Lt. Columbo, of rum pled trench coat, cigar and absent-minded-detective-work fame, is coming to Broadway. “Columbo Takes the Rap,” a new mystery by William Link, who, with his writing partner, Richard ...

I used to say that Lt. Columbo was an ageless character. Well, age may have just caught up with one of television’s most durable, delightful and beloved detectives. Universal Television, which has ...

Richard Hunsaker has played many iconic characters on stage during his 78 years, but donning police detective Lt. Columbo’s trademark rumpled Mackintosh raincoat has been a particularly memorable ...

What the commentaries about Columbo I have read today miss, and what explains a large measure of its international appeal, is that Columbo is the ultimate show about working class resentment of and ...

Columbo Season 1 is an American crime drama series created by Richard Levinson and William Link. The opening chapter of the show puts Lieutenant Columbo, a cunning and unorthodox detective, in the ...

R.I. P. Peter Falk, a man who was every bit as unusual and talented as his on-screen alter ego, Lt. Columbo. I learned this first-hand one day in January 2003 when I did a phone interview with Falk in ...

You probably remember actor Peter Falk as the cigar-chomping TV detective Lt. Columbo, the cop who inevitably arrived at the scene of a high-society crime in a wheezing jalopy and a rumpled raincoat.

Peter Falk, the actor most famous for portraying shrewd, but shambling television detective Lt. Columbo, has died at the age of 83. A family spokesman confirmed the development for NBC LA, saying the ...