Our king of comedy Leslie Nielsen has died Sunday afternoon due to the complications from Pneumonia around 5:30 pm.His fans are in remorse,everyone is saddened by this.I must say “his legacy will live on for years to come”…RIP.
Fans of Leslie Nielsen will most certainly be repeating that classic bit of Airplane! dialogue today (as well as its rejoinder: “I am serious. And don’t call me Shirley.”). Nielsen, a journeyman actor who later found fame with comedy roles in Airplane! and The Naked Gun series, died late Sunday afternoon of complications from pneumonia, E! News has confirmed. He was 84.
“We are saddened by the passing of beloved actor Leslie Nielsen, probably best remembered as Lt. Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun series of pictures, but who enjoyed a more than 60 year career in motion pictures and television.”
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Leslie Nielsen Died (1926 – 2010)
Comedy legend Leslie Nielsen died today after a two-week battle with pneumonia.While this obviously wasn’t the note I wanted to come back on, there’s no way I couldn’t acknowledge an actor whose work I obsessively grew up on and recited line for line. From Airplane! to Police Squad to The Naked Gun, there was one constant force of impeccable timing and delivery that made them instant classics, and with probably the most audible collective gasp I’ve seen in all my years on this job, he’s gone now.
Leslie Nielsen Has Died
Leslie Nielsen, the funnyman who Roger Ebert once referred to as the “Laurence Olivier of spoofs,” has died of complications from pneumonia.
The Canadian-born Nielsen came to Hollywood in the mid-1950s after performing in 150 live television dramas in New York. With a craggily handsome face, blond hair and 6-foot-2 height, he seemed ideal for a movie leading man.
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