Leslie Nielsen, a serious actor who became a comic star with his career-changing roles in “Airplane!” and the “Naked Gun” comedies, died Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 84. Nielson ...

Leslie Nielsen, a serious actor who became a comic star with his career-changing roles in “Airplane!” and “The Naked Gun” comedies, died Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 84.

From “The Poseidon Adventure” to “Airplane!,” how Leslie Nielsen became an all-purpose embodiment of the parodic principle itself.

Off screen, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian honor, in 2002. Leslie William Nielsen was born on Feb. 11, 1926, in Regina, Saskatchewan.

Leslie Nielsen, who traded in his dramatic persona for inspired bumbling as a hapless doctor in "Airplane!" and the accident-prone detective Frank Drebin in "The Naked Gun" comedies, died on ...

The 1988 satire is a masterclass in screwball and slapstick comedy, which is something you could say about a lot of things Leslie Nielsen starred in throughout his career. The film remains an ...

Leslie Nielsen, one of the great deadpan comics of our time, died over the weekend, Our Drew McWeeny has some thoughts on his movie career, and of course it’s for his movie roles ...

Nielsen was born Feb. 11, 1926 in Regina, Saskatchewan. He grew up 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle at Fort Norman, where his father was an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.