Telly Savalas profile
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Telly Savalas

21st January 1922 Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA Acting

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).

88 Movies 65 TV Shows 163 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Backfire! poster
Backfire! 20th January 1995 as Most Evil Man (Not Really)
Fake-Out poster
Fake-Out 18th November 1982 as Lt. Thurston
Joys poster
Joys 5th March 1976 as Self
Johnny Cool poster
Johnny Cool 2nd October 1963 as Vincenzo 'Vince' Santangelo
Cape Fear poster
Cape Fear 12th April 1962 as Private Detective Charles Sievers
Dinah! poster
Dinah! 21st October 1974 as Self - Guest
Kojak poster
Kojak 24th October 1973 as Theo Kojak
Disco poster
Disco 13th February 1971 as Self
Burke's Law poster
Burke's Law 20th September 1963 as Balakirov aka Richard Goldtooth
Combat! poster
Combat! 2nd October 1962 as Colonel Kapsalis
Bonanza poster
Bonanza 12th September 1959 as Charles Augustus Hackett
Bambi poster
Bambi 1st January 1948 as Self