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Google News: Comedy, respect, and casting against type
[Den Of Geek] - Look at Leslie Nielsen in Airplane!, with the trick being that he played it straight, without pretending to be anything he's not. Backed with good material, it worked a treat. But that's an exception to an often quite depressing rule.
Leslie Nielsen: Actor best known for ‘Airplane!’ and the ‘Naked Gun’...
www.independent.co.uk
30 Nov – Leslie Nielsen spent years as a journeyman actor, a reliable but bland leading man on television and in films who would be best remembered ...
Leslie Nielsen, star of 'Airplane!' and 'Naked Gun,' dead at
edition.cnn.com
Leslie Nielsen, whose longtime career as a square-jawed dramatic actor took a sudden turn into comedy with gut-busting spoofs like
Comedy Legend Leslie Nielsen Dies At 84 | Fox News
www.foxnews.com
Leslie Nielsen went from drama to inspired bumbling as a hapless doctor in Airplane! and the accident-prone detective Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun comedies.
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