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George Robertson, the Canadian actor finest recognized for his function because the police chief (and later commissioner) within the slapstick Police Academy movie sequence, died on the age of 89 earlier this week.
In accordance with a household announcement, Robertson died on Sunday at Sunnybrook Well being Sciences Centre in Toronto.
“He leaves a legacy of many accomplishments—a splendid profession in stage, movies, and TV with over 80 roles on each the massive and small display screen, most notably the unique and 6 sequels of Police Academy,” the household’s on-line obituary reads. “He started his profession on the stage and labored efficiently within the business for the subsequent 60 plus years.”
Whereas his most memorable function was as Police Chief Henry Hurst within the first six Police Academy films (the character would later be promoted to police commissioner), Robertson appeared in lots of award-winning movies and tv sequence over his multi-decade profession.
Apart from small components within the Oscar-nominated movies Norma Rae, Airport and JFK, he additionally specialised in enjoying historic authority figures in his later years. Notably, he portrayed Vice President Dick Cheney within the 2006 tv miniseries The Path to 9/11, late GOP presidential nominee Barry Goldwater in Showtime’s The Reagans, and Arkansas Sen. William Fulbright within the 2003 FX movie The Pentagon Papers.
Different credit embrace the Goldie Hawn movie Deceived (1991), political thriller Homicide at 1600 (1997), and the teenager comedy Nationwide Lampoon’s Senior Journey (1995). His final on-screen look was within the 2017 TV film Cradle to Grave.
His household famous that Robertson obtained the Danny Kaye UNICEF Canada award in 1990 after touring throughout Canada and talking to excessive faculties as his Police Academy character. He would later be awarded the Margaret Collier Award in 1993, introduced to him by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Tv for lifetime achievement.
Moreover, he was awarded nineteenth Annual Gemini Award in 2004 for his “extraordinary compassion and neighborhood involvement (that has had) an infinite impression on the lives of youngsters in Canada and all over the world.”