Leslie Nielsen

Leslie Nielsen
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Name	Leslie Nielsen
Aliases	Leslie William Nielsen
Place of birth	Saskatchewan, Canada
Gender	Male
Date of birth	February 11th, 1926
Date of death	November 28th, 2010
First appearance	Tales of Tomorrow: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: The Chase (Part 1)

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Leslie Nielsen is a Canadian actor born in Saskatchewan on February 11th, 1926. Known to modern audiences for his slapstick comedy roles in farcial spoofs such as 2001: A Space Travesty, Nielsen actually came from a dramatic film background. His earliest work in the science fiction genre was playing a character named Farragut in the two-part adaptation of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea featured in the 1950s television series Tales of Tomorrow. He appeared on four more episodes of the series playing various characters.

Nielsen's first major film role was playing Commander J.J. Adams in Fred M. Wilcox's 1956 classic sci-fi adventure movie Forbidden Planet.

In 1965, he played the role of Adams in "The Creature" episode of Irwin Allen's popular television series Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Leslie Nielsen continued to play a variety of roles in television, including episodes of S.W.A.T., Vega$ and The Love Boat, but it wasn't until the 1980 comedy Airplane that Nielsen completely reinvented himself as a comedic actor. The popularity of Airplane provided him with the vehicle to launch the Police Squad! television series. Although Police Squad! was a short-lived program, Nielsen's character, Detective Frank Drebin proved extremely popular and the character spun off into the Naked Gun series of films. Nielsen continued with his slapstick comedy in the 1983 box office flop The Creature Wasn't Nice playing a character named Captain Jamieson.

In the year 2000, Nielsen starred as Richard "Dick" Dix in 2001: A Space Travesty, which was a lampoon of the 1968 Stanley Kubrick classic 2001: A Space Odyssey.

In 2006, he played President Baxter Harris in Scary Movie 4, which poked fun at the 2002 M. Night Shyamalan film Signs.

Leslie Nielsen passed away from complications from pneumonia in Fort Lauderdale, Florida on November 28th, 2010.

Body of work[]

Film[]

Film	Year	Character
Forbidden Planet	1956	Commander J.J. Adams
The Creature Wasn't Nice	1983	Captain Jamieson
2001: A Space Travesty	2001	Richard "Dick" Dix

Television[]

Series	Episode	Airdate	Character
Tales of Tomorrow	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: The Chase (Part 1)	January 25th, 1952	Farragut
Tales of Tomorrow	Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea: The Escape (Part 2)	February 1st, 1952	Farragut
Tales of Tomorrow	Black Planet	May 16th, 1952	Unknown
Tales of Tomorrow	Appointment on Mars	June 27th, 1952	Robbie
Tales of Tomorrow	Another Chance	February 13th, 1953	Harold Mason
Tales of Tomorrow	Ghost Writer	March 27th, 1953	Bert
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea	The Creature	March 22nd, 1965	Adams

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