Peter Falk: Difference between revisions

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|09|16}}

'''Peter Michael Falk''' (September 16, 1927 - June 23, 2011)<ref name=NYTimes>{{cite news |url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/25/arts/television/peter-falk-columbo-actor-dies-at-83.html |title=Peter Falk, Rumpled and Crafty Actor In Television’s ‘Columbo,’ Dies at 83 |first=Bruce |last=Weber |date=2011-06-24 |accessdate=2011-06-24 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] }}</ref> was an [[Americans|American]] actor. His best known role was [[Columbo]] in the tv series of the same name.<ref name=TM>{{cite web |url=http://www.theatermania.com/los-angeles/news/06-2011/actor-peter-falk-has-died_38458.html |title=Actor Peter Falk Has Died |date=2011-06-24 |accessdate=2011-06-24 |last=Propst |first=Andy |work=TheaterMania.com |publisher=TheaterMania.com, Inc }}</ref>

 

Falk was born in [[Manhattan]] on September 16, 1927. He was Jewish.<ref>[http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/10357 Arutz Sheva]</ref> He grew up in [[Ossining, New York]]. He earned a [[Degree (school)|degree]] in [[political science]] from the New School for Social Research. He then earned his [[Master's degree]] in [[public administration]] at [[Syracuse University]].<ref name=NYTimes />

 

He appeared in a number of [[Broadway]] plays including: ''The Prisoner of Second Avenue'', ''The Passion of Josef D'', ''Diary of a Scoundrel'', and ''Saint Joan''. Falk won four [[Emmy Award]]s playing the police detective Columbo, and one for ''The Dick Powell Theatre''. He was nominated for seven other Emmy awards. Falk also received two [[Academy Award]] nominations for the films ''Murder Inc.'' and ''Pocketful of Miracles''.<ref name=TM />

 

Falk was [[diagnose]]d with [[Alzheimer's disease]]. He died in his [[Beverly Hills, California]] home on June 23, 2011.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/obit/2011-06-24-peter-falk-columbo-obit-alzheimers-disease_n.htm |title='Columbo' star Peter Falk dies at 83 |first=Gary |last=Strauss |date=2011-06-24 |accessdate=2011-06-24 |newspaper=[[USA Today]] }}</ref>