Peter Michael Falk was a two-time Academy Award-nominated, five-time Emmy Award-winning and one-time Golden Globe award-winning American actor, best known for his role as Lt. Columbo in the television series Columbo.
Falk died at his Beverly Hills home on June 23, 2011. The actor had been suffering from dementia and Alzheimer's disease, according to his adopted daughter, Catherine Falk.
Peter Falk's interview flows smoothly along as he talks about his life, career, acting, co-actors, his artwork, films, playwrights, screenwriters, television, golf, and so much more. A quick read well worth the short time it takes. Peter Falk is certainly inimitable... Defying imitation; matchless. Not capable of being imitated, copied, or counterfeited; beyond imitation; surpassingly excellent; matchless; unrivaled; exceptional; unique, beyond imitation, surpassing all others. “The truth is, no one is like Colombo. He’s unique. If he were up for an auction, he would be described as ‘One of a kind—a human with the brain of Sherlock Holmes who dresses like the homeless.’”
- Excerpt:
"The number of kids that don’t finish high school and don’t want to go to college or don’t finish college—those are all bad signs."
- Another work that may be of interest:
Just One More Thing: Stories from My Life - by Peter Falk