Leslie Nielsen

Leslie Nielsen is a Canadian actor born in Saskatchewan on February 11th, 1926. Known to modern audiences for his slapstick comedy roles in farcial spoofs such as 2001: A Space Travesty, Nielsen actually came from a dramatic film background. His earliest work in the science fiction genre was playing a character named Farragut in the two-part adaptation of Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea featured in the 1950s television series Tales of Tomorrow.