Telly Savalas

Telly Savalas

Birthday: 1922-01-21

Place of Birth: Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA

Biography: 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).

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Birdman of Alcatraz
Birdman of Alcatraz

After killing a prison guard, convict Robert Stroud faces life imprisonment in solitary confinement....

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On Her Majesty's Secret Service
On Her Majesty's Secret Service

James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where h...

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The Dirty Dozen
The Dirty Dozen

12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy châtea...

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The Greatest Story Ever Told
The Greatest Story Ever Told

From his birth in Bethlehem to his death and eventual resurrection, the life of Jesus Christ is give...

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Mad Dog Coll
Mad Dog Coll

Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York....

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Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan

This is the story of the shy Mongol boy Temujin who,during the 13th century, becomes the fearless Mo...

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Lisa and the Devil
Lisa and the Devil

Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelt...

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The New Interns
The New Interns

Young doctors mix romance with their careers in a big-city hospital....

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Cape Fear
Cape Fear

Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 y...

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Land Raiders
Land Raiders

An outlaw committing a string of robberies and murders manages to blame the crimes on Apaches, bring...

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Kelly's Heroes
Kelly's Heroes

A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines....

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The Karate Killers
The Karate Killers

International spies Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin travel around the globe in an effort to track d...

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Capricorn One
Capricorn One

In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn...

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Beyond the Poseidon Adventure
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure

After "The Poseidon Adventure", in which the ship got flipped over by a tidal wave, the ship drifts ...

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Cannonball Run II
Cannonball Run II

When a wealthy sheikh puts up $1 million in prize money for a cross-country car race, there is one p...

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Violent City
Violent City

A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out t...

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The Scalphunters
The Scalphunters

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recove...

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Horror Express
Horror Express

Mysterious and unearthly deaths start to occur while Professor Saxton is transporting the frozen rem...

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Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

After the end of WWII, an Italian woman receives child support payments from three former US soldier...

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Battle of the Bulge
Battle of the Bulge

In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. ...

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Faceless
Faceless

A detective investigating a missing model in Paris uncovers a plastic surgeon’s horrifying secret in...

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Escape to Athena
Escape to Athena

During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They...

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The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

Learning of a Nazi plot to attack Washington, D.C. with a deadly nerve gas, Major Wright leads twelv...

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The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission
The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission

A renegade team of World War II soldiers. This time, one of the 12 is a woman and, with a Nazi spy w...

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A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die

A dishonored Union Army officer leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate...

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A Town Called Bastard
A Town Called Bastard

A group of Mexican revolutionaries murders a town priest and a number of his christian followers. Te...

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Mackenna's Gold
Mackenna's Gold

A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups ...

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The Slender Thread
The Slender Thread

Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alon...

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Pretty Maids All in a Row
Pretty Maids All in a Row

At Oceanfront High School, female students are being targeted by an unknown serial killer. Meanwhile...

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The Assassination Bureau
The Assassination Bureau

In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organizat...

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Redneck
Redneck

Franco Nero and Telly Savalas star in the story of a trio of jewel thieves on the lam after a heist ...

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Killer Force
Killer Force

Head of company security, Harry Webb, fears that a diamond theft is about to take place at their maj...

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Pancho Villa
Pancho Villa

In 1916, during the Mexican Revolution, General Pancho Villa manages to escape from the clutches of ...

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Johnny Cool
Johnny Cool

A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S....

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The Young Savages
The Young Savages

A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder ...

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Inside Out
Inside Out

An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former comm...

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Crime Boss
Crime Boss

Hit man Antonio Mancuso travels to Italy to make the big time. He meets and befriends Mafia boss Don...

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The Killer Is on the Phone
The Killer Is on the Phone

A woman whose husband was murdered five years previously, is stalked by his killer, who wants to eli...

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Fanfare for a Death Scene
Fanfare for a Death Scene

An American secret agent, on the trail of a vanished scientist, must recover the scientist's revolut...

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The Border
The Border

Frank Cooper, a senior immigration police, remains a daily struggle against mafias operating between...

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Sonny and Jed
Sonny and Jed

As thoroughly unlikeable a robber as ever walked the West, Joe nonetheless robs from the rich and gi...

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Love Is a Ball
Love Is a Ball

Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young...

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Backfire!
Backfire!

Just as Jeremy Jackson attempts to become the first male firewoman in New York, fires begin mysterio...

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Perfect Crimes
Perfect Crimes

True stories about individuals seeking to commit a perfect crime....

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The Man from the Diners' Club
The Man from the Diners' Club

Meek credit card company clerk Ernest Klenk is feeling the pressure of demanding coworkers, new comp...

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Sol Madrid
Sol Madrid

Government agent Sol Madrid travels to Mexico with hooker Stacey to bring mobster Villanova and drug...

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Mongo's Back in Town
Mongo's Back in Town

Professional killer is hired by his brother, a gang boss, to wipe out a rival gangster....

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Beyond Reason
Beyond Reason

An unconventional psychiatrist slowly begins to question his own sanity....

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Beau Geste
Beau Geste

In 1906, two American brothers join the French Foreign Legion and, led by a sadistic Sergeant-Major,...

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The Interns
The Interns

During their first year of internship at New North Hospital, a group of aspiring doctors undergo bot...

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Return to the Titanic... Live!
Return to the Titanic... Live!

A television special hosted by Telly Savalas that features artefacts recovered from the 1987 salvage...

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She Cried Murder
She Cried Murder

Fashion model Sarah Cornell, from the front car of a subway, witnesses a man pushing a woman onto th...

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Fake-Out
Fake-Out

Gangster's girlfriend hangs out in a Las Vegas hotel with her cop protectors while she waits to test...

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The House of Exorcism
The House of Exorcism

A re-edited version of Mario Bava's "Lisa and the Devil" for the U.S. market, including newly filmed...

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The Cartier Affair
The Cartier Affair

Curt Taylor is a convict and owes Phil Drexler the number 1 convict in the prison. Now to settle his...

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Remote Control Magic: The Movie
Remote Control Magic: The Movie

Remote Control Magic is the ultimate 70's channel surfing experience. Dante Fontana guides you on a ...

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The Hollywood Detective
The Hollywood Detective

An actor at the end of the line who used to play a PI on TV turns to real detective work when a fan ...

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The Muppet Movie
The Muppet Movie

The Muppets gather to watch their newly-finished big-budget rich-and-famous feature film: a talent a...

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Operation Dirty Dozen
Operation Dirty Dozen

A short film looking behind the scenes at the making of The Dirty Dozen. Showing many scenes being f...

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Crooks and Coronets
Crooks and Coronets

Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they can'...

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Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story
Alcatraz: The Whole Shocking Story

Filmed on location at Alcatraz Island, this two-part "whole story" actually concentrates on a handfu...

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Telly Savalas Looks at Aberdeen
Telly Savalas Looks at Aberdeen

The star of TV's Kojak takes a look at the history and attractions of the city of Aberdeen, Scotland...

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Telly Savalas Looks at Birmingham
Telly Savalas Looks at Birmingham

Telly Savalas narrates a travelogue of Birmingham in England, taking in such sights as New Street St...

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Kojak: The Price of Justice
Kojak: The Price of Justice

When the bodies of two young boys are discovered in the Harlem River, their mother is the obvious su...

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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a n...

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Telly Savalas Looks at Portsmouth
Telly Savalas Looks at Portsmouth

Telly Savalas tours the coastal city of Portsmouth, with a look at the intriguing history and magnif...

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Silent Rebellion
Silent Rebellion

A Greek immigrant (Savalas) and his son return to Greece, where they reunite with mother and brother...

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Clay Pigeon
Clay Pigeon

An ex-soldier is recruited by the FBI to go undercover in L.A. and find other ex-soldiers who are pa...

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Mind Twister
Mind Twister

Two former exotic dancers devise a plot to expose a physciatrist as the murderer of their friend....

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2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift
2Everything2Terrible2: Tokyo Drift

The team of smart-talkin' toddlers known as Everything Is Terrible! have once again emerged from the...

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Visions...
Visions...

A professor who has visions of the future informs the police that someone is about to plant a bomb. ...

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Kojak The Belarus File
Kojak The Belarus File

Lt. Theo Kojak uncovers a Nazi conspiracy....

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Kojak: Ariana
Kojak: Ariana

One of Kojak's old enemies uses Ariana, a young Greek girl, as bait to trap the legendary New York d...

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Kojak : Error Fatal
Kojak : Error Fatal

Investigating the murder of a writer responsible for a Mob exposed, Kojak discovers that the dead ma...

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Kojak: Flowers For Matty
Kojak: Flowers For Matty

Kojak charms his way into high society to investigate art thefts that are tied to munitions smugglin...

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Kojak: None So Blind
Kojak: None So Blind

After a flighty young woman accidentally witnesses a Mob hit in an Italian restaurant, New York Poli...

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The Marcus-Nelson Murders
The Marcus-Nelson Murders

A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls ...

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Hellinger's Law
Hellinger's Law

A flamboyant criminal lawyer named Nick Hellinger takes on the case of a syndicate's accountant (act...

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Joys
Joys

Over fifty of the greatest living comedians are called to a party at Bob Hope's house, where each of...

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The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine
The Equalizer - The Movie: Blood & Wine

Robert McCall is forced to work with a former terrorist turned monk by the name of Joseph Heiden(Tel...

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The Sin of Jesus
The Sin of Jesus

An egg-sorting woman shrugs off even the appearance of Christ. From Isaak Babel story....

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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!

During the Cold War, John Goldfarb crashes his spy plane in the Middle East and is taken prisoner by...

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The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration
The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration

A live-action and animated television special featuring clips from past episodes and spin-offs combi...

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GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords
GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords

The GoBots, television's amazing transformable super heroes, star in their first full length feature...

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Rose Against the Odds
Rose Against the Odds

The story of Australian Indigenous boxer Lionel Rose from his first amateur boxing matches up until ...

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Kojak: It's Always Something
Kojak: It's Always Something

After discovering the connection between a corrupt city commissioner and Colombian killers, Kojak is...

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Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?
Telly... Who Loves Ya, Baby?

At the height of his KOJAK TV series fame, Telly Savalas starred in this variety special that was sp...

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Afghanistan For What?
Afghanistan For What?

The movie deals with the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and the struggle of the Afghan people agai...

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Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained

A tribute to Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (1926-90), presented by American filmmaker Quentin Ta...

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