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In Police Academy 3: Back in Training, the Metropolitan Police Academy, now a semi-statewide institution, is pitted against the state's other police academy in a competition to decide which school will survive budget cuts. In Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach, Lassard reaches the mandatory retirement age. This is brought to his superiors ...
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Commandant Eric Lassard is one of the main recurring characters in the Police Academy series.
He is the head of the Metropolitan Police Academy who initially strays from the department's politics. His family consists of his unnamed wife, his younger brother and nephew.
When Police Chief Hurst and Lieutenant Harris were denouncing the new female mayor's policy change to remove more discriminative barriers from academy admissions, he plays along with them while secretly dismisses their comments once they've left the room. In Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol, he initiated the Citizens on Patrol (COP) program known as a community outreach course.
While easygoing and yet open-minded, Lassard's old age and absent-mindedness are his prime feeble that could nearly cost his job and forced into retirement. This case happened about 3 times in the films.
In Police Academy 3: Back In Training, his Metropolitan Police Academy fights against Mauser's Military Police Academy to stay open. In Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach, Lassard reaches the mandatory retirement age for police officers. This is brought to his superiors' attention by Captain Harris, and Lassard's retirement is announced to the surprise of everyone (including himself) at the subsequent graduation ceremony. He flies with his contingent to Miami Beach, Florida to be honored as Police Officer of the Decade at the National Police Chief's Convention. While in Miami, he inadvertently foils a jewel thief's escape, earning him and his men and women medals from the city of Miami. As a result, the mandatory retirement age is waived for him, and he is allowed to serve until he decides to retire himself. In Police Academy 6 : City Under Siege, the criminal mastermind who has begun to seize control of the city frames Lassard for another jewel heist, planting missing pieces in his desk drawer at the Oakdale Station, where he is heading up a task force. Lassard is taken off active duty pending an investigation, which ultimately clears him, when Nick and Hightower proved that Harris (which he wasn't aware about at the time) was the leak to the Mayor's master plan.
Lassard is an eccentric old man, being approximately 70 years old. He is rarely seen without his pet goldfish, frequently travels by golf cart, and tends to destroy things while practicing playing golf in his office. Presumably due to old age, Lassard often loses touch with reality, either by beginning to pace and walk several yards away from the g...
•The commandant is a skillful billiards player, once clearing an entire pool table in a single turn.
•Lassard has other nephews in the animated series.
May 9, 2012 · Police Academy 4: Citizens On Patrol (1987) Director: One of Norman Lear’s go-to TV directors, Jim Drake. Writer: Gene Quintano. The plot: Commandant Lassard decides to enhance the effectiveness ...
Feb 4, 2023 · After "Police Academy," Rubin landed main cast parts on the short-lived drama series "Hometown" and "Joe Bash," then walked away from acting for about a decade to head up multiple non-profit and ...
- Police Academy (1984) We are starting with the movie that started everything, the original Police Academy from 1984. The movie’s premise is simple – the story follows a new recruitment policy issued by the police department for a police academy that must take in any recruit who wishes to try becoming a police officer.
- Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985) The second installment of the Police Academy came out only a year after, in 1985. Most of the cast members returned to portray their characters once again, and they did not disappoint.
- Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986) As you can see from the first two movies, the Police Academy movies did not waste time releasing new movies and sequels.
- Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987) We are halfway through the Police Academy franchise, and the fourth installment was not less popular. Citizens on Patrol brought on a lot of new characters since the story follows Commandant Lassard, who comes up with the idea of recruiting citizens to help the overworked, now full-pledged officers.
The role of Commandant Lassard (originally named "Capt. Lewis Lassard" in an earlier draft) was originally written for Leslie Nielsen. Robert Conrad was offered the role, but turned down the part, which he regretted later on, to the point that he took the part of the Police Chief in Moving Violations , which was co-written and directed by Neal Israel, who also co-wrote this film.
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Rank Up: Goes from a Sergeant to a Lieutenant between Police Academy and Back in Training, then gets promoted to a Captain between City Under Siege and Mission to Moscow. Reasonable Authority Figure : She's the closest person to a functioning authority in the academy, given that Commandant Lassard is a bit out there and Harris is too much of a bumbling Jerkass .
