Telly Savalas

Movie Actor

Telly Savalas was born in Garden City, New York, United States on January 21st, 1922 and is the Movie Actor. At the age of 72, Telly Savalas biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
January 21, 1922
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Garden City, New York, United States
Death Date
Jan 22, 1994 (age 72)
Zodiac Sign
Aquarius
Networth
$5 Million
Profession
Actor, Character Actor, Director, Film Actor, Poker Player, Radio Personality, Screenwriter, Singer, Stage Actor, Television Actor, Television Director, Writer
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Telly Savalas Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
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Katherine Nicolaides, ​ ​(m. 1948; div. 1957)​, Marilyn Gardner, ​ ​(m. 1960; div. 1974)​, Julie Hovland, ​ ​(m. 1984)​
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6; including Ariana Savalas
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Telly Savalas Life

Aristotelis "Tolly" Savalas (January 21, 1922 – January 22, 1994) was an American actor and singer whose career spanned four decades. In the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), he is best known for his bald head and deep, resonant voice.

Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Kelly's Heroes (1972), Lisa and the Devil (1979), and Escape to Athena (1979). He was nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor for Birdman of Alcatraz.

Savalas, a singer, released a cover of the Bread song "If," which became a UK No. 0 for a singer. In 1975, there was just one single. The song reached number 12 in Australia and also ranked at number 12.

Early life

Aristotelis Savalas was born in Garden City, New York, on January 21, 1922, the second of five children born to Greek parents Christina (née Kapsalis), an artist born in Sparta, and restaurant owner Nick Savalas. His paternal grandparents came from Ierakas, Greece. To help support the family, Savalas and his brother, Gus, sold newspapers and polished shoes. Savalas started speaking Greek only when he first started grade school, but then learned English. In Lynn, Massachusetts, he attended Cobbett Junior High School. He won a spelling bee in 1934; due to an oversight, he didn't win his money until 1991, when the school principal and the Boston Herald awarded it to him.

In 1940, Savalas graduated from Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park, New York. After graduating from high school, he worked as a beach lifeguard. However, on one occasion, he was unsuccessful in rescuing a father from drowning; as he attempted resuscitation, the man's two children stood nearby screaming for their father to awakene. This affected Savalas so much that he spent the remainder of his life promoting water safety, that he later required all six of his children to take swimming lessons.

Personal life

Savalas have been married three times. Savalas married Katherine Nicolaides, his college sweetheart, in 1948 following his father's death from bladder cancer. Christina, their daughter, was named after his mother, was born in 1950. Katherine filed for divorce in 1957. During the same year, she advised him to return to his mother's house. He founded the Garden City Theater Center in his hometown Garden City while Savalas was going bankrupt. Marilyn Gardner, a theater instructor, was discovered whilst working there. They married in 1960. Penelope, Marilyn's daughter, was born in 1961. Candace, Candace's second daughter, was born in 1963. After a long marriage, they divorced in 1974.

Savalas met actress Sally Adams (billed as Dani Sheridan, one of Blofeld's "Angels of Death"), an actor 25 years his junior whose daughter from a previous relationship, Nicollette Sheridan, who was filming on her Majesty's Secret Service in January 1969. Savalas married Sally Savalas in 1973, who gave birth to their son Nicholas Savalas. Although Savalas and Sally Adams never married, Sally Savalas went by the name Sally Savalas. They stopped living together in December 1978; she started a palliation case against him in 1980, seeking not only for herself and their son but also for Nicollette.

Savalas' Julie Hovland, a Minnesota travel agent, was born in 1977 during the last season of Kojak. Christian, an entrepreneur, singer, and songwriter, and Ariana, an actor and singer/songwriter, were married from 1984 to his death and had two children: Christian, an entrepreneur, guitarist, and songwriter. Savalas was close friends with actor John Aniston and was a godfather to his daughter Jennifer, a well-known TV and film actress.

Savalas earned a degree in psychology and was a world-class poker player who finished 21st at the main event of the 1992 World Series of Poker. He was also a motorcycle racer and lifeguard. Golfing, swimming, reading romantic novels, watching football, traveling, and gambling were among his other pastimes. Howard W. Koch, a film director and producer, adored horse racing and bought a racehorse. Telly's Pop has a nicknamed the horse. In 1975, it took place in several races, including the Norfolk Stakes and Del Mar Futurity.

As Burt Lancaster did for him, he gave many actors their first break in his role as Kojak's producer. Many who knew him well, regarded him as a generous, graceful, and compassionate man. He contributed to his Greek Orthodox roots in Los Angeles through the Saint Sophia and Saint Nicholas cathedrals, as well as the sponsor of electricity in the 1970s to his ancestral home, Ierakas, Greece.

Savalas had a slight physical impairment in that his left index finger had been missing. This deformed digit was often included on television; the Kojak episode "Conspiracy of Fear" in which a close-up of Savalas holding his chin in his hand clearly shows the permanently bent finger.

Savalas, a philanthropist and philhellene, has embraced many Hellenic causes and met people in major cities around the world. He often visited Illinois state senators Steven G. Nash and Samuel C. Maragos, both of Greek descent, as well as millionaire Simeon Frangos, who owned the Athens North nightclub and the Flying Carpet Hotel near O'Hare Airport, in Chicago.

Savalas appeared on The Extraordinary in 1993, a supernatural story in which he related to an experience he could not explain.

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Telly Savalas Career

Early career

He spent time at the US State Department as the host of the Your Voice of America collection, before heading to ABC News. "The Coffeehouse" radio show hosted in New York City in 1950 by Savalas.

Savalas began as an executive director and then as the senior director of ABC's news special events. Howard Cosell began as an executive producer for the Gillette Cavalcade of Sports, where he gave Howard Cosell his first film appearance. Savalas supervised Scott Vincent and Howard Cosell in Report to New York, WABC-TV's first regularly scheduled news show in fall 1959, before his acting career began.

Savalas did not consider acting as a profession until asked if he should recommend an actor with a European accent. He did, but Savalas himself covered for his friend and ended up being cast on "And Bring Home a Baby," an episode of Armstrong Circle Theatre in January 1958. In 1959 and 1960, he appeared on two more episodes of the series, one with a young Sydney Pollack. He appeared in a version of The Iceman Cometh.

Savalas quickly became known as a guest star on television shows, appearing in Showcase, Diagnosis: Unknown, Dow Hours (an extension of The Cat and the Canary), Naked City (alongside Claude Rains), The Witness (playing Lucky Luciano in one episode and Al Capone in another), The United States Steel Hour, and The Aquanauts. He appeared on the short-lived NBC series Acapulco (1961), with Ralph Taeger and James Coburn.

Savalas made his film debut in Mad Dog Coll (1961) as a cop. Burt Lancaster, who arranged for Savalas to be cast in John Frankenheimer's directed The Young Savages (also 1961 and again playing a cop), was impressed by his performance. Pollack appeared on the film as an acting coach.

Savalas returned to Lancaster and Frankenheimer for Birdman of Alcatraz (1962), where he was nominated for the Academy Award and the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in one of his most popular performances. He appeared in Cape Fear as a private detective (directed by J. Lee Thompson, whom Savalas will work with in future films), and The Interns, reprising his role in The New Interns (1964).

Savalas has appeared in a number of television series over the decade, including The New Breed, The Detectives, Ben Casey, The Twilight Zone (the episode "Life Doll"), The Fugitive (1963 TV series), and Arrest and Trial among others.

Later career

In the 1977 independent thriller Beyond Reason, Savalas wrote, directed, and starred. Nevertheless, the film was not released in theaters; it was exclusive to home media in 1985. Savalas appeared in a number of film and television guest appearances during the 1980s, including Escape to Athena (1979) and Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1982), as well as Cannonball Run II (1984) and The Equalizer (1989): the latter series was produced by James McAdams (1984).

Savalas was the lead actor in the television series Hellinger's Law (1981), which was originally intended as a pilot for a series but never materialized.

He appeared in three episodes of The Commish in 1992 (his son-in-law was one of the developers). This was Savalas' last television appearance. Mind Twister (1993) and the posthumous release Backfire were two more feature films before his death. (1995): a child of adolescent.

Other career achievements

Savalas, a singer, had some success on the charts. Snuff Garrett's spoken word version of Bread's "If" reached No. 1. In March 1975, 1 in both the United Kingdom and Ireland existed, but only No. In Switzerland, 88 years old in Canada, and his interpretation of Don Williams' "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend" dominated the charts in February 1981. He collaborated with composer and producer John Cacavas on several albums, including Telly (1974) (which reached No. 1) (which peaked at No. 5)). The Baby (1976), 49 years old in Australia (Waying), and Who Loves Ya, Baby (1976).

Savalas narrated three UK travelogues, including Telly Savalas Looks at Aberdeen, Telly Savalas Looks at Aberdeen, and Telly Savalas Looks at Birmingham in the late 1970s. They were created by Harold Baim and were first examples of quota quickies, which were then part of a law that cinemas in the United Kingdom had to show a certain number of British produced films. Savalas appeared in commercials for the Players' Club Gold Card in the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1982, he, alongside Bob Hope and Linda Evans, appeared in the "world premiere" television commercial introducing Diet Coke to Americans. Return to the Titanic Live, a two-hour television special broadcast from Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie in Paris, aired on October 28, 1987. He also produced the 1989 film UFOs and Channeling.

In 1983, he was named on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. On its list of the 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time in 1999, TV Guide ranked him 18th on its 50 Most Popular TV Stars of All Time list.

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