Peter Falk
Actor | Director | Writer
Actor | Director | Writer
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Peter Michael Falk (born September 16, 1927, height 5' 6" (1,68 m)) is a retired American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo. He appeared in numerous films and television guest roles, and has been nominated for an Academy Award twice (for 1960's Murder, Inc. and 1961's Pocketful of Miracles), and won the Emmy Award on five occasions (four for Columbo) and the Golden Globe award once. Director William Friedkin, when discussing Falk's role in his 1978 film The Brink's Job said that "Peter has a great range from comedy to drama. He could break your heart or he could make you laugh."
In 1968 he starred with Gene Berry in a ninety-minute TV pilot about a highly-skilled, laid-back detective. Columbo eventually became part of an anthology series entitled, "The NBC Mystery Movie", along with "McCloud" and "McMillan And Wife". The detective series stayed on NBC from 1971-1978, ... Show more...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Peter Michael Falk (born September 16, 1927, height 5' 6" (1,68 m)) is a retired American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the television series Columbo. He appeared in numerous films and television guest roles, and has been nominated for an Academy Award twice (for 1960's Murder, Inc. and 1961's Pocketful of Miracles), and won the Emmy Award on five occasions (four for Columbo) and the Golden Globe award once. Director William Friedkin, when discussing Falk's role in his 1978 film The Brink's Job said that "Peter has a great range from comedy to drama. He could break your heart or he could make you laugh."
In 1968 he starred with Gene Berry in a ninety-minute TV pilot about a highly-skilled, laid-back detective. Columbo eventually became part of an anthology series entitled, "The NBC Mystery Movie", along with "McCloud" and "McMillan And Wife". The detective series stayed on NBC from 1971-1978, took a five year respite, and returned occasionally on ABC from 1983-2003. He was "everyone's favorite rumpled television detective", writes historian David Fantle. Describing his role, Variety columnist Howard Prouty writes, "The joy of all this is watching Columbo dissemble the fiendishly clever cover stories of the loathsome rats who consider themselves his better." Show less...
As: Self (archive footage)
In 1951, schoolgirl Vivian Liberto meets Air Force cadet Johnny Cash in San Antonio. A three-year-long correspondence ensues while Johnny is stationed in Germany. Thousands of letters later, they marry upon his return in 1954, and within a year, both a career and family blossom. By 1961, Johnny Cash is a household name and perpetually on tour, while Vivian settles into their home in California with their ...
Runtime: 89 min.
Directed by: Matt Riddlehoover
Stars: Joaquin Phoenix | Ginnifer Goodwin | John C. Reilly | Reese Witherspoon | Johnny Cash
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed ...
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Jeffrey Friedman | Rob Epstein
Stars: Ellen Burstyn | Annette Bening | Billy Crystal | Anjelica Huston | Cher
As: Self
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
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
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
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
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 | Jim Beaver | Jessica Biel | Julianne Moore | Thomas Kretschmann
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
As: Bailey (voice)
It tells the story of a science geek who befriends a talking brain-in-a-jar.
Runtime: 17 min.
Directed by: Phil Robinson | Gordon Clark
Stars: Peter Falk | Bruce Campbell | Charles Howerton | Jonathan Harris | J. D. Daniels
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
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
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
As: Abe
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Michael Lembeck
Stars: Lizzy Caplan | Jane Adams | David Paymer | Marcia Gay Harden | Daveigh Chase
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
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.
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
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.
Runtime: 115 min.
Directed by: Kenneth Bowser
Stars: Oliver Stone | Ron Howard | Robert Altman | Frank Capra, Jr. | Tom Capra
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
As: Himself
Directed by: Rudolf Mestdagh
Stars: Seymour Cassel | Peter Falk | Anthony Quinn | Gena Rowlands | Ben Gazzara
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
As: Salvatore Santini
Runtime: 90 min.
Directed by: Peter Crane
Stars: Peter Falk | Priscilla Barnes | Stephen Furst | Don Calfa | Herb Edelman
As: Tramp (archive footage)
Episode of Great Performances about Jim Henson
Directed by: Judy Kinberg
Stars: Frank Oz | Jim Henson | Jerry Juhl | Ted Koppel | Jane Henson
As: Peter Falk
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
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
As: Peter Falk
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
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
As: Self
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 | Ry Cooder
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
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
As: Dominick 'Dino' 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 | Michael V. Gazzo | Emily Lloyd
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
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
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
As: Himself
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
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: John Cassavetes | Andrew Bergman
Stars: Peter Falk | Beverly D'Angelo | Alan Arkin | Charles Durning | Robert Stack
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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: Maggie Smith | Peter Falk | Alec Guinness | Peter Sellers | David Niven
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 | Ben Hammer | Peter Falk | Dorothy Tristan | John Lehne
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
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
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
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
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
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 | Lorenza Guerrieri
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
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: Edward Dmytryk | Duilio Coletti
Stars: Peter Falk | Robert Mitchum | Mark Damon | Robert Ryan | Earl Holliman
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
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
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
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 | Jonathan Winters | Natalie Wood | Dick Shawn
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
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
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
As: lieutenant Mario
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: Zhanna Prokhorenko | Arthur Kennedy | Andrea Checchi | Tatyana Samoylova | Raffaele Pisu
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.
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: Sid Caesar | Milton Berle | Ethel Merman | Spencer Tracy | Buddy Hackett
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
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 | Bobby Darin | Carl Benton Reid | Barry Gordon
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
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
As: Abe 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 | Simon Oakland | Henry Morgan | May Britt
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
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
As: Writer
An ornithologist battles a family of bird poachers in the Florida Everglades.
Runtime: 93 min.
Directed by: Nicholas Ray
Stars: Christopher Plummer | Burl Ives | Gypsy Rose Lee | Chana Eden | Tony Galento