Biography: life and films
Telly Savalas was an American actor whose birth name was Aristotelis Savalas. He was born in Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA on 21st January 1922 and died in Universal City, California, USA on 22nd January 1994, aged 72.His best films as an actor include Sydney Pollack's comedy The Scalphunters (1968), J. Lee Thompson's Mackenna's Gold (1969), Peter R. Hunt's thriller On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Alberto De Martino's L'assassino... è al telefono (1972) and Val Guest's Killer Force (1976).
Telly Savalas appeared in 52 films, scripted 1 film and directed 1 film.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Sydney Pollack (2 films), John Frankenheimer (2), J. Lee Thompson (2), Eugenio Martín (2), David Swift (2), Brian G. Hutton (2) and Alberto De Martino (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (23 films), comedy (16), Thriller (14), Western (7), crime-thriller (5), War (5), comedy-thriller (4), Horror (4), Biography (3), history (2) and comedy-drama (2).
Our average rating for Telly Savalas over all films is: 2.8
Filmography
Key: a = actor; w = writer; d = director
Mad Dog Coll (1961) [a]
The Young Savages (1961) [a]
Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) [a]
Cape Fear (1962) [a]
The Interns (1962) [a]
Johnny Cool (1963) [a]
Love Is a Ball (1963) [a]
The Man from the Diners' Club (1963) [a]
The New Interns (1964) [a]
Battle of the Bulge (1965) [a]
Genghis Khan (1965) [a]
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) [a]
The Slender Thread (1965) [a]
Beau Geste (1966) [a]
The Karate Killers (1967) [a]
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968) [a]
Sol Madrid (1968) [a]
The Scalphunters (1968) [a]
Crooks and Coronets (1969) [a]
Land Raiders (1969) [a]
Mackenna's Gold (1969) [a]
On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) [a]
The Assassination Bureau (1969) [a]
Città violenta (1970) [a]
Kelly's Heroes (1970) [a]
A Town Called Hell (1971) [a]
Clay Pigeon (1971) [a]
Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971) [a]
I familiari delle vittime non saranno avvertiti (1972) [a]
L'Assassino... è al telefono (1972) [a]
La Banda J.S.: Cronaca criminale del Far West (1972) [a]
Pancho Villa (1972) [a]
Una ragione per vivere e una per morire (1972) [a]
Senza ragione (1973) [a]
Lisa e il diavolo (1974) [a]
Inside Out (1975) [a]
Killer Force (1976) [a]
Beyond Reason (1977) [a,d,w]
Capricorn One (1978) [a]
Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) [a]
Escape to Athena (1979) [a]
The Border (1979) [a]
The Muppet Movie (1979) [a]
Fake-Out (1982) [a]
GoBots: War of the Rock Lords (1986) [a]
Faceless (1988) [a]
Mind Twister (1994) [a]
Backfire! (1995) [a]
Sønner av Norge (2011) [a]
The best French war films ever made
French cinema during the Nazi Occupation
The best French Films of the 1920s
