R.I.P.

R.I.P. Heinz Weiss (89)

Een van de meest populairste Duitse acteurs..

Onvergetelijk als krijgsgevangen soldaat Clemens Forell, in 'So weit die Füsse tragen' (1959)

Samen met George Nader speelde Weiss in 8 'Jerry Cotton' films.

In de populaire TV serie 'Das Traumschiff' speelde Weiss jarenlang de rol van kapitein.

Voor mij zal hij altijd Soldaat Forell blijven.

Toevallig heb ik de TV serie vorige week weer eens op DVD bekeken.

Ook nu , na vele herhalingen, nog steeds pakkend.

Heinz Weiss - IMDb

R.I.P. Heinz Weiss

Zegt me helaas niks.

R.I.P. Heinz Weiss

'So weit die Füsse tragen' als jonge jongen gezien (1972?) en nog weet ik scènes te herinneren.

RIP Heinz Weiss

Frapant feit is dat Heinz Weiss, na de amputatie van zijn rechterbeen in 1999, nu overleden is aan complicaties met een oude nooit genezen oorlogswond.

Of hoe dicht het leven van een acteur (ongewild) bij een rol kan komen zo te zeggen.

Siberië -> Persië

Een aardige wandeling.

Actor Leslie Nielsen, best known for his film roles in "Airplane" and "The Naked Gun" series, died Sunday of complications from pneumonia, his family said.

Nielsen, 84, died in a hospital near his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, surrounded by his wife and friends.

"In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations in his name to the charity of your choice," the family said in a statement.

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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 Naked Gun" comedies, died on Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 84.

The Canadian-born actor died from complications from pneumonia at a hospital near his home at 5:34 p.m., surrounded by his wife, Barbaree, and friends, his agent John S. Kelly said in a statement.

"We are saddened by the passing of beloved actor Leslie Nielsen, probably best remembered as Lt. Frank Drebin in 'The Naked Gun' series of pictures, but who enjoyed a more than 60-year career in motion pictures and television," said 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, he seemed ideal for a movie leading man.

Nielsen first performed as the king of France in the Paramount operetta "The Vagabond King" with Kathryn Grayson.

The film - he called it "The Vagabond Turkey" - flopped, but MGM signed him to a seven-year contract.

His first film for that studio was auspicious - as the space ship commander in the science fiction classic "Forbidden Planet." He found his best dramatic role as the captain of an overturned ocean liner in the 1972 disaster movie, "The Poseidon Adventure."

He became known as a serious actor, although behind the camera he was a prankster. That was an aspect of his personality never exploited, however, until "Airplane!" was released in 1980 and became a huge hit.

As the doctor aboard a plane in which the pilots, and some of the passengers, become violently ill, Nielsen says they must get to a hospital right away.

"A hospital? What is it?" a flight attendant asks, inquiring about the illness.

"It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now," Nielsen deadpans.

When he asks a passenger if he can fly the plane, the man replies, "Surely you can't be serious."

Nielsen responds: "I am serious, and don't call me Shirley."

Critics argued he was being cast against type, but Nielsen disagreed.

"I've always been cast against type before," he said, adding comedy was what he'd really always wanted to do.

It was what he would do for most of the rest of his career, appearing in such comedies as "Repossessed" (a takeoff on the demonic possession movies like "The Exorcist") and "Mr. Magoo," in which he played the title role of the good-natured bumbler.

Nielsen did play Debbie Reynolds' sweetheart in the popular "Tammy and the Bachelor," a loanout to Universal, and he became well known to baby boomers for his role as the Revolutionary War fighter Francis Marion in the Disney TV adventure series "The Swamp Fox."

Unhappy with his roles at MGM, he asked to be released from his contract. As a freelancer, he appeared in a series of undistinguished movies.

"I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts; perhaps it was my Canadian accent," he reasoned.

Meanwhile, he remained active in television in guest roles. He also starred in his own series, "The New Breed," "The Protectors" and "Bracken's World," but all were short-lived.

Then "Airplane!" captivated audiences and changed everything.

Producers-directors-writers Jim Abrahams, David and Jerry Zucker had hired Robert Stack, Peter Graves, Lloyd Bridges and Nielsen to spoof their heroic TV images in a satire of flight-in-jeopardy movies.

After the movie's success, the filmmaking trio cast their newfound comic star as Detective Drebin in a TV series, "Police Squad," which trashed the cliches of "Dragnet" and other cop shows. Despite good reviews, NBC canceled it after only four episodes.

"It didn't belong on TV," Nielsen later commented. "It had the kind of humor you had to pay attention to."

The Zuckers and Abraham converted the series into a feature film, "The Naked Gun," with George Kennedy, O.J. Simpson and Priscilla Presley as Nielsen's co-stars. Its huge success led to sequels "The Naked Gun 2 1/2" and "The Naked Gun 33 1/3."

His later movies included "All I Want for Christmas," "Dracula: Dead and Loving It" and "Spy Hard."

Between films he often turned serious, touring with his one-man show on the life of the great defense lawyer, Clarence Darrow.

Nielsen was born Feb. 11, 1926 in Regina, Saskatchewan.

He grew up 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle at Fort Norman, where his father was an officer of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

The parents had three sons, and Nielsen once recalled, "There were 15 people in the village, including five of us. If my father arrested somebody in the winter, he'd have to wait until the thaw to turn him in."

The elder Nielsen was a troubled man who beat his wife and sons, and Leslie longed to escape. As soon as he graduated from high school at 17, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, even though he was legally deaf (he wore hearing aids most of his life.)

After the war, Nielsen worked as a disc jockey at a Calgary radio station, then studied at a Toronto radio school operated by Lorne Greene, who would go on to star on the hit TV series "Bonanza." A scholarship to the Neighborhood Playhouse brought him to New York, where he immersed himself in live television.

Nielsen also was married to: Monica Boyer, 1950-1955; Sandy Ullman, 1958-74; and Brooks Oliver, 1981-85.

Nielsen and his second wife had two daughters, Thea and Maura.

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Ik heb altijd erg om hem moeten lachen. Wat een gemis!

RIP

Oh schrok me rot vanmorgen toen ik dit hoorde

R.I.P. Leslie Nielsen

Surely you can't be serious!

RIP

In Film > Cast en crew > Leslie Nielsen:

Ode aan Leslie Nielsen, laten we deze prachtacteur nooit vergeten...

RIP Leslie.

R.I.P

Wow, dat is inderdaad even schrikken.

RIP Frank Drebbin!

Nielsen

RIP

Verdomme, is dat even verschieten...

RIP Nielsen!

Nielsen, wat een held. Zijn mimiek en komische uitstraling waren uniek. En al zijn serieuze rollen ten spijt; hij is en blijft altijd bekend om die prachtige rollen in Airplane! en, natuurlijk, de Naked Gun trilogie. RIP, Shirley.

Eind van een tijdperk.

R.I.P.

Samen met Lloyd Bridges was hij de grootste van de flauwe komedies. Bedankt voor het lachen!

Nielsen Was idd even schrikken vanmorgen...

Zeer spijtig. Ben zowat opgegroeid met Nielsen. Enorm zwak ook voor de beste man. R.I.P. Leslie.

Ik schrok ervan R.I.P.

Ik mocht zijn films eigenlijk niet echt. Maar de man zelf vond ik altijd heerlijk spelen.

RIP

R.I.P. Leslie

R.I.P Leslie Nielsen.

Nielsen heeft me toen ik jong was tot tranen toe aan het lachen gekregen. Wat een held! Echt jammer.

R.I.P. Leslie Nielsen

Een man die met een beperkt kunnen een mythische carriere heeft opgebouwd. Kon vaak wel lachen met z'n flauwe humor.

R.I.P.

R.I.P.

1 van de coolste ouwe lullen die Hollywood rijk was..

RIP!