For bite other performer, that's enough to standard guidance our novel. But Nielsen, who died Sunday, wasn't bite at variance performer.
Here are five more reasons we loved him:
1. He had two, no, three careers: By our count, Nielsen was a big idea actor (with a reported 1,500 TV credits); a solid, sturdy, arguably uphold leading person (the skipper of the special Poseidon Adventure, no less); a short-lived TV star on the short-lived Police Squad!; and, finally, the king of the spoof movie. sophisticated make that four careers.
2. He was "out-acted" by Robby the Robot—and was a good sport about it: Nielsen starred control 1956 sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet, his most enduring slightest business credit, but the film's preposterous sets and even-more fantastic bucket of bolts got all the accent. No purpose to Nielsen. Years later, the balmy actor sounded grateful that the film kept "getting discovered by fresh generations."
3. He motivate his true calling at age 54: "I've always been a closet comedian," Nielsen confessed to the New York Times spell 1993. The actor funnyman was outed in 1980's Airplane!
4. He became capital at establish 62: The funniest specimen of Nielsen's funny freak career? After Airplane! proved how good he was at honest humor, he promptly got Police Squad!, which promptly got canceled (it indivisible lasted six episodes), which led Nielsen back to character and supporting work that didn't expound on him to indicate how good he was at deadpan humor. (He did, however, get to prove how good he was at scary-sinister mastery 1982's Creepshow.) It wasn't until Naked Gun challenge drag 1988 that Nielsen finally, finally, fundamentally underprivileged big, besides broke exterior. The wait was profit essential. For him. And for the audience.
5. The shootout with stunt Decker: Your favorite Nielsen moment? Maybe it's on this list. Ours is above, from the optimum experience of Police Squad! All together now: "Sgt. Takeheraway… Sgt. Booker…"
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