Αt 83 and after three years of battle with Alzheimer's disease stopped beating heart of the most famous and most typical television police investigator.Τhe best way to remember Peter Folk is to see how the Colombo - the (television) trademark as an actor - has affected our view of what detectives. The Folk gone, but his hero - the one with the wrinkly face, wrinkled eyes and white trench coat - will stay with us for long.
The Folk was the detective outsider, the odd man, fear and terror (eventually) any suspect, while traversed the threshold of a comfortable, left with that distinctive cue - "Oh, one more thing, the last" - that was trying to nerves. Against any "compelling" point, insisted on instinct and always gave the impression that nothing of what he did was accidental.The compelling element was that totally indifferent to how they saw others. It seemed to be fine with himself, his life with his dog (Dog), the noisy Peugeot and his (unknown to the public!) Wife.
The Colombo was a antistar, against the pompous style of the TV detective knew. He once said: "It looks like a victim, you create a sense of sadness. Think you can not see anything, but he sees everything. ""As a man Folk seemed to Colombo," said the friend, partner and neighbor Charlie Engels. "Good sense of humor, his mind always elsewhere - that's why things xechnage -, a handsome and crazy guy."The Folk was born in New York in 1927 by Jewish family, a Russian father and Czech mother. At five, lost an eye from cancer. But he learned to live with it, to sneer, be it with wit and humor. "When they took out the match because of my eye, I took the glass and gave it to the referee." Although started as an actor in Broadway plays, played in movies "art" as his friend John Cassavetes, and was nominated in 1960 and 1961 Academy Award for Supporting Actor, was particularly known for his television appearances.
In the television series «Mystery movie series» NBC's first appearance in 1971 and played every third week in «Colombo», which proved the most popular of the three projects («McCloud» and «McMillan and wife»).The TV studio offered him $ 300,000 the episode to make him - legendary detective - Colombo weekly, but refused, "because the burden would be great."It was so emblematic interpretation as a detective, so typical of the trench, so we saw him and "Wings of Desire" by Wim Wenders, like an angel falling to earth, becomes an actor and play (again) the detective.Leaves behind his wife for many years of conservatory and two daughters.
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