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The character became identified with his shabby raincoat and his killer catchphrase: "One more thing …"As a child, Falk's right eye was surgically removed because of a tumour, and was replaced with a glass eye.

Peter Falk, Columbo actor, dies aged 83 2011

Falk's movie career became increasingly busy and varied.

Peter Falk obituary 2011

Witness my friend Muhammad Bari in Casablanca, Morocco's sprawling economic capital, who read the news of Falk's death and cried.

Joseph Braude: Mourning Columbo in the Arab World Joseph Braude 2011

Falk's supportive role as a manual worker coping with the problems of his emotionally scarred wife, played by Rowlands, revealed his talent as an intense character actor.

Peter Falk obituary 2011

But Falk's handicap became Columbo's trademark and enhanced the detective's image as a dishevelled and oddball crime sleuth.

Peter Falk, Columbo actor, dies aged 83 2011

Witness my friend Muhammad Bari in Casablanca, Morocco's sprawling economic capital, who read the news of Falk's death and cried.

Joseph Braude: Mourning Columbo in the Arab World Joseph Braude 2011

She published that assessment in 1980, and just as Raymond Dart's announcement drew an initially negative response, Ms. Falk's sparked much debate about the pattern of human brain development.

Bones That Tell a Tale Brian Switek 2011

Rather like an episode of the late Peter Falk's show Columbo, shoppers may think they know the identity of the culprit from the start: fickle fashion.

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Ms. Falk's expertise as an interpreter of fossil brains also drew her into the hobbit controversy after archaeologist Michael Morwood and an international team described, in 2004, the diminutive remains of a previously unknown species of human who lived on Flores Island in the Pacific sometime between 12,000 and 38,000 years ago.

Bones That Tell a Tale Brian Switek 2011

This and a couple of other duds led to a lull in Falk's career, until he heard that Bing Crosby had turned down the part of a detective in a scheduled television show.

Peter Falk obituary 2011