RIP Leslie Nielsen

Some things I didn't know about an actor I really enjoyed watching, who died last night in his sleep at a hospital in Ft. Lauderdale.

1) Was born in Saskatchewan in 1928
2) Enlisted in the Royal Air Force and trained to be a rear-gunner, but was deemed too young to be sent overseas
3) Worked as a disc jockey in Calgary before winning an acting scholarship
4) Was active into his eighties, even playing Clarence Darrow on the stage in his one-man show Darrow
5) Brother Erik was Deputy Prime Minister of Canada in the 80s
6) He looked pretty young and spiffy as the lead in 1956's Forbidden Planet


Something I did know about Leslie Nielsen:

1) Lt. Frank Drebin and Police Squad! introduced me to the Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker absurdist style of comedy and altered my reality. I was young and impressionable.

Leslie Nielsen will be remembered fondly by this blogger.