Goodbye, Columbo…
…aka Peter Falk (RIP)
Thanks, Lieutenant, for showing us that little scruffy guys can outsmart rich, arrogant smoothies. Thanks, Peter Falk, for making UK daytime TV tolerable for many years – a signal service to the unemployed.
Thanks, too, for keeping alive the humble yet tenacious spirits of both Porfiry Petrovich and Father Brown…
Oh, just one more thing: how come if you and Lieutenant Kojak were on the same grade, he managed to dress so well, while you dressed so badly?
Telegraph obit here…
…The Graun’s here
baldric said,
June 25, 2011 at 6:49 am
Just a humble Italian, never seen the need for the Greek assertion.Just a assiduous human with a eye to detail.
les said,
June 25, 2011 at 1:29 pm
i think peter falk should be remembered for much more than how well he could wear a beat up overcoat in the formulaic world of television:
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baldric said,
June 25, 2011 at 3:18 pm
Les said,Fair doos.
sackcloth and ashes said,
June 25, 2011 at 6:14 pm
It was something of an achievement to create a detective series which wasn’t a ‘whodunnit’, and where the identity of the murderer was clear at the beginning of every episode. Mind you, the one with Nicol Williamson as the killer film critic was a bit daft.
Rosie said,
June 26, 2011 at 9:04 am
I’m not a Columbo fan but I did like Peter Falk in The California Dolls, where he played the manager of a female wrestling duo. Catch phrase:- “Watch the sunset flip”.
Film called “All the Marbles” in the US.
You nicked that one from Clive James