{"id":15450,"date":"2010-11-29T13:34:37","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T04:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/?p=15450"},"modified":"2010-11-29T16:14:36","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T06:44:36","slug":"vale-leslie-nielsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/2010\/11\/29\/vale-leslie-nielsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale &#8211; Leslie Nielsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_15451\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15451\" style=\"width: 455px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15451 \" title=\"705400-leslie-nielsen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/705400-leslie-nielsen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"455\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/705400-leslie-nielsen.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/705400-leslie-nielsen-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15451\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leslie Nielsen - 1926-2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Canadian actor and comedian Leslie Nielsen has died, aged 84. The white haired actor was best known as the deadpan star of <em>The Naked Gun<\/em> and its sequels, as well as the <em>Flying High<\/em> films (known in some territories as Airplane!).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nielsen appeared in a variety of straight roles in his early career, notably in the sci-fi classic <em>Forbidden Planet<\/em>, as well as the original <em>Poseiden Adventure<\/em>, prior to his career-changing role in <em>Flying High<\/em>. Among his many early films, he appeared in <em>The Opposite Sex, The Plainsman, How To Steal The World, How To Commit Marriage<\/em> and <em>City On Fire<\/em>. His post-<em>Flying High<\/em> comedic roles include <em>The Naked Gun, Dracula: Dead And Loving It, Spy Hard, Mr Magoo, 2001: A Space Travesty, Scary Movie 3 &amp; 4, Superhero Movie<\/em> and <em>Stan Helsing<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Leslie Nielsen died in his sleep, in a Florida hospital, on November 28th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian actor and comedian Leslie Nielsen has died, aged 84. The white haired actor was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48482,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituary"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","covernews-featured":"","covernews-medium":"","profile_24":"","profile_48":"","profile_96":"","profile_150":"","profile_300":"","sow-carousel-default":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Rodney Twelftree","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/author\/rodney\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/category\/film-general\/obituary\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Obituary<\/a>","tag_info":"Obituary","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fernbyfilms.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}