Peter Falk
Acting
- Born:
- 1927-09-16
- Died:
- 2011-06-23
- Place of birth:
- New York City, New York, USA
Biography
Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American actor. 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). In 1996, TV Guide ranked Falk No. 21 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list. He received a posthumous star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2013. He first starred as Columbo in two 2-hour "World Premiere" TV pilots; the first with Gene Barry in 1968 and the second with Lee Grant in 1971. The show then aired as part of The NBC Mystery Movie series from 1971 to 1978, and again on ABC from 1989 to 2003. Falk was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Murder, Inc. (1960) and Pocketful of Miracles (1961), and won his first Emmy Award in 1962 for The Dick Powell Theatre. He was the first actor to be nominated for an Academy Award and an Emmy Award in the same year, achieving the feat twice (1961 and 1962). He went on to appear in such films as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), alongside Frank Sinatra in Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964), The Great Race (1965), Anzio (1968), Murder by Death (1976), The Cheap Detective (1978), The Brink's Job (1978), The In-Laws (1979), The Princess Bride (1987), Wings of Desire (1987), The Player (1992), and Next (2007), as well as many television guest roles. Falk was also known for his collaborations with filmmaker, actor, and personal friend John Cassavetes, acting in films such as Husbands (1970), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Big Trouble (1986), Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky (1976) and the Columbo episode "Étude in Black" (1972). He cameoed as a theatergoer in Cassavetes' 1977 film Opening Night. Description above from the Wikipedia article Peter Falk, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Filmography
My Darling Vivian
Peter Falk versus Columbo
Basketball: A Love Story
Arthur Miller: Writer
Lost Case
Char·ac·ter
American Cowslip
Next
Three Days to Vegas
Checking Out
Edge of Outside
The Thing About My Folks
When Angels Come to Town
Shark Tale
Finding John Christmas
Wilder Days
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
ABC's 50th Anniversary Celebration
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Undisputed
Three Days of Rain
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
The Lost World
The Lost World
A Town Without Christmas
Corky Romano
Good Day Live
Made
Hubert's Brain
Enemies of Laughter
A Constant Forge
Lakeboat
A Storm in Summer
From Where I Sit
Money Kings
Vivement dimanche
The View
Pronto
Frank Capra's American Dream
The Sunshine Boys
John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All
Roommates
Cops n Roberts
The World of Jim Henson
Inside the Actors Studio
Exclusiv - Das Star-Magazin
Out of the Shadows: The Films of John Cassavetes
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
Anything for John
Faraway, So Close!
The Larry Sanders Show
The Player
Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
Tune in Tomorrow...
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
In the Spirit
Cookie
Arena - John Cassavetes
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
Vibes
Seitenblicke
The Princess Bride
Wings of Desire
Happy New Year
American Masters
Big Trouble
Reading Rainbow
Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
I Love Liberty
Night of 100 Stars
Champs-Elysées
Shoot Don't Shoot
The Great Muppet Caper
...All the Marbles
Wetten, dass..?
All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
The In-Laws
The Muppets Go Hollywood
The Brink's Job
Scared Straight!
The Cheap Detective
Opening Night
Mikey and Nicky
Murder by Death
Griffin and Phoenix
30 millions d'amis
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
A Woman Under the Influence
Dinah!
Swan Song
The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts
The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Ransom for a Dead Man
Columbo
V.I.P. Schaukel
The Making of 'Husbands'
A Step Out of Line
Husbands
Treffpunkte
Operation Snafu
Castle Keep
Machine Gun McCain
The Name of the Game
Anzio
The Dick Cavett Show
A Hatful of Rain
Prescription: Murder
Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
Luv
Penelope
Hollywood Squares
Brigadoon
Too Many Thieves
The Trials of O'Brien
The Great Race
Attack and Retreat
Robin and the 7 Hoods
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
The Danny Kaye Show
The Jerry Lewis Show
The Balcony
Pressure Point
The Merv Griffin Show
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Jackie Gleason and His American Scene Magazine
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Pocketful of Miracles
The Mike Douglas Show
The New Breed
Ben Casey
Target: The Corruptors!
Dr. Kildare
The Dick Powell Show
87th Precinct
The DuPont Show of the Week
The Million Dollar Incident
The Secret of the Purple Reef
The Law and Mr. Jones
The Islanders
The Witness
The Barbara Stanwyck Show
The Aquanauts
Murder, Inc.
Pretty Boy Floyd
The Bloody Brood
The Untouchables
Play of the Week
The Twilight Zone
Deadline
New York Confidential
Naked City
Wind Across the Everglades
Decoy
Wagon Train
Have Gun, Will Travel
Tony Awards
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Omnibus
The Red Skelton Show
Armstrong Circle Theatre
Robert Montgomery Presents
Studio One
Bambi
Kraft Television Theatre
Golden Globe Awards