George Gaynes Dies; ‘Police Academy’ & ‘Punky Brewster’ Regular Was 98, George Gaynes, a appearance amateur whose six-decade career included Tootsie, all seven Police Academy films and added than 85 episodes of Punky Brewster, died Monday in North Bend, WA. He was 98.
Born on May 16, 1917, in Helsinki, Gaynes got his alpha in the mid-1950s, guesting on TV alternation including from The Defenders and Cheyenne. He connected to plan through the ’60s and ’70s on such small-screen abstract as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Bonanza, Mission: Impossible, Hawaii Five-O, Columbo and The Six Million Dollar Man. Gaynes aswell did some blur plan during but was focused on TV.
During the late-’70s heyday of the arrangement miniseries, he appeared in Rich Man, Poor Man: Book II, Washington: Behind Closed Doors and Scruples. By the aboriginal ’80s, he began to account added films roles, including two that would coalesce his career. In the 1982 Best Picture Oscar champ Tootsie, he played a soap opera brilliant with a drove on his new co-star “Dorothy Michaels” — who in fact Michael Dorsey, played by Dustin Hoffman in drag. Two years later, he co-starred as Commandant Lassard in Police Academy, a role he would reprise in a half-dozen sequels and a brief 1998 TV series.
Also in 1984, Gaynes was casting in the ball Punky Brewster, arena the advance dad of the appellation appearance (Soliel Moon Frye) for the NBC show’s three-year run. He went on to recur on NBC’s The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd from 1989-91 and CBS’ Hearts Afire in 1992-93 and did an arc on Chicago Hope in 1996. He aswell appeared in the 1990s appearance The Fantastic Four and Wag the Dog.
Born on May 16, 1917, in Helsinki, Gaynes got his alpha in the mid-1950s, guesting on TV alternation including from The Defenders and Cheyenne. He connected to plan through the ’60s and ’70s on such small-screen abstract as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Bonanza, Mission: Impossible, Hawaii Five-O, Columbo and The Six Million Dollar Man. Gaynes aswell did some blur plan during but was focused on TV.
During the late-’70s heyday of the arrangement miniseries, he appeared in Rich Man, Poor Man: Book II, Washington: Behind Closed Doors and Scruples. By the aboriginal ’80s, he began to account added films roles, including two that would coalesce his career. In the 1982 Best Picture Oscar champ Tootsie, he played a soap opera brilliant with a drove on his new co-star “Dorothy Michaels” — who in fact Michael Dorsey, played by Dustin Hoffman in drag. Two years later, he co-starred as Commandant Lassard in Police Academy, a role he would reprise in a half-dozen sequels and a brief 1998 TV series.
Also in 1984, Gaynes was casting in the ball Punky Brewster, arena the advance dad of the appellation appearance (Soliel Moon Frye) for the NBC show’s three-year run. He went on to recur on NBC’s The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd from 1989-91 and CBS’ Hearts Afire in 1992-93 and did an arc on Chicago Hope in 1996. He aswell appeared in the 1990s appearance The Fantastic Four and Wag the Dog.
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