Leslie Nielsen, the Canadian-born actor who in middle ... his 18th birthday and trained as an aerial gunner during World War II, but he was never sent overseas. He began his career in radio ...

Leslie Nielsen, who traded in his dramatic persona for inspired bumbling as a hapless doctor in "Airplane!" and the accident-prone detective Frank Drebin in "The Naked Gun" comedies, died on ...

"The Swamp Fox" episodes aired between 1959 and 1961 and starred the inimitable Leslie Nielsen ... In real life, Nielsen served in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II.

Leslie Nielsen ... War fighter Francis Marion in the Disney TV adventure series “The Swamp Fox” and had roles in such TV series as “The New Breed” and “Bracken’s World.” ...

LOS ANGELES (AP / CBS 2) - Despite decades spent playing sober commanders and serious captains, Leslie Nielsen insisted ... After the war, Nielsen worked as a disc jockey at a Calgary radio ...

A lovably disastrous detective who, dressed as an umpire, mugs Queen Elizabeth II to save her from assassination. Nielsen ... Canadian Mounted Police. -In World War II, he was an aerial gunner ...