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Leslie Nielsen

Leslie William Nielsen, OC was a Canadian and naturalized American actor and comedian. Nielsen appeared in over one hundred films and 1,500 television programs over the span of his career, portraying over 220 characters. Making his television debut in 1948, he quickly expanded to over 50 television appearances two years later. Nielsen made his film debut in 1956, and began collecting roles in dramas, westerns, and romance films.

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Scary Movie 4

2006
as Präs. Baxter Harris

Superhero Movie

2008
as Uncle Albert Adams

Airplane!

1980
as Dr. Rumack

Scary Movie 3

2003
as President Baxter Harris

Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree

1995
as Willowby's butler

Night Train to Paris

1964
as Alan Holiday

Cave In!

1980
as Joe Johnson

Ransom!

1956
as Charlie Telfer

The Amsterdam Kill

1977
as Riley Knight

Harlow

1965
as Richard Manley

Can Ellen Be Saved?

1974
as Arnold Lindsey

The Creature Wasn't Nice

1983
as Capt. Jamieson

Change of Mind

1969
as Sheriff Webb

The Letters

1973
as Derek Childs

The Reluctant Astronaut

1967
as Major Fred Gifford

Spy Hard

1996
as Dick Steele

Little Mo

1978
as Nelson Fisher

Wrong Is Right

1982
as Mallory

The Swamp Fox

1959
as Francis Marion (the Swamp Fox)

Creepshow

1982
as Richard Vickers (segment "Something To Tide You Over")

Night Slaves

1970
as Sheriff Henshaw

Mr. Magoo

1997
as Mr. Quincy Magoo

The Velvet Alley

1959
as Eddie Kirkley

Santa Who?

2000
as Santa Claus

Chilly Dogs

2001
as Clive Thorton / Cab Driver

...And Millions Die!

1973
as Jack Gallagher

An American Carol

2008
as Leslie Nielsen

Sixth and Main

1977
as John Doe

Peyton Place

1964
as Vincent Markham

Hauser's Memory

1970
as Joseph Slaughter

Slap Shot 3: The Junior League

2008
as Mayor of Charlestown

The New Breed

1961
as Lieutenant Price Adams

Hot Summer Night

1957
as William Joel Partain

Project: Kill

1976
as John Trevor

Spanish Movie

2009
as Doctor Nielsen

Family Plan

1997
as Harry Haber

Beau Geste

1966
as Lt. De Ruse

Noël Noël

2003
as English narrator

Due South

1994
as Buck Frobisher

Repossessed

1990
as Father Jebedaiah Mayii

The Dawson Patrol

1977
as Narration

Shadow Over Elveron

1968
as Sheriff Verne Drover

Nightstick

1987
as Thad Evans

Blade in Hong Kong

1985
as Harry Ingersoll

Counterpoint

1968
as Victor Rice

Four Rode Out

1969
as Mr. Brown

Dark Intruder

1965
as Brett Kingsford

The Opposite Sex

1956
as Steve Hilliard

Channing

1963
as Professor Paul Stafford

Rosie!

1967
as Cabot Shaw

Snatched

1973
as Bill Sutter

Dayton's Devils

1968
as Frank Dayton

Striker's Mountain

1985
as Jim McKay

Companions in Nightmare

1968
as Dr. Neesden

The Poseidon Adventure

1972
as Captain Harrison

How to Commit Marriage

1969
as Phil Fletcher

Reckless Disregard

1985
as Bob Franklin

Institute for Revenge

1979
as Counselor Hollis Barnes

Rent-a-Kid

1995
as Harry Haber

City on Fire

1979
as Mayor William Dudley

Surf Ninjas

1993
as Colonel Chi

Prom Night

1980
as Mr. Hammond

Gunfight in Abilene

1967
as Grant Evers

Soul Man

1986
as Mr. Dunbar

Tammy and the Bachelor

1957
as Peter Brent

Digger

1993
as Arthur Evrensel

Police Squad!

1982
as Det. Frank Drebin

The Sheepman

1958
as Col. Stephen Bedford

2001: A Space Travesty

2000
as Richard " Dick " Dix

Men with Brooms

2002
as Gordon Cutter

The Return of Charlie Chan

1973
as Alexander Hadrachi

Foxfire Light

1982
as Reece Morgan

Dangerous Curves

1988
as Greg Krevske

The Vagabond King

1956
as Thibault d'Aussigny

Monty Nash

1971
as Ross Carter

Katie and Orbie

1994
as Narrator

The Aquarians

1970
as Official

Day of the Animals

1977
as Paul Jenson

Home is Where the Hart Is

1987
as Sheriff Nashville Schwartz

The Bold Ones: The Protectors

1969
as Deputy Chief Sam Danforth

Nuts

1987
as Allen Green

How to Steal the World

1968
as General Maximilian Harmon

Forbidden Planet

1956
as Commander John J. Adams

Viva Knievel!

1977
as Stanley Millard

Camouflage

2001
as Jack Potter

Wrongfully Accused

1998
as Ryan Harrison

The Plainsman

1966
as Col. George Armstrong Custer

Host

Episode Robin Williams: Comic Genius
The 50th Annual Golden Globe Awards
1993

Producer

Movie Spy Hard 1996
Movie Leslie Nielsen's Bad Golf My Way 1994

Guest Star

Episode Barnaby Jones
The Killing Defense
1973
Episode Bearcats
The Big Guns
1971
Episode Studio One
Dark Possession
1954
Episode Who's the Boss?
Marry Me, Mona
1988
Episode Vega$
Doubtful Target
1979
Episode Naked City
Down the Long Night
1960
Episode Due South
Manhunt
1994
Episode The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Chris Rock, Nathan Lane, Leslie Nielsen
1998
Episode The Big Valley
Town of No Exit
1969
Episode The Love Boat
Parents Know Best/A Selfless Love/The Nubile Nurse
1978
Episode The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The Seven Wonders of the World Affair (1)
1968
Episode The Ray Bradbury Theater
Marionettes, Inc.
1985
Episode S.W.A.T.
S.W.A.T.
1975
Episode Wagon Train
The Brian Conlin Story
1964
Episode The Virginian
Long Ride Home
1969
Episode Suspense
Roman Holiday
1950
Episode Sidestreet
Stakeout
1977
Episode General Electric Theater
Journal Of Hope
1960
Episode The F.B.I.
Fool's Gold
1973
Episode The Bold Ones: The Protectors
A Thing Not of God
1970
Episode Night Gallery
A Question of Fear
1971
Episode Cannon
Valley of the Damned
1973
Episode The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
The Seven Wonders of the World Affair (2)
1968
Episode The Loner
The Kingdom of McComb
1965
Episode Saturday Night Live
Leslie Nielsen/Cowboy Junkies
1989
Episode 227
A Letter to the President
1985
Episode The Mod Squad
Deal with the Devil
1972
Episode Suspense
The Second Class Passenger
1950
Episode The Littlest Hobo
Romiet and Julio
1980
Episode The Wonderful World of Disney
The Birth of the Swamp Fox
1959
Episode Evening Shade
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Wood
1994
Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Ambition
1961
Episode The Wonderful World of Disney
The Swamp Fox: Brother Against Brother
1959
Episode Due South
All the Queen's Horses
1996
Episode The Red Skelton Show
The Red Skelton Christmas Show
1970
Episode Cannon
The Man Who Couldn't Forget
1974
Episode Murder, She Wrote
My Johnny Lies Over the Ocean
1985
Episode The Wonderful World of Disney
The Swamp Fox: Tory Vengeance
1960
Episode Odd Job Jack
Jack Ryder Goes to War
2005
Episode Kung Fu
Barbary House
1975
Episode Who's the Boss?
Just Mona and Me
1987
Episode Jeopardy!
1993 Celebrity Jeopardy! Game 1
1993
Episode The Fugitive
Tiger Left, Tiger Right
1964
Episode Kung Fu
Flight to Orion
1975
Episode Day by Day
Harper and Son
1988
Episode Ben Casey
He Thought He Saw an Albatross
1963
Episode Channing
Exercise in a Shark Tank Sept
1963
Episode Thriller
The Twisted Image
1960
Episode Kung Fu
The Brothers Caine
1975
Episode The Streets of San Francisco
Before I Die
1973
Episode Kung Fu
Full Circle
1975
Episode The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Magic Shop
1964
Episode Suspense
Death Sabre
1951
Episode Finder of Lost Loves
Aftershocks
1985
Episode The Love Boat
Dear Beverly/The Strike/Special Delivery
1977
Episode Hawaii Five-O
We Hang Our Own
1974
Episode The Fugitive
Glass Tightrope
1963
Episode Route 66
A Fury Slinging Flame
1960
Episode Fantasy Island
Superstar / Salem
1978
Episode The Virginian
The Laramie Road
1965
Episode Manhunter
Jackknife
1974
Episode Route 66
Poor Little Kangaroo Rat
1962
Episode Columbo
Lady in Waiting
1971
Episode M*A*S*H
The Ringbanger
1973
Episode Wagon Train
The Jeremy Dow Story
1960
Episode Fantasy Island
Seance / The Treasure
1979
Episode Gunsmoke
Time of the Jackals
1969
Episode Mystery Science Theater 3000
City on Fire
1989
Episode The Wild Wild West
The Night of the Double-Edged Knife
1965
Episode The Streets of San Francisco
One Last Shot
1974
Episode Dr. Kildare
Do You Trust Your Doctor?
1965
Episode Night Gallery
Phantom of What Opera?
1971
Episode Dr. Kildare
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not (1)
1965
Episode The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Leslie Nielsen, Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Missy Elliot
1999
Episode Columbo
Identity Crisis
1975
Episode RiffTrax
Viva Knievel!
2013
Episode Dr. Kildare
She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not (2)
1965
Episode Murder, She Wrote
Dead Man's Gold
1986
Episode Alfred Hitchcock Presents
The $2,000,000 Defense
1958
Episode Cimarron Strip
The Beast That Walks Like a Man
1967
Episode S.W.A.T.
The Running Man (1)
1976
Episode Kraft Suspense Theatre
The Green Felt Jungle
1965
Episode Kojak
Loser Takes All
1974
Episode Daniel Boone
Mountain of the Dead
1964
Episode Hotel
Crossroads
1985
Episode The Golden Girls
One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest (1)
1992
Episode The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Leslie Nielsen, Tom Everett Scott, Bryan Adams, Jim Davidson
1997
Episode The Bold Ones: The New Doctors
And Other Things I May Not See
1973
Episode Playhouse 90
The Velvet Alley
1959
Episode Cannon
The Man Who Died Twice
1975
Episode Rawhide
Incident Below the Brazos
1959
Episode Suspense
The Foggy Night Visitor
1951
Episode Judd for the Defense
The Deep End
1967
Episode The F.B.I.
Pound of Flesh
1965
Episode The Golden Girls
One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest (2)
1992
Episode S.W.A.T.
The Running Man (2)
1976
Episode Suspense
The Brush Off
1950
Episode Hawaii Five-O
Cocoon (1)
1968
Episode Hawaii Five-O
Cocoon (2)
1968
Episode Biography
Priscilla Presley: Keeper of a Dream
2002
Episode The Rosie O'Donnell Show
Gloria Estefan, Leslie Nielsen, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen
1998
Episode The Streets of San Francisco
Legion of the Lost
1973
Episode Ironside
The Over-the-Hill Blues
1974
Episode Someone Like Me
What I Did for Art
1994