Columbo est mort: décès de Peter Falk

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"Actor Peter Falk reportedly died last night at age 83, at his home in Beverly Hills. According to his daughter, reports USA Today, Falk had been suffering from Alzheimer's disease and dementia.
As an actor, Falk was a performer who was more than he at first seemed: he had a famously raspy, tough-guy manner of speech, but performed subtly in a wide range of roles, from comedy to gangster movies to the art films of John Cassavetes and Wim Wenders. His most beloved role, though, and the one for which he's immortalized on TV, was as a cigar-chewing, trenchcoat-wearing detective on NBC's Colombo—who was, himself, the very definition of a character who was more than he looked like, and used it to his advantage.
Lt. Columbo, hero of the show that began airing in 1971, was a role tailor-made for Falk, if you can credibly use the phrase "tailor-made" and "Columbo" in the same sentence. (It is, I believe, a constitutional requirement that Lt. Columbo be described as "rumpled.") He looked like he might have just rolled off a park bench or stumbled out of a bar in early-morning light. He was sheathed in wrinkles and looked like a cigar smelled. (He was, as Falk describes him in the documentary clip below, "a schlepper.") He had a roughed-up style, a working-class accent and a pleasantly addled aspect, thanks, partly, to the fact that Falk had a glass eye from age three, because of a tumor."

Article complet:http://tunedin.blogs.time.com/2011/06/24/peter-falk-dies-at-83/