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is crazy. i was just watching naked gun last night for real
Leslie Nielsen, star of 'Airplane!' and 'Naked Gun,' dead at 84
By the CNN Wire Staff
November 28, 2010 10:24 p.m. EST
Leslie Nielsen's career changed in 1980 with his performance in the comedy classic "Airplane!"
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Nielsen died of complications from pneumonia, his family says
- The earnest dramatic actor became a comedy star after "Airplane!"
(CNN) -- Leslie Nielsen, whose longtime career as a dramatic actor took a sudden turn into comedy with spoofs like "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun," has died at age 84, his family said Sunday.
The Canadian-born Nielsen's career reached back into the early days of television, when he made frequent appearances on live drama series like "Goodyear Playhouse." He played the earnest starship captain in the 1956 science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet" and made regular appearances on a wide range of TV dramas into the 1970s.
Much of that changed in 1980, when he was cast as a doctor aboard an endangered jetliner in the gag-a-minute disaster-movie parody "Airplane!" Nielsen's deadpan delivery of lines like "I am serious -- and don't call me Shirley" helped launch a second career.
The film's producers went on to cast him in their short-lived television series "Police Squad!" and had him reprise that show's bumbling lead character, Lt. Frank Drebin, a decade later in three "Naked Gun" movies. Nielsen appeared in several similar but less-acclaimed spoofs following those films.
Nielsen died of complications of pneumonia in a hospital near his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, surrounded by family and friends, a family statement said.
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Sucks... he was funny as .
The Naked Gun movies never get old. They are classics.
Rip
He was one funny man, god bless you where ever you are Leslie
oh wow just when his career was starting to take off
oh no he wasn't boo ing hoo
RIP , spy hard
rip was one of my favoirte actors funny guy
- "Oh, my God."
- Leslie Nielsen - "The Poseidon Adventure"
RIP...man was hilarious
I liked him better as a dramatic actor in the '60s & '70s.
His other stuff was too silly.
R.I.P.
This guy made me laugh so hard, so many times
R.i.p.
Great video.
"Oh I speak jive".
LOL
Rip
Steeeerriiiiiikeee Thrrrrrreeeeeeee!
Nielsen was great. Sad to hear that.
RIP, this is really sad, lost a legend today.
I remember looking up Naked Gun when I had no idea what was awaiting. At first, I was met with bitter disappointment. Then, after the initial shock of seeing its a comedy movie, I enjoyed it.
RIP
R.I.P
One of my favorite comedians
Damn...R.I.P
was the best
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