Lee Grant Talks Columbo Peter Falk and Ransom for a Dead Man--Exclusive Interview!

Lee Grant talks about playing a Columbo murderer in the classic 1971 NBC TV movie Ransom for a Dead Man starring Peter Falk as Lieutenant Columbo with Scott Skelton, co-author (with Jim Benson) of the upcoming book, The Ultimate Columbo.

Ransom for a Dead Man aired on the NBC television network on March 1, 1971. Lee Grant played Leslie Williams, a high-powered attorney determined to rid herself of her insufferably dull husband by devising a phony kidnapping scheme as a means to murder said hubby and collect the associated 'ransom.'

The character of Lieutenant Columbo was introduced in Dick Levinson and Bill Link’s stage play PRESCRIPTION: MURDER, which was itself an expansion of a teleplay they wrote for The Chevy Mystery Show in 1960 titled Enough Rope. Prescription: Murder later aired as an NBC World Premiere movie in 1968, with Peter Falk cast as the rumpled, seemingly absent-minded Lieutenant Columbo.

Written by Dean Hargrove (from a story by Richard Levinson and William Link), Ransom for a Dead Man was a suspenseful, stylish take on the Columbo character, marking the official pilot film for the popular, long-running TV series COLUMBO, a five-star classic if ever the medium produced one.

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