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He currently lives in Paradise Valley, Arizona.
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His screen test for Ben-Hur as Messala is included in the Four-Disc Collector's Edition as a bonus feature.
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He is the son of an RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) officer.
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He was named "the Laurence Olivier of spoofs," by film critic Roger Ebert.
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He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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His father was Danish Canadian.
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He likes the winter season better than the summer season.
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He was asked for Scary Movie 4 because his character was very popular.
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As of 2002, he does most of his acting in Canada.
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He has played Santa Claus in two different movies.
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He carries a remote controlled fart machine around with him.
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He was a radio engineer.
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He published a fake autobiography in 1993.
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He received a contract with Paramount in 1954 and moved to Hollywood.
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He moved to New York in 1949.
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After earning his degree he moved on to New York's Neighborhood Playhouse.
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He was raised in Tulita, Northwest Territories.
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His character on Due South compared himself to Leslie Nielson.
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His father was a Mountie.
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Leslie studied at the Academy of Radio Arts in Toronto.
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His acting career started at a much earlier age when he was forced to lie to his father in order to avoid severe punishment.
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Leslie has starred in over fifty movies.
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He was born at 5:00am-MST.
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His grandfather on his father's side was Danish.
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He is a naturalized U.S. citizen.
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He went to High School in Edmonton, Alberta, at Victoria Composite High School.
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Leslie tried out for the role of Messala in Ben Hur (1959) but the part went to Stephen Boyd.
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Leslie was considered for the role of Willy Wonka in Charlie And The Chocolate Factory (2005) but it was given to Johnny Depp instead.
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Leslie was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame in 2001.
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He keeps a whoopee cushion in his pocket to squeeze when he needs to break the tension on movie sets and when meeting people.
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He is an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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At the age of 17, he enlisted in the Royal Canadian AirForce and trained as an aerial gunner.
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Leslie has two daughters: Maura Nielsen Kaplan and Thea Nielsen Disney.
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In the Fall of 2003, the Grant MacEwan College in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada opened the Leslie Nielsen School of Communications, with the actor on hand for the ceremony.
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While in Winnipeg, Canada to promote their movie Men With Brooms, he and fellow co-star Paul Gross (Slings and Arrows) received Honorary Citizenships from Winnipeg Mayor Glen Murray at the Granite Curling Club.
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His brother was a high ranking Canadian politician. Eric Nielsen was the Government Leader of the Yukon Territory before becoming a Member of Parliment and the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada.