Decades before his roles in The Naked Gun and Airplane!, Leslie Nielsen made his screen debut with a great performance in an ...

Police Squad!, the TV series that inspired the Naked Gun film franchise, is impossible to stream today, but at least it's ...

Spy Hard was released a few years after the third Naked Gun installment but didn’t receive the same adoration from audiences ...

The Naked Gun franchise is one of the most iconic in comedy movie history. It’s absurd in large part thanks to Leslie Nielsen ...

Nielsen then went on to play everyone’s favorite detective, Frank Drebin, in the Naked Gun hits. Leslie Nielsen was a global celebrity and made cameos and spoofed himself over the years.

Over the course of three motion pictures (adapted from a six-episode television series, Police Squad! ), the cast of the OG Naked Gun trilogy never let problems like Ricardo Montalban using mind ...

Leslie Nielsen made us laugh. For any other performer, that's enough to rate in our book. But Nielsen, who died Sunday, wasn't any other performer. 1. He had two, no, three careers: By our count ...

Nielsen came 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 ...

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.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Leslie Nielsen had the somber demeanor and stone-serious face that were just right for dramatic roles. They proved even better for comedy. 'Surely you can't be serious,' an ...

Earlier this week, we lost the great deadpan comic actor Leslie Nielsen. Nielsen leaves behind six decades of film and television artifacts that feature over 200 of his characters, ranging from ...

Entertainment Actor Leslie Nielsen dead at 84 Leslie Nielsen, center, with co-stars O.J. Simpson and George Kennedy from the 1994 comedy "Naked Gun 33 1/3; The Final Insult." Credit: Handout ...