Leslie Nielsen Bio Info

Leslie Nielsen is a veteran of over 100 motion pictures and more than 1500 television appearances. He built a reputation portraying manly authority figures (including the Space Ship Commander in the sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet and the Captain of the ill-fated cruise ship in The Poseidon Adventure) before he turned his image inside out with a hysterically funny deadpan performance as the loopy doctor in Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's Airplane! (1980). He continued to team with the ZAZ comedy team on the TV series Police Squad! on which he originated the role of police Lt. Frank Drebin, which he re-created in The Naked Gun, in the 1991 sequel Naked Gun 2 1/2 and again in Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, the son of a Canadian Mounted Policeman, Nielsen spent his earliest years living near the Arctic Circle, and later served as an aerial gunner in the Royal Canadian Air Force.