Leslie Nielsen dies age 84

aidan_walsh

http://www.slashfilm.com/leslie-nielsen-dead/

Leslie Nielsen has passed away in hospital in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida after complications from pneumonia.

[A] statement from his agent:

We are sadden 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.

amacachi

RIP. I knew it wasn't likely but I always hoped for another Naked Gun film.

Goldstein

You can't be serious!

Rest in peace my friend. You gave me a lot of laughs over the years.

MrStuffins

I know the term is thrown about too often, but the man was a true legend of comedy!

Normally I don't really care when celebrities die, but this has really saddened me. RIP!

Exclamation Marc

"You'd better tell the Captain we've got to land as soon as we can. This woman has to be gotten to a hospital."

"A hospital? What is it?"

"It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now."

RIP to a true comedy icon

Fremen

Goldstein wrote: »

You can't be serious!

Read my sig.

Phony Scott

'The Naked Gun,' 'Police Squad,' 'Airplane!' and 'The Poseidon Adventure' are true classics, I'll keep enjoying them for the rest of my life. RIP.

Edit:

Man, I forgot he's in the best sci-fi movie of the 50's...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEj8bZo9IGA

peejay1986

amacachi wrote: »

RIP. I knew it wasn't likely but I always hoped for another Naked Gun film.

Wasn't Naked Gun 4 in the works?

Gutted to hear about this. The Naked Gun films are one of the first films I genuinely fell in love with. Spoof comedy done right.

"A white guy, with a moustache, about 6ft 3"
"Awfully big moustache"

RIP Leslie Nielsen. Absolute genius!

Duggy747

the passing of beloved actor Leslie Nielsen, probably best remembered as Lt. Frank Drebin

No, he'll always be Leslie Nielson to me. Probably the biggest influence on my humour, without a doubt. Any film of his you threw on, you and the family could laugh their asses off!

He was 84 but damn it's hard to take in that such a nice, genuine guy passed this way.

Always will be a legend, now begins a Leslie Nielson marathon again in honour of probably the best guy for delivering deadpan humour.

RIP, buddy.

niallon

I'm genuinely crushed to hear this, myself and my brother were raised on Airplane! and The Naked Gun Trilogy. No matter how bad the film, Nielsen was always pure comedic gold (Scary Movie 4, Dracula Dead And Loving It anyone?). I'll remember him for one of his later gems though, Wrongfully Accused, fantastic spoof of The Fugitive

R.I.P Leslie

..."and just so you know, I faked every orgasm!"

http://www.youtube.com/v/LcKJdmXbBBc?fs

old_aussie

Loved his work.

RIP

Carl Sagan

Just saw this in AH. Rest in Peace.


Really enjoy his films. He'll be missed.

Kazujo

A comic legend

RIP

Ridley

"This is not goodbye. It's just I won't ever see you again."

Duggy747

niallon wrote: »

I'll remember him for one of his later gems though, Wrongfully Accused, fantastic spoof of The Fugitive

I've never laughed so hard as a kid than when he was trying escape from that train after he escaped off the prison bus

Richard Dower

Very sad news, a true comedy legend that brought laughter to generation after generation. RIP - god be with you.

niallon

Duggy747 wrote: »

I've never laughed so hard as a kid than when he was trying escape from that train after he escaped off the prison bus

Classic milk out the nose moment for me too! If one good thing has come from this it's prompted me to seek out this film again!

Daisy Steiner

Ach, another good man down.

Got the Police Squad series a couple of years ago, will rewatch soon.

RIP.

My name is Sergeant Frank Drebin, Detective Lieutenant, Police Squad. There'd been a recent wave of gorgeous fashion models found naked and unconscious in laundromats on the West Side. Unfortunately, I was assigned to investigate holdups of neighborhood credit unions. I was across town doing my laundry when I got the call on the double killing. It took me twenty minutes to get there. My boss was already on the scene

Brendog

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKKmQ9LAZ20

There will NEVER be another

livdmg

"Surely you can't be serious"

"I am serious and don't call me Shirley"

R.I.P.

DOC09UNAM

A legend is Gone, RIP leslie nielsen.

crow_eat_crow

I loved his deadpan delivery. Sad to hear of his passing. R.I.P.

jaykhunter

Ah man, a comic legend and great actor has died. RIP

razorblunt

RIP, big chun of my childhood gone right there!

I remember watching Airplane and the Naked Guns and laughing my ass off as a kid, then rewatching them later as and adult and laughing even more .... full body condom suit!!!

senordingdong

Duggy747 wrote: »

I've never laughed so hard as a kid than when he was trying escape from that train after he escaped off the prison bus

That was hilarious.
Especially with the train peaking from behind the tree.

RIP

Penn

RIP to a true legend. His work will live on for decades to come

candy-gal1

RIP



Used to watch these movies around xmas time when i was small with my dad.

wolfpawnat

Noooo, he was brilliant!

RIP Leslie, thank you for the laughs!

rednik

RIP Leslie, great memories over the years. Here's a clip from Love at first bite, he's the bat/black chicken by the way.:D:D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8bnER7kl1Q

fakearms123

Me and my dad would bond by sitting down and laughing through this man's films, he is going to be missed, RIP.

You have films like Disater Movie and Date Movie, etc but none of these will ever recreate the success of films like Airplane and Naked Gun, never ever!

Dozen Wicked Words

Really loved Airplane and Police Squad, his party piece of fake farting was brilliantly childish. RIP

Dutch: "Who are you and how did you get in here?"
Frank Drebin: "I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith."

Mickeroo

No-one delivers a one-liner quite like Leslie Nielsen

"Just think; next time I shoot someone, I could be arrested. "

Basq

One of the finest comedy actors of our generation!

missingtime

Bye Leslie. You made me laugh so hard so many times.

Spy Hard, Airplane, The Naked Gun all such classics.

Rest in Peace.

johnny_ultimate

RIP to a great comedian. There are very few who played the straight man so amusingly. Let's forget the Spy Hards, and remember the Airplanes. Because when he was on form, the man was a funny bastard.

mike65

A fine romantic lead and dramatic actor (prior to 1980)

actuallylike

He was a completely ingenious comedic actor, altogether.

sprinkles

He'll always be remembered for his timeless comedic performances. Airplane and Naked Gun series will always be a fixture in my film collection.

Thanks Leslie and RIP

steelcityblues

"Just think; next time I shoot someone, I could be arrested."

"i've been dating too. An author, she wrote the book on male sexual dysfunction. You've probably read it."

Ludwig to Drebin: "Nice to meet you too (offers a cigar) Cuban?
Drebin: "Err no Dutch-Irish, father was from Wales."


Just some of my favourite Drebin lines there - RIP Leslie.

The Don

RIP. Great actor! Instrumental in making spoofs as great as they were.

DrumSteve

Mayor: Now Drebin, I don't want any trouble like you had on the South Side last year, that's my policy.
Frank: Well, when I see five weirdos, dressed in togas, stabbing a man in the middle of the park in full view of a hundred people, I shoot the bastards, that's *my* policy!
Mayor: That was a Shakespeare-In-The-Park production of 'Julius Caesar,' you moron! You killed five actors! Good ones!

That and when he gets accused of sexual assault with a concrete dildo...

R.I.P. Leslie you were one of the most talented comedic (and dramatic) actors ever to grace a movie.

Roar

Like a blind man at an orgy, I would have to feel my way around..

JP Liz V1

RIP

fryup

greatest comedy line ever....:)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhyCL-ELRxg

Exclamation Marc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRva7z8pvwc

Savman

If anyone could outdo the Anchorman generation for quotes, it was Leslie Nielsen. Pure genius.

Too many quotes.

"Actually the last two I ran over with my car, luckily they turned out to be drug dealers."

Zak Flaps

RIP.

Sad to hear of his passing....made me laugh so much...a true legend...

Cigarette?

Phony Scott

-Now, Jane, what can you tell us about the man you saw last night?
-He's Caucasian.
-Caucasian?
-Yeah, you know, a white guy. With a moustache. About six-foot-three.
-That's an awfully big moustache.

the whole year inn

R.I.P

off to watch some movies

sonic85

R.I.P leslie. legend

aperture_nuig

RIP. A legend.