🎭 Actor
Telly Savalas
🎂 Born 21 January 1922 (age 72)✝ 22 January 1994📍 Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA
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Popularity Score
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Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas (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).
Known For
Directed Films(1)
Full Filmography(88 films)
YearTitleRating
1969On Her Majesty's Secret Service★ 6.61962Cape Fear★ 7.51967The Dirty Dozen★ 7.61970Kelly's Heroes★ 7.41979The Muppet Movie★ 7.21977Capricorn One★ 6.81965The Greatest Story Ever Told★ 6.41984Cannonball Run II★ 5.41965Battle of the Bulge★ 6.91962Birdman of Alcatraz★ 7.51969The Assassination Bureau★ 6.71969Mackenna's Gold★ 6.61979Escape to Athena★ 5.81979Beyond the Poseidon Adventure★ 5.11963Johnny Cool★ 5.31972Horror Express★ 6.31965Genghis Khan★ 5.81970Violent City★ 6.01973Lisa and the Devil★ 6.21988Faceless★ 5.71961Mad Dog Coll★ 5.41968Sol Madrid★ 6.91988The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission★ 5.21972A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die★ 6.31966Beau Geste★ 5.61967The Karate Killers★ 5.11968The Scalphunters★ 6.41976Killer Force★ 5.420102Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift★ 6.11975Inside Out★ 6.71971A Town Called Bastard★ 5.01965The Slender Thread★ 7.11972Pancho Villa★ 4.91971Pretty Maids All in a Row★ 5.81961The Young Savages★ 6.51982Beyond Reason★ 9.02021Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained★ 7.01982Fake-Out★ 4.11971Clay Pigeon★ 4.01968Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell★ 5.91986GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords★ 7.11965John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!★ 3.81989Kojak: Ariana★ 7.51976Joys★ 6.01964The New Interns★ 4.81969Land Raiders★ 5.61987The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission★ 5.01975The House of Exorcism★ 4.51980The Border★ 5.41980Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story★ 5.51984The Cartier Affair★ 4.71973Redneck★ 4.41962The Interns★ 6.02022La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président★ 7.21990Kojak: None So Blind★ 6.31969Crooks and Coronets★ 8.51973The Marcus-Nelson Murders★ 7.61977Black Aphrodite★ 2.61994Mind Twister★ 3.81963The Man from the Diners' Club★ 5.91989Kojak : Error Fatal★ 8.01986The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration★ 7.41987Kojak: The Price of Justice★ 5.21985Kojak: The Belarus File★ 6.81963Love is a Ball★ 5.11971Mongo's Back in Town★ 5.91981Hellinger's Law★ 8.81990Kojak: Flowers For Matty★ 5.81972The Killer Is on the Phone★ 5.41990Kojak: It's Always Something★ 6.71972Sonny and Jed★ 5.81995Backfire!★ 3.61973She Cried Murder★ 6.61987The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine★ 8.71964Fanfare for a Death Scene★ 7.01991Halloween Monster Bash—1989The Hollywood Detective★ 7.02006Operation Dirty Dozen★ 7.31991Rose Against the Odds★ 7.01972Visions...★ 10.01972Crime Boss★ 6.71982Silent Rebellion★ 8.51984Afghanistan For What?—1976Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?★ 8.01981Telly Savalas Looks at Aberdeen★ 6.02012Remote Control Magic: The Movie—1981Telly Savalas Looks at Birmingham★ 5.71981Telly Savalas Looks at Portsmouth—