It was always fun watching Lt. Columbo match wits with the murderer. Who
were some of your favorite guest stars?

Mine include:
Gene Barry (in the pilot)
Leonard Nimoy
Johnny Cash
Dick Van Dyke
William Shatner

There were so many terrific guest stars on Columbo -- a few of my favorites --

Anne Baxter
Dick Van Dyke
George Hamilton
Ray Milland
Ross Martin
Ruth Gordon

Jack Cassidy.....he was so good, he was brought back other times as other murderers.

I always liked
Robert Culp
William Shatner
Martin Landau

The most surprising to me was Johnny Cash. When I saw he was to be the "guest murderer", I rolled my eyes. But he was actually very good in the role.

Another overlooked goodie was Vera Miles.

Johnny Cash!

I always liked the episode "The Most Cructial Game with Robert Culp and Dean Stockwell.

Robert Vaughn
Dick Van Dyke

Maurice Evans (sans toupee)

70s incarnation: Everyone including Robert Culp, Leonard Nimoy, Anne Francis, Dick Van Dyke, Lola Albright, William Shanter, Joyce Van Patten & Janet Leigh

Jack Cassidy! He was very good. The camera angles/lighting on his face in some of the shots in the magician episode made him look very evil and menacing. One other one where he was a book writing partner... can't remember the title but that one had a great series of shots... just the intro, looking out the window and then slowly panning inside all the time with the typewriter as the sound track was amazing! I wish production was that good on all the Columbos ... but Jack played the parts very well.

Robert Culp as mentioned is another fav for me.

Ida Lupino
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