In the mid-1960s, a young actor named Peter Falk got caught in a rainstorm in New York City. He ducked into a shop and purchased a tan raincoat for $15. Years later, that tatty raincoat would become ...

Columbo and his catchphrase — “Just one more thing” — are needed more than ever in this crazy mixed-up world. The deceptively rumpled detective pestered the so-called great and good, getting under the ...

LOS ANGELES — Peter Falk, the stage and movie actor who became identified as the squinty, rumpled detective in “Columbo,” which spanned 30 years in prime-time television and established one of the ...

For many people, the character of Lieutenant Columbo, the disheveled detective portrayed with a perfect mix of earnestness and deprecation by Peter Falk, is as comforting as a fictional character can ...

LOS ANGELES -- Peter Falk, who was best known as the disheveled but deceptively smart TV detective "Columbo," has died at the age of 83. Family members said the actor died peacefully Thursday night at ...

Peter Falk, one of the most beloved, and honored, actors in TV history, has died. He was 83 and died Thursday in his Beverly Hills home, according to a statement released yesterday by Larry Larson, a ...

Peter Falk as Lt. Columbo in a 1974 publicity image for the season three episode "Swan Song." (FilmPublicityArchive/United Archives via Getty Images) It delights me no end that Peter Falk and “Columbo ...

Actor Peter Falk died last night at his home in Beverly Hills, a family spokesman tells CBS News radio. The cause of death wasn't disclosed, but the 83-year-old actor's daughter said in 2008 that he ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Peter Falk has been in many films and television shows -- more than 150 by a loose count. Chances are, though, that a century from now he'll be remembered largely ...

Peter Michael Falk was born Sept. 16, 1927, in New York City and grew up in Ossining, N.Y., where his parents ran a clothing store. At 3 he had one eye removed because of cancer. “When something like ...