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George Gaynes
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16 May 1917 - 15 February 2016
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George Gaines is an American film actor of Russian, Dutch and Finnish descent. George was born in the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland Helsingfors in 1917. He comes from the family of Dutch businessman Gerrit Jongheyans and artist Ii Grigorievna De Gay. Gaines’ uncle, his mother’s brother, is a film actor Gregory Guy, who was born in St. Petersburg, but fled to the United States after the 1917 revolution.
A few years after his birth, George's family broke up, his mother married Sir Robert
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George Gaines is an American film actor of Russian, Dutch and Finnish descent.
George was born in the capital of the Grand Duchy of Finland Helsingfors in 1917. He comes from the family of Dutch businessman Gerrit Jongheyans and artist Ii Grigorievna De Gay. Gaines’ uncle, his mother’s brother, is a film actor Gregory Guy, who was born in St. Petersburg, but fled to the United States after the 1917 revolution.
A few years after his birth, George's family broke up, his mother married Sir Robert Henry Edward Abley, but their marriage lasted until 1928. Gaines was trained in opera art in Milan, before the war he took part in opera productions of Paris and Milan.
At the end of the hostilities, George decided to emigrate to the United States of America, where he received American citizenship, beginning to perform in musicals on the Broadway stage.
George made his film debut in the mid-fifties, he got only small roles in films and serial films. In the early eighties, he began to be offered more and more significant roles, he starred in comedy movies.
Tootsy , as well as in each of the eight episodes of the cult comedy television project “Police Academy”, where he played the role of Commandant Eric Lassard.
In 1994, the actor played the role of arrogant Professor Serebryakov in the film.
Vanya on forty-second street , the last film by Louis Malle based on the classics - the story "Uncle Vanya" by writer Anton Chekhov according to the script by Andre Gregory.
Gaines is married to Canadian actress, singer, dancer and TV presenter Allyn Anne McLeary, whom he courted in New York in 1952, where they performed together on Broadway. The couple have two children, son Matthew and daughter Ia, named after mother George.