OBITUARY

Peter Falk dies at 83; actor found acclaim as ‘Columbo’

In a more than 50-year acting career that spanned movies, stage and TV, Falk’s disheveled Lt. Columbo became one of TV’s most memorable characters.

By Dennis McLellan

Los Angeles Times

June 24, 2011

Peter Falk, the gravel-voiced actor who became an enduring television icon portraying Lt. Columbo, the rumpled raincoat-wearing Los Angeles police homicide detective who always had “just one more thing” to ask a suspect, died Thursday. He was 83.

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