"Surely You Can't Be Serious"

"Nielsen played Debbie Reynolds' sweetheart in the 1957 film 'Tammy and the Bachelor,' was the Revolutionary War fighter Francis Marion in the Disney TV adventure series 'The Swamp Fox' and had roles in such TV series as 'The New Breed' and 'Bracken's World.'
"'I just always worked,' he said. 'I played a lot of leaders, autocratic sorts. Perhaps it was my Canadian accent.'"

Keith Thursby in the Los Angeles Times writes an obit for Leslie Nielsen.