George Gaynes – My Third Parent

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George Gaynes (born George Jongejans; May 16, 1917 –
February 15, 2016) Singer, actor and comedy performer of
stage, screen and television, voice artist and World War II veteran.

Gaynes’ most recognized role’s in cinema was arguably that of Commandant Eric Lassard in the Police Academy series and the comedy film Tootsie. To television fans, he is perhaps best known as the curmudgeonly but lovable foster parent Henry Warnimont on the NBC series Punky Brewster; as high-powered theatrical producer Arthur Feldman on The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, in which Gaynes’ real-life wife, Allyn Ann McLerie, co-starred as his love interest; and as Frank Smith, the mob boss brought down by Luke Spencer (Anthony Geary) on the soap opera General Hospital. (Wikipedia)