*drats* I had a whole montage ready to post, and hit the x and closed the session and wiped it out; so not many linkies and extras included this time. I hate when that happens.
Anyway, we all know his movies.
He also has been given the Order of Canada in 2002.
These lines alone should qualify him:
In the film Airplane, when asked "Surely you can't be serious?", he responds with a curt, "I am serious. And don't call me Shirley."
WDE.