| Author | Message | ||
     Mbfg (Mbfg) Username: Mbfg Registered: 09-2010 Posted From: 212.219.63.204 |
Sad news. A wonderful deliverer of very funny lines has flown his Airplane into the sunset. Cheers Terry | ||
| Ramsey Campbell (Ramsey) Username: Ramsey Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 195.93.21.68 |
Alas! And don't forget Forbidden Planet and Dark Intruder... | ||
| Gary Fry (Gary_fry) Username: Gary_fry Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.23.82.196 |
He was in Creepshow, too, of course. Airplane was a key film during my yoof. He'll be missed. | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
Awww no... not another one. This has been a bad month for losing good people. Always a memorable screen presence: 'Forbidden Planet', 'The Poseidon Adventure', 'Day Of The Animals', 'Airplane!' & 'The Naked Gun' TV show and movies are my favourites. Add to that countless TV appearances in the golden era of the 60s & 70s, as one of those faces. Very sad news.  | ||
| Stevie Walsh (Stephenw) Username: Stephenw Registered: 03-2009 Posted From: 194.32.31.1 |
How could I have forgotten 'Prom Night' & 'Creepshow'! | ||
| Frank (Frank) Username: Frank Registered: 09-2008 Posted From: 85.222.86.21 |
Great chap, by all accounts. Excellent actor. RIP, Leslie. Forbidden Planet, will always remain one of my favourite movies. I always put it on at Xmas. It has that chilly, scary feel that a good ghost story has. Beautifully made. | ||
| Gcw (Gcw) Username: Gcw Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 81.155.172.153 |
Very funny guy and a great 'Captain Kirk' precursor in Forbidden Planet... And wasn't George Kennedy great in those Police Academy films too? gcw | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 217.20.16.180 |
Very sad. To be remembered also as the ill-fated captain of the titular ship in THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, and as the bad guy in DAY OF THE ANIMALS, a film notable only for featuring the two weirdest, spookiest goats in film history. | ||
| John Forth (John) Username: John Registered: 05-2008 Posted From: 217.20.16.180 |
And now Irvin Kershner, director of THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, is away too! | ||
| Craig (Craig) Username: Craig Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 99.126.164.88 |
Okay, I know it's common for someone to be told someone famous is died, and that someone is surprised because he thought that person was already dead. But this time, I REALLY really thought Leslie Nielsen was dead, had been dead for years. Just the other day, I was thinking, sadly, there won't be anymore POLICE SQUAD movies, because Leslie Nielsen had passed away.... But it's so sad today to realize I was wrong. | ||
| Chris_morris (Chris_morris) Username: Chris_morris Registered: 04-2008 Posted From: 12.165.240.116 |
Peter Christopherson, too. Nielsen, Kershner, and Christopherson. That's an odd trio. | ||
| Jamie Rosen (Jamie) Username: Jamie Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 99.241.48.210 |
Alas. I wonder if I can find his fauxtobiography in my boxes of books and fish it out for a read. He was still active right up until the end -- there are a couple of films of his listed in production or post-production on IMDB. | ||
| Mark West (Mark_west) Username: Mark_west Registered: 03-2008 Posted From: 86.171.144.137 |
Sad news indeed | ||
| Simon Bestwick (Simon_b) Username: Simon_b Registered: 10-2008 Posted From: 86.24.209.217 |
Saddened to hear it- but he had a good innings and left behind an impressive body of work, at least. RIP, Detective Drebin. |