How old is Columbo?
Has Lt. Columbo's age ever been revealed, inferred, or commented upon?
I was reading the Wikipedia page for the character and a lot of small details were found in episodes that I found very obscure (e.g. Columbo makes a single joke that is the only reference to the character also having a glass eye). However, I couldn't find how old the character was supposed to be at any point in the series. I was hoping maybe it was commented upon in the later stuff (TV movies?) which I am not so familiar with, but couldn't find anything there either.
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Has Lt. Columbo's age ever been revealed?
Not specifically that I can see and there is no mention of it in the character biography on Wikipedia,
What we do know (from Wikipedia) is that he served in the Korea War which ran from 1950 to 1953 which, if we assume his minimum age to be 18 (to enlist) would make his date of birth at least 1935.
It should be noted that, according to Wikipedia
Over the years, the chatty Columbo would let slip many details about his personal life in conversations with suspects. However, in the episode "Dead Weight", Columbo more-or-less admits that he will sometimes make up certain details about his life, even fabricating fictional relatives, in order to establish a better rapport with a suspect. As a result, some of the following biographical details may be exaggerated or otherwise inaccurate, particularly those concerning his family life.
so it's possibe that some of the details from the bio (built from episode comments) are questionable.
Frankly, as Peter Falk was born in 1927, I suspect that Lt Columbo's age was the same as Falk's
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