Any birthdays in the police department, Lieutenant?
Obviously the most notable Columni with a birthday on March 22nd is Mario Gallo, who played the Lieutenant's mafia-obsessed dentist in Candidate for Crime.
He was born in 1923 in Brooklyn, New York and was perhaps best known for playing Mario in the 1980 film Raging Bull.
The stache strikes back
Of course, also born on March 22nd was some guy named William Shatner.
He's a Canadian actor born on March 22nd, 1931 in Montreal, Quebec. He is best known for playing Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek (1966-69) and several Star Trek films.
Columbo fans might also remember him as Fielding Chase, the radio-host whose moustache sent him into a homicidal rage in Butterfly in Shades of Grey; or as Ward Fowler, the Korean-war deserting actor whose "Detective Lucerne" Columbo claimed to admire so in Fade Into Murder.
You put your fingerprints on the birthday cake just now! You all saw him!
And finally, Ross Martin, who played greedy art critic Dale Kingston in Suitable for Framing was born on March 22nd, 1920 in Grodek, Poland.
Fun fact: Martin reportedly spoke 7 languages, and English was his FOURTH language.
Other than Columbo, Martin was probably best known for playing Artemus Gordon in the TV series Wild Wild West.
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