When Leslie Nielsen died on Sunday, he left behind a legacy of work that entertained and amused generations of fans who knew his work from television dramas and hilarious movie spoofs. Nielsen, who was 84, had even more work waiting in the can, but one of those projects, an animated film titled The Waterman Movie, might never see the light of day. Creator Bryan Waterman tells EW he was a huge fan of Nielsen and he spent two years trying to recruit him for a feature-length film based on his online series of cartoons,The Waterman. After three years of work, the film remains incomplete, but Nielsen recorded all of his character’s lines, giving Waterman hope that he can still deliver one last dose of Nielsen’s famous deadpan.


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LESLIE NIELSEN was halfway through his career before he found his true calling. Hidden beneath his leading-man persona--his handsome visage, athletic carriage, and intelligent demeanor--was a drop-dead funny comedian. Mr. Nielsen, star of "Airplane!" and other laugh-out-loud features, died Sunday at the age of 84.Born in Canada the son of a Mountie, Mr. Nielsen took training as an aerial gunner in World War II but never saw action (too young). After the war, drawn by the allure of acting, he entered the Lorne Greene Academy of Radio Arts in Toronto, and by 1948 was getting parts in the exploding world of TV. Steady work there led to his feature film debut in 1956 in "The Vagabond King."............