One of the questions in Trivial Pursuit was " What was Columbo's first name?

The script was renamed Columbo's Last Case.

Columbo's boyhood hero was Joe DiMaggio, and he also liked gangster pictures.

Columbo's unsettling, uneven-eyed stare was due to Falk's glass eye in the right eye socket.

Columbo's first name Philip was conceived by Fred L. Worth.

In Worth's book, The Trivia Encyclopedia, the fictitious entry about Columbo's first name was actually a " copyright trap " – a deliberately false statement intended to reveal subsequent copyright infringement.

Columbo's death was ruled an accident, and Brown exonerated from blame.

Dell and Columbo had met at her Ziegfeld audition ; Columbo's manager, Con Conrad, was determined to end their relationship and did so with a series of " publicity only " romances between Columbo and other, more famous actresses.

Lt. Columbo's first name was never spoken aloud in the TV series Columbo.

Other sources claim Columbo's character is also influenced by Inspector Fichet from the 1955 French suspense-thriller Les Diaboliques.

In " Dead Weight ", when General Hollister ( Eddie Albert ) comments on Columbo's seasickness by asking why someone with the name " Columbo " would not be at home on a boat, the detective responds, " It must have been another branch of the family.

In the episode " Rest in Peace, Mrs. Columbo ", Columbo's ( again unseen ) wife is targeted by a killer ( Helen Shaver ).

Falk tries to analyze the character and notes the correlation between his own personality and Columbo's:

In the 1971 episode " Dead Weight ", when Columbo introduces himself to General Hollister, the audience is shown a brief close-up of Columbo's badge and police ID ; the signature reads " Frank Columbo ".

Surgeons at Good Samaritan Hospital made an unsuccessful attempt to remove the ball from Columbo's brain ; he died less than six hours after the shooting.

( Dorothy Dell died in an auto accident in June 1934 — just months before Columbo's own fatal accident.

The signature " Frank Columbo " is most clearly visible in the episode " A Matter of Honor ", in which it is also seen that Columbo's badge number is 416.

In 1995, 61 years after Columbo's death, singer Tiny Tim released an album in tribute to Columbo, titled Prisoner of Love ( A Tribute to Russ Columbo ), which he recorded with the group Clang.

( The following details of Columbo's life have been gleaned from statements that the character made on the show.

Columbo's first name is never explicitly mentioned during the series.

( In fact, close-ups in two episodes of a signature on Columbo's police badge would appear to reveal that his first name is " Frank ".

Columbo's Identity document | LAPD ID card and badge with the name Frank Columbo in the episode " Dead Weight ".

The desk before him was in no better repair than the rest of the furniture crowded into the room, including wooden file cabinets with some of their pulls yanked off and a wardrobe stained with the roof seepage of countless seasons.

Bogart thought that the Warners wardrobe department was cheap, and often wore his own suits in his movies.

His daily routine was planned in accordance with the movements of the planets, so too was his wardrobe.

First, the band was arrested and then released at Edmonton International Airport for wearing their spiked stage wardrobe ( considered " dangerous weapons ") through Customs and for Neil arriving with a small carry-on filled with porn magazines ( considered " indecent material "); both were staged PR stunts.

Her white, hand-beaded, one shoulder Galanos 1981 inaugural gown was estimated to cost $ 10, 000 while the overall price of her inaugural wardrobe was said to cost $ 25, 000.

Mizell was known for his flashy wardrobe and b-boy attitude, which led to minor legal troubles as a teen.

Alun Hughes, who had designed clothing for Diana Rigg's personal wardrobe, was suggested by the actress to design Emma Peel's " softer " new wardrobe. Pierre Cardin was brought in to design a new wardrobe for Macnee.

Tudor was most likely appointed keeper of the queen's household or wardrobe.

At the time, it was seen as provocation on a grand scale: crowning a Manhattan skyscraper with a shape echoing a historical wardrobe top defied every precept of the modernist aesthetic: historical pattern had been effectively outlawed among architects for years.

For the 1946 melodrama, Tomorrow is Forever, Jean Louis was hired to create eighteen changes of wardrobe for her.

Even though this artists ' quarter of Montmartre was characterized by generalized poverty, Modigliani himself presented — initially, at least — as one would expect the son of a family trying to maintain the appearances of its lost financial standing to present: his wardrobe was dapper without ostentation, and the studio he rented was appointed in a style appropriate to someone with a finely attuned taste in plush drapery and Renaissance reproductions.

Slim was a civilian pilot with a multi-engine rating and enjoyed flying in a green U. S. Air Force flight suit while wearing a cowboy hat, similar to the wardrobe worn in Dr. Strangelove.

The new queen was provided with a large wardrobe of clothes, and her crimson state bed curtains made of Italian sarcenet were embroidered with red Lancastrian roses.

Eva Marie Saint's wardrobe for the film was originally entirely chosen by MGM.

When the coat was destroyed by a bomb from the Immortal in Italy, Spike heartbrokenly declared it to be irreplaceable ; but the Italian branch of Wolfram & Hart quickly supplied him with a whole wardrobe of new ones, nearly identical, which he happily began wearing.

* In Superman: The Animated Series, " The Last Son of Krypton ", the first part of a three-part pilot episode, depicts Krypton as being basically similar to the pre-Crisis version ( it was scientifically advanced, Kal-El appeared to be about one to two years old as in the Silver Age comics, there are depictions of peculiar animals ) although with elements of the John Byrne version ( such as the appearance of the characters ' wardrobe ).

Warner reported that the furnishings of Catherine's room, which were provided from the royal wardrobe in the Tower, had been damaged by her pet monkey and dogs.

He frequently used his own life as a basis for his acting, eschewing wardrobe provided, acting in his own clothes.

As at many colleges, every student that moves into a College residence is provided with a bed, desk, chair, dresser, and wardrobe.

In 1967, Muir provided Eleanor Bron's wardrobe for the 1967 film Bedazzled.