The airplane genre gets a new entry this week with “Flight Risk,” Mel Gibson’s action thriller starring Mark Wahlberg, ...

Millions worldwide have embraced their anything-for-a-laugh approach to spoofing movie genres and cliches ... Robert Stack and Leslie Nielsen, not known for their comedic chops, to deadpan ...

Released in 1980, Airplane! parodies the air disaster movies of the 1970s and catapulted Leslie Nielsen to stardom. Nielsen went on to star in numerous other parodies, including the Naked Gun ...

Whenever the topic of all-time great comedy movies comes up ... Zucker were behind this film, and Leslie Nielsen appeared again as well, though unlike with Airplane!, he’s the lead of The ...

Jim Abrahams, the writer-director who helped create comedy classics such as “Airplane!,” the “Naked Gun” movies ... memorable performances from Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd Bridges ...

In the 1980 parody classic “Airplane!” this spoof comedy takes shots at the slew of disaster movies that were released in the ’70s. When the passengers and crew of a jetliner are ...

starring Leslie Nielsen. The franchise would also give ... what motivated me except that at the time everyone was making airplane movies. Films like Airport, based on the Arthur Hailey book ...

Leslie William Nielsen was born in Regina ... Nielsen was the first real "dumb" comedian, with his roles in movies like "Airplane!" and the "Naked Gun" series. He really knows how to deliver ...

Canadian Actor Leslie Nielsen was ... in the 1980 parody film Airplane!, Frank Drebin in the ABC crime spoof-comedy series Police Squad! as well as the Naked Gun film series, and President Baxter ...

There’s something about setting a movie 30,000 feet ... Embrace the silliness of “Airplane!” It’s 87 minutes of continuous gags, jokes, and Leslie Nielsen. Out of the five films on this ...