George Gaynes

AKA:
George Jongejans
Nationality:
Finnish
Birthdate:
05/03/1917
Birthplace:
Helsinki, Finland
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biography
This bushy-eyebrowed actor and opera singer best known for playing older fops, blustery vain fools, and the curmudgeonly Henry Warnimont on the NBC series "Punky Brewster" (1984-86). Under his real name of George Jongejans, Gaynes had a career on the opera stages of Italy and France before World War II and in the US after the war. He alternated between stage musicals and both comic and dramatic plays, including appearances in Gilbert and Sullivan operettas and as Henry Higgins in the 1964 US tour of "My Fair Lady".

Gaynes' feature film work began with a small role in "P.T. 109" (1962), and he Continued

Credits
John Van Horn
1982
Dr Forrest
1982
Actor
Commandant Lassard
Dr Eugene Glztszki
Norman
Serybryakov
milestones
Year
Milestone
1935 
Stage debut, "La malade imaginaire", Lausanne, Switzerland
1940 
Opera debut, "The Wizard", Teatro della Triennale, Milan, Italy
1943 
Was sub-lieutenant in Royal Netherlands Navy
 
Served in Royal British Navy
 
First and second basso, Opera House, Mulhouse, France
Continued
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