TELLY SAVALAS
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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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- Birdman of Alcatraz 1962
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1969
- The Dirty Dozen 1967
- The Greatest Story Ever Told 1965
- Mad Dog Coll 1961
- Genghis Khan 1965
- The New Interns 1964
- Lisa and the Devil 1973
- Cape Fear 1962
- Land Raiders 1969
- Kelly's Heroes 1970
- The Karate Killers 1967
- Capricorn One 1977
- Beyond the Poseidon Adventure 1979
- Cannonball Run II 1984
- Violent City 1970
- The Scalphunters 1968
- Horror Express 1972
- Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell 1968
- Battle of the Bulge 1965
- Faceless 1988
- Escape to Athena 1979
- The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission 1987
- The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission 1988
- A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die 1972
- A Town Called Hell 1971
- Mackenna's Gold 1969
- The Slender Thread 1965
- Pretty Maids All in a Row 1971
- The Assassination Bureau 1969
- Redneck 1973
- Killer Force 1976
- Pancho Villa 1972
- Johnny Cool 1963
- The Young Savages 1961
- Inside Out 1975
- Crime Boss 1972
- The Killer Is on the Phone 1972
- Fanfare for a Death Scene 1964
- The Border 1980
- Sonny and Jed 1972
- Love Is a Ball 1963
- The Man from the Diners' Club 1963
- Sol Madrid 1968
- Mongo's Back in Town 1971
- Beau Geste 1966
- The Interns 1962
- Fake-Out 1982
- The House of Exorcism 1975
- The Cartier Affair 1984
- The Hollywood Detective 1989
- The Muppet Movie 1979
- Crooks and Coronets 1969
- Kojak: The Price of Justice 1987
- Clay Pigeon 1971
- Mind Twister 1994
- The Marcus-Nelson Murders 1973
- John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! 1965
- Burke's Law 1963
- Cain's Hundred 1961
- Kraft Suspense Theatre 1963
- The F.B.I. 1965
- Tales of the Unexpected 1979
- Naked City 1958
- Kojak 1973
- The Equalizer 1985
- Combat! 1962
- The Twilight Zone 1959
- The Fugitive 1963
- Run for Your Life 1965
- The Virginian 1962
- 77 Sunset Strip 1958
- Alice in Wonderland 1985
- The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 1964
- Ein Schloß am Wörthersee 1990
- Bonanza 1959
- The Untouchables 1959
- The Alfred Hitchcock Hour 1962