American-Canadian Hollywood comedian and actor, Leslie Nielsen died at the age of 84, at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. The veteran comedian was being treated for pneumonia, his spokesperson stated. The actor has done more than 100 films in his career and is well known to be a splendid comedian. Until the 1980’s he was known to be a serious actor but after the ‘Airplane’ movie his whole mainstream subject changed.

On behalf of his death, his nephew Doug Nielsen stated “With his friends and his wife by his side, he just fell asleep and passed away,”. His condition had begun to worsen from the past two days, as a result he had to be admitted, but sadly he passed away.

His career in Hollywood was very successful as a result he was known for very typical style of comedy and in the recent years his comedy was quite noticeable in a number of spoof movies. He has been seen starring in ‘Scary Movie’ series, ‘Super Hero Movie’, and ‘Spanish Movie’, which are a few to name is best works. Indeed the film industry will be missing him, for he was a very unique actor and his comedy was genre that was never seen before.

Source: BBC