Telly Savalas, best known for starring in the crime drama series Kojak, was a proud Greek who spoke passionately about Hellenism.

A year before playing the charismatic—”Who loves ya, baby?”—fedora hat-wearing, lollipop-sucking, New York City police detective Theophilus “Theo” Kojak for five seasons on the popular TV series Kojak ...

Too Tall Telly. The death of actor Telly Savalas the other day reminded me of the time many years ago when my ex-wife was riding an elevator in one of Manhattan’s steel-and-glass midtown office ...

Giallo: a splashy ‘70s subgenre of Italian horror with soft, overlit nightscapes filmed in garish Eastman color and stars whose hairlines didn’t recede, they advanced. Except for the lollipop-sucking ...

An online campaign launched this week to rename a Duluth street for actor Telly Savalas, the bald-headed, crime-solving, lollipop-sucking star of TV's "Kojak" in the 1970s. "Telly Savalas lived in ...

In addition to Kojak, which ran from 1973 to 1978, Savalas played James Bond’s arch-enemy Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the 1969 film On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Having enjoyed a hugely successful ...

George Savalas, 58, who played the mop-topped Detective Stavros on the Kojak television show that starred his brother Telly Savalas, died Wednesday of leukemia. Savalas was a former drama teacher who ...

Following Sean Connery’s original departure from the James Bond film franchise with 1967’s You Only Live Twice, unknown model George Lazenby was cast to fill his shoes in 1969’s On Her Majesty’s ...

The 1970 film Kelly’s Heroes remains a classic among war movie enthusiasts, blending humor and adventure in its tale of ...

The bizarre story of how British cities in the late 1970s, in an attempt to make themselves appear exciting to a cinema audience, recruited Telly Savalas himself to present their travelogue. Telly ...

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