Just One More Thing by Peter Falk5/13/2023 Did you know he's been arrested, more than once, by foreign governments? Me neither! Until I read the book. He delves deep into his childhood, and the travels he took in his youth. Full of anecdotes, humorous stories, and the struggles of up and coming actors. It's an easy read and gets into the man inside the raincoat. Through television, however, Falk reached his widest audience - portraying the inimitable Lieutenant Columbo throughout the 1970s and winning four Emmys. A Pocketful of Miracles garnered his second Oscar nomination, but it was through his collaboration with filmmaker John Cassavetes that Falk entered into his most creative period in 1970 when movies such as A Woman Under the Influence helped launch the independent film movement. But in 1958, Falk landed his first movie, Murder Incorporated, and was nominated for an Oscar. Surgeons had removed his right eye, along with a malignant tumor, when he was three years old. Although he worked continuously forthe next three years, a theatrical agent advised him not to expect much work in motion pictures because of his glass eye. Falk came to prominence in 1956 in the successful Off-Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh. He then turned to an old college interest: acting. Starting in Hartford, where he worked as a management analyst for the Connecticut State Budget Bureau., Falk was no more successful than at an earlier attempt to work with the CIA. In Just One More Thing Peter Falk - award-winning actor - takes us behind-the-scenes into his professional and private life.
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