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Aristotelis “Telly” Savalas (Greek: ΑÏιστοτÎλης “ΤÎλι” 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), Kelly’s Heroes (1970), Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971), Inside Out (1975) and Escape to Athena (1979).
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Telly Savalas Biography / Wiki
| Name | Telly Savalas |
| Also Know | Telly Aristoteles Savalas, Telli Savales, Telly Savales |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1922-01-21 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 72 |
| Deathday | 1994-01-22 |
Telly Savalas Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Lisa and the Devil | Leandro | 1973-05-08 | Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelter. Soon she is sucked into a vortex of deception,… |
| Land Raiders | Vince Carden | 1969-07-27 | An outlaw committing a string of robberies and murders manages to blame the crimes on Apaches, bringing about an Indian war…. |
| The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission | Maj. Wright | 1987-03-01 | Learning of a Nazi plot to attack Washington, D.C. with a deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelve convicts on a suicide mission deep into occupied… |
| The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission | Maj. Wright | 1988-11-10 | A renegade team of World War II soldiers. This time, one of the 12 is a woman and, with a Nazi spy within their midst, they’re up against German warti… |
| Killer Force | Webb | 1976-01-14 | Head of company security, Harry Webb, fears that a diamond theft is about to take place at their major mining complex deep in the desert. He quickly m… |
| Kojak: Ariana | 1989-11-02 | One of Kojak’s old enemies uses Ariana, a young Greek girl, as bait to trap the legendary New York detective. Meanwhile, Kojak finds himself a brash y… | |
| Pancho Villa | Pancho Villa | 1972-10-31 | In 1916, during the Mexican Revolution, General Pancho Villa manages to escape from the clutches of General Goyo, his greatest enemy, only to face an … |
| Inside Out | Harry Morgan | 1975-10-19 | An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a N… |
| Crime Boss | Don Vincenzo | 1972-08-08 | Hit man Antonio Mancuso travels to Italy to make the big time. He meets and befriends Mafia boss Don Vincenzo. Mancurso becomes part of the organizati… |
| The Killer Is on the Phone | Ranko Drasovic | 1972-10-06 | A woman whose husband was murdered five years previously, is stalked by his killer, who wants to eliminate her as a potential witness. What he doesn’t… |
| The Border | Frank Cooper | 1980-08-06 | Frank Cooper, a senior immigration police, remains a daily struggle against mafias operating between Mexico and the United States. Although it has a g… |
| Mongo’s Back in Town | Lieutenant Pete Tolstad | 1971-12-10 | Professional killer is hired by his brother, a gang boss, to wipe out a rival gangster…. |
| Beyond Reason | Dr. Nicholas Mati | 1977-01-01 | An unconventional psychiatrist slowly begins to question his own sanity…. |
| Return to the Titanic… Live! | Host | 1987-10-28 | A television special hosted by Telly Savalas that features artefacts recovered from the 1987 salvage mission. Filled with expert testimonies and consp… |
| She Cried Murder | Inspector Joe Brody | 1973-09-25 | Fashion model Sarah Cornell, from the front car of a subway, witnesses a man pushing a woman onto the tracks to her death. Hoping to dispel the presum… |
| The Hollywood Detective | Harry Bell | 1989-10-25 | An actor at the end of the line who used to play a PI on TV turns to real detective work when a fan of his begs him to help her…. |
| The House of Exorcism | Leandro (archive footage) | 1975-04-02 | A total re-edit of Mario Bava’s gothic classic Lisa and the Devil (1973) for US release in 1975. Cheesy exorcism scenes were shot to try to capitalize… |
| Fake-Out | Lt. Thurston | 1982-11-18 | Gangster’s girlfriend hangs out in a Las Vegas hotel with her cop protectors while she waits to testify…. |
| Kojak: Fatal Flaw | 1989-11-30 | Investigating the murder of a writer responsible for a Mob exposed, Kojak discovers that the dead man’s wife is an old flame…. | |
| Telly Savalas Looks at Birmingham | Narrator | 1981-01-01 | Telly Savalas narrates a travelogue of Birmingham in England, taking in such sights as New Street Station, the traffic control centre and dual carriag… |
| Kojak: The Price of Justice | Inspector Theo Kojak | 1987-02-21 | Top New York cop Theo Kojak finds himself trapped in a tangled web of false trials, jealousies and murderous scheming as he investigates the death of … |
| Crooks and Coronets | Herbie Haseler | 1969-04-02 | Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady’s estate, but once they get to know her, they can’t bring themselves to do it…. |
| Silent Rebellion | Pete | 1982-05-04 | A Greek immigrant (Savalas) and his son return to Greece, where they reunite with mother and brother and re-discover their heritage and each other. Cr… |
| Mind Twister | Richard Howland | 1994-03-16 | Two former exotic dancers devise a plot to expose a physciatrist as the murderer of their friend…. |
| Kojak: Flowers For Matty | Inspector Theo Kojak | 1990-01-04 | Kojak charms his way into high society to investigate art thefts that are tied to munitions smuggling and murder…. |
| Kojak: None So Blind | Inspector Theo Kojak | 1990-04-07 | After a flighty young woman accidentally witnesses a Mob hit in an Italian restaurant, New York Police Inspector Theo Kojak must both protect her from… |
| Kojak: The Belarus File | Lieutenant Theo Kojak | 1985-02-16 | Lt. Theo Kojak uncovers a Nazi conspiracy…. |
| The Marcus-Nelson Murders | Lt. Theo Kojak | 1973-03-08 | A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives…. |
| Hellinger’s Law | Nick Hellinger | 1981-03-10 | A flamboyant criminal lawyer named Nick Hellinger takes on the case of a syndicate’s accountant (actually a Justice Department agent who has infiltrat… |
| Kojak: It’s Always Something | Inspector Theo Kojak | 1990-01-31 | After discovering the connection between a corrupt city commissioner and Colombian killers, Kojak is framed for the murder of a call girl and is prose… |
| Telly…Who Loves Ya, Baby? | Self | 1976-02-18 | At the height of his KOJAK TV series fame, Telly Savalas starred in this variety special that was sponsored by Kraft Foods and shown without commercia… |
| Kelly’s Heroes | Master Sergeant “Big Joe” | 1970-01-01 | A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines…. |
| Violent City | Al Weber | 1970-09-17 | A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss … |
| Escape to Athena | Zeno | 1979-05-21 | During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also seek an ine… |
| A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die | Major Ward | 1972-12-27 | A dishonored Union Army officer (James Coburn) leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army…. |
| A Town Called Bastard | Don Carlos | 1971-10-27 | A group of Mexican revolutionaries murders a town priest and a number of his christian followers. Ten years later, a widow arrives in town intent to t… |
| Redneck | Memphis | 1973-02-02 | Franco Nero and Telly Savalas star in the story of a trio of jewel thieves on the lam after a heist goes very wrong. Wrecking their car they take anot… |
| Clay Pigeon | Redford | 1971-08-01 | An ex-soldier is recruited by the FBI to go undercover in L.A. and find other ex-soldiers who are part of a drug-dealing gang…. |
| The Equalizer – The Movie: Blood & Wine | Brother Joseph Heiden | 1987-09-23 | Robert McCall (Edward Woodward) is forced to work with a former terrorist turned monk by the name of Joseph Heiden(Telly Savalas), whom he despises an… |
| On Her Majesty’s Secret Service | Ernst Stavro Blofeld | 1969-12-12 | After romancing Contessa Teresa di Vicenzo and acquiring valuable information from her crime boss father Marc-Ange Draco, James Bond tracks his arch-n… |
| The New Interns | Dr. Dominic Riccio | 1964-06-01 | Young doctors mix romance with their careers in a big-city hospital…. |
| Beyond the Poseidon Adventure | Captain Stefan Svevo | 1979-05-18 | After “The Poseidon Adventure”, in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts bottom-up in the sea. While the passengers are sti… |
| The Scalphunters | Jim Howie | 1968-02-29 | Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegad… |
| Horror Express | Captain Kazan | 1972-09-30 | Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen remains of a primitive humanoid creature he found in … |
| Faceless | Terry Hallen | 1987-09-01 | A model named Barbara Hallen has disappeared and her father gets private detective Sam Morgan to go to Paris to find his daughter. Barbara’s trail lea… |
| Pretty Maids All in a Row | Captain Sam Surcher | 1971-04-28 | At Oceanfront High School, female students are being targeted by an unknown serial killer. Meanwhile, a married teacher hides his flings with nubile s… |
| The Assassination Bureau | Lord Bostwick | 1969-03-09 | The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Diana Rigg begins to investigate it. The high moral standing of the Bureau … |
| The Slender Thread | Dr. Joe Coburn | 1965-12-15 | Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that… |
| Sonny and Jed | Sheriff Franciscus | 1972-08-11 | Jed (Tomas Milian) is an unlikely hero in this Italian western. As thoroughly unlikeable a robber as ever walked the West, he nonetheless robs from th… |
| Sol Madrid | Emil Dietrich | 1968-02-07 | Government agent Sol Madrid travels to Mexico with hooker Stacey to bring mobster Villanova and drug kingpin Dietrich to justice…. |
| Visions… | 1972-10-10 | A professor who has visions of the future informs the police that someone is about to plant a bomb. He then discovers that the police consider him the… | |
| Ein Schloß am Wörthersee – Der Kinofilm | Teddy | 1992-01-01 | … |
| Fanfare for a Death Scene | Ilchidai Khan | 1964-09-01 | An American secret agent, on the trail of a vanished scientist, must recover the scientist’s revolutionary secret formula before the enemy catches up … |
| Backfire! | Most Evil Man | 1995-01-20 | Just as Jeremy Jackson attempts to become the first male firewoman in New York, fires begin mysteriously erupting from toilets all over the City and F… |
| The Man from the Diners’ Club | Mr. Martindale | 1963-04-17 | Mobster Foots Pulardos, who operates a health gym as a front, plans to flee to Mexico to evade government tax officials. His girl friend, Sugar Pye, s… |
| Beau Geste | Sgt. Maj. Dagineau | 1966-09-07 | In 1906, two American brothers join the French Foreign Legion and, led by a sadistic Sergeant-Major, they defend a fort against Berber and Tuareg atta… |
| Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story | Cretzer | 1980-11-05 | Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part “whole story” actually concentrates on a handful of the denizens behind the cold grey walls of “T… |
| GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords | Magmar (voice) | 1986-03-21 | The GoBots, television’s amazing transformable super heroes, star in their first full length feature film, “GoBots: War of the Rock Lords.” It’s wall-… |
| Remote Control Magic: The Movie | Self (archive footage) | 2012-11-13 | Remote Control Magic is the ultimate 70’s channel surfing experience. Dante Fontana guides you on a journey of game shows, news broadcasts, TV shows, … |
| Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell | Walter Braddock | 1968-10-23 | After the end of WWII, an Italian woman receives child support payments from three former US soldiers who all believe themselves to be the father of h… |
| Mackenna’s Gold | Sergeant Tibbs | 1969-03-18 | A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to ke… |
| Love Is a Ball | Dr. Christian Gump (Millie’s uncle) | 1963-04-24 | Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riv… |
| The Sin of Jesus | Felix | 1961-12-10 | An egg-sorting woman shrugs off even the appearance of Christ. From Isaak Babel story…. |
| Rose Against the Odds | George Parnassus | 1991-09-29 | The story of Australian Indigenous boxer Lionel Rose from his first amateur boxing matches up until his first title fight in Japan…. |
| Birdman of Alcatraz | Feto Gomez | 1962-07-04 | After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement. Driven nearly mad by loneliness and despair, Stro… |
| The Karate Killers | Count De Fanzini | 1967-04-07 | International spies Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret form… |
| Mad Dog Coll | Lt. Dawson | 1961-05-12 | Killer Vincent “Mad Dog” Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York…. |
| Genghis Khan | Shan | 1965-04-15 | This is the story of the shy Mongol boy Temujin who,during the 13th century, becomes the fearless Mongol leader Genghis Khan that unites all Mongol tr… |
| Cape Fear | Private Detective Charles Sievers | 1962-04-12 | Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and hi… |
| The Young Savages | Detective Lt. Gunderson | 1961-05-24 | A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy…. |
| Operation Dirty Dozen | Self | 2006-01-01 | A short film looking behind the scenes at the making of The Dirty Dozen. Showing many scenes being filmed just north of London, the short focuses most… |
| Capricorn One | Albain | 1977-12-10 | In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of scientists stages a phony Mars landing. Willingly participating in the dec… |
| Cannonball Run II | Hymie | 1984-06-29 | When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one person crazy enough to hit the road hard with wheel… |
| Perfect Crimes | Self – Narrator | 1991-11-08 | True stories about individuals seeking to commit a perfect crime…. |
| The Interns | Dr. Dominic Riccio | 1962-08-08 | During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo both personal and professional upheavals…. |
| The Dirty Dozen | Archer Maggott | 1967-06-15 | 12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. T… |
| The Cartier Affair | Phil Drexler | 1984-11-03 | Curt Taylor is a convict and owes Phil Drexler the number 1 convict in the prison. Now to settle his debt Drexler sends Curt to be the secretary for C… |
| The Flintstones’ 25th Anniversary Celebration | 1986-05-20 | A live-action and animated television special featuring clips from past episodes and spin-offs combined with new animation and musical segments…. | |
| Johnny Cool | Vincenzo ‘Vince’ Santangelo | 1963-10-02 | A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S…. |
| Battle of the Bulge | Sgt. Guffy | 1965-12-16 | In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive … |
| The Muppet Movie | El Sleazo Tough | 1979-06-22 | A Hollywood agent persuades Kermit the Frog to pursue a career in Hollywood. On his way there he meets his future muppet crew while being chased by th… |
| The Greatest Story Ever Told | Pontius Pilate | 1965-02-15 | From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is given the all-star treatment in this epic retelling. M… |
| Paul Williams Still Alive | Himself (archive footage) | 2011-09-11 | Filmmaker and longtime fan Stephen Kessler’s portrait of the award-winning 1970s singer-songwriter-actor, who disappeared for much of the 1980s and ‘9… |
| Charles Bronson: The Spirit of Masculinity | Self (archive footage) | 2020-11-29 | With his grizzled moustache and chiselled features, Charles Bronson is the embodiment of a slightly archaic, brooding and almost reactionary virility…. |
| John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! | Macmuid (uncredited) | 1965-03-24 | An infamous football player-turned-U2 pilot, crash-lands in the fictional Middle Eastern nation of Fawzia, whose ruler presents the American with an u… |
| Joys | 1976-03-05 | Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope’s house, where each of them is systematically killed (and their bodies t… | |
Telly Savalas Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Beyond Reason | Director | 1977-01-01 | An unconventional psychiatrist slowly begins to question his own sanity…. |
| Director | Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak investigates crimes in New York City…. | ||
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Beyond Reason | Writer | 1977-01-01 | An unconventional psychiatrist slowly begins to question his own sanity…. |
Sound
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Pancho Villa | Songs | 1972-10-31 | In 1916, during the Mexican Revolution, General Pancho Villa manages to escape from the clutches of General Goyo, his greatest enemy, only to face an … |
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