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George Gaynes
16 May 1917
George Gaynes played in 10 movies in the Horror, Thriller, Music, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Crime, Family genres.
George Gaynes didn't achieve real success and got average imdb rating 4.5.
Finnish-born actor George Gaynes was a United States villager during most of his life. Blessed with a superb singing voice and an warm the theatre association, Gaynes rapidly built a reputation as a Broadway dulcet comedy actress in the '40s and '50s (his unexcelled-known semblance was in Wonderful Borough, the musical version of My Sister Eileen). Entering films and idiot box in the prehistoric 1960s, Gaynes was a typical on the TV daytime dramas Search for Tomorrow and General Asylu
... m, and showed up in such movies as The Group (1968), Marooned (1969) and Doctor's Wives (1971). He was terrific in Dustin Hoffman's Tootsie (1981) as the aging, libidinous soap opera actor who tries to trouble the make on his co-star "Dorothy Michaels," minute suspecting that Dorothy is really the certifiably male Michael Dorsey (Hoffman). In 1984, Gaynes was showcased on two conflicting series, undivided on TV, the other on the big screen. The TV series was Punky Brewster, wherein Gaynes played photographer Henry Warnimont, the grown-up custodian of the nickname brand (a paltry lost mistress, played sooner than Soleil Moon Frye); when Punky Brewster was spun off into a cartoon series, Gaynes came along as one of the enunciate talents. The aforementioned consequential-screen series was launched with Control Academy (1984), a youthful comedy that high water spawned five sequels, all of them featuring Gaynes as extended-suffering police chief Lassard.
None of his succeeding appearances drew as various laughs as did George Gaynes' setpiece in the first film, in which, while trying to deliver a worldwide speech, he was the unwitting (but increasingly ecstatic) beneficiary of a prostitute's services.
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