Peter Falk

'''Peter Falk''' (born September 16, 1927) is an American actor. Best known for his role in the long-running TV series Columbo, in which he played the title role --a shabby, seemingly slow-witted police detective. Columbo inevitably solved his cases through close attention to tiny inconsistencies in a suspect's story, hounding them until they confessed. Columbo's signature technique was to exit the scene of an interview, invariably stopping in the doorway to ask "just one more thing" of a suspect, which always brought to light the key inconsistency. Falk is also loved for his brilliant performance in the high-brow comedy, The In-Laws. Falk played a crazed CIA agent who dupes his in-law, a New York City dentist, into joining a scheme to rob the U.S. Treasury. He also gave a memorable turn opposite Gena Rowlands in director John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence. His right eye was surgically removed at the age of three. Notable film/TV appearances:

• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
• A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
• Murder by Death (1976)
• The In-Laws (1979)
• Wings of Desire (1987) (''Der Himmel über Berlin'')
• The Princess Bride (1987)
• Shark Tale (2004) (voice actor)

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