Actor Peter Falk dies: 'Columbo' closes his case for the last time

Emmy Award winning actor Peter Falk, 83, was best remembered for his role as the absent minded detective "Columbo".

LOS ANGELES: Peter Falk, an Emmy winning actor who played the absent-minded but smart police detective Columbo on hit 1970's television show "Columbo," has died, a family attorney said on Friday.
"Peter Falk, 83 year-old Academy Award nominee and star of television series, Columbo, died peacefully at his Beverly Hills home in the evening of June 23, 2011," said a statement issued by the attorney.