Looking back almost a year to Leslie Nielsen’s death back in 2010, a last joke is now engraved to the comedian’s tomb stone saying “Let ‘er Rip” which is a dedication to his love of fart jokes. Leslie Nielsen is a talented actor who was born on February 11th 1926 in Saskatchewan, Canada. During his early life, Leslie Nielsen and his three brothers were raised in a very strict household as their father is a member of the Royal Canadian Mountie. The family lived in a secluded place before they decided to move to Edmonton when they come to school age. Leslie Nielsen pursued an acting career after he received a scholarship in New York. Before his acting career he was enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force, became a DJ and an announcer in a Canadian radio station which he said had helped him a lot in his future career as an actor.
Leslie Nielsen’s early career
Leslie Nielsen got his first television role shortly after he moved to New York upon receiving his scholarship. The “Battleship Bismarck” which was aired in 1949 is the first television show he was involved in and the role brought him to star more television related shows for the next few years. He later decided that big screen movies are better choice of a career and decided to relocate to Hollywood in the mid 50s. Forbidden Planet showed in 1956 is his first big screen debut which received a good response from the audience as well as the critics. The movie is regarded as an early start for genres like star wars and star trek. Leslie Nielsen’s career however slumped during the sixties and the seventies as there are simply too many actors with his kind of handsomeness and he was in need of something different to make it big. In the span of that ten years Leslie Nielsen was involved in over fifty movies, all of which are sadly low quality but it was needed to keep life goes on.
Leslie Nielsen’s success
The Airplane! Movie in the early 80s is the one movie that would jump starts his fame once more. Combined with the success of the Naked Gun trilogy, Leslie Nielsen would then be famously known as one of the best male comedian of all time. His successes although mostly achieved in the comedy movie genre are not just limited in that particular genre. Leslie Nielsen had been involved in a way or another in the making of more than 200 movie titles. Upon his death, Leslie Nielsen’s tomb stone still keeps a memorial of a final joke by the comedy legend, “Let ‘er Rip”.