The film received Oscar nominations for composers Sammy Cahn and Jimmy Van Heusen and for co-star Peter Falk ( Best Supporting Actor ).

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.

Cossette writes in his autobiography, " What meant the most to me, though, is the fact that Peter Falk saved my ass.

I love show business, and I love Peter Falk.

'" 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.

Director Arthur Hiller said during an interview that the " film started out because Alan Arkin and Peter Falk wanted to work together.

Although movie critic Roger Ebert was not impressed with most of the other actors, he writes in his review, " ... we discover once again what a warm and engaging actor Peter Falk is.

* 1927 – Peter Falk, American actor ( d. 2011 )

The part of Arturo Ui has been played by a number of notable actors including Al Pacino, Darryl Low, Leonard Rossiter, Antony Sher, Nicol Williamson, Griff Rhys Jones and Peter Falk.

A subplot follows Peter Falk, who has arrived in Berlin to make a film about Berlin's Nazi past.

As the film progresses, it emerges that Peter Falk was once an angel, who, having grown tired of always observing and never experiencing, renounced his immortality to become a participant in the world.

* Peter Falk as himself ( credited as " Der Filmstar ")

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

* September 16 – Peter Falk, American actor ( d. 2011 )

* June 23 – Peter Falk, American actor ( b. 1927 )

A 1966 television version starred Robert Goulet and Peter Falk.

The TV movie starred Robert Goulet as Tommy, Peter Falk as Jeff, and Sally Ann Howes as Fiona, with Finlay Currie in one of his last roles as Mr. Lundie, Edward Villella as Harry Beaton, and Marlyn Mason as Meg.

* 1966 Television cast recording ( starring Sally Ann Howes, Robert Goulet, and Peter Falk )

Lacking studio financing, Cassavetes mortgaged his house and borrowed from family and friends, one of whom was Peter Falk, who liked the screenplay so much he invested $ 500, 000 in the project.

When Richard Dreyfuss appeared on The Mike Douglas Show with Peter Falk, he described the film as " the most incredible, disturbing, scary, brilliant, dark, sad, depressing movie " and added, " I went crazy.

* Peter Falk as Nick Longhetti

Peter Falk gives a rousing performance.

Charles XII of Sweden had the most complete military force in northern Europe, even if it wasn't the biggest, and Peter envied its capabilities.

Peter, who was under the influence of the symbiote suit, wasn't unaware of it until Mary Jane Watson visited to tell him May was in the hospital.

Speaking to Christopher Turner, Peter Reich said of his father: " He was a nineteenth-century scientist ; he wasn't a twentieth-century scientist.

In October 2008, Peter Robinson MP, the First Minister of Northern Ireland backed his wife's claims stating " It wasn't Iris Robinson who determined that homosexuality was an abomination, it was The Almighty.

OK Go's distinctive, choreography-heavy performance style first originated from a 1999 appearance on the Chicago-based public television show " Chic-a-GoGo "; WBEZ radio personalities Peter Sagal, Jerome McDonnell of Worldview, Gretchen Helfrich ( formerly of Odyssey ) and Ira Glass pretended to play instruments to " C-C-C-Cinnamon Lips " as OK Go danced, because the band wasn't allowed to play live on the show.

Ossie wasn't a part of Hey Hey It's Saturday for the entirety of its 28-year run-he replaced footballer Peter McKenna as co-host after the show's first eight weeks, and his retirement in 1994 was arguably a key factor in the demise of the show-but he was one of the most recognisable puppets in Australia for more than two decades.

Peter George co-wrote the screenplay for the film with Kubrick and Terry Southern, but wasn't completely satisfied with the overall satirical feel of the movie.

( Although I wasn't there on the day that they were worn and had I been, mine would have read ' I wouldn't want to be kissed by Peter Tatchell ').

She first appeared in Avengers: The Initiative # 4 as a member of Henry Peter Gyrich's black ops team but it wasn't until issue # 20 that she was finally revealed to be Typhoid Mary.

The Acts of Paul also appear to be familiar with the traditional account about the martyrdom of Peter, in which, having been arrested and condemned to death, Peter asked to be crucified head-down because he wasn't worthy of having the same death as Jesus.

Led by Simpson, various ' non-heterosexual ' contributors, such as Bruce LaBruce & Glenn Belverio, John Weir, Peter Tatchell, Lisa Power, and Anne-Marie Le Ble, voiced their criticism of the gay ' one-size-fits-all ' identity and the gay media's intolerance of anything that wasn't ' glad ' and ' clap happy '.

Peter then hears the wolf's whimpering, and sees " the slate-blue beauty of his captive's eyes ", and realizes that his grandfather was correct about the wolves being endangered ; he realizes that " It wasn't really Peter's wolf at all.

Many of her friends from the One o ' clock club attended her funeral and Simon's granddad George Wilson had left her flowers at her funeral, although Peter Barlow wasn't happy because George tried to take Simon away from him.

2, with the character of Bill noting that Superman was not born into his alter ego ( Spider-Man was " Peter Parker " first, Batman was born " Bruce Wayne "), using the blanket he was wrapped in as his costume, and Clark Kent is a collage of mankind's less impressive traits meant to blend in with other humans ( as well as a device to pursue Lois Lane's affections ).

The Father of the House is not necessarily the sitting MP with the earliest date of first election: Sir Peter Tapsell was first elected in 1959, and is the only remaining 1950s MP, but lost his seat in 1964 and was out of Parliament until 1966 ; this meant that Alan Williams was Father of the House until his retirement at the 2010 general election by virtue of his continuous service since the 1964 general election.

Storms however meant that the crew of Saint Peter was soon driven to refuge on an uninhabited island in the Commander Islands group ( Komandorskiye Ostrova ) in the south-west Bering Sea.

From 1727 to 1750 prince Adolf Frederick was prince-bishop of Lübeck ( which meant the rulership of a fief around and including Eutin ), and administrator of Holstein-Kiel during the minority of his nephew, Duke Charles Peter Ulrich, afterwards Peter III of Russia.

In Orthodox Russia too, when Peter I the Great assumed the Byzantine imperial titles Imperator and Autokrator, instead of the ' merely ' royal Tsar, the idea in founding the Russian Holy Synod was to put an end to the old Imperium in imperio of the free Church, by substituting the synod for the all too independent Patriarch of Moscow, who had become almost a rival of the Tsars — Peter meant to unite all authority in himself, over Church as well as State: through his Ober-Procurator and synod, the Emperor ruled his Church as absolutely as his army and navy through their respective ministries ; he appointed its members ( mostly bishops ) just as his generals ; and the Russian Government continued his policy until the end of the empire in 1917.

As constitutional scholar Peter Hogg points out in his book Constitutional Law of Canada, however, the new wording of section 7 removed the context of the " fair hearing " found in the Canadian Bill of Rights, which meant the definition of fundamental justice was now ambiguous and could still be further developed by Canadian courts.

It is widely believed that when Michael Gerzon referred to " periphony " he meant the latter capability, as does Peter Craven, and not solely the ability to reproduce height.

Following Georg Iggers, Peter Novick has argued that Ranke, who was more of a romantic and idealist than his American contemporaries understood, meant instead that the historian should discover the facts and find the essences behind them.

According to TV Guide, the original plan was that a new Columbo episode would air every week, but Peter Falk refused to commit to such an arduous schedule, which would have meant shooting an episode every 5 days.

Three days later he was picked up and based on the information that he provided it was determined that the garrison on Guernsey consisted of 469 soldiers, concentrated mainly around St. Peter Port and although there were machine gun posts all along the coast, they were sited in a manner that meant that it would take about twenty minutes between an alarm being raised for reinforcements to be dispatched.

1, 2 and 3 Troops under the command of Peter Young, carried out a landing at Scoglio Imbiancato unopposed after a series of navigational delays meant that they landed later than planned.

A trophyless season meant that Dalglish spent big on new players to revive Liverpool's fortunes and Walsh suffered as a result as John Aldridge was bought to replace Rush as the natural finisher of the team with Peter Beardsley coming in at huge expense to provide the craft.

Their performance was meant to be a task from Peter F. Gontha to see how they deserved being in a jazz festival, the whole show that attends by thousands successfully transformed their songs into jazz.

And, in Peter Gay's words, use of " subconscious " where " unconscious " is meant is " a common and telling mistake "; indeed, " when term is employed to say something ' Freudian ', it is proof that the writer has not read his Freud ".

The series ' main characters, May, Ben, Mary and Richard, were obviously meant to be Peter Parker's Aunt May and Uncle Ben along with his parents Richard and Mary Parker.

Clemence was, by now, a regular for England making his debut and keeping his first clean-sheet in the 1 – 0 World Cup qualifier win over Wales at Ninian Park on 15 November 1972, unfortunately for Clemence the presence of another great goalkeeper Peter Shilton meant that the England management struggled to decide which keeper was the best, and ended up alternating their selection.

Clemence was a regular for England between 1972 to 1984 making his debut and keeping his first clean-sheet in the 1 – 0 World Cup qualifier win over Wales at Ninian Park on 15 November 1972, unfortunately for Clemence the presence of another great goalkeeper Peter Shilton meant that the England management struggled to decide which keeper was the best, and ended up alternating their selection.

The latter shows still had guest appearances, from the likes of Nick Hornby, Damon Albarn, Peter Cook etc., although the departure of the fantasy team format meant it was less essential the guests had a decent football knowledge than before.

46-year-old goalkeeper Peter Shilton ( with Coventry City and West Ham United ) was the only senior player older than Case at this time, and his failure to make any competitive appearances that campaign meant that Case was the oldest " active " senior player in England during the season.

The concept was quite bizarre, originally meant to be presented from DJ NES's ( Daniel Scammel ) and Peter Browning's ( Game Network Producer ) Flat.

As Peter Jimack, the noted Rousseau scholar, argues “ Rousseau consciously sought to find the striking, lapidary phrase which would compel the attention of his readers and move their hearts, even when it meant, as it often did, an exaggeration of his thought .” And, in fact, Rousseau ’ s pronouncements, although not original, effected a revolution in swaddling and breast-feeding.