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Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American film and television actor, singer and television director and producer. He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo on the NBC/ABC series Columbo (1968–1978, 1989–2003), for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards (1972, 1975, 1976, 1990) and a Golden Globe Award (1973).
Mikey and Nicky is a 1976 American crime drama film written and directed by Elaine May.It stars John Cassavetes as a desperate small-time mobster and Peter Falk as his longtime, childhood friend.
A Woman Under the Influence is a 1974 American drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes, and starring his wife Gena Rowlands and close friend Peter Falk.Rowlands plays a housewife whose unusual behavior leads to conflict with her blue-collar husband (Falk) and family.
Husbands is a 1970 American comedy-drama film written and directed by John Cassavetes. [2] It stars Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, and Cassavetes as three middle class men in the throes of a midlife crisis following the death of a close friend.
The Million Dollar Incident is a 1961 television drama directed by Norman Jewison and starring Jackie Gleason, Everett Sloane, Jack Klugman, and Peter Falk. Gleason plays himself being kidnapped and held for ransom. The film begins with Gleason telling the story, shown in flashback, to Ed Sullivan in Toots Shor's bar.
Peter Falk originated the eccentric, cigar-chomping homicide detective in 1968, and through 10 seasons and countless reruns in syndication, he become part of TV's crime-solving iconography.
Lou Peckinpaugh (Peter Falk), a bumbling San Francisco private detective, tries to prove himself innocent of his partner's murder while helping a bizarre array of characters recover a lost treasure. A large number of people are murdered in crazy death poses before he finds out from Pepe Damascus that they were all after twelve large egg-shaped ...
The Brink's Job is a 1978 American crime comedy drama film directed by William Friedkin and starring Peter Falk, Peter Boyle, Allen Garfield, Warren Oates, Gena Rowlands, and Paul Sorvino. It is based on the Brink's robbery of 1950 in Boston, and the book about it, Big Stick-Up at Brinks by Noel Behn. Robbers stole $2.7 million in cash, checks ...