365 Days of Columbo: January 27th

Happy birthday to Jim Antonio

If you're looking for a perfect birthday gift for Columni Jim Antonio you might consider Lakers tickets. That's right...Jim was security guard Joe Doyle in Columbo Goes to College. He was born January 27th, 1931, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Jim worked a ton in Hollywood from the early 1960s, he has over 100 credits to his name, but has slowed down a bit on the last couple of decades (who of us hasn't?). As of this writing he does still seem to be alive and occasionally appears in things.

Happy birthday Gerry Day

Screenwriter Gerry Day was born January 27, 1922.

Columbo fans know her name from the late-era TV movie Undercover (1994), where she’s credited as the writer/teleplay.

Farewell Bill Walker

Bill Walker died on January 27, 1992.

He’s a familiar face in the early Columbo universe: Walker appears in the 1971 pilot movie Ransom for a Dead Man as Crowell, the personal injury client that Leslie is cross-examining early in the episode.

H. B. Haggerty passes away

Character actor (and former pro wrestler) H. B. Haggerty died on January 27, 2004 at his home in Malibu.

He pops up memorably as the masseur in Make Me a Perfect Murder (1978)

Death Lends a Hand premieres in Finland

On January 27th, 1972, our friends in Finland got introduced to Death Lends a Hand, the episode where Columbo matches wits with Robert Culp.