The best George Gaynes’s comedy movies

George Gaynes

George Gaynes

16/05/1917- 15/02/2016
Today we present the best George Gaynes’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best George Gaynes’s movies.
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Tootsie

Tootsie
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 10/06/1982
  • Character: John Van Horn
When struggling, out of work actor Michael Dorsey secretly adopts a female alter ego - Dorothy Michaels - in order to land a part in a daytime drama, he unwittingly becomes a feminist icon and ends up in a romantic pickle.

Police Academy

Police Academy
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 22/03/1984
  • Character: Cmndt. Eric Lassard
New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!

Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment

Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 28/03/1985
  • Character: Commandant Lassard
Officer Carey Mahoney and his cohorts have finally graduated from the Police Academy and are about to hit the streets on their first assignment. Question is, are they ready to do battle with a band of graffiti-tagging terrorists? Time will tell, but don't sell short this cheerful band of doltish boys in blue.

Just Married

Just Married
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 09/01/2003
  • Character: Father Robert
Tom Leezak and Sarah McNerney fall in love and plan to get married, despite opposition from Sarah's uptight, rich family. When they do get married, and get a chance to prove Sarah's family wrong, they go on a European honeymoon and run into disaster after disaster. They have to decide whether the honeymoon from hell and a few pre-marital mistakes are worth throwing away their love and marriage.

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol

Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 02/04/1987
  • Character: Commandant Lassard
A new batch of recruits arrives at Police Academy, this time a group of civilian volunteers who have joined Commandant Lassard's new Citizens on Patrol program. Although the community relations project has strong governmental support, a disgusted Captain Harris is determined to see it fail.

Police Academy 3: Back in Training

Police Academy 3: Back in Training
5.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 20/03/1986
  • Character: Comdt. Lassard
When police funding is cut, the Governor announces he must close one of the academies. To make it fair, the two police academies must compete against each other to stay in operation. Mauser persuades two officers in Lassard's academy to better his odds, but things don't quite turn out as expected...

Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach

Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
4.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 17/03/1988
  • Character: Lassard
The Police Academy misfits travel to Miami Beach for Commandant Lassard to be honored with a prestigious lifetime award pending his retirement. Things take a turn when Lassard unknowingly ends up in possession of stolen diamonds from a jewel heist.

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow

Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
3.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 09/06/1994
  • Character: Eric Lassard
The Russians seek help in dealing with the Mafia from the veterans of the Police Academy. They head off to Moscow, in order to find evidence against Konstantin Konali, who marketed a computer game that everyone in the world is playing.

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege

Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
4.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 09/03/1989
  • Character: Lassard
Our favourite police men are called together to deal with a gang who rob banks and jewelers. Using their various talents as well as their extraordinary luck, the crooks stand no chance against our men and women in blue.

Wag the Dog

Wag the Dog
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 25/12/1997
  • Character: Senator Nole
During the final weeks of a presidential race, the President is accused of sexual misconduct. To distract the public until the election, the President's adviser hires a Hollywood producer to help him stage a fake war.

Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon
6.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/12/1976
  • Character: Reginald Kingsley
Going from a lawyer to a writer, and then to a film director, is the career path on which we find the bashful Leo Harrigan. But Leo has problems as well, such as being hopelessly smitten with his leading lady, who chooses to reward his attentions by getting herself hitched to Harrigan's vulgar leading man, Buck Greenaway!

Micki & Maude

Micki & Maude
6/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 21/12/1984
  • Character: Dr. Eugene Glztszki
TV reporter Rob Salinger is married to Micki, but because she's always busy working, they hardly ever spend time together. One night at which he got stood up by Micki again, Rob meets cellist Maude and they soon get romanticly involved. When it turns out Maude is pregnant with his baby, Rob decides to marry Maude. When he's on the verge of telling Micki, she tells him she's pregnant, so he doesn't have the heart to leave her, but he marries Maude anyway. Now married to two pregnant women who don't know about each other, Rob has a busy time taking care of both and keep them from finding out.

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid

Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 21/05/1982
  • Character: Dr. Forrest
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are 'The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta'.

To Be or Not to Be

To Be or Not to Be
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/12/1983
  • Character: Ravitch
A bad Polish actor is just trying to make a living when Poland is invaded by the Germans in World War II. His wife has the habit of entertaining young polish officers while he's on stage, which is also a source of depression to him. When one of her officers comes back on a Secret Mission, the actor takes charge and comes up with a plan for them to escape.

Stepmonster

Stepmonster
5.2/10
Todd Dougherty has an imagination driven by comic books. So when he accuses his soon-to-be stepmother of being a monster, no one believes him. When neighbors start turning up dead, it becomes a race against time for Todd to stop this hideous, carnivorous creature from marrying his dad and ruining his life.

Ternosecco

Ternosecco
6.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 16/01/1987
  • Character: Don Salvatore

A Taxi Driver in New York

A Taxi Driver in New York
4.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/11/1987
  • Character: l'ammiraglio
The Roman taxi driver Pietro Marchetti finds himself to witness a mafia crime. Having to testify at the trial, he is checked by the police, especially when he has to go to the United States to attend the graduation of his son Francesco.

One Touch of Venus

One Touch of Venus
6.2/10
While touring a museum, Rodney Hatch, an unremarkable barber, places an engagement ring intended for his girlfriend on the hand of a statue of Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. From Mount Olympus, Venus witnesses the event and decides to visit Rodney on Earth by magically inhabiting the statue. Hilarity ensues when she starts to fall in love with Rodney and competes with his girlfriend for his attentions. This television version of Kurt Weill's successful Broadway musical is much more faithful to the stage version than the 1948 Ava Gardner film, which changed the story considerably and cut most of the songs.

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