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George Gaynes is a Actor American born on 16 may 1917 at Helsinki (Finlande)
George Gaynes (born George Jongejans; May 16, 1917) is a Finnish-born American singer and actor of stage, screen and television and voice artist
Gaynes' most recognized role in cinema was arguably that of Commandant Eric Lassard in the Police Academy series. To television fans, he is perhaps best known as the curmudgeonly Henry Warnimont on the NBC series Punky Brewster; as high-powered theatrical producer Arthur Feldman on The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, in which Gaynes' real-life wife, Allyn Ann McLerie, co-starred as his love interest; and as Frank Smith, the mob boss brought down by Luke Spencer (Anthony Geary) on the soap opera General Hospital.
En 1994, il est l'orgueilleux professeur Sérébriakov dans Vanya, 42e rue, le dernier film de Louis Malle, filage du classique Oncle Vania d'Anton Tchekhov mis en scène par Andre Gregory.
Il est marié depuis 1953 à l'actrice, chanteuse et danseuse Allyn Ann McLerie, avec qui il a eu deux enfants.
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Birth name George Jongejans
Nationality USA
Birth 16 may 1917 at Helsinki (Finlande)
Death 15 february 2016 (at 98 years)
Nationality USA
Birth 16 may 1917 at Helsinki (Finlande)
Death 15 february 2016 (at 98 years)
Gaynes' most recognized role in cinema was arguably that of Commandant Eric Lassard in the Police Academy series. To television fans, he is perhaps best known as the curmudgeonly Henry Warnimont on the NBC series Punky Brewster; as high-powered theatrical producer Arthur Feldman on The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, in which Gaynes' real-life wife, Allyn Ann McLerie, co-starred as his love interest; and as Frank Smith, the mob boss brought down by Luke Spencer (Anthony Geary) on the soap opera General Hospital.
Biography
Après avoir étudié l'opéra à Milan, il interprète des comédies musicales à Broadway. Il fit de discrètes apparitions au cinéma et à la télévision avant de se faire remarquer tardivement dans la série Punky Brewster (1984-1988) et dans le rôle du délirant commandant Eric Lassard dans les sept films de Police Academy de 1984 à 1994.En 1994, il est l'orgueilleux professeur Sérébriakov dans Vanya, 42e rue, le dernier film de Louis Malle, filage du classique Oncle Vania d'Anton Tchekhov mis en scène par Andre Gregory.
Il est marié depuis 1953 à l'actrice, chanteuse et danseuse Allyn Ann McLerie, avec qui il a eu deux enfants.
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Just Married (2003)
, 1h35Directed by Shawn Levy
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Ashton Kutcher, Brittany Murphy, Christian Kane, David Moscow, Monet Mazur, David Rasche
Roles Father Robert
Rating55%
The film starts off with Tom and Sarah in the airport. When Tom Leezak is back again to the radio, he reminisces and tells all of the details from the day they first met to back to the airport. Tom Leezak (Ashton Kutcher) and Sarah McNerney (Brittany Murphy) meet up when Tom accidentally hits Sarah with a football. A few months later, despite opposition from Sarah's rich, uptight family, they get married. However they each have a secret that they want to keep from each other: Tom doesn't want Sarah to know that he accidentally killed her dog and Sarah doesn't want Tom to know she slept with Peter Prentiss (Christian Kane), a family friend. Tom and Sarah decide to honeymoon at a classy hotel at the foot of the Alps. On their way there, they attempt to join the mile high club, but fail when the captain turns on the fasten seat belt sign and they are forced to go back to their seats.
Wag the Dog (1998)
, 1h37Directed by Barry Levinson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Politique, Films about television, Political films
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche, Denis Leary, Willie Nelson, Andrea Martin
Roles Senator Nole
Rating70%
The President of the United States is caught making advances on an underage "Firefly Girl" less than two weeks before Election Day. Conrad Brean (De Niro), a top-notch spin doctor, is brought in to take the public's attention away from the scandal. He decides to construct a diversionary war with Albania, hoping the media will concentrate on this instead. Brean contacts Hollywood producer Stanley Motss (Hoffman) to create the war, complete with a theme song and fake film footage of a photogenic orphan (Dunst) in Albania.
The Crucible (1996)
, 2h4Directed by Nicholas Hytner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Prison films, Films about religion, Witches in film, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Jeffrey Jones, Peter Vaughan
Roles Judge Samuel Sewall
Rating67%
Early morning in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts, some young village girls meet in the woods with a Barbadian slave named Tituba (Charlayne Woodard). One of the girls, Abigail Williams (Winona Ryder), kills a chicken and drinks the blood, wishing for John Proctor's wife to die. They are surprised by Abigail's uncle, Reverend Samuel Parris (Bruce Davison), who discovers them. As the girls run away, Parris' daughter, Betty (Rachael Bella), falls over unconscious.
The Fantastic Four (1994)
, 1h30Directed by Oley Sassone
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Action, Adventure
Themes Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics
Actors Alex Hyde-White, Jay Underwood, Rebecca Staab, Michael Bailey Smith, Joseph Culp, George Gaynes
Roles Professor
Rating38%
Reed Richards (Alex Hyde-White) and Victor Von Doom (Joseph Culp) are college friends who use the opportunity of a passing comet to try an experiment; however, the experiment goes wrong, leaving Victor horribly scarred. Sue (Mercedes McNab) and Johnny Storm (Phillip Van Dyke) are two children living with their mother (Annie Gagen), who has a boarding house where Reed lives. Ben Grimm is a family friend and a college buddy of Reed's.
, 1h23Directed by Alan Metter
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime
Actors George Gaynes, Michael Winslow, David Graf, Leslie Easterbrook, Claire Forlani, Ron Perlman
Roles Commandant Lassard
Rating35%
Russian mafia boss Konstantine Konali (Russian: Константин Конали, Ron Perlman) is laundering money under the guise of a legitimate business.
Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
, 1h59Directed by Louis Malle
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory, Julianne Moore, Larry Pine, Phoebe Brand, Lynn Cohen
Roles Serybryakov
Rating72%
Le film offre la représentation de la pièce Oncle Vania de Tchekhov dans un théâtre abandonné.
Stepmonster (1993)
, 1h25Genres Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Alan Thicke, George Gaynes, Ami Dolenz, Corey Feldman, Edie McClurg, John Astin
Roles Norman
Rating52%
A young comic book fan named Todd Dougherty is upset about his widowed father remarrying. When a series of neighbors turn up dead or missing, Todd suspects his stepmother-to-be and accuses her of being a monster. Everyone dismisses Todd's accusations as the result of an over-active imagination. As the wedding date approaches, it becomes a race against time to reveal the truth before his father ties the knot.
, 1h24Directed by Peter Bonerz
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors David Graf, Michael Winslow, Leslie Easterbrook, Bubba Smith, G. W. Bailey, Lance Kinsey
Roles Lassard
Rating44%
The police must investigate a series of robberies along a strip of land in the city. The Mayor (Kenneth Mars) assigns Captain Harris (G.W. Bailey) and Lt. Proctor (Lance Kinsey) to the case, but while on stakeout the Wilson gang, composed of Ace (Gerrit Graham), Flash (Brian Seeman), and Ox (Darwyn Swalve), manages to slip through their fingers. The Mayor wants Harris and Proctor to work with Commandant Lassard (George Gaynes) on apprehending the gang. Lassard assembles a seven-man team consisting of Hightower (Bubba Smith), Tackleberry (David Graf), Jones (Michael Winslow), Hooks (Marion Ramsey), Callahan (Leslie Easterbrook), Fackler (Bruce Mahler), and Lassard's nephew, Nick (Matt McCoy).
, 1h30Directed by Ricou Browning, Alan Myerson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime
Actors David Graf, Michael Winslow, Bubba Smith, Leslie Easterbrook, Matt McCoy, G. W. Bailey
Roles Lassard
Rating46%
Captain Harris finally finds the goods he needs to push Commandant Eric Lassard out at the Police Academy: he is one year late for mandatory retirement. But before he retires, Lassard is chosen as "Police Officer of the Decade", and brings his favorite graduates—Sgts. Hightower, Jones, Tackleberry and Hooks, Lt. Callahan, and new graduate Officer Thomas "House" Conklin—to the National Police Chiefs Convention in Miami Beach to celebrate with him. While there, they meet his nephew, Sgt. Nick Lassard of the Miami Police Department. Lassard unwittingly takes a bag belonging to jewel thieves containing stolen diamonds.
, 1h28Directed by Jim Drake, Jim Drake
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Steve Guttenberg, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Tim Kazurinsky, Leslie Easterbrook, G. W. Bailey
Roles Commandant Lassard
Rating50%
Commandant Eric Lassard (George Gaynes) decides that the police force is overworked and understaffed, so he comes up with the idea of recruiting civilian volunteers to work side-by-side with his officers in a program called "Citizens On Patrol" (COP).
, 1h23Directed by Jerry Paris
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Steve Guttenberg, David Graf, Bubba Smith, Marion Ramsey, Michael Winslow, Leslie Easterbrook
Roles Comdt. Lassard
Rating54%
The film begins in a large garage structure, where Cpt. Proctor (Lance Kinsey) and Commandant Mauser (Art Metrano) meet up with former Police Academy cadets, (now Sgts.) Chad Copeland (Scott Thomson) and Kyle Blankes (Brant van Hoffman). It seems one of the two Police Academy schools is getting the axe due to the state government's unwillingness to finance two academies, and Mauser wants Copeland and Blankes to make sure Lassard screws up. The men agree to the plan, knowing this may be their only chance at revenge at Lassard for (somewhat deservingly) graduating them at the bottom of their class.
, 1h37Directed by Jerry Paris
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Steve Guttenberg, David Graf, Bubba Smith, Bruce Mahler, Michael Winslow, Bobcat Goldthwait
Roles Commandant Lassard
Rating58%
After a random attack the night before by a local gang known as "The Scullions" and their infantile leader Zed McGlunk (Bobcat Goldthwait), Chief Henry Hurst (George R. Robertson) arrives at the 16th precinct and notifies its captain, Pete Lassard (Howard Hesseman) that the precinct is the worst in the city. Nevertheless, Hurst gives Lassard 30 days to turn the precinct around or he is out. Before Hurst leaves, Lieutenant Mauser (Art Metrano) schemes his way into getting a promotion to Captain should Lassard fail. Capt. Lassard then calls his brother Eric (George Gaynes) who is in charge of the Police Academy and asks him for six new recruits. Mauser is seen talking with his dim-witted partner, Sgt. Proctor (Lance Kinsey), as he attempts to take control of the precinct.
, 1h36Directed by Peter H. Hunt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Fantasy
Themes Christmas films
Actors Mickey Rooney, Scott Grimes, George Gaynes, Barrie Youngfellow, Annie Potts, Elisha Cook, Jr.
Roles Arch Angel
Rating74%
The film centers on Mike Halligan, a retired cop, who suffers a fatal heart attack while putting up Christmas lights days before Christmas. While in heaven he makes a deal to return to life for a few days in order to fulfill a promise to take his grandson to New York City for the holidays.
Micki + Maude (1984)
, 1h58Directed by Blake Edwards
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Amy Irving, Ann Reinking, Dudley Moore, Richard Mulligan, George Gaynes, Wallace Shawn
Roles Dr. Eugene Glztszki
Rating59%
Rob Salinger (Dudley Moore) is an overworked television reporter. He is happily married to Micki (Ann Reinking), a lawyer who is a candidate to become a judge. Rob wants a child badly, but Micki decides to postpone having children in order to better pursue her new career opportunity. On an assignment, Rob interviews a young musician, Maude Guillory (Amy Irving), and is smitten with her. They begin seeing one another and, when she becomes pregnant, Maude and her father, professional wrestler Barkhas Guillory (Hard Boiled Haggerty) begin to plan her wedding to Rob.
Police Academy (1984)
, 1h36Directed by Hugh Wilson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, David Graf, George Gaynes, Bubba Smith, Michael Winslow
Roles Commandant Lassard
Rating66%
Due to a shortage of police officers, the newly elected mayor of an unnamed American city has announced a policy requiring the police department to accept all willing recruits, effectively abolishing fitness requirements, educational levels, and medical standards. Not everyone in the police force is happy about the new changes.