Sentences with phrase «rumpled detective»

But by 1979, he was best (and possibly only) known to the general public as television's rumpled detective Columbo.

(He was similarly brilliant as a rumpled detective in HBO's The Night Of.)

Not exact matches

The mere fact of this film's existence sounds like the plot of a never - made episode of «Columbo,» the great TV series starring Peter Falk as a rumpled, working class detective.

Another unlikely performer for an event movie is Stephen Rea («The Crying Game «-RRB- as a rumpled police detective tracking V and Evey who comes to question his government «s motives.

Peter Falk, the gravel - voiced actor who became an enduring television icon portraying Lt. Columbo, the rumpled raincoat - wearing Los Angeles police homicide detective who always had «just one more thing» to ask a suspect, died Thursday.