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APPRECIATION ‘Punky Brewster’ patriarch George Gaynes dies

Jayme Deerwester This World. he graduated from character ac- 1953 was a momentous year tor to leading man when he was USA TODAY for him. He was cast in Leonard cast as Chicago building-man- Bernstein’s Wonderful Town, ager-turned-foster-dad Henry George Gaynes, best known to changed his last name to Gaynes Warnimont. But it came at a cost: TV viewers as the foster father to and married actress Allyn Ann In an interview that year, he told Soleil Moon Frye’s Punky Brew- McLerie, with whom he spent the The New York Times: “The two ster and her dog Brandon, has rest of his life. They had a daugh- things an actor dreads most are died at 98. ter, Iya, and a son, Matthew, a children and dogs. I have both in Gaynes was born George Jon- world-class kayaker who missed this series.” gejans in Helsinki in 1917 to a out on the Olympics because of He played the role for four sea- Russian artist mother and Dutch the 1980 boycott. sons, as well as in a short-lived businessman father. He was Matthew died in a car accident animated spino
. He also would raised in France, England and in India in 1989. find steady gigs on CBS’ Hearts Switzerland and studied opera in The majority of Gaynes’ career WARNER BROS./GETTY IMAGES Afire and NBC’s The Days and Italy before World War II and a was spent in on the small screen, Gaynes was a mainstay of the Nights of Molly Dodd, which brief internment in Spain de- where he eked out a living doing Police Academy movies. allowed him to work alongside railed his schooling. He spent TV movies and guest roles on his wife. the rest of the war serving in the shows such as Columbo, Hawaii The perpetual TV character ac- Gaynes called it a career after Royal Dutch Navy. Five-0, Quincy, M.E. and the tor’s star rose with 1982’s Toostie the 2003 Ashton Kutcher film At the war’s end, he headed to soap opera General Hospital. and the Police Academy series, Just Married. He spent several America, where he performed Viewers recognized him but NBC, NBC VIA GETTY IMAGES which spanned seven movies. (He years of his retirement in Santa with the New York City Opera, as could never quite name him, George Gaynes didn’t become also played a supporting role in Barbara, Calif., before moving to well as on Broadway, where he making Gaynes the “Hey, It’s a TV star until his 60s, when 1973’s The Way We Were.) Washington state to live with his joined the cast of 1950’s Out of That Guy” of his time. he starred in Punky Brewster. Then finally, in 1984, at age 64, daughter’s family.

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