The best George Gaynes’s 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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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.

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.

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 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...

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 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.

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.

The Way We Were

The Way We Were
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/10/1973
  • Character: El Morocco Captain
Two desperate people have a wonderful romance, but their political views and convictions drive them apart.

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!

The Crucible

The Crucible
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 27/11/1996
  • Character: Judge Samuel Sewall
Based upon the play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller (who wrote the screen adaptation), the Salem witch trials in 1692 plunge the Massachusetts Bay colony into chaos.

Marooned

Marooned
5.9/10
After spending several months in an orbiting lab, three astronauts prepare to return to Earth only to find their de-orbit thrusters won't activate. After initially thinking they might have to abandon them in orbit, NASA decides to launch a daring rescue. Their plans are complicated by a Hurricane headed towards the launch site—and a shrinking air supply in the astronauts' capsule.

Altered States

Altered States
6.9/10
A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.

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.

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.

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'.

The Group

The Group
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/03/1966
  • Character: Brook Latham
Sidney Lumet's adaptation of the acclaimed Mary McCarthy novel. It's 1933, and eight young women are friends and members of the upper- class group at a private girl's school, about to graduate and start their own lives. The film documents the years between their graduation and the beginning of the World War in Europe, and shows, in a serialized style, their romances and marriages, their searches for careers or meaning in their lives, their highs and their lows.

The Fantastic Four

The Fantastic Four
3.8/10
The Fantastic Four is an unreleased low-budget feature film completed in 1994. Created to secure copyright to the property, the producers never intended it for release although the director, actors, and other participants were not informed of this fact. It was produced by low-budget specialist Roger Corman and Bernd Eichinger (who also produced another Fantastic Four movie in 2005).

Trilogy of Terror

Trilogy of Terror
6.5/10
A horror anthology containing three stories: a female college professor is aggressively pursued by one of her students; a prudish brunette determines that her free-spirited blonde sister is evil; and a woman's night turns upside down after she purchases an ancient Zuni fetish doll.

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