![]() ![]() ![]() Just One More Thing is pure Peter Falk, and reads as if he were sitting next to you, chuckling as he recalls his remarkable past. Bottom line, it's the world's most famous raincoat.' He's been quoted as saying, 'I wanted to wear something people would remember. He bought it years before he became an actor. ![]() Interestingly, Columbo's raincoat came out of Falk's bedroom closet. Columbo, winning four Emmys for the role. He was then nominated again for his second film, Pocketful of Miracles starring Bette Davis.įalk went on to become a favourite among filmgoers, yet it was through television that he reached his widest audience as Lt. Later, a talent scout for Columbia Pictures described Falk as a second John Garfield, but Harry Cohn, the head of Columbia Pictures, unfortunately disagreed: 'For the same price, I can get an actor with two eyes.'īut in 1958, Twentieth Century Fox came to New York to make a movie - Murder Inc - and Falk landed a juicy role for which he received rave reviews and, incredibly, was nominated for an Academy Award. In Just One More Thing Peter Falk award-winning actor takes us behind-the-scenes into his professional and private life. Columbo, the famed detective that actor Peter Falk. Although he worked continuously for the next three years, bouncing from one off-Broadway theatre to the next, a theatrical agent advised him not to expect much work in motion pictures because of his glass eye. /Slphotography The key to this kind of thing is that you must be. Peter Falk came to prominence as an actor in 1956 in the highly successful off-Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh with Jason Robards. ![]()
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