Telly Savalas
AKA: Telly Aristoteles Savalas
Birthday: 1922-01-21
Died: 1994-01-22
Birthplace: Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA
Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas (Greek: Αριστοτέλης "Τέλι" 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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Filmography
Character: Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Character: Archer Maggott
Character: Pontius Pilate
Character: Dr. Dominic Riccio
Character: Private Detective Charles Sievers
Character: Count De Fanzini
Character: Master Sergeant "Big Joe"
Character: Captain Stefan Svevo
Character: Walter Braddock
Character: Sergeant Tibbs
Character: Captain Sam Surcher
Character: Dr. Joe Coburn
Character: Vincenzo 'Vince' Santangelo
Character: Lieutenant Theo Kojak
Character: Detective Lt. Gunderson
Character: Ranko Drasovic
Character: Dr. Christian Gump (Millie's uncle)
Character: Sheriff Franciscus
Character: Mr. Martindale
Character: Lieutenant Pete Tolstad
Character: Dr. Nicholas Mati
Character: Dr. Dominic Riccio
Character: Inspector Joe Brody
Character: Leandro (archive footage)
Character: Sgt. Maj. Dagineau
Character: El Sleazo Tough
Character: Lieutenant Theo Kojak
Character: Inspector Theo Kojak
Character: Herbie Haseler
Character: Richard Howland
Character: Lt. Phil Keegan
Character: Inspector Theo Kojak
Character: Inspector Theo Kojak
Character: Lieutenant Theo Kojak
Character: Lt. Theo Kojak
Character: Nick Hellinger
Character: Brother Joseph Heiden
Character: Macmuid (uncredited)
Character: Magmar (voice)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: George Parnassus
Character: Inspector Theo Kojak
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Self - Narrator
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: Blofeld (archive footage)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Character: archival footage