NEW YORK — The best way to celebrate Peter Falk’s life is to savor how Columbo, his signature character, fortified our lives. Thanks to Falk’s affectionately genuine portrayal, Lt. Columbo established ...

In this May 5, 2002 file photo, actor Peter Falk, from "Columbo," arrives at NBC's 75th anniversary celebration at New York's Rockefeller Center. Falk, the stage and movie actor who became identified ...

Peter Falk became synonymous with one of TV’s most enduring franchises with his signature role as the disheveled and disarming Lt. Columbo. But his long thesping career also encompassed John ...

The detective genre has been around as long as TV shows have. With roots going back to old literature, many fictional detectives have become household names in ways that are usually reserved for ...

Falk died Thursday at age 83 in his Beverly Hills, Calif., home, according to a statement released Friday by family friend Larry Larson. But Columbo lives on as the shining ideal of anyone with a ...

LOS ANGELES -- Peter Falk, who was best known as the disheveled but deceptively smart TV detective "Columbo," has died at the age of 83. Family members said the actor died peacefully Thursday night at ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Peter Falk, the stage and movie actor who became identified as the squinty, rumpled detective in "Columbo," which spanned 30 years in prime-time television and established one of ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Peter Falk, the stage and movie actor who became identified as the squinty, rumpled detective in "Columbo" has died. He was 83. A statement released Friday by family friend Larry ...