Career: While working in Hartford, Falk joined a local theatre group called the Mark Twain Masquers. He also took acting classes at the White Barn Theatre in Westport, Connecticut. In 1956, he moved to New York to pursue an acting career. He made his professional stage debut in an Off-Broadway production of Moliere's Dom Juan - it closed after just one performance. He had better luck with other Broadway roles. After a number of small film parts, Falk was praised for his supporting role in Murder, Inc. (1960), for which he was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. In 1961, he starred in Frank Capra's final film, Pocketful of Miracles and earned his second Academy Award nomination. Falk continued to make films and make guest appearances on TV shows. He is best known as the star of the TV detective series Columbo, which he first played in the 1968 TV movie Prescription: Murder. He went on to play the crumpled detective on and off on TV between 1971 until 2003. Falk died at his Beverly Hills home on June 23, 2011 at the age of 83.

Career: In the 1970s and 80s, Daly made guest appearances in a number of TV shows, including The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, Lou Grant, Magnam, PI, and Quincy ME. But she will be best remembered for playing Mary Beth Lacey alongside Sharon Gless's Christine Cagney in police drama Cagney & Lacey. The hugely popular series started in 1982 and ran for seven seasons until 1988. They also reprised their roles in a number of Cagney & Lacey TV movies. Daly had further success in Christy, and Judging Amy. Between Cagney & Lacey, Christy and Judging Amy, she won six Emmys. Away from TV, she won the 1990 Tony Award for her performance in the musical Gypsy.