Biography: Leslie Nielsen |

Although his career stretches back half a century and includes over 100 films and countless TV programs, Leslie Nielsen gained true fame late in his career, when he starred in a series of comic spoofs beginning with 1980's Airplane!. The son of a... more
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Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995)
Cast: Mel Brooks Peter MacNicol   
Tags: Parody/Spoof Horror Comedy Absurd Comedy Comedy 
Length: 90min
Mel Brooks does it again with this send-up of vampire films. That Leslie Nielson plays the great blood-sucking count gives viewers a good idea as to what they are in for. This Dracula takes himself very seriously despite the fact that he's a bit of a...

Cast: Olympia Dukakis   
Tags: Romance Childhood Drama 
Length: 95min
This oddly unsettling PG-rated film stars Adam Hand-Byrd as Digger, a 12-year-old whose parents are going through serious domestic problems. To keep him out of the line of fire, Digger is sent to live with his crusty grandmother Olympia Dukakis in the...

The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
Cast: Raquel Welch   
Tags: Parody/Spoof Crime Comedy Police Comedy Comedy Absurd Comedy 
Length: 90min
The further misadventures of bumbling Los Angeles police Lieutenant Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen) are chronicled in this third installment in the popular Naked Gun comedy series. This by-the-numbers entry begins with Drebin as a happily retired...

Cast: Ned Beatty   
Tags: Horror Comedy Horror Comedy Satire Parody/Spoof 
Length: 89min
This is almost a follow-up to its relative The Exorcist, since it stars Linda Blair, also the leading lady in the '70s head-spinner tale. In Repossessed, a grown-up Blair plays a housewife who becomes possessed by the Devil while watching TV. Leslie...

The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (1991)
Cast: David Zucker Mel Tormé O.J. Simpson   
Tags: Slapstick Parody/Spoof Absurd Comedy Comedy 
Length: 85min
Leslie Nielsen returns as the intrepid (and accident-prone) Lt. Frank Drebin in Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear, "un film de David Zucker." This second feature film from the "Police Squad!" series finds Drebin as a guest at a White House dinner,...

Tags: Family Action Comedy Martial Arts 
Length: 87min
Also known as Surf Warriors, this film is a low-budget, offbeat comedy aimed at the teen audience. Two young surfer dudes from southern California, Johnny (Ernie Reyes, Jr.) and Adam (Nicolas Cowen), have their lives changed when they discover that...

Cast: George Kennedy   
Tags: Slapstick Parody/Spoof Comedy Absurd Comedy 
Length: 85min
We know we're in a 1988 film when we're invited to laugh at O.J. Simpson in an opening slapstick sequence. We can also pinpoint the year of production when hard-nosed cop Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), during a scuffle with the world's leading...

Tags: Crime Police Detective Film 
Length: 90min
A maverick Big Apple cop sets off on a deadly pursuit of his two murderous brothers after they bomb a series of banks. He must hurry, for they are threatening to explode more banks if they aren't paid a fortune in ransom. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

Cast: Ronny Cox Tess Harper   
Tags: Docudrama Drama 
Length: 92min
Made for cable, Reckless Disregard was clearly inspired by the 1983 court trial involving Dan Rather of 60 Minutes and Dr. Carl Galloway, who felt he was wrongly linked to a pill-dispensing clinic. Leslie Nielsen stars as arrogant TV reporter Bob...

Cast: James Earl Jones Leslie Nielsen Arye Gross   
Tags: Comedy of Errors Comedy 
Length: 101min
An ambitious-but -spoiled rich white kid wins a scholarship to Harvard Law School by pretending to be African-American in this broadly-played comedy. After his father cuts him off financially, Mark Watson (C. Thomas Howell) wins a full tuition...






























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