Leslie Neilsen of Naked Gun fame RIP

RoundyMooney

Complications from pneumonia apparently. Best deadpan comic ever. RIP

(in b4 "Shirley, you can't be serious")

KeithM89_old

Awww no thats awful news
One of the funniest guys in film ever.

bigslick

God dam, he will be missed. Reminds me, must watch Airplane again.

RIP

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

RIP.

Loved watching the airplane movies, especially at Christmas.

AlmightyCushion

Shít. He was probably one of my favourite comic actors. The naked gun films and airplanes wouldn't have been the same without him.

RedXIV

Ah jesus, i hoped he'd never die. one of my fave actors all my life.

RIP

Duffy the Vampire Slayer

He must have ate the fish.

Professey Chin

Balls
Hard to believe one of the funniest actors was in purely serious roles until Airplane

x in the city

RoundyMooney wrote: »

Complications from pneumonia apparently. Best deadpan comic ever. RIP

(in b4 "Shirley, you can't be serious")

damn

if only there were slapstick comedies like that now

Professey Chin

x in the city wrote: »

damn

if only there were slapstick comedies like that now

Instead what do we get?...............................Vampires Suck
VAMPIRES.................FCUKING............................SUCK
Fcuking hollywood ****

amacachi

Just heard, this is crap.

Mrmoe

RIP, he will be missed. Great comedian.:(

longhalloween

Thats the wprst news Ive heard all day.:(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzZ8kWq8sec&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRva7z8pvwc

x in the city

looking for movies to watch lately and saw vampires suck
lol
what a pile of junk, stopped reading about it after a few words.

****|ng junnk, like most of the music out now

Duggy747

:eek:

I grew up watching and loving Leslie's movies! Hell, most of my humour and deadpan delivery of things has been a direct result of how he did it. I aways reguraly watched Police Squad / Naked Gun / Spy Hard / Airplane! / everything he was in right back to the sci fi films of his earlier career.

I just about to go sleep but now I know that one of my, unusual choice but true, heros is dead........well, that's gonna be a bit shìtty now

Rumack: Captain, how soon can you land?
Captain Oveur: I can't tell.
Rumack: You can tell me. I'm a doctor.
Captain Oveur: No. I mean I'm just not sure.
Rumack: Well, can't you take a guess?
Captain Oveur: Well, not for another two hours.
Rumack: You can't take a guess for another two hours?

Mayor: Now Drebin, I don't want any trouble like you had on the South Side last year, that's my policy.
Frank: Well, when I see five weirdos, dressed in togas, stabbing a man in the middle of the park in full view of a hundred people, I shoot the bastards, that's *my* policy!
Mayor: That was a Shakespeare-In-The-Park production of 'Julius Caesar,' you moron! You killed five actors! Good ones!

[Frank Drebin is emptying out his files after being kicked off the force]
Frank: Hey! The missing evidence in the Kelner case! My God, he really was innocent!
Ed: He went to the chair two years ago, Frank.
Frank: Well, uh...
[Frank Drebin quickly shoves the evidence back into the file cabinet]

[Frank Drebin is angrily breaking up with Jane Spencer]
Frank: Oh, and one more thing... I faked every orgasm!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBkLV9Lv_mE

Bye Leslie, and thanks for all the laughs, showing us how deadpan comedy and spoofs should be done.

Fago!

RIP What a funny guy. I must watch Airplane again!

123balltv

he always made me laugh RIP Mr Neilsen

RIP, loved his films

battries not included

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5egaR4WvLPY

RIP

kwalshe

aw b@llix!

GLaDOS

Airplane and the naked guns were some of my favourite comedies, ridiculously funny guy, he'll be sorely missed

amacachi

This just reminded me I haven't watched Police Squad! yet, shall do so this week I think.

They don't make them like him anymore. This has really brought down my mood before bed.

battries not included

Just watched him in Scary Movie 3 on Saturday,

what a nice guy

always made me laugh


DON'T CALL ME SHIRLEY )))))))

chucken1

Aww s**t

Riamfada

Dont usually post on RIP celeb thread but what a great actor. Such a shame I loved every one of his films.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBHsKTruX7o

kowloon

Ahh FFS! Man was is a legend .

kincsem

Terrible news. Thanks for the laughs, Leslie. Legend.

He was a serious actor, things just had a habit of going wrong around him.

scientific1982

RIP. Love his films.

String

RIP

battries not included

kowloon wrote: »

Ahh FFS! Man was is a legend .

FYP

OpenYourEyes

R.I.P. A real legend! One of those actors that you could sit down with your dad and watch and guarantee that both of you would be in stitches

bluto63

What a shame, the man is a legend. Growing up I loved watching his films. This is like losing a connection to my childhood

CrazyRabbit

Damn. He still owed us 2/3 of a movie!

FouxDaFaFa

He seemed to be perpetually the same age. As someone before me said, you really assumed (and hoped) that he would live forever. It really is a pity to see him go but at least it was peaceful. The Naked Guns, Spyhard, Airplane! and Dracula: Dead and Loving it are all gems of films. They can't be topped by the crap we gave to put up with today.
RIP Leslie.

Carl Sagan

Ahh

Rest in Peace.

aidan_walsh

"We're sorry to bother you at a time like this Mrs. Twice. We would have come earlier but your husband wasn't dead then."

Remember years ago being allowed to stay up late to watch Police Squad. Highlight of the week.

AlmightyCushion

“Doing nothing is very hard to do...you never know when you're finished.”

OutlawPete

Obviously fan of his movies but for me, it was his role in Due South I liked best as that show is one of my all time favourites.

If you haven't seen the show, get the boxset - he only appeared in three episodes, but he made those three episodes his own.

Rest in peace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VSIQ7U_y4Y

raveni

Aww I don't believe this, I'm only after finishing watching him in Dracula: Dead and Loving It, and I log onto boards to see this thread:(:( He was a brilliant actor.

R.I.P

take everything

RoundyMooney wrote: »

Complications from pneumonia apparently. Best deadpan comic ever. RIP

(in b4 "Shirley, you can't be serious")

Ah crap.
Brilliant at what he did- master of deadpan.
RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmHeP9Sve48

Corsendonk

Very Sad, but before his hair went grey and he discovered comedy he starred in the classic Sci-fi movie "The Forbidden Planet". The special effects are pretty good for 1956.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEj8bZo9IGA

Daisy Steiner

Genuinely saddened by the news, I posted the following on the film forum, one of my favourite Nielson gags

My name is Sergeant Frank Drebin, Detective Lieutenant, Police Squad. There'd been a recent wave of gorgeous fashion models found naked and unconscious in laundromats on the West Side. Unfortunately, I was assigned to investigate holdups of neighborhood credit unions. I was across town doing my laundry when I got the call on the double killing. It took me twenty minutes to get there. My boss was already on the scene

alwaysadub

Aww no
Airplane! is one of my favourite films. I love him in them.
RIP. You'll be missed.

Rud

what a legend

this is easily my fav scene from my fav film of his

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0GW0Vnr9Yc

OutlawPete

Some deleted scenes from Naked Gun ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8TNhM8wtHU

take everything

OutlawPete wrote: »

Some deleted scenes from Naked Gun ..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8TNhM8wtHU

On one of those channel 4 "best comedies ever" things he talked about how much he loved coming to work every day in those films.
Priscilla Presley also talked about how difficult it was to keep a straight face on set.
You could just imagine.

daithijjj

Will genuinely miss the man in movies, my favourite..............

Lt. Frank Drebin: Hector Savage. From Detroit. Ex-boxer. His real name was Joey Chicago.
Ed Hocken: Oh, yeah. He fought under the name of Kid Minneapolis.
Nordberg: I saw Kid Minneapolis fight once. In Cincinnati.
Lt. Frank Drebin: No you're thinking of Kid New York. He fought out of Philly.
Ed Hocken: He was killed in the ring in Houston. By Tex Colorado. You know, the Arizona Assassin.
Nordberg: Yeah, from Dakota. I don't remember it was North or South.
Lt. Frank Drebin: North. South Dakota was his brother. From West Virginia.
Ed Hocken: You sure know your boxing.
Lt. Frank Drebin: All I know is never bet on the white guy.

Pherekydes

RIP.

He will be best remembered for his roles as Frank Drebin and Dr Rumack but his most famous role is another.

Standard Toaster

RIP

Legend.

petes

Balls. RIP.

Guill

Surely you cannot be serious?????

I am, and don't call me surely!










(RIP)