RIP Peter Falk

[da man]

I have long contended that Columbo is the best-written and acted cop/crime/mystery show in TV history. What is it about a mystery that creates suspense? Who did it, how and why. Columbo gave you those in the opening scene, and yet the show was still incredibly compelling and suspenseful because of the writing and Falk's portrayal of the character.

 

[HC]

I have long contended that Columbo is the best-written and acted cop/crime/mystery show in TV history. What is it about a mystery that creates suspense? Who did it, how and why. Columbo gave you those in the opening scene, and yet the show was still incredibly compelling and suspenseful because of the writing and Falk's portrayal of the character.

I've always felt that Columbo was the prototype for Vincent D'Onofrio's Robert Goren. In fact, the original episodes of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" started with the viewer seeing the crime committed and then watching the detectives figure it out.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Petrovich from Dostoevsky's "Crime and Punishment" was the character Columbo was modeled after, and Peter Falk worked magic with it.

RIP.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

I have long contended that Columbo is the best-written and acted cop/crime/mystery show in TV history. What is it about a mystery that creates suspense? Who did it, how and why. Columbo gave you those in the opening scene, and yet the show was still incredibly compelling and suspenseful because of the writing and Falk's portrayal of the character.

I've always felt that Columbo was the prototype for Vincent D'Onofrio's Robert Goren. In fact, the original episodes of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" started with the viewer seeing the crime committed and then watching the detectives figure it out.

Columbo wasn't nearly the career asshole the Goren character is.

Falk was in bad shape, for a good while. The end's probably viewed as merciful, by intimates.

I'm a huge fan . . . for "Trials of O'Brien", if nothing else. Will miss him. He had some very interesting friends
and companions.

 

[MCbamr]

Dear God,
Please make some network show Murder By Death, The In-Laws and more this weekend.
Thanks

 

[slappy4428]

TCM is usually pretty good at changing on the fly -- at least for a small time block...

 

[Liut]

Columbo episode that comes to mind is when he pins Helen Shaver with the murder of his wife. RIP to a huge Knicks fan.

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

He and Rochester were pretty good taxi cab drivers in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, too.

 

[cfinder]

The original "In-Laws":
* "Tse-tse flies the size of eagles. They swoop down and grab small children." (Or something like that.)
* "Serpentine! Serpentine!"
So many characters, so many marks left behind.

 

[Blitz]

Dammit, I hate seeing this thread.
What a fantastic show it was and I saw many episodes.
The days of Barnaby Jones, Ironsides, Matlock, Trapper John MD, etc., were golden for this TV viewer.
RIP Peter Falk

 

[Captain_Kirk]

This was one of the choices on the funniest scenes thread. It seems appropriate cross threading to share it here. .be

Another fantastic one from that movie, the coffee shop scene:

 

[SoCalDude]

He was a patient in the dental office where my wife used to work. She says he was delightful and it was a fun time when he came in. And he wasn't acting in his Columbo role, that's the way he was.

 

[TwoGloves]

You know, he really was outstanding in the Princess Bride.

And not too bad in The Client, either.

Wasn't Brad Renfro in that, too? As for Falk, liked him in The Great Race with Tony Curtis, Natalie Wood and Jack Lemmon. Of course, loved him in Columbo. That was my dad's favorite show when I was a kid and we never missed it.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

TCM is usually pretty good at changing on the fly -- at least for a small time block...

They'll call a justifiable audible in a heartbeat.

 

[trifectarich]

I normally don't give a damn about most Hollywood deaths, but Columbo was probably my favorite TV character of all time. He was fabulous.

RIP.

 

[D-3 Fan]

Oh man. I'm bummed today. First Nick Charles, and now Peter Falk. What stands out to me, besides "The In-Laws" was how Patrick McGoohan and him would match wits on Columbo. Watching those two were riveting and enjoyable.

 

[slappy4428]

Oh man. I'm bummed today. First Nick Charles, and now Peter Falk. What stands out to me, besides "The In-Laws" was how Patrick McGoohan and him would match wits on Columbo. Watching those two were riveting and enjoyable.

Loved the one at Military school with Bruno Kirby as a cadet

 

[Steak Snabler]

Never realized until reading Falk's obit that Columbo was never an actual weekly series, but a series of TV movies.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

NBC Mystery Movie series rotation included Columbo, McMillan and Wife, McCloud and others.

 

[D-3 Fan]

Oh man. I'm bummed today. First Nick Charles, and now Peter Falk. What stands out to me, besides "The In-Laws" was how Patrick McGoohan and him would match wits on Columbo. Watching those two were riveting and enjoyable.

Loved the one at Military school with Bruno Kirby as a cadet

That was one of my favorites. Loved it.