Leslie Nielsen Articles

FORBIDDEN PLANET (1956) Direction: Fred M. Wilcox Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Robby the Robot, Warren Stevens, Earl Holliman, Richard Anderson, Jack Kelly, George Wallace, Robert Dix Screenplay: Cyril Hume; from a story by Irving Block and Allen Adler inspired by William Shakespeare's The Tempest Oscar Movies Leslie Nielsen, Anne Francis, Robby the Robot, Forbidden Planet By Dan Schneider of Cosmoetica: When one [...]

  When most people think of Leslie Nielsen, they think of spoofs such as Airplane! (1980), The Naked Gun (1988), Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995), and Wrongfully Accused (1998). Perhaps a little strangely, when I think of Leslie Nielsen, who died at the age of 84 from complications of pneumonia at a Ft. Lauderdale hospital on Sunday, the first thing that comes to mind [...]

Julie Hagerty, Lorna Patterson, Leslie Nielsen, Peter Graves in Airplane! Peter Graves, the star of TV's Mission Impossible and the airplane pilot with a fondness for little boys in the 1980 comedy hit Airplane!, was found dead today at his home in the Los Angeles suburb of Pacific Palisades. The 83-year-old actor apparently died of natural causes. Graves was best known for his television work [...]