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  2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Bert_FreedBert Freed - Wikipedia

    Bert Freed (November 3, 1919 – August 2, 1994) was an American character actor, voice-over actor, and the first actor to portray Detective Columbo . Life and career. Born and raised in The Bronx, New York, Freed began acting while attending Pennsylvania State University, [1] and made his Broadway debut in 1942.

  3. 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. Anyone remember this?

  4. 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. Falk's initial take would differ from the one fans came to know and love, but Columbo quickly became one of the most beloved detectives in TV ...

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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.

  6. Apr 2, 2021 · On Thursday, the UCLA Film & Television Archive hosted a virtual screening of “Enough Rope,” an episode from the 1960 anthology series “Chevy Mystery Show,” where actor Bert Freed brings the...

  7. 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.

  8. www.imdb.com › name › nm0293099Bert Freed - IMDb

    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.