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Peter Falk
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16 September 1927 - 23 June 2011
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Peter Falk (Peter Michael Falk) is an American actor, winner of the Golden Globe Award, Emmy (1972, 1975, 1990), was twice nominated for an Oscar. Playing many roles, Peter Falk is most remembered by the audience as Lieutenant Colombo from the television series of the same name. Peter was born on September 16, 1927 in the family of the owner of a galantry store (Michael Falk), whose parents moved in the 1890s from Russia and his wife (Madeline Hockhauser).
At three years old, as a result of surgery
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Peter Falk (Peter Michael Falk) is an American actor, winner of the Golden Globe Award, Emmy (1972, 1975, 1990), was twice nominated for an Oscar. Playing many roles, Peter Falk is most remembered by the audience as Lieutenant Colombo from the television series of the same name.
Peter was born on September 16, 1927 in the family of the owner of a galantry store (Michael Falk), whose parents moved in the 1890s from Russia and his wife (Madeline Hockhauser).
At three years old, as a result of surgery to remove a malignant tumor, Peter was left without his right eye. After college, he tried to join the U.S. Armed Forces, where he was rejected because of his prosthesis. Then Falk joined the US Navy, where he served for a year and a half as a cook.
After serving, Peter received an economic education and took up real estate. In parallel with the work he began to visit the theater studio and participate in amateur productions. After acting courses in New York in 1956, Peter Falk made his debut in Moliere's Don Juan. And with "St. John" Bernard Shaw has already performed on Broadway.
The first work on television began in 1957. Peter won an Emmy Award for The Price of Tomatoes. In the same years, he began to act in films and already in the early 1960s, he received two Oscar nominations as the best supporting actor for his roles in films.
A handful of miracles and "Corporation Murder."
World fame for Peter Falk came with his work in the detective series “Colombo” (1968-2003).
In addition to his main activity, the actor was fond of chess and painting, and even exhibited his work in 2006 at an exhibition at the Butler Institute of American Art.
As a result of long-term Alzheimer's disease on June 23, 2011, the actor died. /