Peter Falk Filmography

Three Days to Vegas

Synopsis: Peter Falk, Rip Torn, Bill Cobbs, George Segal, and Coolio star in director Charlie Picerni's geriatric road comedy following an adventurous group of four senior citizens as they set out to prevent the daughter of one from marrying the wrong guy. Gus Fitzgerald (Falk)'s daughter is about to tie Read More

Checking Out

Actors: Peter Falk, Laura San Giacomo, Judge Reinhold, David Paymer, Jeffrey D. Sams

Synopsis: A feisty octogenarian on the verge of his ninetieth birthday invites his three grown children to his upcoming birthday celebration with the explicit understanding that when the festivities end, so does his life, in a dark but light-hearted family comedy directed by Jeff Hare and starring Peter Read More

Edge of Outside

Synopsis: A documentary produced for the Turner Classic Movies cable station, Edge of Outside surveys the careers of various filmmakers who have attempted to bring their uncompromised visions to the screen. Interspersing clips of classic films, the filmmakers take a look at the careers of such famous Read More

The Book of Joe

Actors: Peter Falk, Gena Rowlands

3 Days of Rain

Actors: Don Meredith, Peter Falk, Merle Kennedy, Erick Avari, Lyle Lovett

Synopsis: Writer/director Michael Meredith's ambitious first feature, Three Days of Rain, weaves together a large number of tales, loosely based on short stories by Anton Chekhov, and set in present-day Cleveland. Thunder (Michael Santoro) is a struggling tile-maker, an artisan whose leaky roof threatens to Read More

The Thing About My Folks

Actors: Peter Falk, Paul Reiser, Elizabeth Perkins, Olympia Dukakis

Synopsis: A middle-aged man finds himself dealing with the divorce of his elderly parents as well as many years of emotional baggage in this poignant comedy drama. Ben (Paul Reiser) is a writer who is enjoying a quiet evening at home with his wife, Rachel (Elizabeth Perkins), when they receive an unexpected Read More

Shark Tale

Actors: Will Smith, Robert De Niro, Renée Zellweger, Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Martin Scorsese

Synopsis: Oceanic wise guys meet up with a small fish who has a big attitude in this computer-animated comedy. Don Lino (voice of Robert De Niro) is the patriarch of a family of sharks who lord over a bustling aquatic community based along a massive underwater reef. Don Lino has two sons, Frankie (voice of Michael Imperioli Read More

When Angels Come to Town

Synopsis: First telecast by CBS on November 28, 2004, When Angels Comes to Town is the third in a series of whimsical TV-movies featuring Peter Falk as an eccentric, all-purpose guardian angel named Max. Sent to a small town in Maine just before the Christmas holidays, Max immediately gets to work on what Read More

Wilder Days

Actors: Peter Falk, Tim Daly, Josh Hutcherson, Kate Vernon, Colin Cunningham

Synopsis: The third TV movie produced for the TNT network's "Johnson & Johnson Spotlight Presentations," Wilder Days stars Peter Falk as septuagenarian James "Pop-Up" Morse, who, though warm and indulgent toward his 11-year-old grandson Chris (Josh Hutcherson), has always been a bit aloof and distant when Read More

Columbo: Columbo Likes the Nightlife

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Peter Falk, Matthew Rhys, Jennifer Sky, Douglas Roberts, Carmine Giovinazzo

Synopsis: Thirty-five years after his first television appearance in the feature-length Prescription: Murder, rumpled, raincoat-clad Lt. Columbo (who else but Peter Falk?) is still on the job in this made-for-TV movie. This time, Columbo moves about uncertainly in the Los Angeles rave scene, investigating Read More

Finding John Christmas

Synopsis: First telecast by CBS on November 30, 2003, the made-for-TV Finding John Christmas is a sequel to the previous year's A Town Without Christmas, with Peter Falk reprising his role as versatile guardian angel Max. Valerie Bertinelli plays Kathleen McAllister, a divorced small-town nurse whose Read More

Undisputed

Actors: Ving Rhames, Wesley Snipes, Peter Falk, Michael Rooker, Jon Seda

Synopsis: Director and screenwriter Walter Hill returns to one of his favorite themes -- desperate and violent men using force to escape from an unforgiving environment -- in this action drama set behind bars. Monroe Hutchen (Wesley Snipes) was once a promising heavyweight contender until he was convicted Read More

Corky Romano

Actors: Chris Kattan, Vinessa Shaw, Peter Falk, Peter Berg, Chris Penn

Synopsis: Saturday Night Live cast member Chris Kattan stars in this mob comedy as Corky Romano, a veterinarian with a penchant for pop music from the '80s. As a youth, Corky was kicked out of his Mafia-connected family for being an oddball. Now his long-lost father (Peter Falk) has been indicted and needs Read More

Made

Actors: Vince Vaughn, Jon Favreau, Sean Combs, Famke Janssen, Peter Falk, Faizon Love

Synopsis: In this reunion of Swingers co-stars Jon Favreau (making his feature directorial debut) and Vince Vaughn, the two star in a new Mob comedy set in the underbelly of New York City. Favreau plays Bobby, an aspiring boxer who has a lackluster record but refuses to give up his lifelong dream. Ricky Read More

Lakeboat

Actors: Charles Durning, Robert Forster, J.J. Johnston, Denis Leary

Synopsis: Renowned character actor Joe Mantegna makes his directorial debut with this film adaptation of one of David Mamet's first plays, boasting such onscreen talent as Peter Falk, Charles Durning, and Robert Forster. Based on Mamet's experiences of working on Great Lake freighters while a grad student Read More

The Lost World

Synopsis: Made for British television, this two-part adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's adventure-fantasy novel The Lost World adroitly combines a straightforward retelling with an abundance of slyly satirical grace notes--not to mention deliberate echoes of such earlier films as Jurassic Park, Planet of the Apes Read More

Columbo: Murder with Too Many Notes

Synopsis: Peter Falk returns to the role of Lt. Columbo -- he of the grimy trenchcoat, dumb-like-a-fox interrogations, and the inevitable "Just one more question" -- in this two-hour TV-movie special. British comic actor Billy Connolly guest stars as famed movie composer/conductor Findlay Crawford, who Read More

A Storm in Summer

Actors: Peter Falk, Aaron Meeks, Nastassja Kinski, Andrew McCarthy, Ruby Dee

Synopsis: Robert Wise brings his distinguished name and considerable directorial skill to this remake of a 1970 Rod Serling TV drama. Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick (Peter Falk), a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly against his Read More

Enemies of Laughter

Actors: David Paymer, Judge Reinhold, Rosalind Chao, Peter Falk

Synopsis: How does a man convince the woman he loves that attempting to make him the toast of Broadway could be a really bad idea? Paul Halpern (David Paymer) is a cynical, middle-aged comedy writer who primarily works in television. Paul once had dreams of becoming a successful playwright, but after a Read More

Money Kings

Actors: Peter Falk, Lauren Holly, Timothy Hutton, Colm Meaney, Frank Vincent, Freddie Prinze, Jr.

Synopsis: Peter Falk, Lauren Holly, Timothy Hutton, Freddie Prinze Jr., and Tyne Daly star in this gritty crime drama. Falk plays the owner of a local bar who has taken bets for a Mafia gambling ring for years, watching out for his customers and never letting them get in too far over their heads. But that Read More

Columbo: Ashes to Ashes

Actors: Peter Falk, Patrick McGoohan, Sally Kellerman, Rue McClanahan, Richard Riehle

Synopsis: In this feature-length episode of the enduring and endearing television detective drama, the world's most rumpled police investigator, Lt. Columbo investigates the mysterious disappearance of a controversial Hollywood gossip columnist. Columbo's prime suspect is a secretive mortician who Read More

The Sunshine Boys

Actors: Woody Allen, Peter Falk, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael McKean, Liev Schreiber

Synopsis: Neil Simon adapted this 1997 comedy from his 1972 play, first filmed in 1975 with Walter Matthau and George Burns as two feuding veteran vaudevillians reuniting to do a television special. For this new version, Simon updated the period and characters into a tale of two comedians (Woody Allen, Peter Falk Read More

Pronto

Actors: Peter Falk, Glenne Headly, James LeGros

Synopsis: Based on a best-selling novel by Elmore Leonard, this crime drama centers upon a Florida bookie's attempts to leave behind his sordid life and to build a clean new life for himself and his ex-stripper girlfriend. He has a nice little nest egg to help him do it and plans to live on the Italian Read More

Roommates

Actors: Peter Falk, D.B. Sweeney, Julianne Moore, Jan Rubes, Frankie R. Faison

Synopsis: In the film Happy New Year (1987), actor Peter Falk donned old-age makeup to play a senior citizen. Eight years later, he did it again, twice, in the TV movie remake of The Sunshine Boys (1995) and this film, a comedy-drama. Falk stars as Rocky Holzcek, a cantankerous 76-year-old Polish-American Read More

Columbo: Butterfly in Shades of Grey

Actors: Peter Falk, William Shatner, Molly Hagan, Jack Laufer, Richard Kline

Synopsis: Peter Falk returns as America's favorite rumpled detective. In this episode, the cigar-toting Lt. Columbo investigates a radio-talk-show host suspected of killing a member of his own staff in order to prevent his daughter, who also works at the station, from moving to New York to become a writer. Read More

Columbo: Undercover

Actors: Peter Falk, Ed Begley, Jr., Burt Young, Shera Danese, Harrison Page

Synopsis: In this episode of the long-running detective series, Lt. Columbo delves seven years into the past to look into a lucrative bank robbery. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Faraway, So Close!

Actors: Horst Buchholz, Otto Sander, Peter Falk, Nastassja Kinski, Heinz Rühmann, Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Lou Reed, Willem Dafoe

Synopsis: Wim Wenders revisits his masterpiece Der Himmel Uber Berlin in this film which picks up several years after the original left off. Cassiel (Otto Sander) is an angel who watches over the lives of the people of recently reunified Berlin with Raphaella (Nastassja Kinski). Damiel (Bruno Ganz) Read More

Columbo: It's All in the Game

Actors: Peter Falk, Faye Dunaway, Claudia Christian, Armando Pucci, Doug Sheehan

Synopsis: In this feature-length episode, the rumpled police lieutenant investigates a murder and finds himself the object of a flirtatious rivalry between two women. Either of the lovelies could have committed the crime. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Player

Actors: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher

Synopsis: Robert Altman takes a scalpel to Hollywood ethics in the 1990s (or the lack thereof) in his acidic satire The Player, adapted from Michael Tolkin's novel. (Tolkin also wrote the screenplay.) The film concerns a sleek and smooth Hollywood studio executive who starts receiving death threats from a Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Out of the Loop

Synopsis: Larry's lack of knowledge pertaining to office gossip leaves him feeling left out in the lurch in this episode of HBO's The Larry Sanders Show. The head writer of The Larry Sanders Show is involved in a steamy office affair, and it seems that everyone aside from our gracious host is aware of it. Read More

Columbo: A Bird in the Hand

Synopsis: Peter Falk returns as dishevelled Lieutenant Columbo in this 2-hour TV special. This time, Columbo investigates the murder of football-team owner Steve Forrest. The prime suspect is Forrest's nephew Greg Evigan, meaning of course that he "done it." Naturally, Evigan has an airtight alibi, but when Read More

Columbo: No Time to Die

Actors: Peter Falk, Joanna Going, Thomas Calabro, Donald Moffat, Daniel McDonald

Synopsis: This is one of the many made for TV movies revolving around the popular disheveled character created by Peter Falk - Lieutenant Columbo, of Homicide. In this one, the Lieutenant is called upon to use his expertise to help out the family when his nephew's new bride is kidnapped on their wedding Read More

Columbo: Caution - Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health

Actors: Peter Falk, George Hamilton, Peter Haskell, Penny Johnson, Rick Najera

Synopsis: Peter Falk is Lieutenant Columbo, and the murderer is known to the audience from the get-go. This much we know before ever tuning in to Columbo: Caution--Murder Can Be Hazardous to Your Health. The special guest killer this time is George Hamilton, host of an America's Most Wanted-style TV show. Read More

Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star

Actors: Peter Falk, Dabney Coleman, Cheryl Paris, Julian Stone, Shera Danese

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, the rumpled detective battles wits with a brilliant defense attorney who kills his mistress. Trouble ensues when he attempts to frame her lover for the murder. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Columbo: Death Hits the Jackpot

Actors: Peter Falk, Rip Torn, Jamie Rose, Gary Kroeger, Warren Berlinger

Synopsis: In this murder mystery, the rumpled detective battles wits with an unscrupulous jeweler over a dead nephew and a winning lotto ticket. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Tune in Tomorrow

Actors: Peter Falk, Keanu Reeves, Barbara Hershey, Hope Lange, Bill McCutcheon, Peter Gallagher, Patricia Clarkson

Synopsis: Tune in Tomorrow is based on Mario Vargas Llosa's novel, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter. In New Orleans, circa 1951, a news writer for a local radio station, Martin Loader (Keanu Reeves), meets and falls in love with his aunt Julia (Barbara Hershey), a divorced woman who is looking for a new Read More

In the Spirit

Actors: Elaine May, Marlo Thomas, Jeannie Berlin, Peter Falk, Melanie Griffith

Synopsis: Elaine May and Marlo Thomas star in this black comedy taking place in the black comedy capital of the world -- New York City. Elaine May plays Marianne Flan, who moves back to a nightmare New York City from Beverly Hills after her husband, Roger (Peter Falk), has been fired from his job. She hires Read More

Columbo: Agenda for Murder

Actors: Peter Falk, Patrick McGoohan, Arthur Hill, Denis Arndt, Louis Zorich

Synopsis: This 2-hour TV movie was originally presented as an installment of The ABC Saturday Mystery Movie in February of 1990. Patrick McGoohan (who also directed) plays a vice presidential candidate whose best friend murders a blackmailing racketeer. With "damage control" foremost in his mind, McGoohan Read More

Columbo: Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo

Actors: Peter Falk, Helen Shaver, Ian McShane, Roscoe Lee Browne, Edward Winter

Synopsis: This was one of the highest-rated of the Columbo 2-hour TV movies of the 1990s. The story begins as Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) solemnly attends his wife's funeral. Mrs. C. was poisoned, and the murderer is guest star Helen Shaver. When her husband died in prison, Shaver swore revenge on the three Read More

Motion & Emotion

Actors: Wim Wenders, Harry Dean Stanton, Peter Falk, Dennis Hopper

Synopsis: This documentary focuses on the person and the films of one of Germany's premiere post-war filmmakers, Wim Wenders. Wenders is a lifelong fan of American pop culture, particularly its rock music and B-movies, and his highly personalized filmmaking style is deeply influenced by both of these. He is Read More

Columbo: Uneasy Lies the Crown

Synopsis: The title of this 2-hour Columbo entry is one of the most grievous puns ever perpetrated on the public. The "crown" in question is a gold one, placed in the murder victim's tooth by dentist James Read. Seeking redress against his wife's lover, Read has administered a slow-acting and untraceable Read More

Columbo Cries Wolf

Synopsis: This is one of the many made for TV movies revolving around the popular disheveled character created by Peter Falk - Lieutenant Columbo, of Homicide. In this one, the lack of a corpse doesn't hinder our trench-coat wearing detective as he tries to pin the murder on the supposed corpse's business Read More

Columbo: Murder in Malibu

Synopsis: The murder of a popular romance novelist sets America's favorite rumpled detective on the case. Columbo gets off on the wrong gumshoe when he forces an innocent gigolo to confess to the crime. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Columbo Goes to College

Synopsis: Where Columbo (Peter Falk) goes, can murder be far behind? In Columbo Goes to College, the rumpled TV sleuth shows up on campus as a guest lecturer on criminology. His visit coincides with the machinations of two rich and arrogant frat boys (Justin Rowe and Cooper Redman) who utilize "remote Read More

Columbo: Season 10

Actors: Peter Falk

Synopsis: The tenth season of Columbo episodes was seen on ABC, which in 1989 has resurrected the property after its removal from NBC 12 years earlier. Peter Falk returns as raincoated, cigar-chewing, deceptively scatterbrained homicide detective Lt. Columbo for a group of three feature-length episodes Read More

Cookie

Actors: Peter Falk, Dianne Wiest, Emily Lloyd, Michael Vincente Gazzo, Brenda Vaccaro

Synopsis: Directed by Susan Seidelman and written by Alice Arlen and Nora Ephron, Cookie comes across as an inconsequential piece of fluff, bolstered by a quirky performance by Emily Lloyd. Lloyd is Cookie Capisco, the daughter of mobster Dino Capisco (Peter Falk), who has just finished thirteen years in Read More

Columbo: Murder, Smoke and Shadows

Synopsis: Let's see: who is the character played by Fisher Stevens supposed to be? Stevens plays an egomaniacal Hollywood director, whose negligence causes an on-set death. Cleared of all responsibility, Stevens is confronted with cold, hard evidence of his complicity by the victim's brother. The director Read More

Columbo: Murder, A Self Portrait

Synopsis: Columbo: Murder, A Self Portrait stars Patrick Bauchau as an artist hounded by a contentious ex-wife (Fionulla Flanagan). He murders his former spouse on the beach at Malibu, but arranges things to make it seem he was far away in his art studio at the time of the killing. Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) Read More

Columbo: Columbo Goes to the Guillotine

Synopsis: After an absence of nearly a decade, Peter Falk returns to the role of dishevelled detective Columbo in Columbo Goes to the Guillotine. The special guest murderer this time out is professional psychic Anthony Andrews. The victim is magician Anthony Zerbe, a onetime cellmate of Andrews' who had Read More

Columbo: Grand Deceptions

Synopsis: Robert Foxworth is special guest murderer in the two-hour Columbo drama Grand Deceptions. Foxworth plays a retired Army colonel, currently fronting a paramilitary organization. He preaches duty, honor and country, all the while dipping into the organization's funds. When a colleague threatens to Read More

Columbo: Season 09

Actors: Peter Falk

Synopsis: Revived by ABC after eleven years' dormancy, the popular detective series Columbo proved so successful in its revitalized version during the 1988-1989 season that the network commissioned five more movie-length Columbo installments for the following year. Peter Falk of course was back in harness Read More

Columbo: Season 08

Actors: Peter Falk

Synopsis: After an eleven-year-absence, Peter Falk once more dons his tattered raincoat and steps into the role of delightfully sloppy and unerringly shrewd homicide detective Lt. Columbo for a short series of movie-length episodes produced for ABC. The first of these is the two-hour "Columbo Goes to the Guillotine Read More

Columbo: Sex and the Married Detective

Actors: Peter Falk, Lindsay Crouse

Synopsis: It's an alluring title, to be sure, but faithful Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) does not stray from his never-seen wife in Columbo: Sex and the Married Detective. Lindsay Crouse guest stars as Dr. Joan Allenby, a radio personality billed as "Sex Therapist of the Airwaves". The doctor finds she must Read More

Vibes

Actors: Cyndi Lauper, Jeff Goldblum, Peter Falk, Googy Gress, Julian Sands

Synopsis: Two hapless psychics unwittingly aid a criminal in his quest to obtain a mystic relic in this farcical adventure. Street smart beauty-school dropout Sylvia Pickel (Cyndi Lauper) navigates life with the counsel of a spirit named Louise, while genteel Nick Deezy (Jeff Goldblum) has the ability to Read More

Wings of Desire

Actors: Bruno Ganz, Solveig Dommartin, Peter Falk, Otto Sander, Curt Bois

Synopsis: Damiel (Bruno Ganz) and Cassiel (Otto Sander) are angels who watch over the city of Berlin. They don't have harps or wings (well, they usually don't have wings) and they prefer overcoats to gossamer gowns. But they can travel unseen through the city, listening to people's thoughts, watching their Read More

Rattornas Vinter

Actors: Kent Andersson, Ulrika Hansson, Eva-Britt Strandberg, Peter Falk, Stig Engstrom

Synopsis: Walter (Kent Andersson) is a retired sailor and former boxer who meets a 13-year-old prostitute and drug addict (Ulrika Hansson) in this symbolic action drama. Moved by her plight, he complains to the local police about the problem of child prostitution and drug dealing in the area. When they do Read More

Reading Rainbow: Robbery at the Diamond Dog Diner

Actors: LeVar Burton

Synopsis: Diamonds and food are the subjects of Reading Rainbow: Robbery at the Diamond Dog Diner. In the featured story, written by Eileen Christelow, jewel thieves threaten the safety of Lola Dog's prized diamonds. LeVar Burton learns the duties of a cook at a diner, and in another entertaining segment, a Read More

The Princess Bride

Actors: Cary Elwes, Robin Wright Penn, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest

Synopsis: Based on William Goldman's novel of the same name, The Princess Bride is staged as a book read by grandfather (Peter Falk) to his ill grandson (Fred Savage). Falk's character assures a romance-weary Savage that the book has much more to deliver than a simpering love story, including but not Read More

Happy New Year

Actors: Peter Falk, Charles Durning, Wendy Hughes, Tom Courtenay, Joan Copeland

Synopsis: Happy New Year is an Americanized remake of the 1974 French film of the same name. Peter Falk and Charles Durning play Nick and Charlie, a pair of seedy but suave jewel thieves. Preparing to rob the exclusive Florida jewelry store managed by Tom Courtenay, Nick and Charlie meticulously pre-plan Read More

Big Trouble

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