Leslie Nielsen: 1926-2010

Published at 10:39 AM on November 29, 2010

By Beca Grimm

Leslie Nielsen: 1926-2010

Actor Leslie Nielsen died Sunday, Nov. 28. He passed in a hospital near his Fort Lauderdale, Fla. home due to complications from pneumonia. He was 84.

The Nielsen family released a statement saying:

We are saddened by the passing of beloved actor Leslie Nielsen, probably best remembered as Lt Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun series of pictures, but who enjoyed a more than 60-year career in motion pictures and television.

Watch a fan-made tribute to two of Nielsen’s finest movies, Airplane! and The Naked Gun, below:

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