"Reading this, anyone would think he was a born comedian, a child who grew up making family and schoolmates laugh, a natural clown but the truth is that for most of his career, Nielsen was a dramatic, or rather, a stoic actor. A handsome yet expressionless leading man, he appeared in virtually all television productions filmed during the 1960s and 1970s, from Alfred Hitchcock Presents to Columbo and The Love Boat."
"If Leslie Nielsen appeared in a film, audiences already knew what to expect. The miracle was the work of the ZAZ team David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker three writers and directors from Wisconsin who one day decided to make a movie about an airplane accident that would parody the disaster films that had enjoyed their glory years in the 1970s."
Leslie Nielsen embraced lowbrow humor late in life while maintaining a private penchant for pranks, including carrying a device that mimicked flatulence and placing it in his coffin at his funeral. For much of his early career Nielsen performed as a handsome, expressionless leading man in dramatic television throughout the 1960s and 1970s, appearing on programs such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Columbo, and The Love Boat. After turning fifty Nielsen developed a deadpan comic persona that defined his later career. The transformation stemmed from his work in Airplane! and collaborations with the ZAZ team, who cast serious actors to play absurd comedy straight.
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