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Comedy legend and star of Airplane!, Spy Hard, Scary Movie 3 and The Naked Gun trilogy Leslie Nielsen has died in hospital while being treated for Pneumonia.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11860014

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Veteran comic actor Leslie Nielsen, star of Airplane! and The Naked Gun, has died at the age of 84.

He died in hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where he was being treated for pneumonia, his agent John S Kelly said.

Canadian-born Nielsen started out as a serious actor but in 1980, his role as a hapless doctor in the disaster spoof film Airplane! made him a comic star.

In all, he appeared in more than 100 films and had a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

"With his friends and his wife by his side, he just fell asleep and passed away," his nephew Doug Nielsen told the AFP news agency.

'Don't call me Shirley' Born in the Canadian city of Regina in 1926, Leslie Nielsen enjoyed an acting career which spanned six decades.

He started as a television actor in New York in 1950, performing in about 150 live dramas.

Moving to Hollywood in the mid-1950s, he initially carved out a film career as a leading man, capitalising on his craggy good looks and 6ft 2in (187cm) height.

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Leslie Nielsen was 54 when he became an international star in Airplane!

In 1980, however, his deadpan delivery in comedy disaster movie Airplane! marked him out as a gifted clown.

It was in this role that he became known for the line: "Don't call me Shirley."

The success of Airplane! led to another TV role in spoof crime show Police Squad, where he first played accident-prone detective Frank Drebin.

He went on to make three films as the character in the Naked Gun series, starring opposite Priscilla Presley.

Nearly two weeks ago - at the age of 84 - Nielsen was taken into hospital in Florida where he lived, suffering from pneumonia.

His condition worsened over the last two days and relatives said he passed away peacefully.

Very sad news, I basically grew up with movies like Airplane and Naked Gun :(

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Yeah it's kinda weird, was only a few weeks ago one of my friends had a Facebook status that was saying we need another Naked Gun movie while he can still do them etc. Airplane etc has also come up in a few conversations over the last couple of months...

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:( he was class, i remember Police Squad, Airplane & Naked Gun & loads of others, also he is on one of my all time fave movies, the Poseidon Adventure where he was the ships captain, i always watch it on or around New Years eve/day.

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"Surely he's not dead? He is, and don't call me Shirley" - Thats the headline for the story I saw in a paper yesterday. Very sad news, but I think the man himself would have had a giggle at that if he could read it.

I think I'm too young to know who he is but I read it several times on Twitter.... RIP

I may be wrong, but I think he had a part in the most recent Scary Movie film. Don't quote me on that though, but I know it was definitly a parody film in the last 2 or 3 years.

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