Peter Falk\u2019s \u201cColumbo\u201d<\/em> made him a household name. The scruffy, cigar-smoking detective solved crimes with \u201cone nagging detail\u201d<\/em> that no criminal could escape.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The show ran from the 1970s to 2003, earning Falk four Emmy awards and making him one of the highest-paid TV actors of his era.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Born in New York, Falk lost his right eye to retinoblastoma at age three and wore a prosthetic for life, contributing to his signature squint.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Recalling a high school prank, he said, \u201cI got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, \u2018Try this.\u2019\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n He earned Academy Award nominations for Murder, Inc.<\/em> and Pocketful of Miracles<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Falk married college sweetheart Alyce Mayo in 1960 and adopted two daughters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Catherine Falk described their relationship as rocky, saying, \u201cWe weren\u2019t allowed to go to his house\u201d<\/em> after he remarried Shera Danese.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Peter Falk died in June 2011 at 83 from pneumonia complications related to Alzheimer\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Steven Spielberg honored him: \u201cI learned more about acting from him at that early stage of my career than I had from anyone else.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 1. Iconic Detective Peter Falk\u2019s \u201cColumbo\u201d made him a household name. The scruffy, cigar-smoking detective solved crimes with \u201cone nagging detail\u201d that no criminal could escape. The show ran from the 1970s to 2003, earning Falk four Emmy awards and making him one of the highest-paid TV actors of his era. 2. Early Life and Career Born in New…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9777,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9775\/revisions\/9777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}2. Early Life and Career<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
3. Personal Life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
4. Death and Legacy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n