Leslie Nielsen, whose career went from officious and villainous types to the hilariously buffoony roles in Airplane! and the Naked Gun movies, died Sunday of complications from pneumonia, his agent told TVGuide.com. He was 84.
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He was surrounded by family when he died in a hospital near his Fort Lauderdale, Fla., home.
The actor had a whole career before becoming one of the funniest guys in movies. He typically played people who were quite humorless.
Before his starring roles in The Poseidon Adventure and Forbidden Planet, he appeared in several live television series such as Lights Out, Tales of Tomorrow and Armstrong Circle Theatre.
A student of the Actors Studio, the Canadian-born Nielsen went on to appear in innumerable episodes of various TV series, spanning the Golden Age of Television and its anthologies including...
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New releases announced today, February 13:
Father Knows Best - Season 3 will be coming out June 9
Peyton Place - Part 1 will be coming out May 19
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Per Variety, Kevin Kline is in talks to join Tom Hanks and his son, Colin Hanks, in the magician comedy The Great Buck Howard.... Sandra Bullock will headline and coproduce a feature about Peyton Place author Grace Metalious.... Disney has big plans for 2007: The CGI-animated Meet the Robinsons will bow Feb. 9, Pirates of the Caribbean 3 will wash ashore on Memorial Day 2007 (part 2, Dead Man's Chest, hits theaters this July 7), and The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian has been assigned a Dec. 14 release.
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Life is looking good for General Hospital's Tyler Christopher, who plays brooding prince Nikolas Cassadine. Per his official website, the Daytime Emmy nominee has landed a role in Secrets of a Small Town, an ABC drama pilot created by GH co-head writer Charles Pratt Jr. Guess it helps to have friends in high places! Pratt's modern-day Peyton Place is a mystery yarn about a sleepy-seeming hamlet that's rocked by a cheerleader's murder. But before fans freak out — "Is Tyler leaving us?!" — let's wait and see if Secrets actually gets ABC's greenlight after the pilot is made. C'mon now, breathe.
On the personal front, the word is that Tyler recently resumed dating GH costar Natalia Livingston (Emily
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