Gee Gayn, star of 'Police Amy' films and 'Punky Brewster,' di at 98

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• GEE GAYN, A VERSATILE CHARACTER ACTOR, DI AT 98
• GEE GAYN, STAR OF 'POLICE AMY' FILMS AND 'PUNKY BREWSTER,' DI AT 98
• GEE GAYN
• SOLEIL MOON FRYE REMEMBERS 'PUNKY BREWSTER' CO-STAR GEE GAYN SWEET TRIBUTE

GEE GAYN, A VERSATILE CHARACTER ACTOR, DI AT 98

16, 2016Gee Gayn, who played a grouchy foster parent on the 1980s s “Punky Brewster, ” the beleaguered mandant seven “Police Amy” films and a soap opera star wh a csh on Dt Hoffman drag the Hollywood h “Tootsie, ” died on Monday at his dghter’s home North Bend, Wash. He was ath was nfirmed by his dghter, Iya Gayn Falne his barone voice, chiseled good looks and versatily as a character actor and sger, Mr. Gayn appeared hundreds of episos of ss and dramas on televisn, 35 Hollywood and ma-for-TV films, and many plays, mil edi and operas New York and Europe.

“Anyone who believ happy endgs will take nsolatn om the reer of Gee Gayn, about to bee a televisn celebry at the age of 64, ” The New York Tim reported (erroneoly; he was 67) 1984, shortly before NBC telest the first episo of “Punky Brewster. ” The show ran for four seasons, first on NBC and then Gayn, the televisn role for which he was probably bt known, played a buildg manager, Henry Warnimont, who fds an abandoned ltle girl, played by Soleil Moon Frye, an empty apartment and be first her foster parent and then her adoptive father.

GEE GAYN, STAR OF 'POLICE AMY' FILMS AND 'PUNKY BREWSTER,' DI AT 98

Gayn got the part on the heels of two of his strongt film performanc.

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Gayn’s performance “Tootsie, ” Vcent Canby of The Tim lled him “pricels as the seedy but tirelsly lechero leadg man on the soap” and “so memorably funny such memorably funny circumstanc that I doubt he’ll much longer rema one of those actors whose looks are as faiar as his name, though one never puts the two together.

GEE GAYN

”“Tootsie” was a h and received 10 Amy Award nomatns, although only Jsi Lange won, for bt supportg Gayn was born Gee Jongejans Helski, Fland, on May 16, 1917, to Iya Grigorievna Gay, a Rsian artist later known as Iya, Lady Abdy, and Gerr Jongejans, a Dutch bsman. His uncle was the actor Gregory Gaye, who played a Nazi Reichsbank official “Casablan. “I was an actg opera sger, and that’s one of the reasons I left opera, ” he Broadway, he appeared Cole Porter’s “Out of This World” (1950) and was Rosald Rsell’s suor “Wonrful Town” (1953), a mil versn of “My Sister Eileen” wh mic by Leonard Bernste and lyrics by Betty Comn and Adolph same year, he changed his surname to Gayn and married Allyn Ann McLerie, an actrs, who surviv him.

His son, Matthew, died a r crash Gayn appeared many televisn seri the 1960s and ’70s, cludg “The Defenrs, ” “Missn: Impossible, ” “Bonanza, ” “Mannix, ” “Hogan’s Hero, ” “The Six Milln Dollar Man” and “Hawaii Five-0. ”He retired 2003 and lived Santa Barbara, Calif., before movg to Washgton to stay wh his dghter’s Gayn was philosophil about his bsh wh movie stardom the 1980s.

23, 2016: Bee of an edg error, an obuary on Wednday about the actor Gee Gayn misstated the surname by which his mother, Iya, beme known. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn B, Page 15 of the New York edn wh the headle: Gee Gayn, 98, Versatile Character Actor.

SOLEIL MOON FRYE REMEMBERS 'PUNKY BREWSTER' CO-STAR GEE GAYN SWEET TRIBUTE

BgraphyOverviewBornDiedBirth nameHeightMi BGee Gayn was born Helski May, 1917, which was then the pal of the Grand Duchy of Fland. The Grand Duchy was part of the Rsian Empire, which was a state of llapse at the time of Gayn' birth. The Emperor Nicholas II of Rsia had abdited the throne on March 15, two months prr to Gayn' birth, and the Empire was the procs of fay left the untry, and Gee was primarily raised France, England, and Swzerland.

His father Gerr Jongejans was a Dutch bsman, and his mother Iya Grigorievna Gay was a Rsian artist.