Actor Peter Falk who played the shuffling, raincoat-wearing detective in Columbo is dead. The New York-born Falk died Thursday according to his family spokesman. Falk won four Emmys as Lt. Frank Columbo on the long running series where his disheveled, seemingly absent minded character matched wits each week with a foe who never failed to underestimate the detective. The actor who had a glass eye after having his right eye surgically removed at age 3 due to a tumor, was placed in a conservatorship in 2009 by a judge two years after developing dementia. He was 83.