American player, the success of disheveled detective Columbo that the TV is complemented by a wide range of functions of the stage and screen
The world of entertainment, history records that the American actor Peter Falk, who died at age 83, debuted the year before he left high school, prophetically cast as a detective. Despite shooting 17 years of success, he had no idea of ??continuing to act as a career - if only because of the hard work Bronx considered inappropriate for a man. Only 24 years later, Falk made his first television appearance as the disheveled detective, Columbo, not only become the highest paid actor on TV - in charge of $ 500 000 per episode in the 1970s - but also the most famous
Inevitably, the lieutenant dedicated to unraveling the evil of the rich and glamorous dominated the race, but - unlike others - escaped the straitjacket, or sealed case in disrepair the cast . In addition to stage work, made many films and television appearances, particularly in John Cassavetes' Husbands (1970) and A Woman Under the Influence (1974). There was also war movies that Anzio (1968), comedies such as The Great Race (1965) and dramas ranging from Jean Genet, The Balcony (1963) David Mamet Lakeboat (2000).
Falk was the only son of Michael Falk and Madeleine, the European Jews who had emigrated to America, settling first in the east side of New York, after moving to the Bronx, the birthplace Pedro - two years before the stock market crash announced the depression. At the age of three, was diagnosed with a tumor behind his right eye, and an emergency operation in the tumor and the eyes were removed. The disability resulting made for a school of life precarious, balanced by his sense of humor and athletic prowess difficult subversive behavior.
unable to serve in the Navy because of his views, he joined the Merchant Navy, working as a cook. After graduating in political science from the New School for Social Research, New York, received a Master in Public Administration from Syracuse University in upstate New York. He traveled throughout Europe before making his first regular job as an efficiency expert in the budget for Hartford, Connecticut office. By his 20s, he knew he had to leave the routine financial management.
Despite earlier doubts, he liked to play in college productions, and working at the same time, registered with actor and professor of Eva Le Gallienne, who in 1955 led him to leave work and go to New York. With a fascinating personality and strong, but little training, he took his advice.
disastrous debut off-Broadway production of Molière's Don Juan was followed a few months later to a successful experience from the server to Eugene O'Neill, The Iceman Cometh (1956), with Jason Robards. Over the next two years has acted in several plays on Broadway as San Juan and the Virgin is not for recording, paying the rent by appearing in television series such as The gunslinger in San Francisco, and Wagon Train The Untouchables.
her film debut came in the wind ecological adventure in the swamps of Nicholas Ray (1958), but with his accent and style of the city of nervous-oriented approach from the specialized in the performance of thugs in films such as Pretty Boy Floyd (1959) and Murder Inc. (1960), it attracts much attention for her portrayal of a powerful vicious murderer. This earned him an Oscar nomination as best actor, and became the first person to be nominated for an Emmy in the same year, after playing a heroin addict in the television series The Law and Mr. Jones.
In 1961, Frank Capra classic remakes his wife one day as a Pocketful of Miracles. Now in color and soaked in syrup, the film won a second Oscar nomination Falk. The following year he received an Emmy Award for her performance as a truck driver in the price of tomatoes. Although the performance was concluded at the end in a few years, has established itself as a significant presence.
felt confident enough to marry his girlfriend from college days, Alice May, and took a steady job in the film, plays a psychiatrist at the pressure point (1962) and the chief of police in The Balcony (1963). He was on the outskirts of the Sinatra Rat Pack Robin and the Seven Hoods (1964) and television co-star in Brigadoon (1966). He joined his friend Jack Lemmon when the actor decided to produce a successful game of Murray Schisgal Mime screen. Unfortunately, the transfer resulted in a sad movie farce.
This rags and some others led to a break in the career of Falk, until he learned that Bing Crosby had refused the role of a detective in a television set. At the age of 40 years, Falk got the role, making his debut as Columbo in the pilot episode, Prescription: Murder. When a series is offered which refused, preferring to work with Cassavetes in Husbands and return to stage in Neil Simon's The Prisoner of Second Avenue.
film career became busier and varied. He was the grandfather of the narrator in The Princess Bride capricious, and took the lead in a remake of Claude Lelouch renamed nice Happy New Year (both 1987). He returned to the stage in defiance of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross (1986) and Moss Hart's Light the sky (1987).
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