Five-time Emmy winner Peter Falk died Thursday at the age of 83. Falk was best known for the iconic role of police Lieutenant Columbo in the eponymous series that ran from 1971 on and off through
2003.
The rumpled-looking Columbo, always a blue-collar thorn in the side of usually wealthy, imperious murderers, could arguably be the forerunner of a slew of eccentric TV detectives, from
the OCD-threatened Adrian Monk to the chocolate-eating Southern firecracker Brenda on "The Closer."
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