Unfortunately, Leslie Nielsen has left us, that actor that gave us so many good and fun moments with films like "Airplane!", "The Naked Gun: From the files of Police squad!", "Dracula: Dead and Loving It", "Spy Hard". "Mr. Magoo", "Scary Movie 3", "Scary Movie 4", "Spanish Movie"...
But did you know that...
He was Canadian, his father was Danish, and his mother Welsh.
When he was a child he suffered rickets, and this left him with his legs bent, what gave him his peculiar way of walking.
As a child, he was quite clever and used his jokes to scape from some punishments.
He arrived Hollywood with the dream of being an actor hitchhiking because he had no money.
His first times in Hollywood were a failure and he had to go back to Canada.
He worked for some time as a disc jokey
One of his first jobs was with Marlon Brando in "Actor's Studio".
His first great play as a comedy actor came with "Airplane!", because many of his previous characters were villains or assassin.
He had a hearing problem and used hearing aids.
He made more than 100 movies and hundreds of TV programs.
He married 4 times.
Although in most of his career he played the part of a seducer, he will pass to History as one of the most famous comedy actors in the world.
He was ambassador of UNICEF in Canada.
He was a supportive man that supported charity organizations. They even made him a tribute in 2004 in the ceremony "So the world may hear".
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