The Cheap Detective is a 1978 American mystery comedy film written by Neil Simon and directed by Robert Moore. It stars Peter Falk as Lou Peckinpaugh...
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appearances included The Cheap Detective (1978), Yellowbeard (1983), City Heat (1984), Clue (1985), and Nixon (1995). Kahn was born in Boston, the daughter of...
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mystery spoofs: Murder by Death (1976) and The Cheap Detective (1978). She also appeared in the ensemble cast of the mystery-comedy Clue (1985) which gained...
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Peter Falk (category Male actors from the Bronx)
(1963), The Great Race (1965), Anzio (1968), Murder by Death (1976), The Cheap Detective (1978), The Brink's Job (1978), The In-Laws (1979), The Princess...
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Stockard Channing (category People from the Upper East Side)
Jack. Her film appearances include The Fortune (1975), The Big Bus (1976), The Cheap Detective (1978), Heartburn (1986), To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything...
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Hot Rod Hullabaloo. Her other films include Blume in Love (1973), The Cheap Detective (1978), Max Dugan Returns (1983), Heartbreak Ridge (1986), Stella...
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in many films such as Bullitt (1968), Papillon (1973), The Gambler (1974), The Cheap Detective (1978), and All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989), as well as more...
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Come Blow Your Horn, The Lively Set, Zorro in the Court of England, The House of Seven Corpses, Funny Lady and The Cheap Detective. Amberella: An Action...
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including the detective spoofs Murder By Death and The Cheap Detective. As an actor, he played a disabled gay man opposite Liza Minnelli in the 1970 drama...
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(1976), a liveryman in The Shootist (1976), Mingo in Roots (1977), Tinker the piano player in Neil Simon's The Cheap Detective (1978), a ringmaster in...
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Ann-Margret (category Commanders of the Order of the Polar Star)
Remake of Beau Geste (1977), the horror/suspense thriller Magic (1978) with Anthony Hopkins. She had a cameo in The Cheap Detective (1978). Ann-Margret was...
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were in such features as Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977), The Cheap Detective (1978), The Lady in Red (1979), The Magician of Lublin (1979), Brainstorm...
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Fernando Lamas (category Argentine emigrants to the United States)
Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976), Quincy M.E., Charlie's Angels, Police Woman, The Love Boat, The Cheap Detective, How the West Was Won, The Dream...
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True Detective is an American anthology crime drama television series created by Nic Pizzolatto for the premium cable network HBO. The series premiered...
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Club Band (Universal) The Swarm (Warner Bros.) The Cat from Outer Space (Disney) California Suite (Columbia) The Cheap Detective (Columbia) Every Which...
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James Coco (category Male actors from the Bronx)
joined forces for a Broadway revival of the musical Little Me and the films Murder by Death (1976), The Cheap Detective (1978) and Only When I Laugh (1981)...
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the crime film Who'll Stop the Rain (1978), the murder-mystery The Cheap Detective (1978), the war film Coming Home (1978), and the musical drama The...
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Nicol Williamson (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
in the Neil Simon comedy The Cheap Detective; Lord Louis Mountbatten in Lord Mountbatten - The Last Viceroy (1985); the dual roles of Dr. Worley/The Nome...
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"Rainbow Connection" from The Muppet Movie, and writing the lyrics to the No. 1 chart-topping song "Evergreen", the love theme from the Barbra Streisand film...
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David Ogden Stiers (category Deaths from bladder cancer in the United States)
of Nicky Flippers, the frog detective who is dispatched to Granny's house. He voiced Pops's father, Mr. Maellard, in the animated TV series Regular Show...
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Phil Silvers (section The Phil Silvers Show)
daughter, Cathy). Silvers played the cab driver Hoppy in Neil Simon's send-up of hard-boiled detective films, The Cheap Detective (1978), which starred Peter...
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acted in film and television shows from the 1970s through the present, including as a primary character in the 1976 ensemble comedy Car Wash and a supporting...
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Caridi played Detective Vince Gotelli in the television series NYPD Blue from 1993 to 1999. Caridi's final appearance was a small role in the Season 10 episode...
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he rose to fame in the 1970s as a frequent guest on television variety shows. He is widely recognized for his performances in the films of Mel Brooks...
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included Seems Like Old Times (1980), with Goldie Hawn and Chevy Chase; The Cheap Detective, starring Peter Falk, and Chapter Two with James Caan and Marsha...
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John Houseman (category Romanian emigrants to the United Kingdom)
parodied Sydney Greenstreet in the Neil Simon film The Cheap Detective (1978) and was in Old Boyfriends (1980), John Carpenter's The Fog (1980), Wholly Moses...
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in the films Airplane! (1980), 48 Hrs. (1982), and Beverly Hills Cop (1984). He has received critical acclaim for his role as Mike Ehrmantraut in the television...
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The filmography of Stockard Channing comprises both film and television roles. In a career spanning over four decades, she has appeared in overall 47...
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Casablanca (film) (redirect from Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine)
included the Marx Brothers' A Night in Casablanca (1946), Neil Simon's The Cheap Detective (1978), and Out Cold (2001). Indirectly, it provided the title...
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Savage Model 1907 (category Semi-automatic pistols of the United States)
by grips bearing the lesser arms of Portugal instead of the standard Indian head. In the 1978 film noir parody The Cheap Detective, Sid Caesar's character...
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