"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, 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 ...

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 ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — 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 ...

(CBS) —Leslie ... Kelly. Nielsen came to Hollywood in the mid-1950s after performing in 150 live television dramas in New York. With a craggily handsome face, blond hair and 6-foot-2 height ...