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« on: 29 November, 2010, 11:23:46 AM » |
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Veteran comic actor Leslie Nielsen, star of Airplane! and The Naked Gun, has died at the age of 84. The Canadian-born star died from complications from pneumonia at a hospital near his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at around 5.30pm local time with his wife Barbaree at his bedside. Link |
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« Reply #1 on: 29 November, 2010, 12:15:18 PM » |
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Such a shame. A really talented actor. I actually remember him most for his straight roles in a couple of episodes of 'Columbo' which I also love. He was rather talented as a straihgt actor and should have done more.
And don't call him Shirley! lol
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« Reply #2 on: 29 November, 2010, 08:17:37 PM » |
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Police Squad was hilarious!!
He was also in the cult Sci-Fi classic "The Forbidden planet".
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« Reply #3 on: 29 November, 2010, 11:37:39 PM » |
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Kept confusing him with Steve Martin for a long time... hadn't realised he was that old.
Police Squad is one of my favourite American 'coms, too, the freeze-frame endings were a little touch of genius!
Strangely enough, it didn't have much success and was shelved after only the one season, that's why the team moved on to the Naked Gun movies, I understand, or they would have continued with TV (which I thought was much better...)
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« Reply #4 on: 30 November, 2010, 12:32:11 AM » |
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Yes, Police Squad was hilarious! They showed them over here on repeat a while back. We are also overlooking his part in "Due South". This guy had so much talent. I had no idea he was that old either, he always looked the same age, like Sid James did!
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« Reply #5 on: 30 November, 2010, 11:57:30 AM » |
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White hair can be deceiving... and here's another actor I knew well but just can't remember as a young man, while certainly having seen him a thousand times in many popular TV series, for instance, at least as a guest, in Rawhide, Alfred Hitchcock presents, Wild Wild West, Dr. Kildare, Bonanza, Disneyland, The Man from UNCLE, MASH, The Streets of San Francisco, Hawaii Five-O, Ironside, Kojak, Kung Fu, please stop me, it goes on forever...
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