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Peter Falk: Lieutenant Columbo
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Best known as the rumpled television detective Columbo, character actor Peter Falk has ... enjoyed a successful film career, often in association with the groundbreaking independent filmmaker John Cassavetes. Born September 16, 1927, in New York City, Falk lost an eye at the age of three...Read More
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Nonetheless, Columbo creators Richard Levinson and William Link, as well as star Peter Falk, have always insisted that Columbo's first name was never revealed. Its apparent disclosure on the badge, therefore, may have been unintentional.
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NBC was interested in turning the film into a series, but neither Falk nor Levinson and Link wanted to do weekly episodic television at the time. Three years later, when NBC promised to package Columbo in rotation with two other series in the NBC Mystery Movie, Falk and Levinson and Link agreed. The series enjoyed a successful run from 1971 to 1978; much of that success is due to Falk's brilliant portrayal of Columbo. According to Dawidziak, "Everything clicked--the disheveled appearance, the voice, the squint caused by his false right eye. It was all used to magnificent advantage in Falk's characterization."
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Falk appears as himself (but dressed as Columbo) in the Wim Wenders films Wings of Desire and Faraway, So Close! In the first he appears as a filmmaker producing a film about Berlin's Nazi past, and in the second he pretends to be scouting locations for a Columbo movie in order to distract some security guards.
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