Actor Leslie Nielsen, who starred in hit affray films such as Airplane! and The Naked Gun, died of complications from pneumonia at a Fort Lauderdale hospital Sunday at the age of 84, RadarOnline.com has learned.
Nielsen, who played the role of Lt. Frank Drebin in the Naked Gun approval and pilot Dr. Rumack in Airplane!, anesthetized abroad in his beddy-bye with his accompany and his wife by his side, his nephew Doug Nielsen said.
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Nielsen, a complete Canadian, agitated both affray films with his comatose deadpan, which artificial for some of the a lot of quoted chaw abuttals in Hollywood history.
“Surely you can’t be serious,” a disciplinarian told him in Airplane!, to which Dr. Rumack said, “I am abstinent — and don’t all-overs me Shirley.”
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One of Nielsen’s archetypal abuttals as Lt. Frank Drebin from Naked Gun was: “I affiance you — whatever algae did this, not one man on this force will abstract one minute until he’s ashamed bedfast … now, let’s grab a chaw to eat.”
As anniversary advanced of his passing, a aggregate of today’s foremost comics took to Twitter to pay approval to the crumbling funnyman.
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Russell Brand Tweeted, “RIP. Leslie Nielsen. Shirley, he will be missed,” while Jeffrey Ross Tweeted, “R.I.P. Leslie Nielsen. They’re burying him in an aeriform compartment,” both nods to the actor’s Airplane! role. Comedian Jim Norton Tweeted Nielsen’s afterlife was “sad news” as “he was one funny bastard.”
Nielsen aswell starred in films such as All I Want for Christmas, Dracula: Comatose and Loving It and Spy Hard, as able as Police Squad, a Naked Gun TV acclimation that had a abbreviate run on ABC.
Nielsen was affiliated four times, and had two accouchement from his added marriage, Maura and Thea Nielsen.
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