George Gaynes

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.

Cast

The Way We Were

(El Morocco Captain)

The Fantastic Four

(Professor)

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow

(Commandant Lassard)

To Be or Not to Be

(Ravitch)

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

(Dr. Forrest)

Vanya on 42nd Street

(Serybryakov)

Tootsie

(John Van Horn)

Police Academy

(Commandant Lassard)

Micki + Maude

(Dr. Eugene Glztszki)

Wag the Dog

(Senator Nole)

Musical Mel: Inventing The Inquisition

(Self (archive footage))

Joy House

Trilogy of Terror

(Dr. Chester Ramsey)

It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

(Arch Angel)

A Taxi Driver in New York

(l'ammiraglio)

Nickelodeon

(Reginald Kingsley)

Doctors' Wives

(Paul McGill)

Ternosecco

(Don Salvatore)

Mom's On Strike

(The Commander)

Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment

(Commandant Lassard)

Police Academy 3: Back in Training

(Commandant Lassard)

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

(Commandant Lassard)

Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach

(Lassard)

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege

(Lassard)

Woman of the Year

(Harding)

The Flying Misfits

(Maj. Gen. Claire Lee Chennault)

Stepmonster

(Norman)

The Girl in the Empty Grave

(David Alden)

Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

(Wiley)

Evita Peron

(Evita's Doctor)

Marooned

(Mission Director)

Slaughter's Big Rip Off

(Warren)

Altered States

(Dr. Wissenschaft)

I'm Going to Be Famous

The Boy Who Cried Werewolf

(Dr Marderosian)

One Touch of Venus

(Whitelaw Savory)

Just Married

(Father Robert)

The Crucible

(Judge Samuel Sewall)

Song of the Succubus

(C.J. Meredith)

The Group

(Brook Latham)

Columbo

(Everett)

The Gallant Men

WKRP in Cincinnati

(Henri)

Matlock

(Judge Hollis D. Dunaway)

Hawaii Five-O

(Thurman Elliott)

Quincy, M.E.

Hearts Afire

(Senator Strobe Smithers)

Mannix

Hotel

Hogan's Heroes

Cannon

Chicago Hope

(Brook Austin)

It's Punky Brewster

The Quest

Carter Country

Search

McCloud

City of Angels

The New Lassie

The Patty Duke Show

Blue Thunder

(Dr. Willi Von Hartig)

Stockard Channing: In Just Friends

(Rock La Rue)

Punky Brewster

(Henry Warnimont)

Police Academy: The Series

(Commandant Eric Lassard)

Bonanza

(Senator Purdy)

Mission: Impossible

(Dr. Paul van Bergner)

The Six Million Dollar Man

(General Wiley)

Rich Man, Poor Man - Book II

(Max Vincent)

Baa Baa Black Sheep

(Claire Lee Chennault)

Scruples

(John Prince)

Cheyenne

(Rod Delaplane)

McMillan and Wife

(Burton Rhoner)

Dinosaurs

(Elder in Chief (voice))

Sliders

(Old Quinn Mallory)

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

(Arthur Feldman)

Delvecchio

(Commissioner Schaub)

Cheers

(Malcolm Kramer)

Columbo

(Frenchman)

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour

(Mr. Campbell)