Columbo's first run on TV ended in 1978 after seven seasons, but a little over a decade later, Peter Falk was chomping on cigars as the charming sleuth when the series returned in 1989 for a new ...

Cigar-chomping Lieutenant Columbo's investigation into the odd death of two men flings him headlong into a mystery revolving around the long-lost loot from an unsolved bank heist. Insurance ...

COLUMBO star Peter Falk, the legendary shabby-coated cigar-chomping TV detective, has died aged 83. The craggy-faced actor passed away peacefully at his Beverly Hills home late on Thursday after a ...

Peter Falk won four Emmys for his cigar-chomping role as the deceptively bumbling Columbo, and was nominated for Oscars in 1960 and 1961 for Murder Inc and Pocketful of Miracles.