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Peter Falk: Frank Columbo
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During a long and distinguished TV and film career, Peter Falk has received numerous awards. He's best known as the shabby but shrewd Columbo. Coincidentally, his first acting job was in the role of a detective in a high school play. After earning a Masters degree in public administration and becoming a CPA, Falk decided acting might be exciting. His false right eye - a result of cancer surgery at age 3 - gave him his trademark squint. He ... has a passion for drawing and sketching and has a studio in his home.
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Most notable for his role as television's preeminent detective Lt. Columbo, Peter Falk has developed a long and distinguished career in television and film. For his efforts, Falk has received numerous Emmy awards for a detective role which has taken its place alongside other legendary literary sleuths. Since the late 1970s, Falk has continued to appear in feature films as well as reprise his Columbo character on television.
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Peter Falk remains the greatest TV Detective of them all as "Columbo." Watch any episode at random and you'll be frightened at how in-character and committed Falk is to the part. Watching him maneuver like a shark around a suspect, transforming from bumbling to brilliant is a joy to watch. No wonder he won four Emmys for his work as "Columbo."
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Fortunately, Peter Falk was more than ready to meet the challenge during a forty-five minute free-for-all in Kansas City on September 1, 2005. The actor was armed with a couple sheets of paper to help him plug The Thing about My Folks just in case any of the journalists at the table talked a little too much about his thirty-five year stint as Lieutenant Columbo (no, he won’t tell you the detective’s first name).
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For more than two decades, Peter Falk has been as closely identified with Lieutenant Columbo as that disheveled TV detective was with his trench coat. Now Falk has created another memorable character, Rocky Holeczek, the irrepressible grandfather in Roommates.
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Falk appeared as Columbo in a faux episode of Alias produced for a 2003 TV special celebrating the 50th anniversary of ABC. Featuring most of the regular cast of the spy series, the skit began with Jack Bristow preparing agents Sydney Bristow and Michael Vaughn for a mission, and informing them that they will have a new partner - Detective Columbo. Columbo proceeds to wreak havoc at CIA headquarters, accidentally shooting Vaughn with an anesthetic dart and volunteering to wear a skimpy bikini intended for Sydney during the mission. Columbo reveals that his mission is not to aid the CIA but rather to help Walt Disney Company/ABC head Michael Eisner better understand the show. His work completed, Columbo departs, leaving Jack Bristow to utter a confused, "Dear God, that was strange."
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