Leslie Nielsen, R. I. P.

Leslie Nielsen, the Canadian-born actor who at middle-age, tossed aside three decades of credibility in dramatic and romantic roles to make a new, far more successful as a comic actor in "Airplane," and the series of "Naked Gun" movies, passed away on Sunday at a hospital near his Fort Lauderdale, Florida home, where he was being treat for pneumonia at the age of 84.