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Bert Freed (November 3, 1919 – August 2, 1994) was an American character actor, voice-over actor, and the first actor to portray Detective Columbo.
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Feb 17, 2018 · The honour of first portraying Columbo went to Bert Freed, who took up the mantle in the aforementioned live-to-air murder mystery Enough Rope, which aired on 31 July 1960 as part of the Chevy Mystery Show drama anthology.
Feb 13, 2020 · Actor Bert Freed was the first to play Columbo in anthology series The Chevy Mystery Show, with Peter Falk ( The Princess Bride) stepping into his character's shoes for TV movie Prescription: Murder.
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Enough Rope: Directed by Don Richardson. With Walter Slezak, Richard Carlson, Joan O'Brien, Bert Freed. Psychiatrist Dr. Roy Fleming has fallen in love with pretty patient Susan Hudson.
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The first actor to portray Columbo, character actor Bert Freed, was a stocky character actor with a thatch of gray hair. Freed's Columbo wore a rumpled suit and smoked a cigar; he otherwise had few of the other now-familiar Columbo mannerisms.
First actor to play the role of Lt. Columbo, in a 1960 episode of The Chevy Mystery Show (1960), eight years before Peter Falk became famous in the part.
Feb 27, 2022 · Bert Freed as Columbo in 1960’s Enough Rope. The young writing team soon reworked their story into an hour-long television drama, retitled “Enough Rope,” that was performed live on July 31, 1960 as an instalment of NBC’s The Chevy Mystery Show. The cigar-smoking detective was played by Bert Freed.
