He didn't mind, though there are worse things than being typecast, he told Gross in 2000. But he will forever be known as the disarming, forgetful, but clever Columbo. And he had a small but memorable part as an angry taxi driver in It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World.įalk proved time and again he could stretch as an actor. He was twice nominated for Oscars for A Pocketful of Miracles and Murder, Inc. In the 1970s he worked with director John Cassavetes, starring in the domestic dramas Husbands and A Woman Under the Influence. But he was bored, so he started acting in off-Broadway productions, and then made his transition to film. For a few years after college Falk was an "efficiency expert" for the Connecticut State Budget Bureau. while he cunningly put the pieces together.įalk grew up in Ossining, N.Y., just north of New York City. (When Falk was 3 years old, cancer forced him to have one of his eyes removed.) Falk said he sometimes he used his glass eye to get a reaction. Adding to his character's deceptive appearance was the fact that the actor sometimes played tricks with his glass eye.
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