Actor Leslie Nielsen dies
Last Updated: Sunday, November 28, 2010 | 9:28 PM CST
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Canadian actor-comedian Leslie Nielsen, who went from drama to inspired bumbling as a hapless doctor in Airplane! and the accident-prone detective Frank Drebin in the Naked Gun comedies, has died. He was 84.

Canadian actor Leslie Nielsen, seen in this 1996 photo with Nicollette Sheridan at the premiere of Spy Hard, died Sunday at age 84.Canadian actor Leslie Nielsen, seen in this 1996 photo with Nicollette Sheridan at the premiere of Spy Hard, died Sunday at age 84. (Michael Caulfield/Associated Press)His agent, John Kelly, said Nielsen died Sunday at a hospital near his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he was being treated for pneumonia.

Nielsen, who was born in Regina, went to Hollywood in the mid-1950s after performing in 150 live television dramas in New York. With a craggily handsome face, blond hair and 6-foot-2 height, he seemed ideal for a movie leading man.

He quickly became known as a serious actor, although behind the camera he was a prankster. That was an aspect of his personality never exploited, however, until Airplane! was released in 1980 and became a huge hit.

Nielsen was in more than 100 films, including the 2002 film Men With Brooms, co-starring Paul Gross. In recent years, he appeared on the Canadian TV series Robson Arms.

He had stars on both Hollywood's and Canada's Walk of Fame and was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2002.

He could be spotted periodically in Ottawa while visiting his elder brother Erik Nielsen, a long-time Progressive Conservative MP and deputy prime minister in Brian Mulroney's government.

Erik Nielsen was also 84 when he died in 2008 at his home in Kelowna, B.C., after a massive heart attack.


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