Peter Falk, star of the 1970s hit TV drama “Columbo,” has died after years of battling Alzheimer’s disease on Wednesday evening. He was 83.

The actor gained fame as police lieutenant Columbo, whose seeming absent-mindedness played a coverup for his shrewd questioning of suspects and investigations.

Falk won his first Emmy trophy in a leading role in a 1961 production of “The Dick Powell Theater.”

n 1972, he began a string of Emmy wins that would see him claim U.S. TV’s top honor four more times as Columbo.

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