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'''Leslie William Nielsen''' {{post-nominals|country=CAN|OC}} (February 11, 1926{{spaced ndash}}November 28, 2010) was a Canadian actor and comedian.<ref>{{cite news| quote='I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent', he said.| title='Naked Gun,' 'Airplane' actor Leslie Nielsen dies| url=http://topnews360.tmcnet.com/topics/associated-press/articles/2010/12/02/122613-naked-gun-airplane-actor-leslie-nielsen-dies.htm| agency=[[Associated Press]]| date=2 December 2010| publisher= Technology Marketing Corporation}}</ref> With a career spanning
Nielsen was born in [[
Although his notable performances in the films ''[[Forbidden Planet]]'' and ''[[The Poseidon Adventure (1972 film)|The Poseidon Adventure]]'' gave him standing as a serious actor, Nielsen later gained enduring recognition for his [[Deadpan|deadpan comedy]] roles during the 1980s and the 1990s, after being cast for the [[Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker]] comedy film ''[[Airplane!]]''{{hsp}}<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/29/AR2010112905269.html|title=Leslie Nielsen, serious actor who became a master of deadpan comedy, dies at 84|last=Brown|first=Emma|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=29 November 2010|access-date=3 November 2015}}</ref> In his comedy roles, he specialized in portraying characters oblivious to and complicit in their absurd surroundings.<ref name="NYT">{{cite news|last=Maslin |first=Janet |title=Review/Film; A Fall Guy as Antihero |work=The New York Times |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE3DE153DF931A35751C1A96E948260 |date=2 December 1988 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304022159/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE3DE153DF931A35751C1A96E948260 |archive-date= 4 March 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref> His performance in ''Airplane!'' marked a turning point which made him "the [[Laurence Olivier|Olivier]] of spoofs", according to film critic [[Roger Ebert]],<ref name="Ebert">{{cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |title=Scary Movie 3 |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |url=http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031024/REVIEWS/310240305/1023 |date=24 October 2003 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101205142216/http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20031024%2FREVIEWS%2F310240305%2F1023 |archive-date=5 December 2010 |url-status=dead |access-date=12 May 2017 }}</ref> and led to further success in the genre, starring in [[The Naked Gun|''The Naked Gun'' film series]], based on his earlier short-lived television series ''[[Police Squad!]]''. He received a variety of awards and was inducted onto [[Canada's Walk of Fame]] and the [[Hollywood Walk of Fame]].
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