Peter Falk obituary
American actor whose success as the scruffy TV detective Columbo was complemented by a variety of roles on stage and screenShow-business history records that the American actor Peter Falk, who has died aged 83, made his stage debut the year before he left high school, presciently cast as a detective. Despite the 17-year-old's fleeting success, he had no thoughts of pursuing acting as a career " if only because tough …