TRIBUTES are today being made to two veterans of the entertainment world.
Hollywood actor Leslie Nielsen died yesterday (Sunday, November 28) at the age of 84 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
His credits include playing Commander JJ Adams in the 1956 sci-fi classic Forbidden Planet (pictured above) and the Captain in 1972's The Poseidon Adventure.
In later years he became master of the spoof genre with such movies as Airplane! (1980) and The Naked Gun film franchise, which spun off from TV show Police Squad!
Among his countless other TV credits are appearances in The Man from UNCLE, The Streets of San Francisco, Hawaii Five-O, Columbo, The Love Boat and Fantasy Island.
Hollywood is also mourning the loss of movie director Irvin Kershner, who passed away on Saturday (November 27), aged 87, in Los Angeles, California, it was confirmed today.
Kershner (pictured right) is best known as director of Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (as it's now known in full), the 1980 sequel to the first Star Wars release.
Prior to that he had helmed the 1978 thriller Eyes of Laura Mars, starring Faye Dunaway as a fashion photographer who has psychic visions of a series of murders.
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[Source: Coventry Telegraph - The Geek Files]
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