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Steven Spielberg wasn't a household name when he directed the first episode of Columbo, but the twentysomething director already showed promise.
Though noirs and police procedurals were by no means new when Columbo initially premiered as a one-off made-for-TV movie in 1968, Levinson and Link’s show offered a mix of tried and true tropes ...
Columbo ’s circumstantial way of solving a TV crime now has a real-life judicial aspect too, it seems. Just over a month after a Los Angeles Superior Court judge awarded $70.3 million in profit ...
‘Columbo’ was Peter Falk’s defining role According to IMDb, Columbo ran from 1971-2003, with the frequency of episodes declining as the years passed. The show was movie-length.
In addition to their television work, Link and Levinson wrote the scripts for the feature films The Hindenburg (1975), Rollercoaster (1977), and Steve McQueen’s last film The Hunter (1980).
Bruce Kirby, Veteran Character Actor and ‘Columbo’ Cop, Dies at 95 The father of the late Bruno Kirby, he also portrayed District Attorney Bruce Rogoff on 'L.A. Law.' By Mike Barnes ...
The show lasted from 1984 to 1996, and the TV movie “Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest” aired in 1997. Starring Angela Lansbury, the series centered around a novelist who solved murder ...