Leslie Nielsen Was Good at Making Us Happy

David Zucker, Big HollywoodIt was a full three weeks before the start of shooting of Airplane! and our casting director had finally had enough. Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Peter Graves, and now Leslie … who?  At least audiences had heard of the first three, but this guy…it was true, when it came time to select an actor to play Dr. Rumack, my brother Jerry, Jim Abrahams and I remembered, "This one guy, he’s been in hundreds of television shows and I think he played the captain of the Poseidon. What's his name…?"  Our research revealed that the...

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