1926 - 2010
Leslie William Nielsen (11 February 1926 – 28 November 2010) was a Canadian actor, comedian and producer. With a career spanning 60 years, he appeared in more than 100 films and 150 television programs, portraying more than 220 characters.Nielsen was born in Regina, Saskatchewan. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force and later worked as a disc jockey before receiving a scholarship to study theatre at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leslie Nielsen has received more than 5,868,024 page views. His biography is available in 69 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 68 in 2019). Leslie Nielsen is the 84th most popular actor (down from 81st in 2019), the 2nd most popular biography from Canada and the most popular Canadian Actor.
Leslie Nielsen is most famous for his comedic roles in the Naked Gun and Airplane! films.
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Among actors, Leslie Nielsen ranks 84 out of 10,030. Before him are Toshiro Mifune, Paul Newman, Tom Hanks, Jane Fonda, John Wayne, and Judi Dench. After him are Tom Selleck, Peter Falk, Michael Gambon, Gregory Peck, Buster Keaton, and John Travolta.
1920 - 1997
HPI: 79.49
Rank: 78
1925 - 2008
HPI: 79.49
Rank: 79
1956 - Present
HPI: 79.48
Rank: 80
1937 - Present
HPI: 79.48
Rank: 81
1907 - 1979
HPI: 79.41
Rank: 82
1934 - Present
HPI: 79.14
Rank: 83
1926 - 2010
HPI: 78.95
Rank: 84
1945 - Present
HPI: 78.94
Rank: 85
1927 - 2011
HPI: 78.93
Rank: 86
1940 - Present
HPI: 78.93
Rank: 87
1916 - 2003
HPI: 78.76
Rank: 88
1895 - 1966
HPI: 78.71
Rank: 89
1954 - Present
HPI: 78.69
Rank: 90
Among people born in 1926, Leslie Nielsen ranks 8. Before him are Marilyn Monroe, Fidel Castro, Michel Foucault, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Ingvar Kamprad, and Jiang Zemin. After him are Chuck Berry, Sathya Sai Baba, Dario Fo, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Miles Davis, and René Goscinny. Among people deceased in 2010, Leslie Nielsen ranks 3. Before him are José Saramago and J. D. Salinger. After him are Gloria Stuart, Ronnie James Dio, Tony Curtis, Juan Antonio Samaranch, Éric Rohmer, Dennis Hopper, Benoit Mandelbrot, Lech Kaczyński, and Claude Chabrol.
1926 - 1962
HPI: 89.12
Rank: 2
1926 - 2016
HPI: 87.77
Rank: 3
1926 - 1984
HPI: 84.34
Rank: 4
1926 - 2014
HPI: 81.99
Rank: 5
1926 - 2018
HPI: 81.85
Rank: 6
1926 - Present
HPI: 79.84
Rank: 7
1926 - 2010
HPI: 78.95
Rank: 8
1926 - 2017
HPI: 78.77
Rank: 9
1926 - 2011
HPI: 78.21
Rank: 10
1926 - 2016
HPI: 77.84
Rank: 11
1926 - 2020
HPI: 77.51
Rank: 12
1926 - 1991
HPI: 77.51
Rank: 13
1926 - 1977
HPI: 77.27
Rank: 14
1922 - 2010
HPI: 82.83
Rank: 1
1919 - 2010
HPI: 80.62
Rank: 2
1926 - 2010
HPI: 78.95
Rank: 3
1910 - 2010
HPI: 78.65
Rank: 4
1942 - 2010
HPI: 78.05
Rank: 5
1925 - 2010
HPI: 77.79
Rank: 6
1920 - 2010
HPI: 75.76
Rank: 7
1920 - 2010
HPI: 75.64
Rank: 8
1936 - 2010
HPI: 75.50
Rank: 9
1924 - 2010
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 10
1949 - 2010
HPI: 75.24
Rank: 11
1930 - 2010
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 12
Among people born in Canada, Leslie Nielsen ranks 2 out of 1,130. Before him are Leonard Cohen (1934). After him are Albert Bandura (1925), Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874), Donald Sutherland (1935), Marshall McLuhan (1911), James Naismith (1861), Erving Goffman (1922), Alice Munro (1931), Frank Gehry (1929), Justin Trudeau (1971), and Christopher Plummer (1929).
1934 - 2016
HPI: 82.10
Rank: 1
1926 - 2010
HPI: 78.95
Rank: 2
1925 - Present
HPI: 78.86
Rank: 3
1874 - 1942
HPI: 78.79
Rank: 4
1935 - Present
HPI: 78.63
Rank: 5
1911 - 1980
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 6
1861 - 1939
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 7
1922 - 1982
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 8
1931 - Present
HPI: 77.36
Rank: 9
1929 - Present
HPI: 77.09
Rank: 10
1971 - Present
HPI: 76.96
Rank: 11
1929 - Present
HPI: 76.88
Rank: 12
Among actors born in Canada, Leslie Nielsen ranks 1. After him are Donald Sutherland (1935), Christopher Plummer (1929), Jim Carrey (1962), Michael J. Fox (1961), William Shatner (1931), Mary Pickford (1892), Pamela Anderson (1967), Lois Maxwell (1927), Dan Aykroyd (1952), Ryan Reynolds (1976), and Glenn Ford (1916).
1926 - 2010
HPI: 78.95
Rank: 1
1935 - Present
HPI: 78.63
Rank: 2
1929 - Present
HPI: 76.88
Rank: 3
1962 - Present
HPI: 76.53
Rank: 4
1961 - Present
HPI: 75.28
Rank: 5
1931 - Present
HPI: 73.28
Rank: 6
1892 - 1979
HPI: 71.00
Rank: 7
1967 - Present
HPI: 70.85
Rank: 8
1927 - 2007
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 9
1952 - Present
HPI: 70.41
Rank: 10
1976 - Present
HPI: 69.53
Rank: 11
1916 - 2006
HPI: 69.38
Rank: 12