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Leslie William Nielsen OC (February 11, 1926 – November 28, 2010) was a Canadian actor and comedian. [5] With a career spanning 60 years, he appeared in more than 100 films and 150 television programs, portraying more than 220 characters. [6] Nielsen was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. After high school, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air ...
United States. Language. English. Budget. $3.5 million [3] Box office. $171 million [4] Airplane! (alternatively titled Flying High!) [5] is a 1980 American disaster comedy film written and directed by Jim Abrahams and brothers David and Jerry Zucker in their directorial debuts, [6] and produced by Jon Davison.
Wrongfully Accused. Wrongfully Accused is a 1998 satirical comedy film written, produced and directed by Pat Proft and starring Leslie Nielsen as a man who has been framed for murder and desperately attempts to expose the true culprits. The film is a parody of the 1993 film The Fugitive, and also parodies numerous other films.
1994: Bad Golf My Way. 1997: Stupid Little Golf Video. 1997: National Geographic Video: The Savage Garden. Nielsen also appeared in a promotional video for Layman Allen's mathematics game called Equations and in the Seaworld San Antonio Summer Nights 4-D show "Pirates 4-D".
Fueled by Nielsen and Presley's potent comic chemistry, The Naked Gun instantly shot to the top of the box office charts, and the duo re-teamed for two sequels, released in 1991 and 1994.The ...
Box office. $132 million. Naked Gun 33⁄: The Final Insult is a 1994 American crime comedy film directed by Peter Segal (in his directorial debut) and written by Pat Proft, David Zucker (who also directed the previous two films in the series) and Robert LoCash. The film is the third and final installment in The Naked Gun film series, which was ...
Box office. $152.4 million. The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (also known as simply The Naked Gun) is a 1988 American crime comedy film directed by David Zucker, and produced and released by Paramount Pictures. [1] The film stars Leslie Nielsen as the bumbling police lieutenant Frank Drebin, who sets out to uncover a criminal plot ...
Leslie Nielsen had mostly serious roles until the movie Airplane! (1980). Director David Zucker preserved this by having Nielsen play the straight man.Zucker based his character on Lee Marvin and Clint Eastwood, while scriptwriter Pat Proft wrote all of Drebin's lines with nothing being improvised. [7]