Over the years, the chatty Columbo would let slip many details about his personal life in conversations with suspects. Lieutenant Columbo in Season 6 episode 3 'The Bye-Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case' But I figured, if I worked harder than they did, put in more time, read the books, kept my eyes open, maybe I could make it happen. And I could tell right away that it wasn't gonna be easy making detective as long as they were around. And when I first joined the force, sir, they had some very clever people there. In school, there were lots of smarter kids. I don't just mean smart like you and the people in this house. All my life I kept running into smart people. In a 2001 poll conducted by Channel 4 in the UK, Columbo was ranked 18th on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Characters. Other sources claim Columbo's character is also influenced by Inspector Fichet from the French suspense-thriller film Les Diaboliques (1955).

Chesterton's humble cleric-detective Father Brown. Levinson and Link have said that the character was partially inspired by the Crime and Punishment character Porfiry Petrovich as well as G. Columbo's first name was never used in dialogue, although the name ' Frank Columbo' is visible on pieces of identification in various episodes. Ĭolumbo is portrayed almost entirely by Peter Falk, who appeared in the role from 1968 through 2003. The character is a shrewd but inelegant blue-collar homicide detective whose trademarks include his shambling manner, rumpled beige raincoat, cigar and off-putting, relentless investigative approach. Columbo or Lieutenant Columbo is the main character in the American detective crime drama television series Columbo created by Richard Levinson and William Link.

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