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Stories from my life
Carroll & Graf
August 2006
On Sale: July 28, 2006
280 pages
ISBN: 0786717955
EAN: 9780786717958
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
In Just One More Thing Peter Falk — award-winning
actor — takes us behind-the-scenes into his professional
and private life. 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. He then turned to an old college
interest: acting. Falk came to prominence in 1956 in the
successful Off-Broadway revival of The Iceman Cometh.
Although he worked continuously for the next three years, a
theatrical agent advised him not to expect much work in
motion pictures because of his glass eye. Surgeons had
removed his right eye, along with a malignant tumor, when he
was three years old.
But in 1958, Falk landed his
first movie, Murder Incorporated, and was nominated
for an Oscar. 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.
Through television,
however, Falk reached his widest audience — portraying the
inimitable Lieutenant Columbo throughout the 1970s and
winning four Emmys.
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