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

Unknown

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

Unknown

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

PT 109

PT Flotilla Captain (uncredited)