Leslie Nielsen, who went from drama to inspired bumbling as a hapless doctor in Airplane! and accident-prone detective Frank Drebin in the Naked Gun comedies, has died at the age of 84.

Decades before his roles in The Naked Gun and Airplane!, Leslie Nielsen made his screen debut with a great performance in an underrated 1950s classic.

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

Leslie Nielsen's first starring role in a movie happened almost 70 years ago, via an Oscar-nominated classic with a 92% ...

Leslie William Nielsen, OC (February 11, 1926 – November 28, 2010) was a Canadian and naturalized American actor and comedian. Nielsen appeared in over one hundred films and 1,500 television ...

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

Liam Neeson didn't set out to "emulate" Leslie Nielsen in The Naked Gun. The 73-year-old actor leads the cast of the comedy reboot as Frank Drebin Jr and was determined to avoid falling into the trap ...

The original film, which was released in 1988, starred Leslie Nielsen as detective Frank Drebin, a bumbling detective who could solve a case but was severely lacking in street sense.

In the case of Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin, it was more like 110%. The choice of Nielsen for “Police Squad!” and the subsequent “Naked Gun” movies deserves a special place in the annals of ...

In an inspired piece of casting, Liam Neeson leans in to this delightful nonsense, while provocative COVID-19-era commentary ...

Leslie Nielsen, whose legendary turn as bumbling L.A. detective Frank Drebin still has fans merrily reciting his most famous lines, died in 2010.