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PaceAdvantage
11-29-2010, 12:52 AM
Leslie Nielsen of 'Airlplane' and 'Naked Gun' fame dies at age 84

http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=613963&GT1=28101

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NJ Stinks
11-29-2010, 01:08 AM
First Peter Graves and now Leslie Nielsen. :(

Surely I'll miss him.
redshift1
11-29-2010, 01:08 AM
Commander J.J. Adams of the United Planets Cruiser C-57D.. remember that one.
jballscalls
11-29-2010, 01:31 AM
i'll never forget the first time i drove from LA to Del Mar and saw those two "boob" looking buildings from that scene in one of the naked guns, i cracked up!

RIP Leslie
bigmack
11-29-2010, 04:42 AM
Nielsen's nephew Doug told Canadian radio station CJOB that the actor had been in hospital for 12 days with the illness.

'He just fell asleep and passed away,' he said.
'He was truly a nice man. A very caring, naturally funny guy in day-to-day life, not just because someone wrote something on paper for him.
'He was a very tender-hearted man. He was one of my best friends and I loved him dearly,' he added. 'I'll miss him greatly.'

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Overlay
11-29-2010, 05:46 AM
I think that I could be happy indefinitely on a desert island as long as I had the two Airplane! movies, the three Naked Gun movies, and the six half-hour episodes of Police Squad! (the show on which Naked Gun was based), and he was in all but Airplane! 2. He brought a lot of laughs to a lot of people. May he rest in peace.
JustRalph
11-29-2010, 07:13 AM
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-leslie-nielsen-20101129,0,2787062.story

A once leading man...... the guy was great

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Tom
11-29-2010, 07:34 AM
Shirley, he will be missed! ;)
canleakid
11-29-2010, 07:38 AM
RIP
ArlJim78
11-29-2010, 08:04 AM
Lt. Frank Drebin of Police Squad, what a great comedic character.
Didn't realize that he was 84, how time flies.
Steve R
11-29-2010, 08:27 AM
Commander J.J. Adams of the United Planets Cruiser C-57D.. remember that one.
Forbidden Planet. Great film. You must be as old as I am.
banacek
11-29-2010, 10:06 AM
I remember being about 12 years old and seeing him as the captain in the Poseidon Adventure. I thought it was so cool because he was born in my home town....and then the captain went down with the ship. But he sure resurfaced as a comedic actor. You'll be missed, Leslie.
PaceAdvantage
11-29-2010, 11:03 AM
Some of you might think I misspelled 'Airplane' in the original post, but I copied and pasted from the article that I linked to....

And it's STILL misspelled in case anyone think's that I am making it up... :lol:

http://movies.msn.com/movies/article.aspx?news=613963&GT1=28101

Kind of fitting given the man we're talking about I suppose.... :lol:
boxcar
11-29-2010, 12:07 PM
I remember being about 12 years old and seeing him as the captain in the Poseidon Adventure. I thought it was so cool because he was born in my home town....and then the captain went down with the ship. But he sure resurfaced as a comedic actor. You'll be missed, Leslie.

Yup, he sure did. He provided us with so many laughs; and for that I'm grateful. I, too, will miss him.

Boxcar
Black Ruby
11-29-2010, 12:11 PM
"Like a midget at a urinal, I was going to have to stay on my toes"
redshift1
11-29-2010, 12:37 PM
Forbidden Planet. Great film. You must be as old as I am.

Jack Kelly who was the pilot in FP later became mayor of Huntington Beach in Orange County CA, I used to see him around town he has since passed away.

I remember he was investigated for shady deals with realtors but he escaped prosecution.
Robert Fischer
11-29-2010, 01:59 PM
i read about this on another forum yesterday, and there were a lot of "this is so sad" comments.

I can't really feel sad.. The guy lived a full life, and was starting to get more illnesses like pneumonia. He really stayed busy, which i think contributed to his long life. He must have been fighting for a while -
I think that I read that the Zucker bros. "announced" that they were going to do yet another sequel to the naked gun movies -
which really seems like it was a nice gesture to Leslie to keep fighting more than a real project.

I remembered some of his shticks and laughed aloud a bunch of times. Probably what he would have wanted from a fan. :D:ThmbUp: RIP
JustRalph
11-29-2010, 05:13 PM
The world is a whole lot less funny today than it was a few days ago.

Lots of nice comments all over the net.
Lefty
11-29-2010, 05:39 PM
Police Squad was terrific!
Naked Gun was Terrific!
He played the bad guy in his early days, but he was really a good guy.
Leslie was terrific
, terrific!
Not enuff said...
JustRalph
11-29-2010, 06:11 PM
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banacek
11-29-2010, 07:24 PM
Possible dialogue from yesterday.....

Saint Peter: "Leslie, it looks as if there might be a few small
blemishes on your record..."

Leslie Nielson: "Surely you jest?!"

Saint Peter: "I'm not joking, and don't call me Shirley!............
Shemp Howard
11-29-2010, 08:17 PM
:ThmbDown: I wonder if the OJ will get a 3 day pass out of the slammer to attend the funeral?
ArlJim78
11-29-2010, 09:42 PM
anyone remember the short lived TV series Police Squad?

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sandpit
11-29-2010, 10:26 PM
anyone remember the short lived TV series Police Squad?


I still have my original video tapes of the show when it aired.

"Who are you, how did you get in here?"

"I'm the locksmith...and, I'm the locksmith."

The scene with the Japanese garden almost made me pass out I laughed so hard.
ArlJim78
11-29-2010, 11:10 PM
For me I think those TV episodes were funnier than the Naked Gun movies.

I love the shootouts they would have from a distance of about 8 feet apart firing round after round and never hitting anything.
Oh and of course how the guest star is always killed off in the opening credits.:lol:
wisconsin
11-30-2010, 11:54 AM
Nobody mentioned the spy spoof "Spy Hard". Classic Leslie Nielsen stuff!
Lefty
11-30-2010, 12:05 PM
Arljim, remember those "freeze frames" at the end of Police Squad? Hilarious...
bigmack
11-30-2010, 12:30 PM
Arljim, remember those "freeze frames" at the end of Police Squad? Hilarious...
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johnhannibalsmith
11-30-2010, 12:42 PM
...The scene with the Japanese garden almost made me pass out I laughed so hard.

Oh crap. Finally a super vivid recollection from the show other than the gunfights from feet apart behind cans. :ThmbUp: :ThmbUp:
bigmack
11-30-2010, 02:43 PM
The scene with the Japanese garden almost made me pass out I laughed so hard.
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johnhannibalsmith
11-30-2010, 02:51 PM
You still rock Mack.

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sandpit
12-01-2010, 09:26 PM
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That is without a doubt the greatest video post in the history of this forum. http://paceadvantage.com/forum/images/UBGX/I9.gifhttp://paceadvantage.com/forum/images/SCNums/1.jpg
ArlJim78
12-01-2010, 10:39 PM
Some recollections (http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dzucker/2010/11/30/why-leslie-nielsen-was-so-good-at-making-us-happy/#more-421685)of Leslie from David Zucker.
BlueShoe
12-02-2010, 01:38 AM
Jack Kelly who was the pilot in FP later became mayor of Huntington Beach in Orange County CA, I used to see him around town he has since passed away.
Whenever I hear that name I immediately think of the old black and white western series Maverick, in which he starred with James Garner. Anyone that remembers that one has to be in or near my age bracket, and that is like ancient. :D
Lefty
12-02-2010, 02:14 AM
Maverick made a star of James Garner. At one time Jack Kelly was supposed to be the 2nd coming of Gable, but didn't quite make it to that level of stardom.
Before coming into the Maverick series to help take the work load off Garner, Jack Kelly starred in a TV series called King's Row.