Leslie Nielsen

[albaqwerty]

Sad news. Seemed like a very nice man.

[boxtops]

Best dead-pan actor - brilliant films. He was 84 - that was a bit of a shock, didn't realise he was that old.

[albaqwerty]

no doubt some will say 84 isn't old :)

I agree tho, best dead-pan actor. Wasn't he on a chat show some years back and pharted for the comedy effect?

[zzxxee]

he did the odd apperance in due south very funny guy x

[woofgang]

yes a great artist

[bibblebub]

The short-lived Police Squad! tv show (which give rise to the Naked Gun films) is brilliant.

[missnemesis]

Can't say I ever got his style of comedy but I know lots did. Sad news none the less.

[TTG]

Classic show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLXyC1cuN3M

[AB Editor]

Very sad news indeed. Airplane is one of my favourite films.

And yes, Police Squad was stunning. How many episodes did they make?

All the best,

Spare Ed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LcKJdmXbBBc

[joggerjayne]

Aww, it's sad. He was so funny.

At least at 84 he'd had a decent innings.

On which note ... back to the cricket thread.

[AB Editor]

I was very sad to hear the news of his passing this morning. I don't think I've ever laughed quite as hard at a movie as I did with Airplane! and The Naked Gun(s), and Police Squad is sublime too.

One of my favourite lines:

Frank: It's the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girls dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year's Day.

Jane: Goodyear?

Frank: No, the worst.

Ed

[dotty.]

He wasn't always a comedy actor, his early stuff before Police Squad and Airplane was guest star roles in TV shows and TV Movies, he usually played the bad guy and always a very heavy dramatic storyline. There's one TV movie he did where a bridge was collapsing and he wouldn't let anyone off it , he was the bad guy in that. He was always cropping up in the shows I watched in my teenage years.
The last thing I saw him in he looked unwell and had lost alot of weight. Very good actor.

[AB Editor]

And another:

Frank: "Jane, what can you tell me about this man you saw last night?"

Jane: "Well, he's caucasian..."

Frank: "Caucasian?"

Jane: "Yeah, y'know, white guy, with a moustache, about six foot three..."

Frank "Awfully big moustache."

Ed

[bibblebub]

Only 6 episodes of Police Squad! were made - "we would have come earlier but your husband wasn't dead then"

[dotty.]

Ahhh now I know why I watched the bridge movie! Brendan Boone (Chief) was in it!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086012/

[ummmm]

I seen that one on the news this morning Ed...made me chuckle.

[bibblebub]

Don't forget the classic sci-fi film Forbidden Planet which was made all the way back in 1956.

[naomi24]

Funny, funny man. RIP.

[piggynose]

dead, but not forgotten!!!
a comic genius, i can clearly remember watching airplane at pics 1st time in 1980, people were literally in tears!!! thats comic genius. i still cry with laughter now after the umpteen time watching it

[tiggerblue10]

So sad. Loved Airplane!

:o(

[Sooper]

Nice Beaver!!