365 Days of Columbo: January 1st

 Happy New Year Columbo fans!

Happy birthday Fred Holliday

Actor Fred Holliday (born January 1, 1936) has a small but memorable Columbo connection: he plays Crawford the banker with the coffee cake in Murder Under Glass.



A prolific character actor and commercial mainstay, Holliday worked steadily for decades. He passed away on November 21, 1995.

Stanley Kamel

Actor Stanley Kamel (born January 1, 1943) appears in Agenda for Murder (1990) as Tim Haines.

 


Kamel is best known to many viewers as Dr. Charles Kroger on Monk. He died on April 8, 2008.

A January 1st Columbo premiere (Germany)

On January 1, 1983, Murder Under Glass debuted on German television as Columbo: Mord à la Carte — a neat little New Year’s Day anniversary for Season 7’s haute-cuisine whodunit.


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