Police Academy actor George R. Robertson who played Chief Hurst in SIX movies ... trends now

Police Academy actor George R. Robertson, who played Chief Hurst in a whopping six movies in the franchise, has died at the age of 89.

His family informed the Hollywood Reporter that he died at a Toronto hospital this past Sunday and a memorial is in the works for the latter part of March.

The Police Academy franchise began in 1984 and spawned seven movies across the following decade, with Robertson in the first six.

Set in an unspecified American city, the films revolved around a police academy that has been told it must take any recruits who want to join up, even the zaniest.

Robertson turned in a memorable performance as a member of the old guard longing for the days when the cops 'all had Johnsons.'

Born in Brampton, Ontario in 1933, he was a prize-winning athlete in his school days before crossing the border and attending business school at Columbia University.

While there he became acquainted with his future wife Adele, whom he was married to for 61 years until his death last month.

Despite having a master's degree in business, he felt the stage beckoning and became a theater actor before jobbing around in films.

Throughout the late 1960s and into 1970s, he secured small roles in such legendary pictures as Rosemary's Baby, Airport and Norma Rae.

In the middle of the 1980s he secured his most beloved role as Chief Hurst, who is initially resistant to the changes in his department but later warms to the newbies.

Over the course of the film franchise, his character Chief Hurst manages to rise up the ranks to the position of Commissioner. 

Steve Guttenberg led the first few films as the dashing criminal Carey Mahoney, who enters the police academy as an alternative to jail.

The cast included former football player Bubba Smith, the

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