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Telly Savalas
🎂 Jan 21, 1922 — 🕯️ Jan 22, 1994 (72 years)
Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA
Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas (January 21, 1922 – January 22, 1994) was an American film and television actor and singer whose career spanned four decades.
Known for
72R.I.P.
1 nomOscars
56Movies
30Series
72 R.I.P.
R.I.P.
1 nom.
Oscars
56
Movies
30
Series
Movies
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
1969
The Greatest Story Ever Told
1965
The Muppet Movie
1979
The Dirty Dozen
1967
Cape Fear
1962
Capricorn One
1977
Cannonball Run II
1984
Kelly's Heroes
1970
Battle of the Bulge
1965
Birdman of Alcatraz
1962
Genghis Khan
1965
Mackenna's Gold
1969
Escape to Athena
1979
Horror Express
1972
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
1979
The Assassination Bureau
1969
Violent City
1970
The Young Savages
1961
Sonny and Jed
1972
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
1965
The Slender Thread
1965
Johnny Cool
1963
The Scalphunters
1968
Inside Out
1975
Lisa and the Devil
1973
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
1988
Faceless
1988
The Interns
1962
Love is a Ball
1963
The Border
1980
The New Interns
1964
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
1968
A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
1972
The Karate Killers
1967
Beau Geste
1966
A Town Called Bastard
1971
Sol Madrid
1968
The Killer Is on the Phone
1972
Mind Twister
1994
Killer Force
1976
GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords
1986
Clay Pigeon
1971
The Man from the Diners' Club
1963
Pancho Villa
1972
Land Raiders
1969
Mad Dog Coll
1961
Pretty Maids All in a Row
1971
Backfire!
1995
Crooks and Coronets
1969
Redneck
1973
TV Shows
Kojak
1973
The French Atlantic Affair
1979
The Commish
1991
The F.B.I.
1965
The Equalizer
1985
The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
1964
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
1980
The Love Boat
1977
Burke's Law
1963
Cain's Hundred
1961
Kraft Suspense Theatre
1963
Tales of the Unexpected
1979
Naked City
1958
Arrest and Trial
1963
Combat!
1962
The Twilight Zone
1959
The Fugitive
1963
Run for Your Life
1965
The Virginian
1962
The Aquanauts
1960
The Dakotas
1963
The New Breed
1961
The Detectives
1959
77 Sunset Strip
1958
Alice in Wonderland
1985
J.J. Starbuck
1987
Ein Schloß am Wörthersee
1990
Bonanza
1959
The Untouchables
1959
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
1962
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Telly Savalas
1922-01-21 · Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA
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).