Do you remember the very first time you saw the movie “Airplane”?
Even if you have never seen it, however, everyone knows its most famous lines.
At the time the movie was released in 1980, Leslie Nielsen had already been an established dramatic actor for decades.
But “Airplane” literally changed the entire course of his career, propelling him into comedy. The television series “Police Squad” was followed by the movie “Naked Gun”| and its sequels.
And by 1993, Nielsen had a book called Leslie Nielsen’s The Naked Truth. And that’s when I first met him.
So here now, from 19933, Leslie Nielsen:
Leslie Nielsen died in 2010. He was 84.
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