Peter Falk - Columbo

Peter Michael Falk was born on the 16th of September 1927 in New York City. His father was Polish and his mother Russian.  Falk lost his right eye to cancer when only three years old and has worn a glass eye ever since. Despite this his childhood was pretty normal and he played a lot of sports. In fact when he attended Ossining High School in Westchester County, New York, he was a star athlete as well as president of his senior class. He graduated in 1945, and tried to join up for the end of the war, unfortunately he was refused entry into the armed forces due to his eye sight, and so joined the United States Merchant Marine. He is quoted as saying "There they don't care if you're blind or not, the only one on a ship who has to see is the captain. And in the case of the Titanic, he couldn't see very well, either."
Falk obtained a Masters degree in public administration at Syracuse University in 1953 and went to work in Hartford,
It was here that Falk fell in love with acting first in amateur dramatics with the Mark Twain Masquers and later professionally when he moved to New York to pursue his dream.
His initial work from 1956 to 58 was in theatre, he even appeared on Broadway with Jason Robards, he kicked off his film career in Wind Across the Everglades (1958), The Bloody Brood (1959) and Pretty Boy Floyd (1960). And a star was born he moved from New York to LA and the rest is history

FILMOGRAHY
1960 Pretty Boy Floyd as Shorty Walters
1961 Pocketful of Miracles as Joy Boy
1963 The Balcony as Police Chief
1964 Robin and the 7 Hoods as Guy Gisborne
1965 The Great Race as  Max
1966 Penelope as Lieutenant Horatio Bixbee
1967 Luv as Milt Manville
1968 Anzio as Corporal Jack Rabinoff
1969 Castle Keep as Sargent Rossi
1970 Husbands as  Archie Black
1974 A Woman Under the Influence as Nick Longhetti
1976 Murder by Death as Sam Diamond
1978 The Cheap Detective as Lou Peckinpaugh
1979 The In-Laws as Vincent J. Ricardo
1981 ...All the Marbles as Harry Sears
1987 The Princess Bride as Grandfather/Narrator
1988 Vibes as Harry Buscafusco
1989 Cookie as  Dominick "Dino" Capisco
1990 Tune in Tomorrow as  Pedro Carmichael
1995 Roommates as Rocky Holzcek
2001 Corky Romano as Francis A. "Pops" Romano
2002 Undisputed as Mendy Ripstein
2004 Shark Tale as Don Feinberg Voice
2005 The Thing About My Folks as Sam Kleinman
2007 Next as Irv
2008 American Cowslip as Father Randolph

TV Career outside Columbo

1958 Kraft Suspense Theatre as Izzy
1959 Decoy Fred as Dana
1960 Have Gun - Will Travel as Waller
1961 The Twilight Zone as Ramos Clemente
1962 The New Breed as  Lopez
1963 Wagon Train as Gus Morgan
1964 Ben Casey as  Dr. Jimmy Reynolds
1965-1966 The Trials of O'Brien as Daniel O'Brien
1971 The Name of the Game as Lewis Corbett
1995 The Sunshine Boys as Willie Clark
2001 The Lost World as Reverend Theo Kerr
2003 Finding John Christmas as Max

Falk married Alyce Mayo on April 17th, 1960. They adopted two daughters, Catherine (who is a real life detective) and Jackie. They divorced in 1976 and on December 3rd, 1977, Falk married actress Shera Danese, who guest-starred on the Columbo series on numerous occasions.
Peter Falk has made it clear he wants to play Columbo one last time.