The Columbo statue is a life-sized bronze work on
Falk Miksa Street in
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...
depicting
Peter Falk
Peter Michael Falk (September 16, 1927 – June 23, 2011) was an American film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Lieutenant Columbo in the long-running television series ''Columbo'' (1968–1978, 1989–2003), for which he ...
in the role of the fictional police detective
Columbo
''Columbo'' () is an American crime drama television series starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo, a homicide detective with the Los Angeles Police Department. After two pilot episodes in 1968 and 1971, the show originally aired on NBC f ...
. At the Columbo statue's feet is a statue of Columbo's dog, Dog. The statues, by the sculptor Géza Dezső Fekete, were put up in 2014 as part of a state-sponsored urban renewal project.
Though Peter Falk and the street's namesake, 19th century
Hungarian politician
Miksa Falk
Miksa Falk (or sometimes Maximilian Falk, 7 October 1828 – 10 September 1908) was a Hungarian politician, journalist, member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the editor-in-chief of the German-language newspaper '' Pester Lloyd''.
Ear ...
, were both Jewish, and the actor Peter Falk had ancestors from Hungary, there is no known family relationship between them. The actor's Hungarian connection was not through the Falk family on his father's side, but through his maternal grandfather.
Gallery
File:GézaDezsőFekete-Columbo-Detail1.JPG
File:GézaDezsőFekete-Columbo-Dog.JPG
File:GézaDezsőFekete-Columbo.JPG
See also
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Zbigniew Lengren, whose comic strip characters, Filutek (professor, implied) and Filuś (dog), have a statue in
Toruń
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References
Columbo
Monuments and memorials in Hungary
Statues in Hungary
2014 sculptures
Buildings and structures in Budapest
Sculptures of dogs
Statues of fictional characters
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