Just one last thing - Peter Falk dies aged 83 (merged)

[Oberon]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13909992

Always loved the Columbo series.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_vCH7uzZMBzY/R0_bH8b7mdI/AAAAAAAAALc/TyfT71ZXFkk/s1600-R/columbo+2.jpg

RIP.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6jyyTmgrFc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZiv8vkxMac

[papa_smurf]

I too loved the Columbo series, he will be sadly missed.

R.I.P

[Kaleun]

just one more thing.

Genius!

RIP Peter

[Betonov]

Memorable character played by a memorable actor

A big loss for the movie industry

R.I.P.

[BossMark]

Memorable character played by a memorable actor

A big loss for the movie industry

R.I.P.
Yes couldnt agree with you more, a very sad loss :cry:

[frau kaleun]

I adored this man.

RIP Mr. Falk, you will be sorely missed. :salute:

[Betonov]

I remember everytime I watched Columbo my grandmother would look at the TV and say: it's the crosseyed with the mantel (a womens trench coat, rough translation)

[yubba]

:cry::salute:

[Schroeder]

Another great one gone. No one lives forever.:-?

[danasan]

Yes, it is a shame. :cry: His Columbos will be unforgotten...

[Platapus]

Weird that he died the same day his twin brother died

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=184851

:)

[Jimbuna]

RIP Sir

http://www.foxnews.com/images/366638/0_61_falk_peter.jpg

[AVGWarhawk]

He was one of a kind for sure. RIP.

[Jimbuna]

RIP Sir

http://www.foxnews.com/images/366638/0_61_falk_peter.jpg

[Tinman764]

RIP - I grew up watching him
:salute:

[Madox58]

All the greats are passing and we end up with those like Snookie.
:nope:

I really hate TV nowdays.

[GoldenRivet]

I adored this man.

RIP Mr. Falk, you will be sorely missed. :salute:


+1



Princess Bride anyone?

:D

[joea]

All the greats are passing and we end up with those like Snookie.
:nope:

I really hate TV nowdays.
What's TV? Ah yea something I used to watch a decade ago. Even more when I was a kid.

RIP Peter Falk.

[yubba]

Didn't mean to step on anybodies toes, I didn't see your thread must have been wipen a tear from my eye, you have good taste. Saturday night mystery theater nights are some of my fondest memories of my childhood with my family, mom would make a huge barrel of popcorn, and a pot of campbells tomato soup, we would all sit around the TV and take in the show. RIP :cry::salute:

[CCIP]

Loved watching him as Columbo as a kid back in Russia. And yes, he was every bit as popular in that role over there :yep:

[Sailor Steve]

I watched Columbo when it first aired in 1971, and never got tired of it, but I really loved him (along with everybody else) in The Great Race.

But my favorite movie of his was this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CrSQ_aQfRI&feature=related
In a cast full of standouts, he held his own admirably.

Oh, I just realized - he's the same age as my dad.

[Sailor Steve]

Weird that he died the same day his twin brother died

http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=184851

:)
And that they had the same name!
:rotfl2:

[frau kaleun]

Two words: The In-Laws.

Also if you have not seen Wings of Desire (orig title was, IIRC, Der Himmel über Berlin) he is also in that, essentially playing himself... but with a lovely little twist. A wonderful film in its own right and he is marvelous in it.

(For those who are so inclined, it will also afford you a chance to yell "Das ist Thomsen!" at the screen whenever Otto Sander appears.)

[Sailor Steve]

Two words: The In-Laws
:damn: How could I have forgotten one of his best performances?! "Serpentyne! Ya gotta run serpentyne!" (Deliberately misspelled to accentuate his pronunciation)

[frau kaleun]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2_w-QCWpS0&feature=related

Also:

"General, that's a hell of an act." :rotfl2:

[frau kaleun]

And that they had the same name!
:rotfl2:

Looks like he got parts in all of the same movies, too. Well, you know what they say, in show business it's really who you know that counts. :D

[Platapus]

I might just have to watch Robin and the Seven Hoods again. :yep:

[Bakkels]

Aaah I was so sad to hear this. As a 'youngster' I only watched the reruns back in the late '90s, but really enjoyed them.
"Just one last thing...."

[Jimbuna]

I'll never forget the Columbo series episode (can't remember the name) when he visits a convent via the rear kitchen door and the nuns take one look at him and mistake him for a vagrant/homeless person because of his dress appearance and offer him a meal and a change of clothes....hilarious (in the acting context).

[frau kaleun]

I'll never forget the Columbo series episode (can't remember the name) when he visits a convent via the rear kitchen door and the nuns take one look at him and mistake him for a vagrant/homeless person because of his dress appearance and offer him a meal and a change of clothes....hilarious (in the acting context).

One of the joys of that character was watching the murderer - who was usually someone who thought they were far too clever to be outwitted by such an apparent bumbler - continually underestimate him to the point where they finally gave him exactly what he needed to prove their guilt.

I always felt that Terry Pratchett drew on the Columbo character just a little for Sam Vimes, at least in the early years when everyone in Ankh-Morpork still thought of him as being too thick to figure out what was really going on.

[STEED]

He was good in Anizo.

[sharkbit]

He was good in Anizo.

Forgot about that one.

:)