Barbara Streisand

Barbra Streisand (born Barbara Joan Streisand, April 24, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, filmmaker and actress. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, four Emmy Awards, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, and a Peabody Award.

She is one of the most commercially and critically successful female entertainers in modern entertainment history and one of the best-selling solo recording artists with more than 71 million albums shipped in the United States and 140 million albums sold worldwide. She is the best selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Artists list and the only female recording artist in the top ten. Along with Frank Sinatra, Cher, Jamie Foxx and Shirley Jones, she shares the distinction of being awarded an Oscar for a leading role and also recording on a #1 pop single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.

According to the RIAA, Streisand holds the record for the most Top 10 albums of any female recording artist; a total of 31 to her credit since 1963. Streisand also has the widest span (46 years) between first and latest Top 10 albums of any female recording artist. With her 2009 album, Love Is the Answer, she became the only artist to achieve number 1 albums in five consecutive decades. Her RIAA tally shows she has released 51 Gold albums, 30 Platinum albums, and 13 Multi-Platinum albums in the United States.

Streisand was born to a Jewish family, Emmanuel and Diana (née Rosen), on April 24, 1942, in Brooklyn, New York. She was the second of two children. Fifteen months later, Emmanuel died of a cerebral hemorrhage and the family went into near-poverty. She attended Erasmus Hall High School in Brooklyn. Soon Streisand became a nightclub singer while in her teens. She originally wanted to be an actress and appeared in summer stock and in a number of Off-Off-Broadway productions, including Driftwood (1959), with the then-unknown Joan Rivers. (In her autobiography, Rivers wrote that she played a lesbian with a crush on Barbra's character, but this was later refuted by the play's author.) Driftwood ran for only six weeks. When her boyfriend, Barry Dennen, helped her create a club act—first performed in The Lion, a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village in 1960—she achieved success as a singer. One early appearance outside of New York City was at Enrico Banducci’s hungry i nightclub in San Francisco. In 1961, Streisand appeared at the Town and Country nightclub in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, but her appearance was cut short; audiences did not understand her revolutionary singing style.

In 1962, after several appearances on PM East/PM West, Streisand first appeared on Broadway, in the small but star-making role of Miss Marmelstein in the musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale. Her first album, The Barbra Streisand Album, won two Grammy Awards in 1963. Following her success in I Can Get It for You Wholesale, Streisand made several appearances on The Tonight Show in 1962. Topics covered in her interviews with host Johnny Carson included the empire-waisted dresses that she bought wholesale, to her “crazy” reputation at Erasmus Hall High School, soon enough she got engaged.

Streisand has recorded 35 studio albums, almost all with the Columbia Records label. Her early works in the 1960s are considered classic renditions of theater and cabaret standards, including her slow version of the normally uptempo Happy Days Are Here Again. She performed this in a duet on The Judy Garland Show. Garland referred to her on the air as one of the last great belters. They also sang There's No Business Like Show Business with Ethel Merman joining them.

Beginning with My Name Is Barbra, her early albums were often medley-filled keepsakes of her television specials. Starting in 1969, she began attempting more contemporary material, but like many talented singers of the day, she found herself out of her element with rock. Her vocal talents prevailed, and she gained newfound success with the pop and ballad-oriented Richard Perry-produced album Stoney End in 1971. The title track, written by Laura Nyro, was a major hit for Streisand.

As the 1970s ended, Streisand was named the most successful female singer in the U.S.—only Elvis Presley and The Beatles had sold more albums. In 1980, she released her best-selling effort to date, the Barry Gibb-produced Guilty. The album contained the hits Woman In Love (which spent several weeks atop the pop charts in the Fall of 1980), Guilty, and What Kind of Fool.

After years of largely ignoring Broadway and traditional pop music in favor of more contemporary material, Streisand returned to her musical-theater roots with 1985's The Broadway Album, which was unexpectedly successful, holding the coveted #1 Billboard position for three straight weeks, and being certified quadruple Platinum. The album featured tunes by Rodgers & Hammerstein, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, and Stephen Sondheim, who was persuaded to rework some of his songs especially for this recording. The Broadway Album was met with acclaim, including a nomination for Album of the Year and, ultimately, handed Streisand her eighth Grammy as Best Female Vocalist. After releasing the live album One Voice in 1986, Streisand was set to take another musical journey along the Great White Way in 1988. She recorded several cuts for the album under the direction of Rupert Holmes, including On My Own (from Les Misérables), a medley of How Are Things in Glocca Morra? and Heather on the Hill (from Finian's Rainbow and Brigadoon, respectively), All I Ask of You (from Phantom of the Opera), Warm All Over (from The Most Happy Fella) and an unusual solo version of Make Our Garden Grow (from Candide). Streisand was not happy with the direction of the project and it was ultimately scrapped. Only Warm All Over and a reworked, Lite FM-friendly version of All I Ask of You were ever released—the latter appearing on Streisand's 1988 effort, Till I Loved You.

In September 1993, Streisand announced her first public concert appearances in 27 years. What began as a two-night New Year's event at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas eventually led to a multi-city tour in the summer of 1994. Tickets to the tour were sold out in under one hour. Streisand also appeared on the covers of major magazines in anticipation of what Time magazine named "The Music Event of the Century". The tour was one of the biggest all-media merchandise parlays in history. Ticket prices ranged from US$50 to US$1,500 - making Streisand the highest paid concert performer in history. Barbra Streisand: The Concert went on to be the top grossing concert of the year, earned five Emmy Awards and the Peabody Award, and the taped broadcast on HBO is, to date, the highest rated concert special in HBO's 30 year history.

On New Year's Eve 1999, Streisand returned to the concert stage, giving the highest grossing single concert in Las Vegas history to date.^{[citation needed]} At the end of the millennium, she was the number one female singer in the U.S., with at least two #1 albums in each decade since she began performing. A 2-disc live album of the concert entitled Timeless: Live in Concert was released in 2000. Streisand performed versions of the "Timeless" concert in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia in early 2000.

In advance of four concerts (two each in Los Angeles and New York) in September 2000, Streisand announced she was retiring from future paying public concerts. Her performance of the song People was broadcast on the Internet via America Online.

Streisand's most recent albums have been Christmas Memories (2001), a somewhat somber collection of holiday songs (which felt entirely—albeit unintentionally—appropriate in the early post-9/11 days), and The Movie Album (2003), featuring famous movie themes and backed by a large symphony orchestra. Guilty Pleasures (called Guilty Too in the UK), a collaboration with Barry Gibb and a sequel to their previous Guilty, was released worldwide in 2005.

Streisand's 20-concert tour set record box-office numbers. At the age of 64, well past the prime of most performers, she grossed US$92,457,062 and set house gross records in 14 of the 16 arenas played on the tour. She set the third-place record for her October 9, 2006 show at Madison Square Garden, the first- and second-place records of which are held by her two shows in September 2000. She set the second-place record at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, with her December 31, 1999 show being the house record and the highest grossing concert of all time. This led many people to openly criticize Streisand for price gouging, as many tickets sold for upwards of US$1,000.

A collection of performances culled from different stops on this tour, Live in Concert 2006, debuted at #7 on the Billboard 200, making it Streisand's 29th Top 10 album. In the summer of 2007, Streisand gave concerts for the first time in continental Europe. Tickets for the London dates cost between £100.00 and GB£1,500.00 and for the Ireland date between €118 and €500. The tour included a 58-piece orchestra.

In February 2008, Forbes Magazine listed Streisand as the #2 top-earning female musician, between June 2006 and June 2007, with earnings of about US$60 million. Although Streisand's range has changed with time and her voice has become deeper over the years, her vocal prowess has remained remarkably secure for a singer whose career has endured for nearly half a century.

On February 1, 2010, Streisand joined over 80 other artists in recording a new version of the 1985 charity single "We Are the World". Quincy Jones and Lionel Richie planned to release the new version to mark the 25th anniversary of its original recording. These plans changed, however, in view of the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti on January 12, 2010, and on February 12, the song, now called "We Are the World 25 for Haiti", made its debut as a charity single to support relief aid for the beleaguered island nation.Streisand, like fellow divas Bette Midler and Celine Dion, was offered a $100 Million contract to perform in Las Vegas. Under the contract, Barbra would have been slated to perform for 3 years. She turned them down, while an insider said she has plans to tour in the Summer 2010.

Her first film was a reprise of her Broadway hit, Funny Girl (1968), an artistic and commercial success directed by Hollywood veteran William Wyler, for which she won the 1968 Academy Award for Best Actress, sharing it with Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter), the first (and only) time there was a tie in this Oscar category. Her next two movies were also based on musicals, Jerry Herman's Hello, Dolly! directed by Gene Kelly (1969) and Alan Jay Lerner's and Burton Lane's On a Clear Day You Can See Forever directed by Vincente Minnelli (1970), while her fourth film was based on the Broadway play The Owl and the Pussycat (1970).

During the 1970s, Streisand starred in several screwball comedies, including What's Up, Doc? (1972) and The Main Event (1979), both co-starring Ryan O'Neal, and For Pete's Sake (1974) with Michael Sarrazin. One of her most famous roles during this period was in the drama The Way We Were (1973) with Robert Redford, for which she received an Academy Award nomination as Best Actress. She earned her second Academy Award for Best Original Song as composer (together with lyricist Paul Williams) for the song "Evergreen", from A Star Is Born in 1976; this was the first time a woman had received this award.

Along with Paul Newman and Sidney Poitier, Streisand formed First Artists Production Company in 1969 so the actors could secure properties and develop movie projects for themselves. Streisand's initial outing with First Artists was Up the Sandbox (1972).

In 2004, Streisand made a return to film acting, after an eight-year hiatus, in the comedy Meet the Fockers (a sequel to Meet the Parents), playing opposite Dustin Hoffman, Ben Stiller, Blythe Danner and Robert De Niro.

Streisand has long been an active supporter of the Democratic Party and many of their causes. Streisand said, "The Democrats have always been the party of working people and minorities. I've always identified with the minorities." Streisand has personally raised $15 million for organizations through her live performances. The Streisand Foundation, established in 1986, has contributed over $16 million through its grants to "national organizations working on preservation of the environment, voter education, the protection of civil liberties and civil rights, women’s issues and nuclear disarmament." In 2006, Streisand donated $1 million to the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation in support of President Bill Clinton’s climate change initiative.

In 2000, Barbra Streisand was awarded the National Medal of Arts and she has been nominated for over 56 Grammy Awards, of which she won 15. She's been inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame three times.

Barbra Joan Streisand (Brooklyn, New York, USA, 1942.) amerikai színésznő, énekesnő, zeneszerző, rendező, forgatókönyvíró, producer.
New Yorkban, Brooklynban született ortodox zsidó családban. Édesapja korán meghalt, és Barbra-nak nagyon hiányzott édesapja. Ez adott indíttatást első rendezéséhez (Yentl). Anyja nem nézte jó szemmel lánya színészi álmait, és folyton becsmérelte Barbra külsejét. Sidney Poitier-vel és Paul Newmannal az első sztárok között volt az 1970-es években, akik saját produkciós irodát alapítottak.

Szerepeiben főként akaratos, elszánt asszonyokat alakít, drámai és komikus szerepek megformálásában egyaránt élen jár. A legtehetségesebb amerikai énekesnők egyike.

1997-ben eljegyezte magát a másodvonalbeli filmek sztárjával, James Brolin-nal, akivel kapcsolatban nem titkolja, hogy a hiányzó apafigurát is pótolja számára. Egyetlen vágya, hogy partnerével a lehető legtöbb időt töltse együtt.

Hollywood leggazdagabb üzletasszonyai közé tartozik, egyes becslések szerint 180 millió dolláros vagyonnal rendelkezik.

Rendszerint együtt ünnepli születésnapját barátnőjével, Shirley MacLaine-nel, akivel egy napon született. Közeli barátnője Donna Karan, divattervező. Elliot Gouldhoz fűződő kapcsolatából született egy fia, Jason, akiről azt állítják, hogy homoszexuális. Állandó munkatársa koncertjei karmestere és filmjei zeneszerzője, Marvin Hamlisch.

Billy Wilder

Billy Wilder (22 June 1906 – 27 March 2002) was an Austrian-American journalist, filmmaker, screenwriter and producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films. He is regarded as one of the most brilliant and versatile filmmakers of Hollywood's golden age.
Born Samuel Wilder in Sucha Beskidzka, Austria-Hungary (now Poland) to Max Wilder and Eugenia Dittler, Wilder was nicknamed Billie by his mother, because she was fascinated with Billy the Kid when she had visited the United States in her younger days (he changed that to "Billy" after arriving in America). His parents had a successful and well-known cake shop in Sucha Beskidzka's train station and unsuccessfully tried to convince their son to inherit the business. Soon the family moved to Vienna, where Wilder attended school. After dropping out of the University of Vienna, Wilder became a journalist. To advance his career Wilder decided to move to Berlin, Germany.
While in Berlin, before achieving success as a writer, Wilder allegedly worked as a taxi dancer. After writing crime and sports stories as a stringer for local newspapers, he was eventually offered a regular job at a Berlin tabloid. Developing an interest in film, he began working as a screenwriter. He collaborated with several other tyros (with Fred Zinnemann and Robert Siodmak, on the 1929 feature, People on Sunday). After the rise of Adolf Hitler, Wilder, who was Jewish, left for Paris and then the United States. His mother, grandmother and stepfather were murdered at the Auschwitz concentration camp.

After arriving in Hollywood in 1933, Wilder continued his career as a screenwriter. He became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1934. Wilder's first significant success was Ninotchka1939, in a collaboration with fellow German immigrant Ernst Lubitsch. This screwball comedy starred Greta Garbo (generally known as a tragic heroine in film melodramas), and was popularly and critically acclaimed. With the byline, "Garbo Laughs!", it also took Garbo's career in a new direction (although he and Brackett had already wrote Bluebeard's Eighth Wife and Midnight to great aclaim). The film also marked Wilder's first Academy Award nomination, which he shared with co-writer Charles Brackett. For twelve years Wilder co-wrote many of his films with Brackett, from 1938 through 1950. He followed Ninotchka with a series of box office hits in 1942, including his Hold Back the Dawn and Ball of Fire, as well as his directorial feature debut, The Major and the Minor.

Wilder established his directorial reputation after helming Double Indemnity (1944), a film noir he co-wrote with mystery novelist Raymond Chandler, with whom he did not get along. Double Indemnity not only set conventions for the noir genre (such as "venetian blind" lighting and voice-over narration), but was also a landmark in the battle against Hollywood censorship. The original James M. Cain novel Double Indemnity featured two love triangles and a murder plotted for insurance money. The book was highly popular with the reading public, but had been considered unfilmable under the Hays Code, because adultery was central to its plot. Double Indemnity is credited by some as the first true film noir, combining the stylistic elements of Citizen Kane with the narrative elements of The Maltese Falcon.

Two years later, Wilder earned the Best Director and Best Screenplay Academy Awards for the adaptation of a Charles R. Jackson story The Lost Weekend, the first major American film to make a serious examination of alcoholism, another difficult theme under the Production Code. In 1950, Wilder co-wrote and directed the dark and cynical and critically acclaimed Sunset Boulevard, which paired rising star William Holden with Gloria Swanson. Swanson played Norma Desmond, a reclusive silent film star who dreams of a comeback; Holden is an aspiring screenwriter who becomes a kept man.

In 1951, Wilder followed Sunset Boulevard with Ace in the Hole (a/k/a The Big Carnival), a tale of media exploitation of a caving accident. It was a critical and commercial failure at the time, but its reputation has grown over the years. In the fifties, Wilder also directed two vibrant adaptations of Broadway plays, the POW drama Stalag 17 (1953), which resulted in a Best Actor Oscar for William Holden, and the Agatha Christie mystery Witness for the Prosecution (1957).

From the mid-1950s on, Wilder made mostly comedies.^[4] Among the classics Wilder created in this period are the farces The Seven Year Itch (1955) and Some Like It Hot (1959), satires such as The Apartment (1960), and the romantic comedy Sabrina (1954). Wilder's humor is sometimes sardonic. In Love in the Afternoon (1957), a young and innocent Audrey Hepburn who doesn't want to be young or innocent wins playboy Gary Cooper by pretending to be a married woman in search of extramarital amusement.

In 1959 Wilder introduced crossdressing to American film audiences with Some Like It Hot. In this comedy Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis play musicians on the run from a Chicago gang, who disguise themselves as women and become romantically involved with Marilyn Monroe and Joe E. Brown.

In 1959, Wilder began to collaborate with writer-producer I.A.L. Diamond, an association that continued until the end of both men's careers. After winning three Academy Awards for 1960's The Apartment (for Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay), Wilder's career slowed. His Cold War farce One, Two, Three (1961) featured a rousing comic performance by James Cagney, but was followed by the lesser films Irma la Douce and Kiss Me, Stupid. Wilder garnered his last Oscar nomination for his screenplay The Fortune Cookie in 1966. His 1970 film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes was intended as a major roadshow release, but was heavily cut by the studio and has never been fully restored. Later films such as Fedora and Buddy Buddy failed to impress critics or the public.

After that Wilder never ceased to complain that Hollywood was making a big mistake by not giving him any films to direct. He did so at film festivals, in interviews, on television, and whenever else he had the chance. He often hinted that he was being discriminated against, due to his age. His complaining didn't help: for whatever reason, Hollywood simply wouldn't hire him, and his directorial career ended.

One "consolation" which Wilder had in his later years, besides his art collection was the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical stage version of "Sunset Boulevard." The musical itself had an uneven success and is generally considered to be one of the least of Webber's musicals. However, the huge amount of money and energy thrown into the musical was definitely a tribute to Wilder's work.

Wilder's directorial choices reflected his belief in the primacy of writing. He avoided the exuberant cinematography of Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles because, in Wilder's opinion, shots that called attention to themselves would distract the audience from the story. Wilder's pictures have tight plotting and memorable dialogue. Despite his conservative directorial style, his subject matter often pushed the boundaries of mainstream entertainment.

Wilder was skilled at working with actors, coaxing silent era legends Gloria Swanson and Erich von Stroheim out of retirement for roles in Sunset Boulevard. For Stalag 17, Wilder squeezed an Oscar-winning performance out of a reluctant William Holden (Holden wanted to make his character more likeable; Wilder refused). Wilder sometimes cast against type for major parts such as Fred MacMurray in Double Indemnity and The Apartment. Many today know MacMurray as a wholesome family man from the television series My Three Sons, but he played a womanizing schemer in Wilder's films. Humphrey Bogart shed his tough guy image to give one of his warmest performances in Sabrina. James Cagney, not usually known for comedy, was memorable in a high-octane comic role for Wilder's One, Two, Three. Wilder coaxed a very effective, and in some ways memorable performance out of Marilyn Monroe in Some Like It Hot.

In total, he directed fourteen different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Barbara Stanwyck, Ray Milland, William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Erich von Stroheim, Nancy Olson, Robert Strauss, Audrey Hepburn, Charles Laughton, Elsa Lanchester, Jack Lemmon, Jack Kruschen, Shirley MacLaine and Walter Matthau. Milland, Holden and Matthau won Oscars for their performances in Wilder films.

Wilder mentored Jack Lemmon and was the first director to pair him with Walter Matthau, in The Fortune Cookie (1966). Wilder had great respect for Lemmon, calling him the hardest working actor he had ever met. Lemmon starred in seven of Wilder's films.

Billy Wilder was recognized with the AFI LIfe Achievement Award in 1986.

In 1988, Wilder was awarded the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Wilder died in 2002 of pneumonia at the age of 95 after battling health problems, including cancer, in Los Angeles, California and was interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, Los Angeles, California next to Jack Lemmon. Marilyn Monroe's crypt is located nearby.

Wilder died the same day as two other comedy legends: Milton Berle and Dudley Moore. The next day, French top-ranking newspaper Le Monde titled its first-page obituary, "Billy Wilder is dead. Nobody is perfect." This was a reference to the famous closing line of his film Some Like it Hot spoken by Joe E. Brown after Jack Lemmon reveals he is not female.

Wilder holds a significant place in the history of Hollywood censorship for expanding the range of acceptable subject matter. He is responsible for two of the film noir era's most definitive films in Double Indemnity and Sunset Boulevard. Along with Woody Allen, he leads the list of films on the American Film Institute's list of 100 funniest American films with 5 films written and holds the honor of holding the top spot with Some Like it Hot. Also on the list are The Apartment and The Seven Year Itch which he directed, and Ball of Fire and Ninotchka which he co-wrote. The AFI has ranked four of Wilder's films among their top 100 American films of the 20th century: Sunset Boulevard (no. 12), Some Like It Hot (no. 14), Double Indemnity (no. 38) and The Apartment (no. 93).

Billy Wilder a hollywoodi aranykor vígjátékainak egyik kiemelkedő megteremtője, sajátos világot alkotott íróként és rendezőként. Érző szív és cinikus elme jellemezte. Világképét Matthau így foglalta össze: "A helyzet teljesen reménytelen, de nem súlyos". Mindig szimpátiát tudott kelteni alakjai iránt, lehettek azok alkoholisták, bűnözők, egykori sztárok vagy egyszerűen csak szerencsétlen kisemberek. A legtöbbet hozta ki sodró lendületű, pattanásig feszült jeleneteiből. Jelszava volt: sohasem untatni! És a legtöbbet hozta ki színészeiből. Sokakat ő juttatott a sztárság csillogó rivaldafényébe. Lubitsch volt a példaképe. Összeköti őket: a sztori kifogástalan felépítése, a remek időzítések és poénok, az emberszeretet és egy nagy adag szarkasztikus humor. Mindketten szívesen dolgoztak egyszerre több forgatókönyvíróval, sokra becsülték a dramaturgiához illeszkedő díszleteket, de mindenek felett a színészi egyéniségeket, akiknek karizmáját a celluloidszalag és a filmvászon csak még titokzatosabbá tette. Sok műfajú rendező volt. Akaratán kívül a film noir egyik megteremtője (Gyilkos vagyok, 1944). Legnagyobb vígjátéki és drámai sikereit az ötvenes-hatvanas években aratta: Alkony sugárút, Délutáni szerelem, A vád tanúja, Van, aki forrón szereti, A legénylakás. A hetvenes években népszerűsége visszaesett, "kiment a divatból". (1981-től már nem forgatott többet.) Végig megmaradt jelentős rendezőnek, aki akarva-akaratlan saját korát tükrözte. Így vallott önmagáról: "Szeretem a változatosságot. Amikor szomorú vagyok, vígjátékot csinálok, s amikor jó a kedvem, akkor súlyos drámát. Más is van az életemben, mint a film. És ha van valami, amit jobban utálok annál, hogy nem vesznek komolyan, akkor az az, ha túl komolyan vesznek." 96 évesen halt meg.

Adam Brody

Adam Jared Brody (born December 15, 1979) is an American film and television actor and part time musician. He began his career in 1995, appearing on the Gilmore Girls and other series and subsequently came to fame for his role as Seth Cohen on The O.C., establishing his defining screen persona. Joel Stein of Time magazine has described Brody as creating an "Adam Brody type", a screen persona of a "nerdy, sarcastic, obscure-reference-laced Jew".^[1] Brody has also appeared in several film roles, including Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Thank You for Smoking, and In the Land of Women.

Brody was born in Carlsbad, San Diego County, California, the oldest son of Jewish parents Valerie (née Siefman), a graphic artist, and Mark Brody, a lawyer.^[2][3] He has younger twin brothers, Sean and Matt. Brody attended Wangenheim Middle School and Scripps Ranch High School, receiving "poor grades",^[4] and grew up in suburban San Diego, spending time surfing.^[5] He has said that while he was not a "Casanova", he had "cute girlfriends" and "pretty much lived at the beach".^[4] Brody attended community college for one year and dropped out at the age of nineteen, moving to Hollywood in order to become an actor.^[1] He subsequently hired an acting coach and signed with a manager.

After a year of training and auditioning, Brody landed the role of Barry Williams in the 2000 TV movie Growing Up Brady. He was cast in recurring roles on Gilmore Girls as Dave Rygalski, Lane's bandmate and love interest, and the Canadian comedy television series The Sausage Factory. In 2001, he played a small role in American Pie 2, named as "high school guy". He was one of two high school guys who get chased away from Steve Stifler's party. In 2003, he wrote "Home Security" (a short film),^[5] appeared in the feature film Grind, and began playing his most famous role to date, Seth Cohen, a slightly awkward teenager, on the television show The O.C. The role turned Brody into a teen idol, with the character having been described by the Los Angeles Times as "TV's sexiest geek"^[5] and by Time as having "redefined" the screen persona of "unapologetic" nerdiness;^[1] his character (defined by director Jon Kasdan as the "new kind of nerdy Jewish guy: both self-deprecating and self-obsessed")^[1] has since inspired scripts to describe particular characters as "Adam Brody types".^[1] The role also developed Brody a female fan following and as a result, Brody was ranked No. 17 in Independent Online's "100 Sexiest Men Alive", was twice placed on Teen People's annual list of "25 Sexiest Stars under 25", and was the first male on the cover of Elle Girl.^[1][6][6] Brody improvised some of the character's comic dialogue.^[5]

During the show's run, Brody appeared alongside Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in 2005's film Mr. & Mrs. Smith and played a Hollywood studio assistant in the 2006 film adaptation of Thank You for Smoking. Brody was signed to a seven-year contract for The O.C., playing the role of Seth Cohen, where he acted much like himself. The show was eventually canceled in 2007 and ended its run in February of that year; Brody has said that he is "not unhappy" with the show's cancellation^[6] and that although he was "fortunate" to be on a successful series, he was also glad to "not be on it for 10 years".^[1] After the end of The O.C.'s run, Brody turned to a full-time film career.^[5] His next role was the film In the Land of Women, a romantic comedy co-starring Meg Ryan and Kristen Stewart and released on April 20, 2007. In the film, Brody plays the lead role, a writer who returns to his mother's Michigan hometown in order to take care of his sick grandmother. Brody did not have to audition for the part, but was almost unable to appear in the film because of scheduling conflicts with the second season of The O.C.; the film's director pushed filming back eight months because he wanted Brody to star.^[5][6] The same year, Brody also appeared in supporting roles in the lower budget films Smiley Face, playing a pot dealer, and The Ten, as a skydiver.^[5] He also guest appeared in the Smallville episode "Crush".

Brody, along with actor Zac Efron, was in consideration for the lead part in the film Speed Racer, a role which was eventually given to Emile Hirsch.^[1] Brody was also set to produce a remake of Revenge of the Nerds, which was canceled early during filming.^[7]

Brody was also in the music video of a song called "Too Bad About Your Girl" by The Donnas. He and Josh Lucas have signed onto the Boaz Yakin directed drama, Death in Love. As of March 2008, he is also in Academy Award winner Diablo Cody's new horror flick Jennifer's Body, co-starring Megan Fox.

Brody lives in Los Angeles. He dated The O.C. co-star Rachel Bilson, a three-year^[5] relationship that ended in December 2006. Their relationship was both on screen and off screen.

Brody plays drums for the band Big Japan^[5] with actor Bret Harrison. He writes screenplays and songs during his spare time^[1] and has co-written, along with Danny Bilson (father of ex-girlfriend Rachel Bilson) and Paul DiMeo, a comic book miniseries for Wildstorm Comics called Red Menace. Brody has also volunteered as an actor with the Young Storytellers Program, which is dedicated to developing literacy, self-expression and self-esteem in elementary school children.

Brody has described himself as a "fake intellectual" and his sense of humor as sarcastic.^[1] He is a secular Jew^[8] and has stated that he "couldn't be less religious".^[2] Brody has said that when he moved to Hollywood he became "more nerdy" and embraced his "neurotic side".

Adam Brody a kaliforniai San Diegóban született zsidó szülők legidősebb fiaként. Anyja Valerie grafikus művész,apja Mark Brody ügyvéd. Van két fiatalabb ikertestvére Sean és Matt. Adam a családjával San Diego elővárosában lakott,ahol a Scripps Ranch középiskolába járt és szörfözéssel töltötte a szabadidejét. A középiskola után egy évig főiskolára járt,majd 19 évesen Hollywoodba költözött,ahol lakókocsit bérelt és szerződött egy menedzserrel.
Kisebb szerepeket kapott a például a "Growing Up Brady"-ben,"Gilmore Girls"-ben vagy a "The Sausage Factory”-ban.
2003-ban megírta a Home Security rövidfilmet, játszott a Grindben majd megkapta Seth Cohen szerepét a Narancsvidékben.
Az Independent Online megválasztott a 100 legszexisebb férfiét, ahol Adam a 17.helyen végzett.
2005-ben egy kisebb szerepet kapott Angelina Jolie és Brad Pitt oldalán a Mr. & Mrs. Smith-ben.
2007-ben felbontották a hétéves narancsvidére szóló szerződését. Ezt követően az In the Land of Women romantikus vígjátékban játszott Meg Ryan és Kristen Stewart oldalán.
Ugyanabban az évben Adam több alacsonyabb költségvetésű filmben, mint a Smiley Face, vagy a The Tenben kapott szerepet, de feltűnt a Smallville "Crush" epizódjában is.

Adam 2006 decemberéig egy párt alkotott a narancsvidékbeli partnerével Rachel Bilsonal. Jelenlegi barátnője Hanna Elfner,aki egy skandináv modell. A Big Japan zenekarban dobol.

Peter Falk

Peter Falk (born September 16, 1927) is an American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in thetelevision series Columbo. He appeared in numerous films and television guest roles, and has been nominated for anAcademy Award twice, and won the Emmy Award on five occasions and the Golden Globe award once.

Born Peter Michael Falk inNew York City, Falk was theson of Michael Peter Falk, owner of a clothing and dry goods store, and his wife, Madeline, an accountant andbuyer.^[1] His mother was Russian and his father was Polish, and of Hungarian and Czech descent. ^[2] He is thegrandson of Mike Falk, chief editor of the Budapestnewspaper Pester Lloyd.Falk's parents were of Jewishdescent but were not religious.

His right eye was surgically removed at the age of three because of a malignant tumor; he has worn a glass eye for most of his life.^[3] Despite the handicap, Falk participated in team sports, mainly baseball and basketball, as a boy. In a 1997 interview in Cigar Aficionado magazine withArthur Marx, Falk said, "I remember once in high school the umpire called me out at third base when I was sure I was safe. I got so mad I took out my glass eye, handed it to him and said, 'Try this.' I got such a laugh you wouldn't believe." ^[2]

At the age of 12 Falk's first stage appearance was in The Pirates of Penzance at Camp High Point^[4] in upstate New York. Falk attended OssiningHigh School in Westchester County, New York, where he was a star athlete and president of his senior class. After graduating from high school in 1945, Falk briefly attendedHamilton College in Clinton, New York, and then tried to join the armed services as World War II was drawing to a close. Rejected because of his glass eye, he joined the United States Merchant Marine, and served as a cook and mess boy. "There they don't care if you're blind or not," Falk said in 1997. "The only one on a ship who has to see is the captain. And in the case of the Titanic, he couldn't see very well, either." ^[2]

After a year and a half in the Merchant Marine, Falk returned to Hamilton College and also attended the University of Wisconsin. He transferred to the New School for Social Research in New York City, which awarded him a bachelor's degree in literature and political science in 1951. He then traveled in Europe and worked on a railroad in Yugoslavia for six months.^[5] He returned to New York, enrolling at Syracuse University ^[2], but he recalled in his 2006 memoir Just One More Thing that he was unsure what he wanted to do with his life for years after leaving high school.^[6]

Falk obtained a Masters degreein public administration at Syracuse University in 1953. It was a new program designed to train future workers in the federal bureaucracy, a career that Falk said in his memoir that he had "no interest in and no aptitude for.".^[7]He applied for a job with the CIA, but was rejected because of his membership in the Marine Cooks and Stewards Unionwhile serving in the Merchant Marine, even though he was required to join and was not active in the union.^[8] He then became a management analyst with the Connecticut State Budget Bureau, in Hartford.^[9]Falk described his Hartford job as "efficiency expert. "I was such an efficiency expert that the first morning on the job, I couldn't find the building where I was to report for work," he said in 1997. "Naturally, I was late, which I always was in those days, but ironically it was my tendency never to be on time that got me started as a professional actor." ^[2]

While working in Hartford, Falkjoined a community theater group called the Mark Twain Masquers, where he performed in plays that included The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, The Crucible and The Country Girl. Falk also studied with Eva Le Gallienne, who was giving an acting class at the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut. Falk later recalled that he had "lied his way" into the class, which was for professional actors. He drove down to Westport from Hartford every Wednesday, when the classes were held, and was usually late.

Falk stayed with the La Gallienne group for a few months more, and obtained a letter of recommendation from La Galliene to an agent at theWilliam Morris Agency in New York. ^[2] In 1956, he left his job with the Budget Bureau and moved to Greenwich Village to pursue an acting career.

His first New York stage role was in a flop—an off-Broadwayproduction of Molière's Don Juan at the Fourth Street Theatre that closed after its only performance on January 3, 1956. Falk played the second lead, Sganarelle.^[10] His next theater role proved far better for his career. In May he appeared at Circle in the Square in a revival of The Iceman Comethwith Jason Robards, playing the bartender.^[9][11]

Falk made his Broadway debut also in 1956, appearing in Diary of a Scoundrel. As the year came to an end, he appeared again on Broadway as an English soldier in Shaw's Saint Joan, with Siobhán McKenna.

Despite his stage success, a theatrical agent advised Falk not to expect much film work because of his glass eye.^[9] He failed a screen test at Columbia Pictures, and was told by studio boss Harry Cohn that "for the same price I can get an actor with two eyes." He also failed to get a role in the film adapation of Marjorie Morningstar despite a promising interview for the second lead.^[13] His first film performances were in small roles in Wind Across the Everglades (1958), The Bloody Brood (1959) and Pretty Boy Floyd (1960).^[14]

Falk's performance in Murder, Inc. (1960) was a turning point in his career. He was cast in the supporting role of killer Abe Reles, in a film based on the real-life murder gang of that name, which terrorized New York in the 1930s. New York Times film critic Bosley Crowther, while dismissing the movie as "an average gangster film," singled out Falk's "amusingly vicious performance." ^[15]

Crowther wrote:^[15]

Mr. Falk, moving as if weary, looking at people out of the corners of his eyes and talking as if he had borrowed Marlon Brando's chewing gum, seems a travesty of a killer, until the water suddenly freezes in his eyes and he whips an icepick from his pocket and starts punching holes in someone's ribs. Then viciousness pours out of him and you get a sense of a felon who is hopelessly cracked and corrupt.

The film turned out to be Falk's breakout role. In his 2006 autobiography, Just One More Thing, Falk said that his selection for the film from thousands of other off-Broadway actors was a "miracle" that "made my career," and that without it he would not have gotten the other significant movie roles that he later played.^[16]

Falk, who played Reles again in a 1960 TV series The Witness,^[14] was nominated for a Best Supporting ActorAcademy Award for his performance in the film. He was nominated in the same Academy Award category the following year for his performance in the 1961 Frank Capra comedy Pocketful of Miracles. In both roles he played gangsters, though inPocketful of Miracles he portrayed a more lightheartedDamon Runyoncharacter.

The remainder of the 1960s saw Falk playing mainly small movie roles and in TV guest starring appearances. He played a cab driver in the all-star comedy film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. He played mainly comical crooks, as in 1964's Rat Pack crime spoof Robin and the 7 Hoodsand the 1965 farce The Great Race, with Jack Lemmon andTony Curtis.

Falk first appeared on television in 1957, in the dramatic anthology programs that later became known as the "Golden Age of Television." He appeared in one episode ofRobert Montgomery Presents in 1957, and also appeared inStudio One, Kraft Television Theater, New York Confidentialand Decoy.^[14]

In 1961, Falk was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performance in the episode "Cold Turkey" of James Whitmore's short-lived seriesThe Law and Mr. Jones onABC. On September 29, 1961,Falk and Walter Matthauguest-starred in the premiere episode, "The Million Dollar Dump," of ABC's crime dramaTarget: The Corruptors!, withStephen McNally. He won an Emmy for The Price of Tomatoes, a Dick Powell TV drama in 1962.^[14]

Falk's first television series was in the title role of the drama The Trials of O'Brien, in which he played a lawyer. The show ran in 1965 and 1966 and was cancelled after 22 episodes. ^[14]

Falk appeared in numerous other television roles in the 1960s and 1970s, but he is probably best known for the title role of the shabby and ostensibly absent-minded police detective lieutenant inthe long-running TV seriesColumbo. The character was originally played in a 1960 episode of the NBC anthology series The Chevy Mystery Show, where the detective was played by Bert Freed, and in a subsequent Broadway play byThomas Mitchell. Falk first appeared as Columbo inPrescription: Murder , a 1968 TV movie, but the character was not the subject of a show of its own until 1971. Columboaired regularly from 1971 to 1978 on NBC, and then more infrequently on ABC as TV movies beginning in 1989. The most recent episode was broadcast in 2003.^[14]

Despite his frazzled exterior, Columbo possesses a keen mind and invariably solves his cases by paying close attention to tiny inconsistencies in suspects' stories, hounding them until they confess; he merely puts on a good show of being dimwitted so that the criminals will be more at ease around him. Columbo's signature technique is to exit the scene of an interview, only to stop in the doorway to ask a suspect "just one more thing," which often brings to light the key inconsistency. The role won Falk four Emmy Awards and aGolden Globe. Four of Columbo's cases gave Falk the chance to work with his longtime friend Patrick McGoohan, the latter playing the episodes' villain roles.

Falk was a close friend of independent film director John Cassavetes and appeared in Cassavetes' films Husbands, A Woman Under the Influence, and, in a cameo, at the end ofOpening Night. Cassavetes, in turn, guest-starred in theColumbo episode "Étude in Black" in 1972.

Falk continued to work in films, including his performance as a possible ex-CIA agent of dubious sanity in the Arthur Hiller comedy The In-Laws. He also appeared in The Princess Bride, and (cast as himself) inWim Wenders' Wings of Desire. In 1998, Falk returned to the New York stage to star in an off-Broadway production ofArthur Miller's Mr. Peters' Connections. His previous stage work included shady real estate salesman Shelley "the Machine" Levene in a Los Angeles production of David Mamet's prizewinningGlengarry Glen Ross.

Falk also starred in such holiday television movies asFinding John Christmas (2003) and When Angels Come to Town (2004). In 2007, Falk appeared with Nicolas Cage in the thriller Next.

Falk married Alyce Mayo, whom he met when they were both students at Syracuse University,^[17] on April 17, 1960. They adopted two daughters, Catherine (who is a private investigator) and Jackie. They divorced in 1976. On December 3, 1977, Falk married actress Shera Danese^[18], who guest-starred on the Columbo series on numerous occasions.

Peter Michael Falk (New York City, New York, 1927.szeptember 16.) magyar származású amerikai színész és filmproducer. A Pester Lloyd nevű szabadelvű újság néhai főszerkesztőjének, Falk Miksánaka dédunokája. Az1950-es évek végén kezdett filmezni. Gyakran dolgozott a televízió számára. Leghíresebb alakítása is egy éveken át sikerrel sugárzott szériához kapcsolódik: a Columbo című sorozatban ő játszotta a rosszul öltözött, látszólag lassú észjárású címszereplő nyomozót, aki az apró ellentmondásokból kiindulva végül mindig megoldotta a legreménytelenebbnek látszó bűnügyeket is. Columbo megformálásáért ötször elnyerte az Emmy-díjat, illetve egyszer a Golden Globe-díjat.Két korai mozifilmjéért az 1960-as évek elején kétszer Oscar-díjra jelölték. Az új évezredben, túl a 80. életévén egészségi állapota megromlott, Alzheimer-kórral küzd.

Peter Falk édesapja, a magyar származású Michael Falk egyruhakereskedés és vegyesbolt tulajdonosa volt. Édesanyja, az orosz származású Madeleine könyvelőként és beszerzési menedzserként dolgozott. Peter hároméves volt, amikor egyrosszindulatú daganat miatt eltávolították a jobb szemét. Kivehető üvegszemet kapott, mellyel időnként tréfákat is megengedett magának. Kamaszként egy baseball-mérkőzésen kiállította a játékvezető, mire Falk kivette az üvegszemét, hogy átnyújtsa neki ezzel a megjegyzéssel: „Neked nagyobb szükséged van rá, mint nekem.”^[1] Művészi pályája során olykor diszkriminációk érték a hiányzó szeme miatt. A Columbia Pictures igazgatója állítólag ezzel a felkiáltással utasította el: „Ennyi pénzért kétszemű színészt is kaphatok!” Rajongói viszont szexisnek találták különös tekintetét.

A fiatalember az ossiningifőiskolára járt, ahol osztályelnök volt. Diplomája megszerzését követően szakács lett az Egyesült Államok kereskedelmi flottájánál. Később a New School for Social Research intézményében politológiáttanult, 1951-ben végzett. A következő 3 évben a Hamilton College hallgatója lettClintonban. 1953-ban a Syracuse Universityn mester fokozatú diplomát szerzett közigazgatásból. Megpályázott egy állást a CIA-nál, de nem vették fel, ezért a hartfordiConnecticut State Budget Bureau-nál helyezkedett el mint management analyst.

A munka mellett Falk awestporti White Barn Theatre-nél színészi tanulmányokat folytatott, mert felkeltette érdeklődését ez a pálya, és elhatározta, hogy színész lesz.1956-ban otthagyta az állását, és Greenwich Village-be ment. Az off-Broadway-n debütált 1956. január 3-án Molière Don Juan című darabjában, melyet a Fourth Street Theatre tűzött műsorára. Még ugyanebben az évben a Broadway-n is színpadra lépett George Bernard Shaw Szent Johannacímű darabjában egy angol katona szerepében, Siobhán McKenna partnereként. Az 1960-as évek elején mind a filmvásznon, mind a tévéképernyőn felhívta magára a figyelmet. Kétszer jelölték a tévés produkciók számára létrehozott Emmy-díjra, melyet második alkalommal meg is kapott, illetve kétszer jelölték a legjobb férfi mellékszereplőnek járó Oscar-díjra. Egy taxisofőr szerepét játszotta Stanley Kramer Bolond, bolond világ(1963) című alkotásában, melyben Spencer Tracy volt a főszereplő. A könnyed szórakozást képviselte a Robin és a 7 gengszter (1964) című zenés komédia is, melyben olyan világsztárok játszották a főszerepeket, mint Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Sammy Davis Jr. és Dean Martin. Mint a címből is sejthető, a film Robin Hood történetének modernizált változata. Blake EdwardsVerseny a javából (1965) című vígjátékában Peter Falk Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon és Natalie Wood oldalán játszott. Az 1966-ban indult The Trials of O'Brienvolt az első sorozatszerepe – egy ügyvédet alakított –, ám a széria csupán egy évadot ért meg. Annál sikeresebb lett viszont egy másik tévésorozat, a Columbo, amely meghozta számára a világhírnevet.

A Columbo 1968-ban kezdődöttA recept: gyilkosság című epizóddal. A folytatás csak 3 év múlva következett, mivel a színész habozott, hogy elvállalja-e a sorozatot. Az1971-ben sugárzott második részt – Váltságdíj egy halottért– a magyar közönség moziban láthatta először. Ezzel az epizóddal valóban elindult a Columbo-sorozat, amely nemcsak az Egyesült Államokban, hanem az egész világon rendkívül népszerű lett. Columbo megformálásáért Peter Falkot tízszer jelölték Emmy-díjra (ötször nyert), és kilencszer Golden Globe-ra (egyszer nyert). Columbo rosszul öltözött, látszólag lassú észjárású nyomozó, aki azonban mindig mindegyik ügyét sikeresen megoldja. Módszere, hogy különösen odafigyel az apró, egymásnak ellentmondó részletekre, és azokból kiindulva leplezi le a tettest. A gyanúsítottak gyakorlatilag mindig elkövetik azt a súlyos hibát, hogy nem veszik elég komolyan Columbót, aki olykor felidegesíti őket azzal, hogy a távozás pillanatában az ajtóból fordul vissza, hogy még valamit kérdezzen, és feltárjon egy kulcsfontosságú ellentmondást. A sorozat harmadik részét(Ahogy a könyvben meg van írva) a pályakezdő Steven Spielberg rendezte, egy 1978-as epizódot (Az ínyenc gyilkos)pedig Jonathan Demme. A széria népszerűségét jelzi, hogy az évek folyamán nagy sztárok is szívesen vállaltak benne szerepet, voltak, akik többször is: Patrick McGoohan(Falk jó barátja) négyszer,Robert Culp és Jack Cassidyháromszor, George Hamiltonkétszer. A rekorder Falk felesége, Shera Danese, aki hat epizódban játszott. Alkalmi vendégsztár volt – a teljesség igénye nélkül – Leonard Nimoy,William Shatner, Robert Vaughn, Laurence Harvey,Nicol Williamson, Ruth Gordon,Julie Newmar, Janet Leigh, Ray Milland, Johnny Cash, Martin Landau, Donald Pleasence,Louis Jourdan, Vera Miles,Roddy McDowall, Faye Dunaway, Dick Van Dyke és egy másik barát, John Cassavetes.

A televíziós sikerekkel párhuzamosan Falk mozifilmekben is szerepelt, nem is sikertelenül. Ez nagy szó az Egyesült Államokban, ahol ritkaság, hogy valaki e szakma mindkét területén egyformán népszerű legyen. A színész mozifilmjei közül kiemelkednek a John Cassavetes rendezésében készült drámák, a Férjek (1970) és az Egy hatás alatt álló nő(1974). Előbbiben Ben Gazzara, Jenny Runacre és maga a rendező voltak a partnerei, utóbbiban Cassavetes felesége, a drámai szerepeiről ismert Gena Rowlands. Valaha a magyar mozik is nagy sikerrel vetítették a Neil Simondarabjából készültMeghívás egy gyilkos vacsorára (1976) című szellemes filmparódiát, melyben olyan sztárok szerepeltek, mintDavid Niven, Maggie Smith,Peter Sellers, Alec Guinness ésElsa Lanchaster, valamint az extravagáns író, Truman Capote. A főbb szereplők tulajdonképpen egy-egy híres detektívet parodizáltak. A magyar nézők közül sokan tévesen azt hitték, hogy Falk híres szerepét, Columbót parodizálja, holott a figurát valójában A máltai sólyom(1941) nyomozója, Sam Spade ihlette, akit a klasszikus filmbenHumphrey Bogart alakított. Falk szerepelt a Meghívás egy gyilkos vacsorára folytatásaként számon tartott Bohókás nyomozásban is (1978).

Az 1980-as évek termésébőlWim Wenders azóta klasszikussá nemesedett filmje, a Berlin felett az ég(1987) emelkedik ki, amelyben a színész lényegében önmagát alakította, egy filmsztárt. A rendező így nyilatkozott a megosztott Berlinben játszódó filmjéről: „Történetem hősei angyalok. Igen, munkanélküli őrangyalok, akik a háború befejezése óta Berlinben tevékenykednek, ahogy az Úristen így hátrahagyta őket. Azután egy szép napon az egyik angyal szerelmes lesz. Találkozik egy trapézművésznővel, aki cirkuszban lép fel, angyalszárnyacskákkal a ruháján. Ezt nagyon mulatságosnak találja, és nagyon tetszik neki ez a lány. De ahhoz, hogy beleszerethessen, halandóvá kell válnia, mint minden földi lénynek. Nehéz elhatározás előtt áll...” 1995-ben FalkWoody Allen partnereként komédiázott Neil Simon egyik legnépszerűbb darabja, aNapsugár fiúk televíziós feldolgozásában. 1998-ban a művész visszatért az off-Broadway-re, ahol Arthur Milleregyik darabjában (Mr. Peters' Connections)lépett színpadra, de sikere volt David MametGlengarry Glenn Ross című darabjában is, Shelley Levene szerepében. Megromlott egészségi állapota miatt aColumbo tervezett utolsó epizódját 2007-ben végül nem készítették el. Az NBCprogramigazgatója, Charles Engel szerint senkit nem érdekelne egy olyan krimi, melynek főszereplője már túl van a nyolcvanon, és a mai közönség egyébként is másfajta tempójú filmekhez szokott a tévében is.

Peter Falk 1960. április 17-énnősült először: Alyce Mayót vezette az oltár elé. A házaspár két gyereket fogadott örökbe: Catherine-t és Jackie-t. (Catherine később magánnyomozó lett.) Falk és Mayo 1976-ban váltak el. A színész 1977. december 3-ánnősült másodszor: Shera Danese színésznőt vette el. Az új évezredben aggasztó hírek terjedtek el Peter Falk megromlott egészségi állapotáról, arról, hogy Alzheimer-kórban szenved.