Telly Savalas
Personal Info
Know For
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1922-01-21 (72 years old)
Deathday
1994-01-22
Place of Birth
Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA
Also known As
Telly Aristoteles Savalas
Telli Savales
Telly Savales
Τέλης Σαβάλας
Телли Савалас
Telly Savalas
Biography
Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas (Greek: Αριστοτέλης "Τέλι" Σαββάλας; January 21, 1922 – January 22, 1994) was an American film and television actor and singer, whose career spanned four decades. Best known for playing the title role in the 1970s crime drama Kojak, Savalas was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). His other movie credits include The Young Savages (1961), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Battle of the Bulge (1965), The Dirty Dozen (1967), The Scalphunters (1968), supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969),...
Acting
1962
as Feto Gomez
1969
as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
1967
as Archer Maggott
1965
as Pontius Pilate
1961
as Lt. Dawson
1965
as Shan
1973
as Leandro
1964
as Dr. Dominic Riccio
1962
as Private Detective Charles Sievers
1969
as Vince Carden
1970
as Master Sergeant "Big Joe"
1967
as Count De Fanzini
1977
as Albain
1979
as Captain Stefan Svevo
1984
as Hymie
1970
as Al Weber
1968
as Jim Howie
1972
as Captain Kazan
1968
as Walter Braddock
1965
as Sgt. Guffy
1988
as Terry Hallen
1979
as Zeno
1987
as Maj. Wright
1988
as Maj. Wright
1972
as Major Ward
1971
as Don Carlos
1969
as Sergeant Tibbs
1965
as Dr. Joe Coburn
1971
as Captain Sam Surcher
1969
as Lord Bostwick
1973
as Memphis
1976
as Webb
1972
as Pancho Villa
1963
as Vincenzo 'Vince' Santangelo
1961
as Detective Lt. Gunderson
1975
as Harry Morgan
1972
as Don Vincenzo
1972
as Ranko Drasovic
1964
as Ilchidai Khan
1980
as Frank Cooper
1972
as Sheriff Franciscus
1963
as Dr. Christian Gump (Millie's uncle)
1995
as Most Evil Man
1991
as Self - Narrator
1963
as Mr. Martindale
1968
as Emil Dietrich
1971
as Lieutenant Pete Tolstad
1985
as Dr. Nicholas Mati
1966
as Sgt. Maj. Dagineau
1962
as Dr. Dominic Riccio
1987
1973
as Inspector Joe Brody
1982
as Lt. Thurston
1975
as Leandro (archive footage)
1984
as Phil Drexler
2012
as Self (archive footage)
1989
as Harry Bell
1979
as El Sleazo Tough
2006
as Self
1969
as Herbie Haseler
1980
as Cretzer
1981
as Narrator
1981
as Narrator
1987
as Inspector Theo Kojak
2022
as Self (archive footage)
1981
as Narrator
1982
as Pete
1971
as Redford
1994
as Richard Howland
2010
as Self (archive footage)
1972
as Lt. Phil Keegan
1989
as Lieutenant Theo Kojak
1990
as Inspector Theo Kojak
1985
as Lieutenant Theo Kojak
1989
as Lieutenant Theo Kojak
1990
as Inspector Theo Kojak
1973
as Lt. Theo Kojak
1981
as Nick Hellinger
1976
as Self
1987
as Brother Joseph Heiden
1961
as Felix
1965
as Macmuid (uncredited)
1986
as Magmar (voice)
2011
as Self (archive footage)
1991
as George Parnassus
1990
as Inspector Theo Kojak
2020
as Self (archive footage)
1976
as Self
2021
as Self - Actor (archive footage)
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