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Peter Falk dead at 83 -
24 June 2011
-Columbo star Peter Falk has died at the age of 83.-The beloved actor passed away peacefully at his Los Angeles home on Thursday (23Jun11).- Falk was born in New York in 1927 and enjoyed a career spanning 50 years.- He broke into the acting industry in 1956 when h
Peter Falk - what members say
review by from Sheffield, England
A classic! 3 June 2004
review by from Liverpool, England
Good grief...see it!! 4 June 2007
Peter Falk - filmography
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American Cowslip
(2009)
Starring: Rip Torn, Bruce Dern, Diane Ladd
Director: Mark David
Certificate: 
Trapped in small-town California USA, Ethan Inglebrink is searching for the perfect moment in a life that is running out of time. And the odds are against him. Ethan is an agoraphobic, drug addict obsessed with his garden. Ethan's neighbor, landlord and maniacal high school football coach Trevor O'..read more »
 
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When Angels Come To Town
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Peter Falk, Sean Gallagher, Katey Sagal
Director: Andy Wolk
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In this sequel to 'Finding John Christmas', the angel Max walks into a
struggling department store in a small Maine town. 24-year-old assistant
manager Sally waits on him and, after Max leaves, she sees he has left
behind one of his many bags...
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Undisputed
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Michael Rooker, Peter Falk, Ving Rhames
Director: Walter Hill
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Action thriller starring Wesley Snipes and Ving Rhames. When the world's heavyweight boxing champion (Rhames) is sent to prison, everything points to an inevitable showdown with the penitentiary's undefeated champ (Snipes). But to make sure the meeting will happen, a former mob boss (Peter Falk) ..read more »
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The Lost World
(2001)
Starring: Peter Falk, Elaine Cassidy, Tom Ward
Director: Stuart Orme
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The BBC adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel. Professor Challenger (Bob Hoskins) has discovered an Amazonian plateau where prehistoric life has continued to thrive. Eager to explore further, he mounts a fresh expedition and returns to discover not only dinosaurs but also highly-..read more »
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Made
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Faizon Love, Puff Daddy, Peter Falk
Director: Jon Favreau
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
The Story of Made features Bobby (Jon Favreau) and Ricky (Vince Vaughn), two aspiring boxers with limited mob connections. Given the opportunity to handle a job for L.A. mob boss Max (Peter Falk), Bobby and Ricky find themselves in New York where they take part in a low-level money-laundering ..read more »
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Money Kings
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Peter Falk, Lauren Holly, Frank Vincent
Director: Graham Theakston
Certificate: 
The owner of a bar, Vinnie (Peter Falk) has long been collecting bets from his customers for a Mafia gambling ring; always making sure they don't over-stretch themselves. But this all changes when Tony (Freddie Prince Jr), the hot-headed nephew of one of the mobsters, is given the job and takes a ..read more »
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Room Mates
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Jan Rubes, Peter Falk, D.B. Sweeney
Director: Peter Yates
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'Columbo' star Peter Falk appears here as aged, irascible Rocky Holeczek, who sets up house with his yuppie grandson Michael (D.B. Sweeney). The two are initially at each other's throats, but gradually settle into quiet domesticity. When Michael falls for a woman, Rocky doesn't like it.
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A Trick of the Light
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Wim Wenders, Nadine Buettner, Lucie Hurtgen-Skladanowsky
Director: Wim Wenders
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Weaving together docu-drama, fictional re-enactment and experimental photography, the film is a powerful and beautifully crafted exploration into the early days of German cinema and tells the story of the Skladanowsky Brothers who invented the Bioskop, the forerunner of the film projector.
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Neil Simon's The Sunshine Boys
(1995)
Starring: Peter Falk, Woody Allen, Sarah Jessica Parker
Director: John Erman
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For years Lewis and Clark were the funniest comedy team around, despite the fact that their off-stage relationship was less than harmonious. Then Lewis (Woody Allen) had enough, and broke up the act. Now, eight years later, Willy Clark (Peter Falk) is bitter and unemployed; the only paying work his ..read more »
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Columbo - Series 10 - Vol. 2
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Peter Falk
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Volume two of the tenth series of the 1970s American detective drama featuring Peter Falk's now-classic depiction of the trenchcoat-clad detective Columbo, who uses his humble ways and disingenuous demeanour to winkle out even the most well-concealed of crimes. Episodes are: 'Undercover', 'Strange ..read more »
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Columbo - Series 10 - Vol. 1
(4 discs)
(1990)
Starring: Peter Falk
Director: E.W. Swackhamer, Daryl Duke, Alan J. Levi
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Volume one of the tenth series of the 1970s American detective drama featuring Peter Falk's now-classic depiction of the trenchcoat-clad detective Columbo, who uses his humble ways and disingenuous demeanour to winkle out even the most well-concealed of crimes. Episodes comprise: 'Columbo Goes to ..read more »
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Tune In Tomorrow
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Keanu Reeves, Peter Falk
Director: Jon Amiel
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Quirky romantic comedy based on Mario Vargas Llosa's novel 'Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter' and transposed to New Orleans. Set in the 1950s, the film stars Keanu Reeves as Martin Loader, a young newswriter for a struggling local radio station which, in an attempt to boost its ratings, has just ..read more »
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Columbo - Series 8
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Peter Falk
Director: James Frawley, Sam Wanamaker, Leo Penn
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The entire eighth season of the crime series featuring Peter Falk's now-classic depiction of the trenchcoat-clad detective Columbo, who uses his humble ways and disingenuous demeanour to winkle out even the most well-concealed of crimes. Episodes are: 'Columbo Goes to the Guillotine', 'Murder, ..read more »
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The Princess Bride
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Peter Falk, Peter Cook, Billy Crystal
Director: Rob Reiner
Certificate: 
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Comical fantasy tale of beautiful princesses, foul villains and dashing heroes from director Rob Reiner. The Princess Buttercup (Robin Wright Penn) is saddened by the disappearance of her true-love Westley (Cary Elwes), and finds that she now has no choice but to become engaged to the evil Prince ..read more »
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Wings of Desire - Blu-ray
(1987)
Starring: Harry Dea, Otto Sander, Solveig Dommartin
Director: Wim Wenders
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
In this film written and directed by Wim Wenders, Bruno Ganz plays Daniel, one of two angels who watch over the citizens of Berlin, listening to their thoughts. When he falls in love with a trapeze artist (Solvieg Dommartin), he dreams of becoming human. With the help of an American actor (Peter ..read more »
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Wings of Desire
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Harry Dea, Otto Sander, Solveig Dommartin
Director: Wim Wenders
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) are angels who watch over the city of Berlin. They don't have harps or wings (well, they usually don't have wings) and they prefer overcoats to gossamer gowns. But they can travel unseen through the city, listening to people's thoughts, watching their ..read more »
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The Princess Bride - Blu-ray
(1987)
Starring: Peter Falk, Peter Cook, Billy Crystal
Director: Rob Reiner
Certificate:
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Comical fantasy tale of beautiful princesses, foul villains and dashing heroes from director Rob Reiner. The Princess Buttercup (Robin Wright Penn) is saddened by the disappearance of her true-love Westley (Cary Elwes), and finds that she now has no choice but to become engaged to the evil Prince ..read more »
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Big Trouble
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Peter Falk, Beverly D'Angelo, Alan Arkin
Director: John Cassavetes
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Riotous farce from directer John Cassavetes. Peter Falk and Alan Arkin reunite as a wacky pair of insurance swindlers. Beverly D'Angelo aids and abets the inspired lunacy. The trouble and the laughs start when insurance man Leonard Hoffman (Arkin) decides to send his three sons to Yale. To raise ..read more »
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Tokyo-Ga
(1985)
Starring: Chishu Ryu, Werner Herzog, Yuuharu Atsuta
Director: Wim Wenders
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Having been moved by the work of acclaimed director Yasujiro Ozu, Wenders travels to Japan to search out the Tokyo he has seen in his films, discovering along the way how the country is losing its identity and culture to Americanisation.
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The In-Laws
(1979)
Starring: Peter Falk, Alan Arkin, Richard Libertini
Director: Arthur Hiller
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Dentist Sheldon Kornpett (Alan Arkin) has a successful business and CIA Agent Vincent Ricardo (Peter Falk) has a shady past. In 48-hours Vincent's son is marrying Sheldon's daughter and the 2 men will soon be brought closer together - for better or worse.
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The American Friend
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Otto Sander, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk
Director: Wim Wenders
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Wim Wenders' mines Dennis Hopper's real-life experience as a painter and collector in this existential take on the American gangster film based on a Patricia Highsmith novel featuring the notoriously sociopathic Tom Ripley. Hopper stars as the eponymous American, currently a middleman selling the ..read more »
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Murder By Death
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Estelle Winwood, Eileen Brennan, Elsa Lanchester
Director: Robert Moore
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Spoof whodunnit featuring a host of stars playing variations on well-known fictional detectives. Reclusive millionaire Lionel Twain (Truman Capote) invites a selection of famous sleuths to his mansion and subjects them all to a number of perilous and puzzling scenarios. The guests include Chinese ..read more »
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Mikey And Nicky
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ned Beatty
Director: Elaine May
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When he hears that the mob have a contract out on him, smalltime hood Nicky (John Cassavetes) calls his old friend Mikey (Peter Falk) and asks for help. The two go on the run, but cracks begin to appear in their friendship and it becomes apparent that one of them has betrayed the other. Written and ..read more »
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Columbo - Series 6 And 7
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Peter Falk
Director: Bernard L. Kowalski, Robert Douglas
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The combined sixth and seventh series of investigations featuring Peter Falk's now-classic depiction of the trenchcoat-clad detective Columbo, who uses his humble ways and disingenuous demeanour to winkle out even the most well-concealed of crimes. Episodes are: (Season 6) 'Fade in to Murder' 'Old ..read more »
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Wrong Move
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Nastassja Kinski, Rudiger Vogler, Hans Christian Blech
Director: Wim Wenders
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A writer (Rudiger Vogler) attempts to get to grips with his career as he travels through Germany. Along the way he is helped by an actress (Hanna Schygulla), poet (Peter Kern) and mute juggler (Nastassja Kinski in her screen debut). This road movie, based on a novel by Goethe, forms the second part ..read more »
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Columbo - Series 3
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Jack Cassidy, Peter Falk, Johnny Cash
Director: Boris Sagal, Richa, Leo Penn
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Complete third series of the popular 1970s American crime drama, following the investigations of the deceptively disheveled detective Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk), who always asks 'just one more thing' before getting his man. In 'Lovely But Lethal', Columbo investigates murder at the heart of a ..read more »
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Columbo - Series 2
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Martin Landau, John Cassavetes, Peter Falk
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Complete second series of the popular 1970s American detective drama, following the investigations of the deceptively disheveled cop Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk), who always asks 'just one more thing' before getting his man. In 'Etude in Black', John Cassavetes guest stars as a conductor who is about ..read more »
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Columbo - Series 1
(6 discs)
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Peter Falk
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The entire first series of investigations featuring Peter Falk's now-classic depiction of the trenchcoat-clad detective Columbo, who uses his humble ways and disingenuous demeanour to winkle out even the most well-concealed of crimes. In 'Murder by the Book', the talents of a bestselling writing ..read more »
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Husbands
(1970)
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes
Director: John Cassavetes
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The quiet, simple family lives of Gus, Harry and Archie (John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk) are shattered when their best friend, Stuart, has a heart attack and dies suddenly. Now facing their mortality, the three men fall into their own midlife crises. First by spending their days playing ..read more »
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Castle Keep
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Peter Falk, Burt Lancaster, Jean-Pierre Aumont
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sidney Pollack's film is based on the off-beat novel by William Eastlake. Burt Lancaster stars as the one-eyed Major Falconer who, after an exhausting campaign during the Second World War, leads his tired eight-man squadron to a medieval castle in the Ardennes Forest, Belgium, hoping for some rest. ..read more »
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Anzio
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Peter Falk, Earl Holliman
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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American war correspondent Dick Ennis (Robert Mitchum) lands with the Allied forces at Anzio, comandeers a jeep, and drives all the way to Rome and back without encountering the enemy. When he reports this to the commanding officer, he learns that the Allies intend to build a beach stronghold ..read more »
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The Great Race
(1965)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis, Tony Curtis
Director: Blake Edwards
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Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon star as archrivals The Great Leslie and Professor Fate in this madcap, round-the-world adventure comedy. The enemies are determined to win a turn-of-the-century automobile race from New York to Paris. Also competing is the beautiful suffragette Maggie Dubois (Natalie Wood).
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Attack And Retreat
(1965)
Starring: Peter Falk, Riccardo Cucciolla, Valeri Somov
Director: Giuseppe De Santis
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Film starring Peter Falk and Arthur Kennedy is a chronicle of the Italian-Russian front during WW2. Follows an Italian squad through Stalingrad battle their defeat and retreat followed by the disastrous winter that followed. This defeat, more than anything else in the war, meant the end of the ..read more »
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Robin And The Seven Hoods
(1964)
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.
Director: Gordon Douglas
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The Robin Hood legend is updated to Prohibition-era Chicago in this jazzy spoof that has a crime king (Sinatra) and his merry mobsters bilking the rich, giving to the poor and battling a rival (Peter Falk). Enjoy the Ol' Blue Eyes' signature 'My Kind Of Town' and 9 more songs.
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The Balcony
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Peter Falk, Lee Grant, Shelley Winters
Director: Joseph Strick
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The denizens of a sordid brothel become embroiled in a bloody coup in this arty political satire adapted from the Jean Genet play. Shelley Winters stars as the cathouse's madam, a stern woman who supervises the fantasy role-playing of her beautiful employees and their well-heeled customers, ..read more »
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Pocketful Of Miracles
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Peter Falk, Glenn Ford, Thomas Mitchell
Director: Frank Capra
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Director Frank Capra's last feature film, Pocketful of Miracles is a Technicolor remake of his 1933 film Lady for a Day. A barely recognizable Bette Davis plays Apple Annie, the besotted, unkempt, rag-clad street vendor who controls the activities of all the beggars on Broadway. Apple Annie is the ..read more »
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Wim Wenders Collection
(10 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk, Lisa Kreuze
Director: Wim Wenders
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A collection of five key documentaries by legendary German film director Wim Wenders. In 'Nick's Film: Lightning Over Water' (1980), Wenders travels to New York in the hope of helping complete fellow director Nicholas Ray's final film before he succumbs to terminal cancer. Realising the project ..read more »
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Wilder Days
on DVD
Starring: Peter Falk, Timothy Daly, Josh Hutcherson
Director: David M. Evans
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Feel-good road trip comedy. Johnnie Morse (Tim Daly) has always been exasperated by his father James' (Peter Falk) tall tales, but when his timid son Chris (Josh Hutcherson) starts asking if his grandfather's stories are true, the three of them set out on a cross country road trip to expore the ..read more »
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Peter Falk facts
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...irl of 4 was also transfixed.
The film is a comedy fairytale told by Grandad Peter Falk to his 'Wonder Years' Grandson. There is Swashbuckling swordplay reminiscent of...
Falk is a Genius 26 July 2005
