until his death; they had two children, Matthew Gaynes and Iya Gaynes Falcone Brown. Matthew was shortlisted for the Olympic team the year that President Jimmy Carter boycotted the 1980 Olympics after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Matthew died in a car crash in India in 1989. In addition to Gaynes joining the cast of his wife's series The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd in 1989, McLerie and he had previously worked together on Punky Brewster, when she guest starred in a first-season episode as a love interest of Henry Warnimont's. Gaynes died at his daughter's home in North Bend, Washington, on February 15, 2016, at the age of 98. Filmography Film Television References External links George Gaynes at the University of Wisconsin's Actors Studio audio collection 1917 births 2016 deaths 20th-century American male actors 21st-century American male actors American male film actors American male television actors American male musical theatre actors American male stage actors American male soap opera actors American male voice actors American male singers American male comedians American people of Finnish descent American people of Russian descent Male actors from Helsinki Royal Netherlands Navy personnel Royal Netherlands Navy personnel of World War II Dutch emigrants to the United States Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States Singers from Helsinki Washington (state) Democrats People from North Bend, Washington People with acquired American citizenship 20th-century American comedians 21st-century American comedians