page_title: Peter Falk
section_title: Health
hierarchical_section_title: Peter Falk / Health
caption_attribution_description: English: Peter Falk statue as Columbo and his „Dog“ in corner Falk Miksa Street and Szent István Boulevard, Budapest, Hungary. Magyar: Peter Falk szobra, mint Columbo a Kutyájával Budapesten a Falk Miksa utca és a Szent István körút sarkán.
context_page_description: Peter Michael Falk was an American actor and comedian, known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the long-running television series Columbo, for which he won four Primetime Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. He first starred as Columbo in two 90-minute TV pilots; the first with Gene Barry in 1968 and the second with Lee Grant in 1971. The show then aired as part of The NBC Mystery Movie series from 1971 to 1978, and again on ABC from 1989 to 2003.
  Falk was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, for Murder, Inc. and Pocketful of Miracles, and won his first Emmy Award in 1962 for The Dick Powell Theatre. He was the first actor to be nominated for an Academy Award and an Emmy Award in the same year, achieving the feat twice. He went on to appear in such films as It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, The Great Race, Anzio, Murder by Death, The Cheap Detective, The In-Laws, The Princess Bride, Wings of Desire, The Player, and Next, as well as many television guest roles.
context_section_description: In December 2008 it was reported that Falk had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. In June 2009, at a two-day conservatorship trial in Los Angeles, one of Falk's personal physicians, Dr. Stephen Read, reported he had rapidly slipped into dementia after a series of dental operations in 2007. Dr. Read said it was unclear whether Falk's condition had worsened as a result of anesthesia or some other reaction to the operations. Shera Danese Falk was appointed as her husband's conservator.
caption: Statue of Falk as Columbo with his dog in Budapest, Hungary
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