Peter Falk

Char•ac•ter (2012)

A raw and candid dialogue about the life and craft of acting between longtime colleagues and friends Dabney Coleman, Peter Falk, Charles Grodin, Mark Rydell, Harry Dean Stanton and Sydney Pollack. Drago Sumonja's document takes us into the hearts, minds, and living rooms of some of America's greatest storytellers.

Runtime: 88 min.

Directed by: Drago Sumonja

Stars: Harry Dean Stanton | Peter Falk | Charles Grodin | Dabney Coleman | Sydney Pollack

American Cowslip (2010)

As: Father Randolph

In Blythe, California, a small town in the remote California desert, Ethan Inglebrink is an eccentric, agoraphobic heroin addict who is obsessed with his garden. This dark comedy follows the last days of Ethan's life as he struggles to find purpose at a time when it might be too late to even matter.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Mark David

Stars: Val Kilmer | Cloris Leachman | Ronnie Gene Blevins | Rip Torn | Peter Falk

Three Days To Vegas (2008)

As: Gus 'Fitzy' Fitzgerald

Four grumpy old men go on a road trip from their retired life in Florida to the excitement of Las Vegas in order to stop one of their daughters from marrying the wrong guy.

Runtime: 120 min.

Directed by: Charlie Picerni

Stars: George Segal | Billy Burke | Bill Cobbs | Rip Torn | Peter Falk

Three Days of Rain (2007)

As: Waldo

Six Anton Chekhov short stories set in modern day Cleveland during a three day rain storm.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Michael Meredith

Stars: Peter Falk | Erick Avari | Merle Kennedy | Lyle Lovett | Michael Santoro

Next (2007)

As: Irv

Las Vegas showroom magician Cris Johnson has a secret which torments him: he can see a few minutes into the future. Sick of the examinations he underwent as a child and the interest of the government and medical establishment in his power, he lies low under an assumed name in Vegas, performing cheap tricks and living off small-time gambling "winnings." But when a terrorist group threatens to detonate a ...

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Lee Tamahori

Stars: Nicolas Cage | Jessica Biel | Tory Kittles | Julianne Moore | Thomas Kretschmann

Checking Out (2006)

As: Morris Applebaum

A famed stage actor reunites his family for a party, and plans to commit suicide after-wards, unless they are able to convince him not to.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Jeff Hare

Stars: Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Peter Falk | Judge Reinhold | Laura San Giacomo | Shera Danese

The Thing About My Folks (2005)

As: Sam Kleinman

Ben's dad Sam shows up one night with a note from Ben's mother (Sam's wife of 46 years), that she has left. While Ben's wife and his three sisters try to find her, Ben takes Sam on a day trip to see a farmhouse that's for sale. The day trip turns into a road trip while dad and son explore their past, their relationship, and why Sam's wife might have left him. The road trip includes fishing, drinking, ...

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Raymond De Felitta

Stars: Peter Falk | Olympia Dukakis | Elizabeth Perkins | Paul Reiser | Mackenzie Connolly

Shark Tale (2004)

As: Don Feinberg

Oscar is a small fish whose big aspirations often get him into trouble. Meanwhile, Lenny is a great white shark with a surprising secret that no sea creature would guess: He's a vegetarian. When a lie turns Oscar into an improbable hero and Lenny becomes an outcast, the two form an unlikely friendship.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Rob Letterman | Vicky Jenson | Bibo Bergeron

Stars: Robert De Niro | Renée Zellweger | Angelina Jolie | Jack Black | Will Smith

When Angels Come to Town (2003)

As: Max

Max, an angel in exile, walks around the United States to help humans. In a small town in Maine, he meets a young woman without a family named Sally. As she struggles to get custody of her younger brother, Max immediately believes that his new mission is to help Sally. But Jo, a strict angel, is sent to explain to his colleague that this is not exactly what is expected of him. Indeed, Max's mission ...

Runtime: 87 min.

Directed by: Andy Wolk

Stars: Tammy Blanchard | Peter Falk | Alexander Conti | Katey Sagal | Mark Akeson

Finding John Christmas (2003)

As: Max

When a photojournalist (David Cubitt) photographs a mysterious stranger performing an act of bravery, the act quickly becomes headline news and the town dubs the stranger "John Christmas". After seeing the photo, Kathleen McAllister (Valerie Bertinelli) becomes convinced that the mysterious stranger is in fact her long-lost brother Hank (William Russ). With the town's help, Kathleen and Noah set about to ...

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Andy Wolk

Stars: William Russ | Peter Falk | David Cubitt | Maria Ricossa | Valerie Bertinelli

Wilder Days (2003)

As: James 'Pop Up' Morse

Quixotic old codger James "Pop Up" Morse (Peter Falk) enjoys spinning colorful yarns for his 11-year-old grandson, Chris (Josh Hutcherson). But the boy's uptight, no-nonsense dad, John (Tim Daly), disdains Pop Up's fantasy world. Believing that John is stifling his son's imagination, Pop Up bolts from his nursing home and sets out on an adventurous cross-country road trip with Chris (sans ...

Runtime: 87 min.

Directed by: David M. Evans

Stars: Josh Hutcherson | Kate Vernon | Peter Falk | Tim Daly | Conchita Campbell

Undisputed (2002)

As: Mendy Ripstein

Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten years in Sweetwater. WHen these two giants collide in the same prison, they fight against each other disputing who is the real champion.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Walter Hill

Stars: Michael Rooker | Ving Rhames | Peter Falk | Wesley Snipes | Jon Seda

The Lost World (2001)

As: Theo Kerr

This Lost World is a splendid BBC TV dramatisation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's famous adventure story. Bob Hoskins makes an unusually genial Professor Challenger, far less of a bully than Doyle's character, but his slightly stereotyped companions are nicely filled out by a solid cast. James Fox is Challenger's more timid but still covertly adventurous rival, Tom Ward is the moustachioed big game hunter who ...

Runtime: 150 min.

Directed by: Stuart Orme

Stars: Matthew Rhys | Bob Hoskins | James Fox | Elaine Cassidy | Tom Ward

A Town Without Christmas (2001)

As: Max

In the small town of Seacliff, Wash., a child's letter to Santa Claus captures the nation's attention. When the little boy, Chris, writes that he wishes to leave this world so he will no longer be a burden to his divorcing parents, a race begins to find him before he harms himself.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Andy Wolk

Stars: Ernie Hudson | Patricia Heaton | Rick Roberts | Jeffrey R. Smith | Isabella Fink

Corky Romano (2001)

As: Francis A. 'Pops' Romano

Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to infiltrate the local FBI and retrieve and destroy evidence being used to incriminate Pops for racketeering charges.

Runtime: 86 min.

Directed by: Rob Pritts

Stars: Peter Falk | Peter Berg | Chris Penn | Vinessa Shaw | Chris Kattan

Made (2001)

As: Max

Two aspiring boxers lifelong friends get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Jon Favreau

Stars: Famke Janssen | Peter Falk | Vince Vaughn | Jon Favreau | Sean Combs

Enemies of Laughter (2000)

As: Paul's Father

Nerdy-looking Paul (David Paymer) is a neurotic, failed sitcom writer with a lackluster love life. But his best pal (Judge Reinhold) has an idea that might turn things around when he decides to film Paul's life and turn his romantic disasters into a comedic documentary. When a beautiful young director (Rosalind Chao) decides to produce the real-life romantic comedy, Paul realizes that Cupid may be poised ...

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Joey Travolta

Stars: Peter Falk | David Paymer | Judge Reinhold | Rosalind Chao | Bea Arthur

Lakeboat (2000)

As: The Pierman

Coming-of-age tale set aboard a shipping freighter traveling America's Great Lakes. Dale is an Ivy League college student who briefly joins a world-weary crew. Exposed to a seafaring lifestyle which falls short of his literary visions, Dale instead finds the experience rich in unexpected ways. The men's bravado and comical posturing gives way as their lively story-telling reveals more about their ...

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Joe Mantegna

Stars: Robert Forster | Peter Falk | Charles Durning | Denis Leary | Andy García

A Storm in Summer (2000)

As: Abel Shaddick

Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly against his slacker nephew Stanley who lives behind the shop. Without telling his uncle, Stanley agrees to put up a needy city kid for the summer as part of a charity program run by rich debutante Gloria. Abel immediately vetoes the plan, but it is too late. The ...

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Robert Wise

Stars: Andrew McCarthy | Peter Falk | Nastassja Kinski | Ruby Dee | Aaron Meeks

From Where I Sit (2000)

As: Abe

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Michael Lembeck

Stars: Lizzy Caplan | Jane Adams | David Paymer | Marcia Gay Harden | Daveigh Chase

A Constant Forge (2000)

As: Himself

One of the great mavericks of cinema, John Cassavetes has earned a reputation as the godfather of American independent movies. The actor-turned-filmmaker invented a realist style of unadorned narrative films heavily influenced by documentaries. This in-depth analysis of Cassavetes' life and work features interviews with key collaborators and ensemble regulars, and explores the making of classics like ...

Runtime: 200 min.

Directed by: Charles Kiselyak

Stars: Carol Kane | Seymour Cassel | Peter Falk | Jon Voight | Ben Gazzara

Vig (1998)

As: Vinnie

Vinnie's a bookie, happily married, running his operation for 30 years out of his bar in Brooklyn. Times change, the boys up the chain want a bigger profit, so Vinnie's expendable He's assigned a hotheaded kid, Tony, the nephew of a local mobster. Vinnie's told to school the lad, use him for collections, and teach him some sense. What Vinnie doesn't know is that once Tony learns the ropes, Vinnie will be ...

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Graham Theakston

Stars: Timothy Hutton | Lauren Holly | Peter Falk | Tyne Daly | Freddie Prinze Jr.

Pronto (1997)

As: Harry Arno

Harry Arno is a Miami Beach bookie who finds himself in trouble with his mob bosses for reasons he can't quite figure out. When an assailant attempts to kill him, he decides that it's time to retire, so he relocates to Greece.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Jim McBride

Stars: Sergio Castellitto | Peter Falk | Glenne Headly | Glenn Plummer | James Le Gros

The Sunshine Boys (1996)

As: Willie Clark

Two aging comedians who acrimoniously dissolved their act eight years earlier must overcome their differences when they have the chance for a lucrative movie comeback.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: John Erman

Stars: Michael McKean | Liev Schreiber | Sarah Jessica Parker | Woody Allen | Peter Falk

John Cassavetes: To Risk Everything to Express It All (1996)

Directed by: Rudolf Mestdagh

Stars: Seymour Cassel | Peter Falk | Anthony Quinn | Gena Rowlands | Ben Gazzara

Roommates (1995)

As: Rocky Holzeck

An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.

Runtime: 108 min.

Directed by: Peter Yates

Stars: Ellen Burstyn | Julianne Moore | Peter Falk | Ernie Sabella | D. B. Sweeney

Cops n Roberts (1995)

As: Salvatore Santini

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Peter Crane

Stars: Peter Falk | Priscilla Barnes | Stephen Furst | Don Calfa | Herb Edelman

Faraway, So Close! (1993)

As: sich

The film opens with the angel Cassiel (Otto Sander) standing on the statue of the Angel of Victory overlooking post-Cold War Berlin. Growing ever more despondent over his fate as a mere observer of human life, rather than a vital part of it, Cassiel dreams of "crossing over" to the human world.And he does, as Karl Engel, a man who perhaps knows too much, perhaps like in many of Hitchcock's films, ...

Runtime: 144 min.

Directed by: Wim Wenders

Stars: Bruno Ganz | Peter Falk | Nastassja Kinski | Solveig Dommartin | Otto Sander

Anything for John (1993)

An intimate portrait of actor-writer-director John Cassavetes and a loving tribute to his genius for studying and depicting the human character. In-depth, candid interviews with his wife and muse Gena Rowlands as well as his most trusted friends and co-workers like Peter Falk, Ben Gazzara, Seymour Cassel, etc. Clips from Cassavetes' greatest films, and many rare photos illustrate this touching documentary.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Dominique Cazenave | Doug Headline

Stars: Seymour Cassel | Peter Falk | Samuel Fuller | John Cassavetes | Ben Gazzara

The Player (1992)

As: Himself

A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?

Runtime: 124 min.

Directed by: Robert Altman

Stars: Tim Robbins | Whoopi Goldberg | Greta Scacchi | Peter Gallagher | Fred Ward

Something a Little Less Serious: A Tribute to 'It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World' (1991)

As: (archive footage)

A star-studded documentary and tribute to the classic comedy, It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World.

Runtime: 60 min.

Directed by: Ronnie Johnson

Stars: Jonathan Winters | Carl Reiner | Norman Fell | Sid Caesar | Edie Adams

Motion and Emotion: The Films of Wim Wenders (1990)

Though very polite and British, this feature-length documentary about German filmmaker Wim Wenders offers the most penetrating insights and the best overall critique of his work that I have encountered anywhere. Paul Joyce, who directed it, has also made documentaries about Nicolas Roeg, David Cronenberg, Nagisa Oshima, and Dennis Hopper, and he knows the conventional format well enough to get the most out ...

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Paul Joyce

Stars: Harry Dean Stanton | Peter Falk | Dennis Hopper | Wim Wenders

In the Spirit (1990)

As: Roger Flan

A woman moves back to New York and hires a ditzy New Age woman to redecorate her apartment in this Odd Couple styled comedy. The movie takes a turn as the two escape to a New Age retreat in upstate New York to get away from a murderer who is pursuing them. Melanie Griffith also shows up briefly as a hooker as the two hide out acting as hookers.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Sandra Seacat

Stars: Peter Falk | Olympia Dukakis | Melanie Griffith | Elaine May | Jeannie Berlin

Tune in Tomorrow … (1990)

As: Pedro Carmichael

Martin works at the local radio station, which just hired a new scriptwriter with a reputation for great drama, Pedro Carmichael. Martin’s aunt Julia, not related by blood, returns home after many years away and Martin falls for her. Once Pedro finds out about this romance, he starts incorporating details of it into the script of his daily drama series. Soon, Martin and Julia are not only hearing about ...

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Jon Amiel

Stars: Keanu Reeves | Barbara Hershey | Peter Falk | Hope Lange | Elizabeth McGovern

Cookie (1989)

As: Dominick Capisco

Cookie Voltecki (Emily Lloyd) is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco (Peter Falk), who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from jail, all that Dino wants is to settle some old scores, and make up for lost time with his daughter. Cookie's mother, Lenore Voltecki (Dianne Weist), has been Dino's longtime mistress. Dino's actual wife Bunny (Brenda Vaccaro) has, he ...

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Susan Seidelman

Stars: Dianne Wiest | Peter Falk | Brenda Vaccaro | Adrian Pasdar | Michael V. Gazzo

Vibes (1988)

As: Harry Buscafusco

Medium Sylvia Pickel and psychometrist Nick Deezy meet at a psychic research facility in New York. Not long after, they're contacted by Harry Buscafusco, who offers them $50,000 to find his lost son in South America, in the heart of Incan territory where they discover an ancient mystical secret, and each other.

Runtime: 99 min.

Directed by: Ken Kwapis

Stars: Jeff Goldblum | Peter Falk | Cyndi Lauper | Darryl Henriques | Googy Gress

The Princess Bride (1987)

As: The Grandfather / Narrator

In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death can't stop these true lovebirds from triumphing.

Runtime: 98 min.

Directed by: Rob Reiner

Stars: Robin Wright | Chris Sarandon | Cary Elwes | Mandy Patinkin | André the Giant

Happy New Year (1987)

As: Nick

Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old men and women they begin the set-up, but then Nick falls for the owner of a neighboring antique store and things get a little complicated.

Runtime: 85 min.

Directed by: John G. Avildsen

Stars: Peter Falk | Tracy Brooks Swope | Charles Durning | Tom Courtenay | Ruben Rabasa

Wings of Desire (1987)

As: Peter Falk

Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with lonely trapeze artist Marion, the angel longs to experience life in the physical world, and finds -- with some words of wisdom from actor Peter Falk -- that it might be possible for him to ...

Runtime: 128 min.

Directed by: Wim Wenders

Stars: Bruno Ganz | Peter Falk | Solveig Dommartin | Otto Sander | Curt Bois

Big Trouble (1986)

As: Steve Rickey

Leonard Hoffman is an insurance salesman struggling to make ends meet. The fact that he has triplet sons who all want to go to Yale isn't making things any easier. Blanche Rickey is also worried about money; her husband is a millionaire with a weak heart, and she worries that he'll blow through all his cash before he finally dies. When Blanche meets Leonard, she devises a murderous plan that she claims ...

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Andrew Bergman | John Cassavetes

Stars: Peter Falk | Beverly D'Angelo | Alan Arkin | Charles Durning | Robert Stack

...All the Marbles (1981)

As: Harry Sears

A two-bit promoter tries to take a women's wrestling team to the top.

Runtime: 113 min.

Directed by: Robert Aldrich

Stars: Peter Falk | Burt Young | Tracy Reed | Vicki Frederick | Laurene Landon

The Great Muppet Caper (1981)

As: Tramp

Kermit and Fozzie are newspaper reporters sent to London to interview Lady Holiday, a wealthy fashion designer whose priceless diamond necklace is stolen. Kermit meets and falls in love with her secretary, Miss Piggy. The jewel thieves strike again, and this time frame Miss Piggy. It's up to Kermit and Muppets to bring the real culprits to justice.

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: Jim Henson

Stars: Frank Oz | Dave Goelz | Jerry Nelson | Jim Henson | Richard Hunt

The In-Laws (1979)

As: Vincent J. Ricardo

In preparation for his daughter's wedding, dentist Sheldon Kornpett meets Vince Ricardo, the groom's father. Vince, a manic fellow who claims to be a government agent, then proceeds to drag Sheldon into a series of chases and misadventures from New York to Central America.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Arthur Hiller

Stars: Peter Falk | Alan Arkin | Richard Libertini | Penny Peyser | Nancy Dussault

The Brink's Job (1978)

As: Tony Pino

After a long time of bad luck, the little criminal Tony and his gang successfully rob one of Brink's security transport, taking $30,000. Surprisingly their coup doesn't make the press. Curious Tony checks out their headquarters and finds out that their security standard is low beyond belief. Now a really big coup is prepared... Written by Tom Zoerner

Runtime: 104 min.

Directed by: William Friedkin

Stars: Peter Falk | Peter Boyle | Allen Garfield | Warren Oates | Gena Rowlands

Scared Straight! (1978)

As: Narration (voice)

The filmed depiction of a program where convicts tell troubled kids about the horrors of prison life.

Runtime: 52 min.

Directed by: Arnold Shapiro

Stars: Peter Falk

The Cheap Detective (1978)

As: Lou Peckinpaugh

Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou Pekinpaugh, a San Francisco private detective accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress, the partner's wife, Georgia Merkle.

Runtime: 92 min.

Directed by: Robert Moore

Stars: Stockard Channing | Ann-Margret | Peter Falk | Sid Caesar | Eileen Brennan

Opening Night (1977)

As: Peter Falk

An actress suffers an emotional uproar in her personal life after a fan dies trying to see her.

Runtime: 144 min.

Directed by: John Cassavetes

Stars: Paul Stewart | John Cassavetes | Gena Rowlands | Joan Blondell | Ben Gazzara

Mikey and Nicky (1976)

As: Mikey

In Philadelphia, a small-time bookie who stole mob money is in hiding and he begs a childhood friend to help him evade the hit-man who's on his trail.

Runtime: 119 min.

Directed by: Elaine May

Stars: Ned Beatty | Peter Falk | John Cassavetes | Rose Arrick | Carol Grace

Murder by Death (1976)

As: Sam Diamond

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.

Runtime: 94 min.

Directed by: Robert Moore

Stars: Peter Falk | Alec Guinness | Peter Sellers | Eileen Brennan | David Niven

Griffin and Phoenix (1976)

As: Geoffrey Griffin

Geoffrey Griffin who has been diagnosed with terminal cancer in his chest, meets Sarah Phoenix as they both attend a university lecture on the psychology of dying. Sarah Phoenix has got terminal leukemia, but Griffin doesn't know that, and she doesn't know that he is terminally ill. They start spending time together and fall in love, both struggling with their fate. This is the beginning of a beautiful and ...

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: Daryl Duke

Stars: Jill Clayburgh | Sally Kirkland | Peter Falk | Dorothy Tristan

A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

As: Nick Longhetti

Mabel, a mother and wife, is on the brink of insanity as her blue-collar husband Nick attempts to understand her plight.

Runtime: 155 min.

Directed by: John Cassavetes

Stars: Peter Falk | Gena Rowlands | Fred Draper | Lady Rowlands | Katherine Cassavetes

Ransom for a Dead Man (1971)

As: Columbo

A brilliant tort attorney gets rid of her boring husband by faking his kidnapping and keeping the ransom. The FBI may be fooled, but not Columbo.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Richard Irving

Stars: Peter Falk | John Fink | Lee Grant | Harold Gould | Patricia Mattick

A Step Out of Line (1971)

As: Harry Connors

Three financially down-and-out buddies plot to pull a bank robbery to cure their financial woes.

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Bernard McEveety

Stars: Peter Falk | Peter Lawford | Vic Morrow | Lynn Carlin | Jo Ann Pflug

Husbands (1970)

As: Archie Black

A common friend's sudden death brings three men, married with children, to reconsider their lives and ultimately leave together. But mindless enthusiasm for regained freedom will be short-lived.

Runtime: 131 min.

Directed by: John Cassavetes

Stars: Peter Falk | Jenny Runacre | John Cassavetes | Jenny Lee Wright | Ben Gazzara

Machine Gun McCain (1970)

As: Charlie Adamo

After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn of a ruthless mob runt's rebellion against a high level don. When McCain discovers that he's been betrayed and abandoned by his new employer, he retaliates with a high stakes Las Vegas casino heist that erupts into all-out war on the streets of Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. Not blood, nor lust, nor ...

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Giuliano Montaldo

Stars: Peter Falk | Gabriele Ferzetti | Britt Ekland | John Cassavetes | Margherita Guzzinati

Operation Snafu (1970)

As: Peter Pawney

In WWII, a commando was sent in a secret mission in Sicily. They had a reluctant Italian prisoner of war to help them.

Runtime: 95 min.

Directed by: Nanni Loy

Stars: Martin Landau | Peter Falk | Jason Robards | Nino Manfredi | Scott Hylands

Castle Keep (1969)

As: Sgt. Rossi

During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.

Runtime: 107 min.

Directed by: Sydney Pollack

Stars: Peter Falk | Bruce Dern | Jean-Pierre Aumont | Patrick O'Neal | Burt Lancaster

Anzio (1968)

As: Cpl. Jack Rabinoff

Allied forces land at Anzio unopposed but instead of moving straight inland their commanding officer decides to dig in. A battle-hardened war correspondent borrows a jeep and drives to Rome and back without meeting any German forces, but his report on this absence of the enemy is discounted. By the time it is finally decided to make a move the Germans have arrived in strength and a prolonged ...

Runtime: 117 min.

Directed by: Duilio Coletti | Edward Dmytryk

Stars: Peter Falk | Robert Mitchum | Mark Damon | Robert Ryan | Earl Holliman

A Hatful of Rain (1968)

As: Polo Pope

A 1968 made-for-television remake of the 1957 film, based on the disturbing 1956 Michael V. Gazzo play, as performed by members of The Actors' Studio on ABC (American Broadcasting Company) television.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: John Llewellyn Moxey

Stars: Peter Falk | Michael Parks | Don Stroud | Herschel Bernardi | Sandy Dennis

Prescription: Murder (1968)

As: Columbo

In Columbo's first outing, a psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Richard Irving

Stars: Peter Falk | William Windom | Nina Foch | Gene Barry | Katherine Justice

Luv (1967)

As: Milt Manville

Harry is a barely functional human. He meets an old friend who is having marital problems as Harry is about to leap off of a bridge. His friend decides that Harry is the man to take his wife away from him so that Milt can be with his girlfriend. Ellen and Harry have an instant attraction and in a short while Harry is wearing Milt's suits and Milt is free. But, Ellen soon discovers that Harry is the world's ...

Runtime: 93 min.

Directed by: Clive Donner

Stars: Peter Falk | Elaine May | Jack Lemmon | Nina Wayne | Eddie Mayehoff

Penelope (1966)

As: Lt. Horatio Bixbee

When James met Penelope at a club, it took all of three weeks before they were married. But after the marriage, other women became attracted to James and he kept getting promoted, which took him away from Penelope. So Penelope puts on a disguise and robs her husband's bank. Her psychiatrist, Greg, believes that this condition is caused by James being over worked and under romantic with Penelope. She also ...

Runtime: 97 min.

Directed by: Arthur Hiller

Stars: Ian Bannen | Peter Falk | Lila Kedrova | Natalie Wood | Dick Shawn

Brigadoon (1966)

As: Jeff Douglas

Every 100 years people stumble upon the Scottish village of Brigadoon, which will never be found on a map. A wonderful, fun filled day will be had by all who find it.

Runtime: 90 min.

Directed by: Fielder Cook

Stars: Peter Falk | Finlay Currie | Sally Ann Howes | Marlyn Mason | Robert Goulet

Too Many Thieves (1966)

As: Danny

When some priceless Macedonian treasures are swiped, lawyer Falk arrives to get to the bottom of things.

Runtime: 100 min.

Directed by: Abner Biberman

Stars: David Carradine | Peter Falk | Nehemiah Persoff | Britt Ekland | Joanna Barnes

The Great Race (1965)

As: Max

Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.

Runtime: 160 min.

Directed by: Blake Edwards

Stars: Peter Falk | Tony Curtis | Keenan Wynn | Jack Lemmon | Natalie Wood

Attack and Retreat (1964)

As: Medic Captain

Beautifully photographed and lyrically written, this largely factual account of Mussolini's disastrous invasion of Russia during World War II tells the story of an Italian regiment through the eyes of a farmer from Emilia, a plumber from Rome, a miner from Puglia and a colonel.

Runtime: 137 min.

Directed by: Giuseppe De Santis

Stars: Peter Falk | Riccardo Cucciolla | Arthur Kennedy | Andrea Checchi | Raffaele Pisu

Robin and the 7 Hoods (1964)

As: Guy Gisborne

In prohibition-era Chicago, the corrupt sheriff and Guy Gisborne, a south-side racketeer, knock off the boss Big Jim. Everyone falls in line behind Guy except Robbo, who controls the north side. Although he's out-gunned, Robbo wants to keep his own territory. A pool-playing dude from Indiana and the director of a boys' orphanage join forces with Robbo; and, when he gives some money to the orphanage, he ...

Runtime: 123 min.

Directed by: Gordon Douglas

Stars: Peter Falk | Bing Crosby | Dean Martin | Frank Sinatra | Sammy Davis, Jr.

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)

As: Third Cab Driver

A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.

Runtime: 205 min.

Directed by: Stanley Kramer

Stars: Mickey Rooney | Sid Caesar | Milton Berle | Spencer Tracy | Buddy Hackett

The Balcony (1963)

As: Police Chief

Shelley Winters is the madame of a house where customers play out their erotic fantasies, oblivious to a revolution which is sweeping the country. When her old friend, the chief of police (Peter Falk), asks her to impersonate the missing queen in order to reassure the people and halt the revolution, she offers instead three of her customers to play the general, bishop and chief justice, all of whom ...

Runtime: 84 min.

Directed by: Joseph Strick

Stars: Peter Falk | Leonard Nimoy | Shelley Winters | Ruby Dee | Lee Grant

Pressure Point (1962)

As: Young Psychiatrist

An African-American prison psychiatrist finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate with bigoted Nazi tendencies.

Runtime: 91 min.

Directed by: Hubert Cornfield

Stars: Peter Falk | Sidney Poitier | Mary Munday | Bobby Darin | Carl Benton Reid

Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

As: Joy Boy

Damon Runyon's fairytale, sweet and funny, is told by director Frank Capra. Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples --- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they ...

Runtime: 136 min.

Directed by: Frank Capra

Stars: Peter Falk | Hope Lange | Bette Davis | Arthur O'Connell | Glenn Ford

The Secret Of The Purple Reef (1960)

As: Tom Weber

When a man mysteriously vanishes on his ship in the Caribbean, his two brothers journey there to investigate his disappearance.

Runtime: 81 min.

Directed by: William Witney

Stars: Peter Falk | Richard Chamberlain | Jeff Richards | Margia Dean | Terence de Marney

Murder, Inc. (1960)

As: Abe 'Kid Twist' Reles

Chronicles the rise and fall of the organised crime syndicate known as Murder, Incorporated, focusing on powerful boss Lepke and violent hit man Reles.

Runtime: 103 min.

Directed by: Stuart Rosenberg | Burt Balaban

Stars: Peter Falk | Stuart Whitman | Henry Morgan | David J. Stewart | May Britt

Pretty Boy Floyd (1960)

As: Shorty Walters

Trying to shake his troubled past and start a new honest life, Floyd loses his job because of that past. With nowhere to go but back home in Oklahoma he gets news that his father's been murdered and the local sheriff lets the killer off with a self-defense plea. Bent on revenge, Floyd does what he must which leads him down a dark road littered with robbing banks and loose women. Floyd's final ...

Runtime: 96 min.

Directed by: Herbert J. Leder

Stars: Barry Newman | John Ericson | Joan Harvey | Carl York | Roy Fant

The Bloody Brood (1959)

As: Nico

Two beatniks get their kicks by dealing drugs and violence.

Runtime: 80 min.

Directed by: Julian Roffman

Stars: Peter Falk | Ron Hartmann | Jack Betts | Robert Christie | Barbara Lord