Leslie Nielsen

Leslie Nielsen
Date of Birth: 11 Feb 1926
Country: Canada
Biography: Leslie William Nielsen, OC was a Canadian and naturalized American actor and comedian. Nielsen appeared in over one hundred films and 1,500 television programs over the span of his career, portraying over 220 characters. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Nielsen enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and worked as a disc jockey before receiving a scholarship to Neighborhood Playhouse... (Wikipedia)
Total Credits at Criticker: 101 (Actor)
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
Leslie Nielsen stars as Police Squad's own granite-jawed, rock-brained cop Frank Drebin, who bumbles across a mind-control scheme to assassinate Queen Elizabeth. Priscilla Presley, O.J. Simpson, a stuffed beaver, two baseball teams and an odd assortment of others join the wacko goings-on and blow the laugh-o-meter to smithereens. (Paramount)
Scary Movie 3
A mysterious killer video tape is circulating around. One look at this tape and you have seven days left to live. News Reporter Cindy Campbell (Faris) witnesses this video tape and tries to work out a way to prevent her death. But this is not the only mystery to appear. Crop circles have been appearing in the local farm of Tom (Sheen) and George (Rex). With help from Aunt Shaneequa (Latifah), Cindy suspects that the aliens may be linked with the killer tape and must now work out both mysteries before it's the end of the world. (imdb)
Airplane!
An airplane crew takes ill. Surely the only person capable of landing the plane is an ex-pilot afraid to fly. But don't call him Shirley.
Surf Ninjas
Two Asian-American "surfer-dude" brothers discover they are the long lost princes from a China Sea Island... (imdb)
The Unknown Marx Brothers
Leslie Nielsen hosts this retrospective of the Marx Brothers, from their early career on stage to their post-film career in television... (imdb)
The Battle of Gettysburg
This film was shot entirely at the Gettysburg National Military Park, where the decisive battle of the American Civil War was fought... (imdb)
The Poseidon Adventure
A group of passengers struggle to survive and escape, when their ocean liner completely capsizes at sea. (imdb)
Wrongfully Accused
Ryan Harrison is framed for murder and must prove himself innocent by finding a mysterious one-eyed, one-armed, one-legged man after escaping from a bus accident on the way to jail. (imdb)
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult
Frank Drebin comes out of retirement to help Police Squad infiltrate a gang of terrorists planning to detonate a bomb at the Academy Awards. (imdb)
The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear
Lieutenant Drebin discovers that his ex-girlfriend's new beau is involved in a plot to kidnap a scientist who advocates solar energy. (imdb)
Spy Hard
General Rancor is threatening to destroy the world with a missile he is hiding at his secret base. But to complete his goal, he needs a special computer chip, invented by the scientist Prof. Ukrinsky. (imdb)
2001: A Space Travesty
Leslie Nielsen once again plays a bumbling detective in the vein of the 'Naked Gun' movies, but this time as Marshall Richard 'Dick' Dix... (imdb)
Dracula: Dead and Loving It
Another spoof from the mind of Mel Brooks. This time he's out to poke fun at the Dracula myth. (imdb)
Mr. Magoo
The myopic millionaire defeats jewel smugglers in his usual bumbling manner. (imdb)
Creepshow
Inspired by the E.C. comics of the 1950s, George A.Romero and Stephen King bring five tales of terror to the screen. (imdb)
Forbidden Planet
A starship crew goes to investigate the silence of a planet's colony only to find two survivors and a deadly secret that one of them has. (imdb)
Soul Man
To achieve his dream of attending Harvard, a pampered teen poses as a young black man to receive a full scholarship. (imdb)
Scary Movie 4
What do you get when you mix fearless comedic genius with the latest box-office blockbusters? You guessed it. The Scary Movie gang is back with the most hilarious and irreverent installment yet. (The Weinstein Company)
Harlow
In this story, Harlow starts in the movies as set dressing, the pretty girl who is used for the glamour shots... (imdb)
Prom Night
A masked killer stalks four teens responsible for the accidential death of a child six years earlier at their high school's senior prom. (imdb)
Men with Brooms
Paul Gross stars as the leader of a recently reunited curling team from a small Canadian town. This offbeat comedy follows the team as they work through their respective life issues and struggle to win the championship for the sake of their late coach. (imdb)
The Resurrection of Zachary Wheeler
A U.S. Senator is spirited away to a secret New Mexico medical lab after a serious car crash. His injuries are completely healed by a secret organization that has developed advanced medical technology. What does the organization want in exchange for saving his life? Meanwhile, a reporter who witnessed the accident decides to investigate the senator's disappearance. (imdb)
Repossessed
A parody of "The Exorcist", the famous horror. The main female character plays a mother in a family now. She watch the TV all day, and the devil possesses her certainly. The modern devil chaser is Leslie Nielsen, who fights with the devil in a TV show. (imdb)
Pirates: 3D Show
Captain Lucky and his crew of no good pirates venture to an exotic island to find the customary treasure. Unfortunately a young boy with a vengeance has other ideas! (IMDB Comments)
Project: Kill
John Trevor escapes from the military base where he commanded Project: Kill, a mind control experiment that used drugs to create bodyguards and assassins for the United States and makes his way to the Philippines. Soon Trevor finds himself in love with Lee Su and feeling the with drawl symptoms from the drugs for the mind control that make him very dangerous not only to himself but everyone around him... (imdb)
Day of the Animals
The depletion of the earth's ozone layer causes animals above the altitude of 5000 feet to run amok, which is very unfortunate for a group of hikers who get dropped off up there by helicopter just before the quarantine is announced. (imdb)
How to Commit Marriage
Young couple decide to live together and they wind up having a baby. They decide they should give the baby up for adoption. The baby's Mother's parents wind up adopting the baby using a fake name. (imdb)
The Reluctant Astronaut
Don Knotts is Roy Fleming, a small town kiddie-ride operator who is deathly afraid of heights. After learning that his father has signed him up for the space program, Roy reluctantly heads for Houston, only to find out upon arriving that his job is a janitor, not an astronaut. Anxious to live up to the expectations of his domineering father, Roy manages to keep up a facade of being an astronaut to his family and friends.(imdb)
Nuts
A high-class call girl (Streisand) kills a customer in self-defense. To avoid scandal, her parents try to have her declared mentally incompetent. Not helping matters is that she is very distrustful of everybody, including her court-appointed attorney (Dreyfuss), and is very disruptive during her court hearings. (imdb)
Camouflage
Marty Mackenzie (Lochlyn Munro) is an unsuccessful stage actor who takes an interest in private investigating. He takes a job working with Jack Potter (Leslie Nielsen) a crusty private eye. They both take a case in Beaver Ridge, a seedy small town where a murder is being planned against a rich gravel pit owner. Marty realises that private investigating is not as it seemed to be. (imdb)
Superhero Movie
A send-up of superhero films, from Batman Begins to Fantastic Four. (imdb)
Columbo
Columbo (1971) - TV Series
City on Fire
A pyromaniac, ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city. (imdb)
The Sheepman
A stranger in a Western cattle-town behaves with remarkable self-assurance, establishing himself as a man to be reckoned with. The reason appears with his stock: a herd of sheep, which he intends to graze on the range. The horrified inhabitants decide to run him out at all costs. (imdb)
Tammy and the Bachelor
An unsophisticated young woman from the Mississippi swamps falls in love with an unconventional southern gentleman. (imdb)
Harvey
Harvey (1998) - TV Movie
A remake of the 1950 film of the same name. An unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey (imdb)
An American Carol
An anti-American filmmaker who's out to abolish the July Fourth holiday is visited by three ghosts who try to change his perception of the country.
Wrong Is Right
Only Patrick Hale can prevent a desperate president, the head of the CIA, a trigger happy general, terrorists, an arms dealer, and religious fanatics from destroying our world, but he has other things on his mind. (imdb)
Gunfight in Abilene
Fighting in the Civil War a man accidentally kills his friend. Returning to Abilene after the war he finds his former sweetheart about to marry the brother of the man he killed. To pay his debt he not only refuses to win her back but takes the job of Sheriff when the brother asks him. Still haunted by the killing he refuses to carry a gun. But there is trouble between the ranchers and the farmers and when he finds the brother murdered he straps on a gun and heads after the killer. (imdb)
The Amsterdam Kill
Former DEA Agent Quinlan, removed from the force some years earlier for stealing confiscated drug money, is hired by Chung Wei, a leader in the Amsterdam drug cartel, who wants out of the business. Quinlan's job is to use Chung's information to tip DEA agents to drug busts, thereby destroying the cartel. But when the first two "tips" go awry, resulting in murdered DEA officers, the feds must decide whether to trust Quinlan further... (imdb)
Ransom!
The Stannard's son is kidnapped for ransom. Plot centers around Ford's (the father) efforts to find him. (imdb)
The Opposite Sex
Kay Hilliard, a former nightclub singer, married ten years and mother of a young daughter, is informed that her husband Steve is having an affair with chorus girl Crystal, so she goes to Reno for a divorce. After that, Steve marries Crystal, but Crystal isn't true. When Kay hears about this, she starts fighting to win her ex-husband back. (imdb)
Rent-a-Kid
Rent-a-Kid (1995) - TV Movie
An adoption agency allows customers to rent prospective adoptees for a trial period.
Slap Shot 3: The Junior League
A team of young hockey players with little skill and a knack for losing gets a chance to salvage its miserable season under the guidance of the outrageous Hanson Brothers, Steve (Steve Carlson), Jeff (Jeff Carlson) and Jack (David Hanson). The third installment in the Slap Shot series, this action-packed sports comedy features Leslie Nielsen and all-star hockey players Mark Messier and Doug Gilmour. (netflix.com)
Can Ellen Be Saved?
A young girl in search of spiritual enlightenment joins a religious cult, and becomes the focus of a struggle between her family and the group. (imdb)
Change of Mind
A white man's brain is transplanted into a black man's skull. (imdb)
Naked Space
When the spaceship Vertigo stops to explore a previously unknown planet, the crew finds an unrecognized dollop of protoplasm and takes it aboard ship to return it to earth for analysis. On board, lifeform expands into an oozing person-eating monster which communicates primarily by means of a Vegas lounge act. The crew is gobbled up one after another until the two surviving crew members come up with a plan. (imdb)
Stan Helsing
It's classic Scary Movie-like parody on "Van Helsing", "Hellraiser", "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" ...
Cave-In!
Cave-In! (1983) - TV Movie
A party of tourists -- including a state senator, a park ranger who was her one-time lover, a cantankerous professor, and an escaped convict -- are trapped deep inside the caverns of an unnamed national park, rescued briefly, and then caught in a second cave-in. (TCM)
Dark Intruder
Police call in occult expert to help solve series of murders. (imdb)
Counterpoint
Famous orchestra conductor is captured by the Germans in WW2, is forced to put on private concerts for the Nazi generals. (imdb)
Rosie!
Rosie is a sweet, rich and generous woman, especially when is comes to giving money. Daughters, Mildred and Edith, are worried that she will spend all their inheritance, so they plan to have Rosie put away in a home and have her legally declared insane. When Daphne,(Rosie's devoted and caring grand-daughter), over hears their plan, she vows to help her grandmother win. (imdb)
All I Want for Christmas
Two New York City children launch a scheme to get what they most want for Christmas... their parents back together!
Santa Who?
Santa Who? (2000) - TV Movie
The last thing Tv reporter Peter Albright expects when covering the typical trivial Christmas story is to get a great scoop. But then he never expected the real Santa Claus to drop into his life - litteraly. (DVD cover)
Beau Geste
Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs. (imdb)
Viva Knievel!
As the legendary stuntman travels to Mexico to prepare for one of his greatest stunts yet, he takes time out of his schedule to meet his fans, help out lonely orphans, and try to get his alcoholic mechanic to reconcile with his son. While all of this is going on, Evel's main rival is plotting to have Evel killed and then get rich by using the Team Evel 18-wheeler to smuggle cocaine into America. (imdb)
The Return of Charlie Chan
Charlie Chan investigates a murder case aboard the yacht of a wealthy Greek shipping tycoon. (imdb)
Hauser\
A scientist is persuaded by the government to inject himself with the brain fluid of a dying colleague in order to preserve missile-defense secrets. However, he finds that he is now torn between his own wife and that of his dead colleague, who was a Nazi sympathizer. (imdb)
Hot Summer Night
A big-city reporter between jobs is traveling with his wife through a small Ozarks town and gets a lead on a bank robbery. He tracks down the brutal gang that committed the robbery, only to discover that they are something of a source of pride to the locals. His hopes of getting back into the big time with this story are dashed when his "interview" with the gang leader goes awry and he and his wife find themselves hostages. (imdb)
How to Steal the World
Secret agent Napoleon Solo fights to stop a top-secret plot to conquer the world. (TCM)
S.P.Q.R.: 2,000 and a Half Years Ago
Some things never change as this Italian comedy which spoofs government corruption, sports, night clubs, and the Mafia, amply proves.
The Vagabond King
In 1461, French nobles fearing King Louis XI may seize their lands, join forces with the rebellious Duke of Burgundy to overthrow the king. One of the Duke's captains suggests enlisting the aid of Francois Villon who is known to oppose the king and is leader of the Vagabonds, a group that robs the rich to aid the poor. In league with Burgundy, Villon and two of his cohorts enter Paris, but are captured by the king's men. (imdb)
Dangerous Curves
Two college student decide to go spend some quality time at a beauty pageant with the help of their Porsche. (imdb)
Dayton\
A crook brings together a group of ex-cons and other misfits in order to rob the payroll at an Air Force base. (imdb)
Kevin of the North
A man must participate in the Iditarod dog race across Alaska to inherit property from his legendary grandfather, but ends up getting much more than he bargained for. (imdb)
Summerslam
Summerslam (1994) - TV Special
WWF title (steel cage match): Bret Hart vs. Owen Hart, WWF Intercontinental title: Diesel vs. Razor Ramon, WWF Women's title: Alundra Blayze vs. Bull Nakano, Undertaker vs. Undertaker, I.R.S. & Bam Bam Bigelow vs. The Headshrinkers, Lex Luger vs. Tatanka, Mabel vs. Jeff Jarrett. (imdb)
Incident in San Francisco
A man who tries to stop a mugging finds himself accused of murdering the criminal after the victim and witnesses fail to corroborate his story. A young reporter believes the man and tries to find out why the parties involved are trying to frame the man. (imdb)
Foxfire Light
A spoiled rich girl used to getting her way comes up against a rancher who won't be intimidated by her. (imdb)
Safety Patrol
Scout Bozell idolizes the uniformed Safety Patrol kids who keep watch at his junior high school, and he dreams of being one of them, even though his constant, catastrophic clumsiness makes him something very much like an adolescent Inspector Clouseau. When he transfers to a new school, Scout tries to cozy up to the Safeties there, unaware that this bunch is a mini-criminal gang who shake down other students and conspire a series of employee thefts with the help of two adult crooks on staff.
And Millions Die!
Nazi war criminal Franz Kessler is an expert in germ warfare living in Hong Kong. In order to maintain his rich lifestyle he does a deal to provide terrorists them with a lethal gas. To protect himself he plants a timebomb in a Hong Kong sewer along with a large sample of his wares. When things don't go to plan the police find themselves in a desperate search to prevent it from detonating. (imdb)
Brink\
In this telling of the infamous 1950 robbery, James McNally is portrayed as the one gang member who maintains his silence in the face of extreme police pressure. When he is sent up to prison and sees the other gang members letting him take all the heat, he still doesn't come clean to the cops. He feels a loyalty to his best friend, who was also in on the crime. But what will his best friend choose to do? (imdb)
Family Plan
After death of a man who managed summer camp for kids, his son-in-law plans to close it and build a luxury summer resort. However, manager's friend, Harry has an idea how to save the children's camp. (imdb)
Four Rode Out
A U.S. marshal sets out to bring in a Mexican bandit accused of killing his girlfriend's father, but it turns out that there's more to the story than there first appears to be. (imdb)
Home Is Where the Hart Is
Nurse and con artist Belle Haimes (Valri Bromfield) lives with her dull-witted husband Rex Haimes (Stephen E. Miller) in the Hart Mansion in British Columbia. There she cares for the invalid, 103 year-old Slim Hart, aka Pappy, (Joe Austin) and his wife, Minnie (Enid Saunders) who is in a coma. (imdb)
Due South
Due South (1994) - TV Series
The cases of a cynical American police detective and a upright Royal Canadian Mounted Police constable in the city of Chicago. (imdb)
The Patriot
Agent tries to track down terrorists who are intercepting government nuclear weapons. (imdb)
Mr. Willowby\
A single Christmas tree becomes the source of cheer for the people and animals living around Mr. Willowby's estate. Based on the children's book of the same name. (imdb)
Snatched
Snatched (1973) - TV Movie
The wives of three wealthy men are kidnapped and held for a $3 million ransom, but one of the men doesn't want to pay his share.
The Letters
The Letters (1973) - TV Movie
Story of people whose lives were changed because of a year-long delay in the delivery of some letters.
A Choice of Two
The film stars Moore as a corporate chairman who is preparing to retire, and is choosing his successor; the candidates are a charming rogue (Nielsen) who is having an affair with the chairman's daughter (Bastedo), and a humorless schemer (Gary Reineke). However, in the process a major corporate fraud is uncovered, necessitating an investigation by Revenue Canada to identify the fraudster (Wikipedia)
The Bold Ones: The Protectors
Sam Danforth is a big city deputy police chief whose old fashioned way of handling things didn't always work in the changing world. He teams with DA William Washburn, who is more adaptable in dealing with crime.
Riel
Riel (1979) - TV Movie
A film about the actions of the Metis rebel leader who opposed the Canadian government in two separate rebellions.
Trial Run
Trial Run (1969) - TV Movie
A slice-of-life drama involving a young lawyer, his adoring secretary who tries to help to advance his career, and his employer, a famed lawyer burdened with an unfaithful wife.
The Plainsman
Calamity Jane tries to help Buffalo Bill Cody and Wild Bill Hickock stop an Indian war.
Reckless Disregard
Meredith Craig is lawyer who has a small practice. She is then approached by a Dr. Lucas who is a doctor at a clinic, who was exposed on a television news program as writing prescriptions for drugs in exchange for money. He says that he is innocent and asks Meredith to file a lawsuit against the program and its staff. Can a small lawyer beat a big television network? (imdb)
See How They Run
Three children are stalked by hired killers after they unknowingly take evidence pointing to the existence of a corrupt international cartel, which has just murdered their father. This was the first made for TV movie. It debuted on NBC on October 7, 1964.
Night Train to Paris
Former OSS officer Alan Holiday, now living in London, is visited on New Year's Eve by Catherine Carrel who says she is a close friend of Jules Lemoine who served with Holiday during the war. Lemoine urgently requests that Holiday go to Paris on a secret mission. Lemoine visits and wants Alan to deliver a reel of tape which he gives him, and keeps a fake reel himself to deceive enemy agents. Lemoine is killed and the fake tape stolen. Holiday, poses as an assistant to photographer Louis Vernay,
They Call It Murder
A small-town district attorney is saddled with several major investigations, including a gambler's murder and a possible insurance scam.
Suspense
Suspense (1949) - TV Series
Live plays featuring people who were in dangerous and threatening situations.
Thriller
Thriller (1960) - TV Series
Leslie Nielsen\
Notoriously maladroit golf enthusiast Nielsen returns to the green, dispensing more how-to tips for the beginning bad golfer. Includes advice on how to reduce your score by skipping the last hole and how to improve your cart-driving skills. (imdb)
Tales of Tomorrow
Anthology series featuring both classic and modern sci-fi themes that was performed and broadcast live.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Nightstick
Nightstick (1987) - TV Movie
A cop tries to prevent a gang of extortionists from blowing up New York City with nitroglycerin. (imdb)
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
The Streets of San Francisco
The Railway Dragon
Emily, an 8 year old girl, and a centuries year old Railway Dragon, share an adventure that they'll never forget. (imdb)
The Fugitive
Kung Fu
Family Guy