Nielson’s nephew, Doug Nielson, called into CJOB, a Manitoba radio station to confirm that “today at 5:30, with his friends and his wife, Barbaree, by his side, he just fell asleep and passed away.”
As a younger actor Nielsen was cast often as the stalwart hero, and starred in films like the classic science fiction film, Forbidden Planet. His career resurgence came with the film Airplane!, in which he played Dr. Rumack, who to this day has some of the most quotable lines from the film. After doing so well in Airplane! Nielsen went on to act in many spoofs such as all three Naked Gun films, Dracula Dead and Loving It, Spy Hard, and Wrongfully Accused.
Nielsen passed away at the age of 84, he is survived by wife Barbaree, and two daughters, Thea and Maura, whom the actor had with his second wife, Sandy Ullmann.
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One of the best things to come out of Canada, and that's saying a lot! He was great in the final season of Golden Girls, too. Comedy doesn't get the critical praise it deserves in film or music. His comedic work on TV and film has cheered up probably hundreds of millions of people over the years. That is a good legacy.