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 and take down an equally crazed Latin-American dictator. He also gave a memorable turn opposite Gena Rowlands in director John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence.

Notable film/TV appearances:

• The In-Laws (1979)
• It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
• A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
• Wings of Desire (1987) (Der Himmel über Berlin)
• The Princess Bride (1987)