Nielsen is probably best known for playing the incompetent police Lt. Frank Drebin in "Naked Gun" franchise, but enjoyed a career in film and television in more than 60 years.
Born February 11, 1926, in Regina, Saskatchewan, the son of an RCMP officer.
Nielsen had two brothers, Erik Gordon, who became deputy prime minister in the Mulroney Conservative government. After being born in Regina, the actor moved across the west and north with his family. Nielsen boys were sent from his home in the remote town of Fort Norman, 300 kilometers from the Arctic Circle, to attend school in Edmonton. McKay went to the center of the city and Victoria Avenue School High School in Edmonton, with the future actor graduating in 1942.
At that time, Nielsen said once, he was never the class clown.
"In those days I was too busy trying to be Mr. Perfect. Try to be the perfect gentleman for his parents can not find anything wrong with you. They have a lot of other things to think about how to put food on the table, they do not want to make waves. "
However, later he was suspected of comedy in his genes during their school days after discovering details of the life of his Mountie father.
"I remember seeing pictures of my father in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sports Day (a sort of sports field day), and he was in a clown suit. He was the clown of the regiment."
He got his first big break in 1950 with "Studio One" television appearance, and came to Hollywood in 1954 to star in the movie "King Tramp" from "Casablanca" director Michael Curtiz.
During the first 30 years of his career, Nielsen worked steadily in television shows like "Peyton Place" and "The Virginian" and built a reputation for playing authority figures like the captain of the ill-fated cruise ship in the 1972 film "The Poseidon Adventure."
But later generations came to know the silver-haired actor for his roles in comedies expressionless as 1980 "Airplane!" and "Naked Gun" trilogy.
As Dr. Rumack in "Airplane!" Stupid inconsistencies Nielsen delivered with a straight face. "Can you fly this plane and land it?" He asks a passenger. "Undoubtedly, there can be serious," exclaimed the passenger.
"I'm serious, and do not call me Shirley," Rumack answers.
"The Naked Gun" franchise originated in the TV short 1982 "Police Squad!" After it was canceled, the creators of Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker and David Zucker - "Airplane", who had previously worked with Nielsen - Became a feature action-packed slapstick and double meanings.
Drebin, in a nod to the Inspector Clouseau, delivered deadpan lines like "Nice Beaver" as his girlfriend, played by Priscilla Presley, stood above him on a ladder holding a stuffed animal. His character also beat the Ayatollah Khomeini and has erased the birthmark of the head the Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The cast is completed by George Kennedy as Drebin partner and OJ Simpson as his unfortunate colleague.
In the aftermath of 1991, "Naked Gun 2-1/2: The Smell of Fear", the villain played by Robert Goulet says one without notice Drebin did not see his name on the guest list. "There is nothing to be ashamed. Sometimes I go by my maiden name," Drebin replies.
The end of the 1994 film "The Naked Gun 33-1/3: The Final Insult" Drebin was trying to avoid a disaster during the Academy Awards and go undercover in a prison. An inmate asks in his prison number is. "It is not publicly traded," Drebin said. That film marked the first major role of Anna Nicole Smith.
Nielsen also appeared in the 1996 spy spoof "Spy Hard" Agent WD-40, and in 1998 was "wrongly accused", a parody of "The Fugitive." most recent acting roles include playing a buffoonish president in 2003 Hollywood spoof "Scary Movie 3" and its sequel 2006. In the most memorable sequence of the latter film, his character without wishing to address nausea diplomats at the United Nations, while naked.
But Nielsen also had a serious side. During the decade of 1990, which took the stage in "Darrow", a drama about a man in his legendary "convicted attorney Clarence Darrow.
"I did not go ahead and set to do only comedy, although comedy is growing," he told Reuters in an interview in 1996. "I want to see how far they can stretch and continue to" dumb and stupid "(comedy) and drama and if possible be accepted in both. There is a line with a public that is not always possible to cross. Sometimes I just want to see be fun. "
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