Peter Falk
Birthday: 1927-09-16
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
Biography: Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo (1968–1978, 1989–2003), which earned him four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Falk was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Murder, Inc. (1960) and Pocketful of Miracles (1961). He is also known for his collaborations with filmmaker and actor John Cassavetes in films such as: Husbands (1970), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Opening Night (1977), Elaine May's Mikey and Nicky (1976) and the Columbo episode: Étude in Black (1972). Falk's other film roles include It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), The Great Race (1965), Anzio (1968), Murder by Death (1976), The Cheap Detective (1978), The In-Laws (1979), The Princess Bride (1987), Wings of Desire (1987), The Player (1992), and Next (2007).
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Wings of Desire
Two angels glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisib...
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Pocketful of Miracles
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady...
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The Lost World
This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure stor...
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Next
Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes i...
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Arthur Miller: Writer
One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as ...
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The Princess Bride
In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley mu...
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The Player
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but ...
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Faraway, So Close!
Damiel is now married to Marion, runs the pizzeria “Da Angelo” and the two have a child. The solitar...
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Vibes
Medium Sylvia Pickel and psychometrist Nick Deezy meet at a psychic research facility in New York. N...
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...All the Marbles
A two-bit promoter tries to take a women's wrestling team to the top....
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Murder by Death
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a b...
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The Great Race
Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto m...
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The Thing About My Folks
Ben's dad Sam shows up one night with a note from Ben's mother (Sam's wife of 46 years), that she ha...
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The Brink's Job
In 1950, a group of unlikely criminal masterminds commits the robbery of the century. Led by Tony Pi...
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Pressure Point
An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested wh...
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A Town Without Christmas
In the small town of Seacliff, Wash., a child's letter to Santa Claus captures the nation's attentio...
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Anzio
American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to ...
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A Woman Under the Influence
Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Ni...
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Tune in Tomorrow...
Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for g...
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The Cheap Detective
A spoof of the entire 1940s detective genre. San Francisco private detective, Lou Pekinpaugh is accu...
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Undisputed
Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convict...
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Murder, Inc.
Chronicles the rise and fall of the organised crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated, focusin...
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American Cowslip
In Blythe, California, a small town in the remote California desert, Ethan Inglebrink is an eccentri...
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Made
Two aspiring boxers and lifelong friends get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-lev...
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Machine Gun McCain
After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn o...
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Castle Keep
During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his i...
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Robin and the 7 Hoods
Set in Prohibition era Chicago, bootlegger Robbo and his cronies refuse to pay the greedy Guy Gisbor...
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Corky Romano
Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangst...
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Finding John Christmas
When a photojournalist photographs a mysterious stranger performing an act of bravery, the act quick...
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The In-Laws
In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's...
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Husbands
A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives an...
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Checking Out
A feisty octogenarian on the verge of his ninetieth birthday invites his three grown children to his...
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Three Days of Rain
Six Anton Chekhov short stories set in modern day Cleveland during a three day rain storm....
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Out of the Shadows: The Films of John Cassavetes
Get the scoop on the legendary actor-director-New Yorker John Cassavetes straight from the mouth of ...
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Money Kings
Vinnie's a bookie, happily married, running his operation for 30 years out of his bar in Brooklyn. T...
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Cookie
Cookie Voltecki is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco, who has just finished thirteen...
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Mikey and Nicky
Nick is desperate, holed up in a cheap hotel, suffering from an ulcer and convinced that a local mob...
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Big Trouble
Leonard Hoffman is an insurance salesman struggling to make ends meet. The fact that he has triplet ...
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Shoot Don't Shoot
An eye opening program to find out what its like to be a police officer facing the deadly force dile...
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The Bloody Brood
Nico, a drug dealer, murders a telegram messenger-boy "for kicks", egged on by partner-in-crime, TV ...
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Anything for John
An intimate portrait of actor-writer-director John Cassavetes and a loving tribute to his genius for...
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Happy New Year
Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Us...
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The Sunshine Boys
Two aging comedians, who acrimoniously dissolved their act eight years earlier, must overcome their ...
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The Balcony
The Madam of a brothel satisfies the erotic fantasies of her customers, while a revolution is sweepi...
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Luv
Depressed by the direction his life is taking, Harry decides to take his own life by jumping off the...
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In the Spirit
After her husband loses his job, Marianne moves from Beverly Hills to a nightmare New York City. She...
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A Storm in Summer
Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his u...
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When Angels Come to Town
Max, an angel in exile, walks around the United States to help humans. In a small town in Maine, he ...
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Lakeboat
A college student befriends various crew members while working a summer internship at sea....
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Penelope
When Penelope gets married to banker James Elcott, she finds him too preoccupied with work to pay mu...
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Attack and Retreat
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during...
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Wilder Days
Quixotic old codger James "Pop Up" Morse (Peter Falk) enjoys spinning colorful yarns for his 11-year...
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Griffin and Phoenix
Griffin has been diagnosed with terminal cancer. Instead of quietly facing his death, he decides to ...
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The Secret of the Purple Reef
When a man mysteriously vanishes on his ship in the Caribbean, his two brothers journey there to inv...
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Enemies of Laughter
Nerdy-looking Paul is a neurotic, failed sitcom writer, with a lackluster love life. But his best pa...
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Char·ac·ter
A raw and candid dialogue about the life and craft of acting between longtime colleagues and friends...
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The Making of 'Husbands'
A documentary behind the scenes of John Cassavetes' 'Husbands' (1970)....
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Operation Snafu
World War II soldiers enter Sicily to seize German arms supply only to discover there is not a gun i...
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NBC 75th Anniversary Special
A celebration of NBC's 75 year history, featuring clips of special moments....
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Three Days to Vegas
Four grumpy old men go on a road trip from their retired life in Florida to the excitement of Las Ve...
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A Step Out of Line
Three financially down-and-out buddies plot to pull a bank robbery to cure their financial woes....
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Edge of Outside
An hour-long documentary designed to celebrate the spirit of the independent filmmaker from D.W. Gri...
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Roommates
An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-dow...
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Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
A leading acting teacher who trained some of the most famous performers of the stage and screen, San...
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Too Many Thieves
When some priceless Macedonian treasures are swiped, lawyer Falk arrives to get to the bottom of thi...
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Pronto
Harry Arno is a Miami Beach bookie who finds himself in trouble with his mob bosses for reasons he c...
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Shark Tale
Oscar is a small fish whose big aspirations often get him into trouble. Meanwhile, Lenny is a great ...
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Brigadoon
Every 100 years, people stumble upon the Scottish village of Brigadoon, which will never be found on...
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Arena - John Cassavetes
Tribute to actor and director John Cassavetes who died in February 1989. Friends, associates and fel...
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Wings of Desire: The Angels Among Us
This is a documentary about the making of "Wings of Desire" (1987). The director, writer, actors, co...
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The Great Muppet Caper
Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashio...
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Opening Night
Actress Myrtle Gordon is a functioning alcoholic who is a few days from the opening night of her lat...
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Ransom for a Dead Man
A brilliant attorney gets rid of her boring husband by faking his kidnapping and keeping the ransom....
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Hubert's Brain
It tells the story of a science geek who befriends a talking brain-in-a-jar....
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A Constant Forge
One of the great mavericks of cinema, John Cassavetes has earned a reputation as the godfather of Am...
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Prescription: Murder
In Columbo's first outing, a psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kil...
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Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World'
A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World....
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Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders
Though very polite and British, this feature-length documentary about German filmmaker Wim Wenders o...
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From Where I Sit
High school sex education teacher Sharon and her husband, overwhelmed family man Bob humorously deal...
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Pretty Boy Floyd
Trying to shake his troubled past and start a new honest life, Floyd loses his job because of that p...
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Wind Across the Everglades
Set in the early 20th century, the film follows a game warden who arrives in Florida to enforce cons...
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Peter Falk Versus Columbo
For millions of viewers, Peter Falk is Columbo. Despite playing the quintessential blue-collar TV de...
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Scared Straight!
The filmed depiction of a program where convicts tell troubled kids about the horrors of prison life...
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Frank Capra's American Dream
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard....
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The World of Jim Henson
In this episode of PBS' Great Performances, the history and legacy of puppeteer Jim Henson is explor...
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My Darling Vivian
The story of Vivian Liberto, Johnny Cash's first wife and the mother of his four daughters. Includes...
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The Muppets Go Hollywood
Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere o...
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Night of 100 Stars
The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place ...
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $...
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All Star Tribute to Ingrid Bergman
Frank Sinatra, Goldie Hawn, Cary Grant, Jimmy Stewart and many more pay tribute to Ingrid Bergman....
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The Million Dollar Incident
A couple of crooks made off with one of the largest hauls. The crime - they made off with Jackie Gle...
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