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

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

Birdman of Alcatraz

as Feto Gomez

1969

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

as Ernst Stavro Blofeld

1967

The Dirty Dozen

as Archer Maggott

1965

1961

Mad Dog Coll

as Lt. Dawson

1965

1973

1964

The New Interns

as Dr. Dominic Riccio

1962

Cape Fear

as Private Detective Charles Sievers

1969

Land Raiders

as Vince Carden

1970

Kelly's Heroes

as Master Sergeant "Big Joe"

1967

The Karate Killers

as Count De Fanzini

1977

Capricorn One

as Albain

1979

Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

as Captain Stefan Svevo

1984

1970

Violent City

as Al Weber

1968

The Scalphunters

as Jim Howie

1972

Horror Express

as Captain Kazan

1968

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

as Walter Braddock

1965

Battle of the Bulge

as Sgt. Guffy

1988

Faceless

as Terry Hallen

1979

1971

A Town Called Hell

as Don Carlos

1969

Mackenna's Gold

as Sergeant Tibbs

1965

The Slender Thread

as Dr. Joe Coburn

1971

Pretty Maids All in a Row

as Captain Sam Surcher

1969

The Assassination Bureau

as Lord Bostwick

1973

Redneck

as Memphis

1976

1972

Pancho Villa

as Pancho Villa

1963

Johnny Cool

as Vincenzo 'Vince' Santangelo

1961

The Young Savages

as Detective Lt. Gunderson

1975

Inside Out

as Harry Morgan

1972

Crime Boss

as Don Vincenzo

1972

1964

1980

The Border

as Frank Cooper

1972

Sonny and Jed

as Sheriff Franciscus

1963

Love Is a Ball

as Dr. Christian Gump (Millie's uncle)

1995

Backfire!

as Most Evil Man

1991

Perfect Crimes

as Self - Narrator

1963

1968

Sol Madrid

as Emil Dietrich

1971

Mongo's Back in Town

as Lieutenant Pete Tolstad

1985

Beyond Reason

as Dr. Nicholas Mati

1966

Beau Geste

as Sgt. Maj. Dagineau

1962

The Interns

as Dr. Dominic Riccio

1973

She Cried Murder

as Inspector Joe Brody

1982

Fake-Out

as Lt. Thurston

1975

The House of Exorcism

as Leandro (archive footage)

1984

The Cartier Affair

as Phil Drexler

2012

Remote Control Magic: The Movie

as Self (archive footage)

1989

1979

The Muppet Movie

as El Sleazo Tough

1969

Crooks and Coronets

as Herbie Haseler

1987

Kojak: The Price of Justice

as Inspector Theo Kojak

1982

1971

Clay Pigeon

as Redford

1994

Mind Twister

as Richard Howland

2010

2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

as Self (archive footage)

1972

Visions...

as Lt. Phil Keegan

1989

Kojak : Error Fatal

as Lieutenant Theo Kojak

1990

Kojak: Flowers For Matty

as Inspector Theo Kojak

1985

Kojak The Belarus File

as Lieutenant Theo Kojak

1989

Kojak: Ariana

as Lieutenant Theo Kojak

1990

Kojak: None So Blind

as Inspector Theo Kojak

1973

The Marcus-Nelson Murders

as Lt. Theo Kojak

1981

Hellinger's Law

as Nick Hellinger

1976

Joys

as Self

1987

1961

1965

John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

as Macmuid (uncredited)

2011

Paul Williams Still Alive

as Self (archive footage)

1991

Rose Against the Odds

as George Parnassus

1990

Kojak: It's Always Something

as Inspector Theo Kojak

2020

2021

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained

as Self - Actor (archive footage)

Production

1985

Beyond Reason

as Director

1985

Beyond Reason

as Writer

1972

Pancho Villa

as Songs

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