Columbo statue

Columbo statue
Columbo statue Location in Budapest
Artist	Géza Dezső Fekete
Year	2014
Medium	Bronze
Subject	Lieutenant Columbo (fictional character)
Location	Budapest
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The Columbo statue is a life-sized bronze work on Falk Miksa Street in Budapest depicting Peter Falk in the role of the fictional police detective Columbo. 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, were both Jewish, and the actor Peter Falk had ancestors from Hungary, there is no known family relationship between them. The actor's Hungarian heritage did not derive from the Falk family on his father's side, but through his maternal grandfather.

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See also

• Zbigniew Lengren, whose comic strip characters, Filutek (professor, implied) and Filuś (dog), have a statue in Toruń