
May 16, 1917 · 109 years old
George Gaynes (May 16, 1917 – February 15, 2016) was a Finnish-born American actor of stage, screen and television. He is best known for his role of Commandant Eric Lassard in the Police Academy film series, and as Henry Warnimont on the television series Punky Brewster.

The mayor declares that anyone can enroll in the police academy irrespective of their physical condition or education level, and many misfits descend on the academy, including a young troublemaker who's forced to apply or go to jail.

Michael Dorsey, an unsuccessful actor, disguises himself as a woman in order to get a role on a trashy hospital soap.

A young newlywed couple honeymoon in Europe, where obstacles challenge their ability to sustain the marriage.

Six Police Academy graduates are assigned to the 16th precinct, and their Captain desperately wants them to clean up the crime ridden neighborhood, but his second in command schemes to become captain himself by sabotaging the rook...

After it's announced that one of the two police academies in the state will be closed down, Lassard's alumni return to the school to train new recruits and compete against the other academy.

The misfit Police Academy graduates are assigned to train a group of civilian volunteers to fight crime once again plaguing the streets.

A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.

Eric Lassard is about to retire, which Harris plans to exploit to take over his position. In Miami, where Lassard is to be honored, a mix-up leads to an adventure involving diamonds, kidnapping and betrayal.

The Russian government hires the veterans of the Police Academy (1984) to help deal with the Mafia.

Those bumbling cadets take to the streets when three inept goons successfully orchestrate a metropolitan crime wave.

During post-WWII McCarthyism, a diametrically opposed couple come together only to find out that genuine friendship and physical attraction is not enough to overcome fundamental societal beliefs.

At the onset of WW2, a Polish actor's family and the Polish Resistance help the troupe of a theatre escape Poland and the invading Nazis.

Three bizarre horror stories, all of which star Karen Black in four different roles playing four tormented women.

When dosed with cosmic rays, four intrepid explorers are given incredible powers.

Three American astronauts are stranded in space when their retros won't fire. Can they be rescued before their oxygen runs out?

New York actors rehearse Chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" in a dilapidated theatre.

A bigamist must keep his wives from meeting each other, which becomes tricky when both become pregnant.

A petty criminal seeks refuge in a house owned by two wealthy American women.

A young boy visits his father in a secluded cabin; the father is attacked by a werewolf and becomes one himself every full moon. However, the boy constantly tries to warn others, but no one will believe him.

The dysfunctional marriages of several unhappy rich doctors who work at a private clinic and their neglected wives who deal with their own unhappiness in various ways enter crisis mode when one of them murders his cheating wife.