Actor Leslie Nielsen has died at age 84. The cause was complications from pneumonia, a spokesman said.
Here’s an appreciation of Leslie Nielsen’s comic style from NPR. He was a formerly straight actor who found gold with silly deadpan comedy in Airplane in 1980. After that he became both straight man and punchline for a generation of moviegoers, nearly always in spoofs, parodies, and gag films of all kinds.
It wasn’t all gags from the start. Here he was as a spaceship commander, with robot and ray gun, in Forbidden Planet in 1956:
Thanks for the memories, Mr. Nielsen!
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