RIP Colombo - Peter Falk dies at 83

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<span style="font-weight: bold">Columbo star Peter Falk dies at 83 after battle with dementia</span>

By Mail Foreign Service

Sad loss: Peter Falk's family announced today that the Columbo star had passed away, age 83

Peter Falk, the actor known to millions around the world as the TV detective Columbo, has died.

The 83-year-old passed away at his Beverly Hills home on Thursday night, his family said.

He had been ill for some time, battling against dementia and Alzheimer’s disease.

Despite a long and varied career, Falk gained fame for his portrayal of the glass-eyed, dishevelled but crafty Los Angeles Lieutenant.

Columbo always wore a grubby rain mac and smoked cigars, and usually made a false exit before uttering his catchphrase: ‘Just one more thing.’

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2007862/Columbo-star-Peter-Falk-dies-83-battle-dementia.

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[j-kid]

Re: RIP Colombo - Peter Falk dies at 83

Wow!!!!

He was one ah mi favorite Dicks fi watch.

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Re: RIP Colombo - Peter Falk dies at 83

mine, too, j-kid. some of the happiest times when mi was married was sunday evenings when me and the ex used to watch colombo. it was always so much fun to watch people underestimate him then have the tables turned on them when im nail dem baxide.

[Gen]

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yeah mi just see news likkel while. Can't remember when was the last time him was in public. Dementia

[Magician]

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RIP Colombo!

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[Gen]

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mi did like him indirect way of questioning

people used to get mad cause him tek suh long to get to the point

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Excerpt from the article above, about why Columbo was popular:

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Columbo was a success as soon as the first episode was screened. The programme defied all the conventions of television detective drama.

The viewer saw the murderer commit the crime, there were no car chases, no sex or violence, and Falk often did not appear during the first half an hour of the programme.

The success of the series rested with Falk's performance, and input, in the lead role.

He invested the shabby, preoccupied detective with such depth that the show became one of the most successful detective series in the world

Falk excelled in embodying the class element of the show, as working for the Los Angeles Police Department, Columbo was almost always sneered at as a working class interloper by the super-rich of Beverly Hills, Malibu and Brentwood that he investigated.

The actor put much of his personality into ensuring that Columbo, who drove his battered old car into the vast estates of Bel Air, never cared about how much money anyone did or didn't have.

But the really likeable aspect of Falk's performance was the fact that he made his hero humble, he never gloated about bagging a condescending killer.

It was the dignified victory of the many over the cloistered few in every episode, and at the heart of Columbo's mass appeal.

Villains no matter how evil were always addressed as 'ma'am,' or 'sir' as the deceptively bumbling detective distracted their smooth patter midway by plucking a boiled egg from his pocket, or delivering that famous line after exiting a room.

Levinson and Link said that Falk wore the same suit, tie, and shoes for the entire run of the series.

Falk himself picked out the Peugeot car that Columbo rattled around L.A. in; its tan color matched his character’s coat.

It was even said that film director Frederico Fellini would leave dinner parties to go watch the latest episode of Columbo, such was the impact of Falk's performance.

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[Tulip]

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LOL @ Gen. No doubt he could take his time getting to the point.

Well RIP is about all I can think to say.

[Tuff Gong]

Re: RIP Colombo - Peter Falk dies at 83

My mother and I used to sit up at nights to watch Columbo!