"I mean, I make a lot of dough." Complain to an average person about being famous only for one role, he said, and he'll tell you, "What are you complaining about, that he's typecast? He does make a lot of money and he gets good seats in restaurants. He didn't mind, though there are worse things than being typecast, he told Gross in 2000. But he will forever be known as the disarming, forgetful, but clever Columbo. And he had a small but memorable part as an angry taxi driver in It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.įalk proved time and again he could stretch as an actor. He was twice nominated for Oscars for A Pocketful of Miracles and Murder, Inc. In the 1970s he worked with director John Cassavetes, starring in the domestic dramas Husbands and A Woman Under the Influence. But he was bored, so he started acting in off-Broadway productions, and then made his transition to film. For a few years after college Falk was an "efficiency expert" for the Connecticut State Budget Bureau. Just One More Thing An award-winning actor takes readers behin. while he cunningly put the pieces together.įalk grew up in Ossining, N.Y., just north of New York City. Read 148 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. (When Falk was 3 years old, cancer forced him to have one of his eyes removed.) Falk said he sometimes he used his glass eye to get a reaction. He's been quoted as saying, 'I wanted to wear something people would remember.īottom line, it's the world's most famous raincoat.'Just One More Thing is pure Peter Falk, and reads as if he were sitting next to you, chuckling as he recalls his remarkable past.Adding to his character's deceptive appearance was the fact that the actor sometimes played tricks with his glass eye. He bought it years before he became an actor.
Interestingly, Columbo's raincoat came out of Falk's bedroom closet. He was then nominated again for his second film, Pocketful of Miracles starring Bette Davis.įalk went on to become a favourite among filmgoers, yet it was through television that he reached his widest audience as Lt.Ĭolumbo, winning four Emmys for the role. Later, a talent scout for Columbia Pictures described Falk as a second John Garfield, but Harry Cohn, the head of Columbia Pictures, unfortunately disagreed: 'For the same price, I can get an actor with two eyes.' But in 1958, Twentieth Century Fox came to New York to make a movie - Murder Inc - and Falk landed a juicy role for which he received rave reviews and, incredibly, was nominated for an Academy Award.
Peter Falk came to prominence as an actor in 1956 in the highly successful off-Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh with Jason Robards.Īlthough he worked continuously for the next three years, bouncing from one off-Broadway theatre to the next, a theatrical agent advised him not to expect much work in motion pictures because of his glass eye.
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