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Val Avery is an American character actor who has added heft to hundreds of movies and television shows since the '50s. Some of the qualities he can bring to a performance, a down-on-his-luck appearance (highlighted by his pockmarked face) and an abrasive but vulnerable personality, were put to particularly good effect by the makers of the Columbo television series, starring Peter Falk, and by the film director, and Falk collaborator, John Cassavetes.

Columbo

Avery portrayed a cat burglar who conspires with Lieutenant Columbo to catch another criminal, the deputy police commissioner, in A Friend in Deed (1974), directed another Cassevetes collaborator, Ben Gazzara. According to a listing of Avery's credits in The Ultimate Columbo Site, he also appeared in Dead Weight (1971), The Most Crucial Game (1972) and Identity Crisis (1975).

Cassavetes

Avery appeared Cassavetes' Too Late Blues (1961), Faces (1968), Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976) and Gloria (1980).

Other credits

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