Birthday
1917/05/16
Day of death
2016/02/15 (98 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Helsinki, Finland
Also know as
جورج گینز
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.
(1973) The Way We Were
as El Morocco Captain
(1994) The Fantastic Four
as Professor
(1994) Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
as Commandant Lassard
(1983) To Be or Not to Be
as Ravitch
(1982) Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
as Dr. Forrest
(1994) Vanya on 42nd Street
as Serybryakov
(1982) Tootsie
as John Van Horn
(1984) Police Academy
as Commandant Lassard
(1984) Micki + Maude
as Dr. Eugene Glztszki
(1997) Wag the Dog
as Senator Nole
(2009) Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition
as Self (archive footage)
(1964) Joy House
as ---
(1975) Trilogy of Terror
as Dr. Chester Ramsey
(1984) It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
as Arch Angel
(1987) A Taxi Driver in New York
as l'ammiraglio
(1976) Nickelodeon
as Reginald Kingsley
(1971) Doctors' Wives
as Paul McGill
(1987) Ternosecco
as Don Salvatore
(1984) Mom's On Strike
as The Commander
(1985) Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
as Commandant Lassard
(1986) Police Academy 3: Back in Training
as Commandant Lassard
(1987) Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
as Commandant Lassard
(1988) Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
as Lassard
(1989) Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
as Lassard
(1976) Woman of the Year
as Harding
(1976) The Flying Misfits
as Maj. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault
(1993) Stepmonster
as Norman
(1977) The Girl in the Empty Grave
as David Alden
(1979) Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
as Wiley
(1981) Evita Peron
as Evita's Doctor
(1969) Marooned
as Mission Director
(1973) Slaughter's Big Rip Off
as Warren
(1980) Altered States
as Dr. Wissenschaft
(1983) I'm Going to Be Famous
as ---
(1973) The Boy Who Cried Werewolf
as Dr Marderosian
(1955) One Touch of Venus
as Whitelaw Savory
(2003) Just Married
as Father Robert
(1996) The Crucible
as Judge Samuel Sewall
(1975) Song of the Succubus
as C.J. Meredith
(1966) The Group
as Brook Latham
(1971) Columbo
as Everett
(1962) The Gallant Men
as ---
(1978) WKRP in Cincinnati
as Henri
(1986) Matlock
as Judge Hollis D. Dunaway
(1968) Hawaii Five-O
as Thurman Elliott
(1976) Quincy, M.E.
as ---
(1992) Hearts Afire
as Senator Strobe Smithers
(1982) Hotel
as ---
(1965) Hogan's Heroes
as ---
(1971) Cannon
as ---
(1994) Chicago Hope
as Brook Austin
(1985) It's Punky Brewster
as ---
(1976) The Quest
as ---
(1977) Carter Country
as ---
(1972) Search
as ---
(1970) McCloud
as ---
(1976) City of Angels
as ---
(1989) The New Lassie
as ---
(1963) The Patty Duke Show
as ---
(1984) Blue Thunder
as Dr. Willi Von Hartig
(1979) Stockard Channing: In Just Friends
as Rock La Rue
(1984) Punky Brewster
as Henry Warnimont
(1997) Police Academy: The Series
as Commandant Eric Lassard
(1959) Bonanza
as Senator Purdy
(1966) Mission: Impossible
as Dr. Paul van Bergner
(1974) The Six Million Dollar Man
as General Wiley
(1976) Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II
as Max Vincent
(1976) Baa Baa Black Sheep
as Claire Lee Chennault
(1980) Scruples
as John Prince
(1955) Cheyenne
as Rod Delaplane
(1971) McMillan & Wife
as Burton Rhoner
(1991) Dinosaurs
as Elder in Chief (voice)
(1995) Sliders
as Old Quinn Mallory
(1987) The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
as Arthur Feldman
(1976) Delvecchio
as Commissioner Schaub
(1982) Cheers
as Malcolm Kramer
(1971) Columbo
as Frenchman
(1962) The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
as Mr. Campbell
(1967) Mannix
as Professor Brendan