professor
1994
4.4
Stepmonster
as Norman
1993
4.4
Hearts Afire
as Senator Strobe Smithers
1992
7.3
Dinosaurs
as Elder in Chief (voice)
1991
7.8
The New Lassie
1989
6.7
Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
as Lassard
1989
5.1
Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
as Lassard
1988
5.2
A Taxi Driver in New York
as l'ammiraglio
1987
5.7
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
as Arthur Feldman
1987
6.0
Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
as Commandant Lassard
1987
5.5
Ternosecco
as Don Salvatore
1987
3.8
Police Academy 3: Back in Training
as Commandant Lassard
1986
5.8
Matlock
as Judge Hollis D. Dunaway
1986
7.1
It's Punky Brewster
1985
7.2
Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
as Commandant Lassard
1985
6.1
Micki & Maude
as Dr. Eugene Glztszki
1984
5.5
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
as Arch Angel
1984
5.6
Mom's On Strike
as The Commander
1984
0.0
Punky Brewster
as Henry Warnimont
1984
7.3
Police Academy
as Commandant Lassard
1984
6.7
Blue Thunder
as Dr. Willi Von Hartig
1984
6.9
To Be or Not to Be
as Ravitch
1983
6.7
I'm Going to Be Famous
1983
4.0
Tootsie
as John Van Horn
1982
7.2
Cheers
as Malcolm Kramer
1982
7.6
Hotel
1982
6.8
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as Dr. Forrest
1982
6.6
Evita Peron
as Evita's Doctor
1981
0.0
Altered States
as Dr. Wissenschaft
1980
6.7
Scruples
as John Prince
1980
4.5
Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
as Wiley
1979
2.6
🎬
Just Friends
as Rock La Rue
1979
0.0
WKRP in Cincinnati
as Henri
1978
7.6
The Girl in the Empty Grave
as David Alden
1977
7.1
Carter Country
1977
5.2
Nickelodeon
as Reginald Kingsley
1976
6.1
Quincy, M.E.
1976
7.5
Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
as Max Vincent
1976
8.6
Baa Baa Black Sheep
as Claire Lee Chennault
1976
7.6
The Flying Misfits
as Maj. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault
1976
6.8
Delvecchio
as Commissioner Schaub
1976
0.0
Woman of the Year
as Harding
1976
0.0
The Quest
1976
6.4
City of Angels
1976
5.2
Song of the Succubus
as C.J. Meredith
1975
0.0
Trilogy of Terror
as Dr. Chester Ramsey
1975
6.2
The Six Million Dollar Man
as General Wiley
1974
7.3
The Way We Were
as El Morocco Captain
1973
7.0
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off
as Warren
1973
4.4
The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
as Dr Marderosian
1973
5.7
Search
1972
6.9
McMillan & Wife
as Burton Rhoner
1971
6.9
Columbo
as Everett
1971
8.1
Columbo
as Frenchman
1971
8.1
Cannon
1971
6.6
Doctors' Wives
as Paul McGill
1971
4.8
McCloud
1970
7.1
Marooned
as Mission Director
1969
5.9
Hawaii Five-O
as Thurman Elliott
1968
7.1
Mannix
as Professor Brendan
1967
6.7
Mission: Impossible
as Dr. Paul van Bergner
1966
7.6
The Group
as Brook Latham
1966
5.6
Hogan's Heroes
1965
7.5
Joy House
1964
6.4
The Patty Duke Show
1963
5.6
PT 109
as PT Flotilla Captain (uncredited)
1963
6.0
The Gallant Men
1962
6.0
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Mr. Campbell
1962
7.8
Hawaiian Eye
as Roger Korvin
1959
5.2
Bonanza
as Senator Purdy
1959
7.5
Cheyenne
as Rod Delaplane
1955
6.0
One Touch of Venus
as Whitelaw Savory
1955
7.3