Heather Graham, then 17, was cast as Heather McNamara, but her mother wouldn't allow her to do the film so Lisanne Falk was given the role instead.

Falk was proud to tell people that Marlon Brando turned down an offer of $ 10, 000 per week on Broadway, in favor of working on Falk's play in Boston.

Peter Michael Falk ( September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011 ) was an American actor, best known for his role as Lt. Frank Columbo in the television series Columbo.

Born in New York City, Falk was the son of Michael Peter Falk, owner of a clothing and dry goods store, and his wife, Madeline ( née Hochhauser ), an accountant and buyer.

In a 1997 interview in Cigar Aficionado magazine with Arthur Marx, Falk said, " I remember once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe.

Falk attended Ossining High School in Westchester County, New York, where he was a star athlete and president of his senior class.

After graduating from high school in 1945, Falk briefly attended Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and then tried to join the armed services as World War II was drawing to a close.

The program was designed to train civil servants for the federal government, a career that Falk said in his memoir that he had " no interest in and no aptitude for.

Falk also studied with Eva Le Gallienne, who was giving an acting class at the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut.

Falk later recalled that he had " lied his way " into the class, which was for professional actors.

In his autobiography, Just One More Thing ( 2006 ), Falk said that his selection for the film from thousands of other Off-Broadway actors was a " miracle " that " made my career " and that without it, he would not have gotten the other significant movie roles that he later played.

Falk, who played Reles again in the 1960 TV series The Witness, was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance in the film.

" Falk was nominated for an Oscar for his role.

" Falk recalled one time that Capra reshot a scene even though he yelled " Cut and Print ", indicating the scene was finalized.

In 1961, Falk was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performance in the episode " Cold Turkey " of James Whitmore's short-lived series The Law and Mr. Jones on ABC.

'" Singer Johnny Cash recalled acting in one episode, and although he was not an experienced actor, he writes in his autobiography, " Peter Falk was good to me.

The series was so popular that co-creator William Link wrote a series of short stories published as The Columbo Collection ( Crippen & Landru, 2010 ) which includes a drawing by Falk of himself as Columbo, and the cover features a caricature of Falk / Columbo by Al Hirschfeld.

Falk was a close friend of independent film director John Cassavetes and appeared in Cassavetes ' films Husbands, A Woman Under the Influence., and, in a cameo, at the end of Opening Night.

Falk describes his experiences working with Cassavetes, and specifically remembers his directing strategies such as " shooting an actor when he might be unaware the camera was running.

Although Falk appeared in numerous other television roles in the 1960s and 1970s, he is best known as the star of the TV series Columbo, " everyone's favorite rumpled television detective ", writes historian David Fantle.

He appeared in two episodes in the mystery series Columbo, " Dagger of the Mind " and " Troubled Waters ," starring Peter Falk as the rumpled detective.

Falk first appeared on television in 1957, in the dramatic anthology programs that later became known as the " Golden Age of Television.

In 1971, Pierre Cossette produced the first Grammy Awards show on television with some help from Falk.

Falk also starred in such holiday television movies as A Town Without Christmas ( 2001 ), Finding John Christmas ( 2003 ) and When Angels Come to Town ( 2004 ).

** ABC-TV telecasts a highly acclaimed 90-minute television adaptation of the musical Brigadoon, starring Robert Goulet, Peter Falk, and Sally Ann Howes.

A 1966 television version starred Robert Goulet and Peter Falk.

Columbo is an American detective mystery television film series, starring Peter Falk as Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department.

* Bernard Falk ( 1943 – 1990 ), UK television reporter

In 1954, he starred in the TV series Mayor of the Town, in 1959 starred in 39 episodes of the TV series " Glencannon " and in the early 1960s originated the stage role " Columbo ", later made famous on television by Peter Falk ( Bert Freed played the part on live television before Mitchell portrayed Columbo on stage ); Columbo was Mitchell's last role.

In 1961 Broadcasting reported that Four Star Productions planned to film a Sam Spade television pilot with Peter Falk in the title role, but no such series ever arrived on TV.

Phantom 2040 is an American animated science fiction television series loosely based on the comic strip hero The Phantom, created by Lee Falk.

On the American television show Columbo, starring Peter Falk, the shambling hero, detective Lt. Colombo, drove a shabby-looking 403 cabriolet dating from 1959 or 1960.

Noteworthy roles in television included guest appearances on episodes of numerous shows over the decades, such as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Bonanza, Quincy, M. E., Murder, She Wrote, and a 1975 gig with Peter Falk and Robert Vaughn in an episode of Columbo titled Troubled Waters.

It was later filmed by Stanley Kramer under the title Eight Iron Men with a different cast of Bonar Colleano, Lee Marvin, and Arthur Franz in 1952, then was a 1961 television production with Peter Falk, Robert Lansing, and Sal Mineo directed by Seymour Robbie.

* Sam Diamond ( Peter Falk ) represents the hard-boiled, American-style detective, a parody based on The Maltese Falcons Sam Spade and Richard Diamond, Private Detective.

It stars Peter Falk as Lou Peckinpaugh, a detective in the Humphrey Bogart mold.

Lou Peckinpaugh ( Peter Falk ), a bumbling San Francisco private detective, tries to prove himself innocent of his partner's murder while helping a bizarre array of characters recover a lost treasure.

* " Atmosphere ", a song by DJ Falk

* Falk, W. D. ( 1947 ) "' Ought ' and Motivation ", Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 48: 492-510

" There they don't care if you're blind or not ", Falk said in 1997.

Falk plays the title role of " Gus ", and Sands is the younger brother, Ethan Morgan.

With " general amazement ", Falk notes that " the show is all over the world ".

* " American Histories-How The War Wasn't Won ", by Ben Falk, BBC

In 1989 Harry Falk noted that, in the texts, both haoma and soma were said to enhance alertness and awareness, did not coincide with the consciousness altering effects of an entheogen, and that " there is nothing shamanistic or visionary either in early Vedic or in Old Iranian texts ", ( Falk, 1989 ) At the conclusion of the 1999 Haoma-Soma workshop in Leiden, Jan E. M. Houben writes: " despite strong attempts to do away with ephedra by those who are eager to see * sauma as a hallucinogen, its status as a serious candidate for the Rigvedic Soma and Avestan Haoma still stands " ( Houben, 2003 ).

Ahmad was admired as " an intellectual unintimidated by power or authority ", and collaborated with such left-wing journalists and activists as Noam Chomsky, Edward Said, Howard Zinn, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Richard Falk, Fredric Jameson, Alexander Cockburn and Daniel Berrigan.

Other Baalei Shem include Rabbi Eliyahu of Worms ( the founder of the movement variously known as " Macheneh Yisrael ", the " Nistarim ", and the " Holy Brotherhood "), Rabbi Joel of Ropshitz ( a student of Rabbi Yoel Sirkis ), Rabbi Adam Baal Shem, and Hayyim Samuel Jacob Falk ( known as the Baal Shem of London ).

* " Disputed Palestinian Territories ", Mr. Richard Falk ( United States );

Falk originally considered the idea of calling his character " The Gray Ghost ", but finally decided that he preferred " The Phantom ".

Falk revealed in an interview that Robin Hood, who was often depicted as wearing tights, inspired the skin-tight costume of " The Phantom ", which is known to have influenced the entire superhero-industry.

* Kurt Falk is considered the inventor of the so-called " Sonntagsstandln ", which are plastic bags with little money boxes installed on poles on the streets and pavements, containing the Sunday edition ( on Sundays, most shops are closed in Austria ).

* " The Role of Domestic Courts as Agencies of the International Legal Order ", in: Falk, Kratochwil, Mendlovitz ( eds.

* " Of Law and Human Action: A Jurisprudential Plea for a World Order Perspective in International Legal Studies ", in: Falk, Kratochwil, Mendlovitz ( eds.

* " Constitutional Thought vs. Value-based Thought in World Order Studies ", in: Richard Falk, Robert Johansen, Samuel Kim ( eds.

* Christian Falk, nicknamed " Falcon ", a Swedish musician and producer

In 1611 Falk and Enoch Hendel ben Shemariah issued a bill of divorce at Vienna which occasioned lengthy discussions among the celebrated rabbis of the time, including Meir Lublin and Mordecai Yoffe ( see " She ' elot u-Teshubot MaHaRaM ", Nos.

( One theory is that " Falk ", here, derives from the German for falcon: just as a falcon circles its prey, so Joshua circled and explored the Holy Land before swooping down on it.