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Leslie Nielsen
Leslie William Nielsen, OC (born February 11, 1926) is a Canadian actor and comedian. Although Nielsen's acting career crosses a variety of genres in both television and films, he has achieved his greatest film success as Commander John J. Adams in the film Forbidden Planet, and also in comic...
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Airplane!
Airplane! is a 1980 American satirical comedy film directed and written by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and Jerry Zucker and released by Paramount Pictures. It stars Robert Hays and Julie Hagerty and features Leslie Nielsen, Robert Stack, Lloyd...
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Creepshow
Creepshow is an American horror-comedy anthology film directed by George A. Romero (of Night of the Living Dead and Dawn of the Dead fame), and written by Stephen King (Carrie, The Shining, Misery, The Stand).
It was considered a sleeper hit at the...
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Dracula: Dead and Loving It is a 1995 comedy film directed by Mel Brooks. It is a parody of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, and of some of the films it inspired.
In respect to plot and characters, the film follows the classic Dracula (1931),...
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Forbidden Planet
Forbidden Planet is a 1956 science fiction film in CinemaScope and Metrocolor directed by Fred M. Wilcox and starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen. The characters and setting were inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the...
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Men with Brooms
Men with Brooms is a 2002 Canadian romantic comedy film, starring and directed by Paul Gross. Centred on the sport of curling, the offbeat comedy tells the story of a reunited curling team from a small Canadian town as they work through their...
Mr. Magoo
Mr. Magoo is a 1997 live-action comedy film, based on the original cartoon of the same name. The film was produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and originally released to movie theaters in 1997. It starred Leslie Nielsen as the title character. It was...
Prom Night
Prom Night is a 1980 Canadian horror film starring Leslie Nielsen and Jamie Lee Curtis, directed by Paul Lynch. The original music score is composed by Paul Zaza and Carl Zittrer.
Prom Night was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from August 7, 1979...
Ransom!
Ransom! is a 1956 crime drama examining the reactions of parents, police, and the public to a kidnapping. Written by Richard Maibaum and Cyril Hume, the film was based on a popular episode of "The United States Steel Hour" titled "Fearful Decision,"...
Repossessed
Repossessed is a 1990 comedy film that spoofs the 1973 horror film The Exorcist.
The film features the original star of The Exorcist, Linda Blair, as well as Leslie Nielsen and Anthony Starke. Many gags were based around events in The Exorcist, such...
Scary Movie 3
Scary Movie 3 is a 2003 American dark comedy which parodies the horror, slasher, and mystery genres, and is directed by David Zucker. It is the third film of the Scary Movie franchise. The film's plot significantly parodies the films The Ring and...
Spy Hard
Spy Hard is a 1996 comedy/action film starring Leslie Nielsen and Nicollette Sheridan, parodying James Bond films and other action films.
Secret agent Dick Steele, Agent WD-40, has his work cut out for him. Along with the mysterious and lovely...
Surf Ninjas
Surf Ninjas is a 1993 American comedic family film involving martial arts, directed by Neal Israel and written by Dan Gordon. The film stars Ernie Reyes Jr., Rob Schneider, Nicolas Cowan, and Leslie Nielsen. Surf Ninjas follows two teenage surfers...
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! is a 1988 comedy film, the first in a series of films starring Leslie Nielsen, Priscilla Presley, George Kennedy, and O. J. Simpson. The three films (the other two being The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of...
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The Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult
Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult is a 1994 comedy film, the third and final film in the Naked Gun film series, which was based on the Police Squad! television series. The film was marketed with the tagline "Mostly all new jokes." The 33⅓ of the title...
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear is a 1991 comedy film starring Leslie Nielsen as the comically bumbling Police Lt. Frank Drebin of Police Squad!. Priscilla Presley plays the role of Jane, with O.J. Simpson as Nordberg and George Kennedy as...
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The Poseidon Adventure
The Poseidon Adventure is a 1972 American action-adventure disaster film based on a novel by Paul Gallico. It concerns the capsizing of a luxurious ocean liner by a tsunami caused by an under sea earthquake and the desperate struggles of a handful...
Santa Who?
Santa Who? is a TV movie first shown in 2000 on ABC, starring Leslie Nielsen, and directed by William Dear. The plot centers on Santa Claus developing a case of amnesia (specifically source amnesia) right before Christmas. As of 2009, it is shown in...
Soul Man
Soul Man is a comedy film made in 1986 about a man who undergoes racial transformation with pills to qualify for an African-American-only scholarship at Harvard Law School. It stars C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross, James Earl Jones,...
Wrongfully Accused
Wrongfully Accused is a 1998 comedy film starring Leslie Nielsen as a man who has been framed for murder by a one-armed, one-legged, one-eyed man. The film was written, produced, and directed by Pat Proft and is a parody of the 1993 film The...
Dark Intruder
Dark Intruder is a 1965 television movie that was released theatrically. It is a horror film starring Leslie Nielsen, Mark Richman and Judi Meredith set in San Francisco in 1890 concerning playboy sleuth Brett Kingsford ( Nielson). Kingsford is an...
2001: A Space Travesty
2001: A Space Travesty is a 2000 American film starring actor Leslie Nielsen. It is a parody of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The film has been featured in IMDB's bottom 100 list. The film also has a resemblance to the Pink Panther films, with the Clouseau...
The Creature Wasn't Nice
The Creature Wasn't Nice (also known as Naked Space and Spaceship) is a 1983 U.S. motion picture written and directed by Bruce Kimmel. The movie is a comedy farce satirizing extraterrestrial horror movies such as Alien. It stars Leslie Nielsen in a...
The Day of the Animals
The Day of the Animals is a 1977 American horror film thriller directed by William Girdler and based on a story written by Edward L. Montoro. Premiering on May 13, 1977, the movie reunited stars Christopher George and Richard Jaeckel, director...
Day of the Animals
The Day of the Animals is a 1977 American horror film thriller directed by William Girdler and based on a story written by Edward L. Montoro. Premiering on May 13, 1977, the movie reunited stars Christopher George and Richard Jaeckel, director...
The Sheepman
The Sheepman is a tongue-in-cheek 1958 Western film directed by George Marshall and starring Glenn Ford, Shirley MacLaine and Leslie Nielsen.
Gambler Jason Sweet (Glenn Ford) wins a herd of sheep in a poker game and proceeds to take them by train...
The Waterman Movie
The Waterman Movie is a 2008 animated comedy film based on the popular online animated series Waterman. The movie stars Bryan Waterman and Leslie Nielsen as Ready Espanosa. It is a full length ninety minute feature film. Planning for the project...
Viva Knievel!
Viva Knievel! is a 1977 action movie starring Evel Knievel (as himself), Gene Kelly, and Lauren Hutton.
Daredevil motorcycle rider Evel Knievel stars as himself in this fictional story. The film opens with Knievel sneaking into an orphanage late at...
Safety Patrol
Safety Patrol is a direct-to-TV movie released by Disney in 1998 and told of the exploits of Scout Bozell, a middle school student aspiring to become a member of the school's safety patrol (uniformed hall monitors). The film, originally, aired on...
Wrong Is Right
Wrong Is Right (Columbia Pictures, 1982) is a prescient black comedy thriller about the theft of two suitcase bombs, featuring the then novel plot conventions of media bias, government conspiracy, and Islamic terrorism. The film, which starred Sean...
City on Fire
City on Fire is a 1979 disaster film directed by Alvin Rakoff and featuring an “all-star cast,” as was the custom for that time. The film’s plot revolves around a disgruntled civil servant who sets fire to an oil refinery, setting off a blaze which...
Scary Movie 4
Scary Movie 4 is the fourth film of the Scary Movie franchise and is directed by David Zucker, written by Jim Abrahams, Craig Mazin and Pat Proft, and produced by Craig Mazin and Robert K. Weiss. It is distributed by The Weinstein Company via its...
Harlow
Harlow is the title of two competing biographical films, both released in 1965, one by Paramount Pictures and the other by foreign film distributor Magna Pictures, both portraying the life of actress Jean Harlow. The Paramount version stars Carroll...
Nuts
Nuts is a 1987 American drama film directed by Martin Ritt. The screenplay by Tom Topor, Darryl Ponicsan, and Alvin Sargent is based on Topor's 1979 play of the same title.
When call girl Claudia Draper kills client Allen Green in self-defense, her...
Beau Geste
Beau Geste is a 1966 film based on the novel by P. C. Wren.
In this version, the least faithful to the novel, there are two brothers instead of three, and Beau joins the Foreign Legion after taking the blame for a crime committed by his business...
Chilly Dogs
Kevin of the North is a 2001 film about an Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. The film, set in Alaska, stars Skeet Ulrich as Kevin Manley, a man who's grandfather has passed on and now must participate in the state's Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race in order...
The Opposite Sex
The Opposite Sex (1956) is a musical remake of the 1939 classic comedy The Women. Both films are based on Claire Boothe Luce's original play. The 1956 musical was directed by David Miller and stars June Allyson, Joan Collins, Dolores Gray, Ann...
Project Kill
Project: Kill is a 1976 action film directed by William Girdler and starring Leslie Nielsen before he began doing comedies. In the film, Nielsen plays John Trevor, a military agent who escapes from a secret government base where he had been the...
Bad Golf Made Easier
Bad Golf Made Easier (1993) is a 53-minute video by Leslie Nielsen. It is a parody of golf and other golf videos and books. It demonstrates many humorous bad golf swings, and a slogan found in it is: "You don't play golf to feel bad; you play bad...
The Reluctant Astronaut
The Reluctant Astronaut (1967) is a Universal Pictures feature film starring Don Knotts in a story about a kiddie-ride operator who is hired as a janitor at the Manned Space Center in Houston and is eventually sent into space. The film was produced...
Superhero!
Superhero Movie is a 2008 spoof film written and directed by Craig Mazin and produced by David Zucker and Robert K. Weiss. Superhero Movie starred Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Christopher McDonald, and Leslie Nielsen. It was originally titled Superhero!...
Tammy and the Bachelor
Tammy and the Bachelor is a 1957 romantic comedy film and is the first of the four Tammy movies. It stars Debbie Reynolds as Tambrey "Tammy" Tyree, Walter Brennan as Grandpa Dinwitty and Leslie Nielsen as Peter Brent. It was adapted from the book...
The Vagabond King
The Vagabond King is a 1956 musical film remake of the 1925 operetta The Vagabond King by Rudolf Friml. It starred Kathryn Grayson and Oreste Kirkop , with early roles for Rita Moreno and Leslie Nielsen. Cedric Hardwicke played a notable supporting...
Hot Summer Night
Hot Summer Night is a 1957 MGM crime film starring Leslie Nielsen, Colleen Miller, and Edward Andrews. While on his honeymoon, a reporter goes to dangerous lengths to interview a notorious bank robber.
See How They Run
See How They Run is a 1964 chase film broadcast on NBC. It is generally regarded as the first movie made for television.
Three orphans head for the US, unknowingly carrying important evidence pointing to the existence of a corrupt international...
Night Train To Paris
Night Train to Paris is a 1964 spy film starring Leslie Nielsen, Aliza Gur and Dorinda Stevens.
Former OSS officer Alan Holiday (Leslie Nielsen) is visited by Catherine Carrel (Aliza Gur) on New Year's Eve, Carrel says she's a close friend of Jules...
The Plainsman
The Plainsman is a Technicolor remake of the 1936 Cecil B. DeMille film of the same name. It stars Don Murray as Wild Bill Hickock, Guy Stockwell as Buffalo Bill Cody and Abby Dalton as Calamity Jane
Wild Bill Hickock, Buffalo Bill Cody and Calamity...
Code Name: Heraclitus
Code Name: Heraclitus is a 1967 American thriller film starring Stanley Baker and Leslie Nielsen.
Stanley Baker stars as a British spy who investigates the past of Lydia Constantine (Signe Hasso), the widow of secret agent Constantine (Kurt Kasznar)...
Gunfight In Abilene
Gunfight in Abilene is a 1967 western film. It is the second film based on the short story "Gun Shy" by Clarence Upson Young.
Dayton's Devils
Dayton's Devils is a 1968 Crime Film, it stars Rory Calhoun, Leslie Nielsen and Lainie Kazan it's also Rigg Kennedy's first film. M*A*S*H star Mike Farrell made a cameo appearance.
Frank Dayton (Leslie Nielsen) leads a group of crooks in a caper to...
Striker's Mountain
Strikers Mountain is a 1987 Action/Drama film starring Leslie Nielsen, August Schellenberg and Mimi Kuzyk It was nominated for two Gemini Awards, the biggest part of the film was filmed near Jasper and Alberta.
A construction conglomerate, headed by...
Counterpoint
Counterpoint (also known as The Battle Horns or The General) is an 1968 epic war film starring Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, and Leslie Nielsen. It's based on the novel "The General" by Alan Sillitoe.
Lionel Evans (Charlton Heston) is the...
Change of Mind
Change of Mind (1969) is a science fiction/drama film starring Raymond St. Jacques, Susan Oliver, Janet MacLachlan, and Leslie Nielsen.
A married couple struggles to adjust when the husband's brain is transplanted into the skull of a black man....
Companions in Nightmare
Companions in Nightmare is a 1968 crime-drama film. it had early roles for Louis Gossett Jr. and Bettye Ackerman it also starred Gig Young, Melvyn Douglas, Patrick O'Neal and Leslie Nielsen
Dr. Lawrence Strelson (Melvyn Douglas) is a famous...
Four Rode Out
Four Rode Out is a 1971 Spanish/American adventure/western film starring Sue Lyon and Leslie Nielsen.
In this western, a Mexican desperado tries to flee his partner, a determined girlfriend, and a US Marshal.
Camouflage
Camouflage is a 2001 comedy film/action film starring Leslie Nielsen and Lochlyn Munro.
Germany: Camouflage - Alles nur Tarnung
Brazil: Camuflagem
Poland: Kamuflaz
Spain: Camuflaje
Bad Golf My Way
Bad Golf My Way is a short movie by actor Leslie Nielsen it's the sequel to his first golf video Bad Golf Made Easier
Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree
Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree is a television Christmas special that first aired in 1995. The special stars Robert Downey, Jr., Leslie Nielsen, and Stockard Channing. It also features Kermit the Frog as a narrator and various other muppets created...
Stupid Little Golf Video
Stupid Little Golf Video (released as Leslie Nielsen's Stupid Little Golf Video in the USA) is the third and last of the how-to-golf-badly trilogy. (The other two are Bad Golf Made Easier and Bad Golf My Way.) It is the only one that is released on...
An American Carol
An American Carol is a 2008 American comedy film, directed by David Zucker and starring Kevin Farley. Presented from a conservative perspective, the film "lampoons contemporary American culture, particularly Hollywood." It uses the...
