Columbo (character)

Columbo is a fictional character created by Richard Levinson and William Link in the TV movie The Chevy Mystery in 1960 .



Summary
*1 fictitious Biography  ==Fictional biography [  edit |  edit the code ] == Robert Frank Columbo was born and raised in New York . Living not far from Chinatown, the Columbo family consists of the grandfather of future policeman, his parents and five siblings. His father wore glasses and did the cooking, especially Italian while learning the young Columbo - while spending his childhood in the so-called kitchen - recipes from his homeland, while his mother was in the hospital giving birth again (almost Every year, as he mentions in the episode Murder à la carte). His grandfather let him tread the grapes when it was making wine in the cellar. It is of Italian origin by both parents.
 * 2 Description
 * 2.1 Appearance
 * 2.2 Personality
 * 3 Origin of the personage
 * 4 Character Creation
 * 4.1 About the Name
 * 5 Works where the character appears
 * 5.1 Telefilms
 * 5.2 Theater
 * 5.3 TV series
 * 6 Notes and references

Columbo's father, who never won more than five thousand dollars a year, taught him to play pool, an obsession that will remain stuck to the detective future. Hardly a model child, Columbo broke street lights in the streets, playing pinball and was part of a band of brats always looking good joke do ... his childhood hero was Joe DiMaggio, it also loved gangster movies.

During his studies in high school, he dropped chemistry and took woodworking. We know him at the time a girlfriend named Theresa . After his military service during the Korean War, Columbo entered New York police and was assigned to the twelfth district. It was formed by the Gilhooley sergeant, a great Irishman who tried to teach him the art of playing darts. He moved to Los Angeles in 1958. He married in 1961 .

However, all these elements biography should be taken with caution because the information gives Columbo on itself are rarely found. The many references he makes to a particular family member so often used as a pretext to approach the right subject from a suspect one can doubt their veracity, and in Episode 67, in grand style he attributes to a cousin information we saw him acquire from a taxi driver he does not know, which confirms the assumption that it invented the most allusions to his family.

Columbo has a basset hound named "Dog" because it reacts to any name. In general, we never saw the dog Columbo obey any of his orders or those of his wife. A note at the beginning of Columbo episode 19, when the wine is drawn, suggests that he has children, and in Episode 23, Beyond madness, but the rest of the series leaves think otherwise (including that Columbo, which never fails to allude to any other member, near or far, her family prefers to mention a nephew or a cousin that his own children).

In the series Mrs. Columbo, the couple has a daughter, Jenny, and Kate Callahan is believed to have divorced her husband. Yet even after the divorce, he continues to refer to his wife. This suggests that they have remarried, he has a new woman, or that it is part of his character he plays naive policeman to trap his opponents ... or simply no report n 'exists between the character of the series Mrs. Columbo, who quickly was a failure, and the lieutenant, if not their names. ==Description [  edit |  edit the code <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Appearance <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-divider" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">|  edit the code <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Columbo is not very large (Peter Falk itself measures 1.68 m), it is rather slim, with brown hair quite comprehensive and generally in battle (with the exception of the first pilot, Charged with murder, where he door very short hair).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">His attire is always the same: a gray-brown suit, a beige shirt, a thin dark brown tie, brown leather shoes and its famous beige raincoat. His entire outfit is pretty worn, and this is a recurring joke in the series Columbo to pass for a tramp with certain characters, or at least to mark the difference between his appearance and that of the posh areas he often attends to the needs of its investigations.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">However, seen in a tuxedo, as in the episode To each his time when he attends the wedding of a nephew. He attends the funeral of the victim in the episode Murder à la carte, allowing to see it also in a more formal dress: he exchanged his worn brown tie for a thin black tie and a dress more chic. In the same episode, we can see Peter Falk in a tuxedo for a gourmet banquet where he was invited by the murderer. In the episode Columbo exchange skin, it also puts another suit to impersonate a little thug.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">The suit Columbo, like many other elements of the series, has become an immutable element and expected the public, which has raised some winks scriptwriting:

===Character <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-divider" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">|  edit the code <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">During its investigations, Columbo talk much to say nothing (which also strengthens the character of the comic character) and speaks of him in particular, giving over the different episodes about his life and his tastes. It is still obsessed with the details. Small things keep him awake all night and he likes to sketch ideas with his wife.
 * at the beginning of the episode all is illusion, Columbo wearing a green coat donated by his wife, he eventually remove claiming he bothers to reflect. He eventually recover its former waterproof;
 * Murder in both faces, the murderous, played by Faye Dunaway, who tries to seduce Columbo, offers him a new tie, more elegant than the old and that door to enter his game but remove toward the end the episode.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Columbo almost never carries a weapon and drives a Peugeot 403 cabriolet 1959. It is subject to vertigo and seasickness, he can not swim . It is easily disgusted and does not support autopsies or even view photographs of murders "unclean."

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">It is not very versed in math. He likes cooking, limericks (five poems in verse, always comical and absurd), the westerns, the opera Italian, the waltzes of Strauss , the golf , the classical music , the bowling , detective stories and soccer to the television. He declared himself an expert in TV setting, when he did that once and the button remained in his hands ...

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In 1972, he won eleven thousand dollars a year. It is so close to its sub that for their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, he plans to take his wife to camp rather than offer him a silver object. His parents and grandfather died. His favorite dish is the chili (with crackers) devour in a popular restaurant that really existed, Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood . Columbo also loves coffee he drinks black, boiled eggs serving as its appetite suppressant. He speaks English, Italian (fluent in some episodes, in another he claims to ignore this language during a conversation with a mafia) and a little Spanish.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">From a phlegmatic nature, he did not lose his cool as in a single case. He does not like, probably in view of its modest origins, the haves in the universe which often lead the investigations. Showing condescension, mixed with a false naivety with regard to these, feigning admiration or even saying that his wife works or admire the work done by them, allowing him to fall asleep vigilance, and surprise by his sagacity. He takes pleasure in turning the messing, believing he finished asking his questions and returning a few seconds or a minute later to another rest. Sometimes he even abuse the hospitality of witnesses, but more often suspects, asking them if he could use a chocolate, cigar or be downright icy soda (milkshake).

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">True, he always talks about his wife, but succumbed briefly to the charm of a suspect (Faye Dunaway), which actually protected his daughter, who was probably the real killer, so Columbo, given the abject circumstances that were submitted mother and daughter, chose to stop and leave the mother from the daughter. ==Origin of the character <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-divider" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">|  edit the code <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">According to the critic Edwin Jahiel, the idea of the character of Inspector Columbo comes from the character played by Charles Vanel in the film by Henri-Georges Clouzot's Diabolique out in 1955 <span class="reference cite_virgule" style="line-height:1em;vertical-align:text-top;position:relative;font-size:0.8em;top:-5px;padding-right:1px;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">,  . ==Character Creation <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-divider" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">|  edit the code <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In 1960 , William Link and Richard Levinson publish a new magazine in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Dear named Corpus Delicti in which Lieutenant Fisher investigating a murder. This news is adapted to television under the title Enough Rope in the show The Chevy Mystery. Character names are changed and Lieutenant Fisher becomes Lieutenant Columbo. The TV movie is broadcast on NBC 31 July 1960and Lieutenant interpreted by Bert Freed .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In 1962, Link and Levinson adapt their text again in a piece that will be played at Broadway ''Prescription:. Murder'' will be played for six months and will pass through the United States and Canada. Success is with go.The actor who interprets Columbo is named Thomas Mitchell .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Mid 1960, Universal Studios seeks to develop television series. Link and Levinson offer studio rewriting their key scenario. The studio and accepts the role is offered but this actor Peter Falk does not interest Link and Levinson, which were marked by the interpretation of Thomas Mitchell, who had died. The duo prefers to Lee J. Cobb Falk but he is shooting in Europe. Peter Falk is finally engaged. The TV movie is broadcast 20 February 1968NBC and the success was immediate. NBC Universal and offer the duo to write a series whose main character would be Columbo, which was previously a secondary character in the minds of its creators.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Link and Levinson are reluctant to sign and, initially, for a driver. Peter Falk hesitate to sacrifice her career to a recurring character on the small screen but the series takes a particular form: seven episodes of ninety minutes per year. Falk is starting and, <sup style="line-height:1em;">1  March 1971Ransom for a Dead Man is broadcast on NBC. Success is again with go and the filming of the series is set . ===About the name <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-divider" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">|  edit the code <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In the third episode of the first season, General Martin Hollister ironic about the name of Lieutenant Columbo seeing a seasick. Columbo then responds that Columbus probably was part of another branch of the family. ==Works where the character appears <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-divider" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">|  edit the code <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===TV movies <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-divider" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">|  edit the code <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Theatre <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-divider" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">|  edit the code <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===TV series <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-divider" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">|  edit the code <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==References <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-right:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  change <span class="mw-editsection-divider" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">|  edit the code <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="margin-left:0.25em;color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Enough Rope ( Don Richardson, 1960) with Bert Freed
 * Murder charged (Prescription: Murder, Richard Irving, 1968) with Peter Falk (VF: Serge Sauvion )
 * Prescription: Murder (1962) with Thomas Mitchell
 * Columbo ( William Link , Richard Levinson, 1971-2003) with Peter Falk (VF: Serge Sauvion )
 * 1) ↑ In episode 5, dead weight, it is possible by making a freeze frame of Frank distinctly read the signature on the card. Frank's name was never pronounced on the screen, however, in episode 10, Black Symphony, to the twenty-third minute, you can hear the call veterinarian Columbo by the first name Bob
 * 2) ↑ Episode 28 (4-3) Between dusk and dawn
 * 3) ↑ In episode 17, Double shock, Columbo says he celebrated two years before its tenth anniversary
 * 4) ↑ Pilot episode of Mrs. Columbo
 * 5) ↑ Except episodes [30] Playback, [60] To each his time and [64] Columbo skin changes
 * 6) ↑ It is clearly meant to have a conversation in Italian Murder in the episode with champagne.
 * 7) ↑  (in)  http://www.imdb.com/reviews/49/4932.html [archive]
 * 8) ↑ http://www.unifrance.org/film/1328/les-diaboliques [archive]
 * 9) ↑ http://membres.lycos.fr/columbomania/frames.html [archive]
 * 10) ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0540074/ [archive]
 * 11) ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061496/ [archive]