what nationality was the actor that was famous for his role in detective Columbo?
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Three Days of Rain (film) Three Days of Rain is a 2002 US film directed by Michael Meredith. Based on Anton Chekhov's short stories, the plot takes place in Cleveland city during a rainstorm. It was the last film to star Peter Falk, famous for playing disheveled detective Columbo.
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Peter Falk Peter Michael Falk ( ; September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American actor, best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the long-running television series "Columbo" (1968-2003), for which he received four Primetime Emmy Awards and one Golden Globe Award. He was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, first for "Murder, Inc." (1960) and again for "Pocketful of Miracles" (1961). Falk further appeared in films such as "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World" (1963), "The Great Race" (1965), "Anzio" (1968), "A Woman Under the Influence" (1974), "Murder by Death" (1976), "The Cheap Detective" (1978), "The Princess Bride" (1987), "The Player" (1992), "Corky Romano" (2001) and "Next" (2007), as well as many television guest roles. Director William Friedkin said of Falk's role in his film "The Brink's Job" (1978): "Peter has a great range from comedy to drama. He could break your heart or he could make you laugh."
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Albert Conti Albert De Conti Cadassamare (29 January 1887 Gorizia – 18 January 1967 Hollywood, California, USA), professionally billed as Albert Conti was an Austrian-Hungarian-born Italian-American film actor.
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Robert Brubaker Robert Brubaker (October 9, 1916 – April 15, 2010) was an American character actor best known for his roles in television and movie westerns, including "Gunsmoke" and "40 Guns to Apache Pass". Brubaker was the only actor to have two recurring roles on the television series, "Gunsmoke", portraying both a bartender named Floyd and a stagecoach driver named Jim Buck. Some of Brubaker's other credits included the Rock Hudson film, "Seconds", and television crime drama "The Walter Winchell File" and the television police drama "The Asphalt Jungle".
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Jürgen Frohriep Jürgen Frohriep (28 April 1928 – 13 July 1993) was a German actor. After 1972 he became widely known for his role as Oberleutnant Jürgen Hübner in "Polizeiruf 110", a long running television series that originated in the German Democratic Republic, but which continues to win large television audiences across Germany, following reunification.
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Christopher Knight (actor) Christopher Anton Knight (born November 7, 1957) is an American actor and businessman. He is known for playing Peter Brady on the 1970s series "The Brady Bunch". He has since gone on to become a successful businessman and enjoyed a semi-resurgence in the public eye with television appearances in the 2000s. His father, Edward Knight, was also an actor.
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Gyula Szabó Gyula Szabó (15 July 1930 – 4 April 2014) was a Hungarian actor. He won two Mari Jászai Prizes. He appeared in forty movies between 1953 and 2002. He is best known for appearing in movies such as "Ifjú szívvel" (1953), "Kiskrajcár" (1953), "Hintónjáró szerelem" (1955), "Egy pikoló világos" (1955), "Kölyök" (1959), "Két emelet boldogság" (1960), "A tizedes meg a többiek" (1965), "Hahó, Öcsi!" (1971), "Defekt" (1977), and "A Hídember" (2002). He was Buga Jakab in the "Tenkes Kapitánya", the Hungarian voice of Columbo and the narrator of the "Magyar népmesék" ("Hungarian Folktales") TV series. He was born in Kunszentmárton, Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County.
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Columbo (disambiguation) Columbo is an American detective television program or its main character of the same name.
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Vince Colosimo Vincenzo Colosimo (born 11 November 1966) known professionally as Vince Colosimo is an Italian-Australian AFI Award winning stage, television and screen actor. He has worked in both Australia and the United States. He is of Italian descent and currently resides in the United States of America.
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Booth Colman Booth Colman (March 8, 1923 – December 15, 2014) was an American film, television and stage actor. In his later years he played older authority figures, such as doctors and lawyers. Colman appeared in films since 1952, when he debuted (uncredited) in "The Big Sky" directed by Howard Hawks.
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Al Molinaro Albert Francis "Al" Molinaro (born Umberto Francesco Molinaro; June 24, 1919 – October 30, 2015) was an American actor. He was known for his television sitcom roles as Al Delvecchio on "Happy Days" and Officer Murray Greshler on "The Odd Couple". He also appeared in many television commercials, including On-Cor frozen dinners.
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Robert Logan Robert F. Logan, Jr. (born May 29, 1941) is an American actor who has appeared in numerous films and television programs, the most notable of which were a successful series of family adventure movies in the 1970s.
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John Finnegan (actor) John P. "J.P." Finnegan (August 18, 1926 – July 29, 2012) was an American film and television actor, mostly known for his recurrent role on the American crime fiction series "Columbo". He voiced the villainous character Warren T. Rat in the 1986 Don Bluth film "An American Tail".
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William Sanderson William Sanderson (born January 10, 1944) is an American character actor famous for his roles in "Blade Runner", "Deadwood", "True Blood", and as a cast member in the long-running, 1980s television series "Newhart".
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Glenn Corbett Glenn Corbett (August 17, 1933 – January 16, 1993) was an American actor in movies and television for more than thirty years. Corbett came to national attention in the early 1960s when he replaced George Maharis in the cast of the popular CBS adventure drama "Route 66".
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Skip Homeier George Vincent Homeier (October 5, 1930 – June 25, 2017), known professionally as Skip Homeier, was an American actor who started his career at the age of eleven and became a child star.
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Kevin Sorbo Kevin David Sorbo (born September 24, 1958) is an American actor. He is best known for his starring roles in two television series: as Hercules in "", and as Captain Dylan Hunt in "Andromeda".
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Michael Winkelman Michael Lew Winkelman (June 27, 1946 – July 27, 1999) was an American child actor best known for his role as Little Luke McCoy from 1957 to 1963 in 136 episodes of the situation comedy television series, "The Real McCoys," starring Walter Brennan in the title role of Grandpa Amos McCoy, with Richard Crenna as Luke McCoy, older brother of Winkelman's character.
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Rif Hutton Rif Hutton (born November 28, 1962) is an American actor. He is perhaps best known for his recurring role as Dr. John Welch in the comedy-drama series "Doogie Howser, M.D.", appearing in that series from 1990 up to its conclusion in 1993. From 1997 to 2001, he appeared in a recurring role as Lt. Cmdr. Alan Mattoni on the series "JAG". Hutton is also notable for playing Russ Beeler, a fictional owner of a KFC establishment, appearing in a number of KFC commercials in the early to mid 1990s.
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Edward Brophy Edward Santree Brophy (February 27, 1895 – May 27, 1960) was an American character actor, voice artist, and comedian. Small of build, balding, and raucous-voiced, he frequently portrayed dumb cops and gangsters, both serious and comic.
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Mac McDonald Mac McDonald (born Terence McDonald; 18 June 1949) is an American actor. He is known for playing Captain Hollister on the BBC TV series "Red Dwarf" and frequently plays American characters in other British TV shows. He has also had many movie roles in films such as "Aliens", "Batman" and "The Fifth Element", all of which were filmed in London.
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Hardie Albright Hardie Hunter Albright (December 16, 1903 – December 7, 1975) was an American actor.