Overview
For millions of viewers, Peter Falk is Columbo. Despite playing the quintessential blue-collar TV detective of the '70s and '80s, his early career is rarely explored. Using archive footage, interviews and extracts from his films and the TV show, the documentary pays tribute to the immortal character of Columbo, while shedding light on the actor’s life, one full of twists and turns, ups and downs.
Director and cast
- Peter Falk as Self (archive footage)
- William Link as Self (archive footage)
- Julian Schlossberg as Self
- Annette Insdorf as Self
- Jeremy Kagan as Self
- Elaine Kagan as Self
- John Cassavetes as Self (archive footage)
- Gena Rowlands as Self (archive footage)
- Steven Spielberg as Self (archive footage)
- Pascal Cuissot as Narrator (voice)
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