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With Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson, George Savalas. Kojak has cultured an informant to solve a series of gangland killings. An assistant chief inspector, often passed over for promotions, sees an opportunity to achieve the position of commissioner he so desperately desires.
- (139)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Telly Savalas
- 1978-03-18
- Early Life
- Military Service
- Early Career
- Baldness and Stardom
- Later Career
- Other Career Achievements
- Personal Life
- Deaths of relatives and Later Life
- Death
- Discography
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 who was a native of Sparta, and Nick Savalas, a restaurant owner. His paternal grandparents came from Ierakas. Savalas and his brother, Gus, sold newspapers and polished shoes to help supp...
In 1941, Savalas was drafted into the United States Army. From 1941 to 1943, Savalas served in Company C, 12th Medical Training Battalion, 4th Medical Training Regiment at Camp Pickett, Virginia. In 1943, he was discharged from the Army with the rank of corporal after being severely injured in a car accident. Savalas spent more than a year recupera...
After the war, he worked for the U.S. State Department as host of the Your Voice of America series, then at ABC News.In 1950, Savalas hosted a radio show called "The Coffeehouse in New York City". Savalas began as an executive director and then as senior director of the news special events at ABC. He then became an executive producer for the Gillet...
He continued in supporting roles in films such as The Man from the Diners' Club, Love Is a Ball, and Johnny Cool (all 1963). Already at a late stage of male pattern baldness, he shaved his head to play Pontius Pilate in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) and kept his head shaven for the rest of his life. He reunited with J. Lee Thompson in John Go...
Savalas wrote, directed, and starred in the 1977 independent thriller Beyond Reason, but the film was not released in cinemas; it was made available only on home media in 1985. Savalas was part of an all-star cast in the movies Escape to Athena (1979), Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (both 1979), and Cannonball Run II (1984), and continued to appear ...
As a singer, Savalas had some chart success. His spoken word version of Bread's "If", produced by Snuff Garrett, reached number one in both the UK and Ireland in March 1975, but just number 88 in Canada, and his follow-up, a version of "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" peaked at No. 47 in the UK. In February 1981, his version of Don Williams' "Some...
Savalas was married three times. In 1948, after his father's death from bladder cancer, Savalas married his college sweetheart, Katherine Nicolaides. Their daughter Christina, named after his mother, was born in 1950. In 1957, Katherine filed for divorce. She urged him to move back to his mother's house during that same year. While Savalas was goin...
In the 1980s, Savalas began to lose close relatives. His brother George Savalas, who played Stavros in the original series, died in 1985 of leukemia at age 60. His mother died in 1988. In late 1989, Savalas was diagnosed with transitional-cell cancer of the bladder.
Savalas died on January 22, 1994, of complications of prostate and bladder cancer at the Sheraton-Universal Hotel in Universal City, California, at the age of 72. He had lived at the Sheraton in Universal City for 20 years, becoming such a fixture at the hotel bar that it was renamed Telly's. Savalas was interred at the George Washington section of...
Albums
1. This is Telly Savalas...(1972) 2. Telly(1974) 3. Telly Savalas(1975) 4. Who Loves Ya Baby(1976) 5. Sweet Surprise [released on cassette and CD under the title Some Broken Hearts] (1980)
Singles
1. "Try to Remember" (1972) 2. "Look Around You" (1972) 3. "I Don't Want To Know / I Walk The Line" (1972) 4. "We All End Up The Same" (1972) 5. "If" (1974) 6. "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' / Help Me Make It Through the Night" (1974) 7. "Who Loves Ya Baby" (1975) 8. "A Good Time Man Like Me Ain't Got No Business Singing The Blues" (1976) 9. "Sweet Surprise" (1980) 10. "Some Broken Hearts Never Mend" (1980) 11. "Lovin' Understandin' Man" (1981) 12. "Goodbye Madame" (1982)
This is a list of episodes for the television series Kojak. The first five seasons (Pilot + 118 ep.) were aired on CBS from 1973 until 1978. CBS also commissioned a pair of TV movies in 1985 and 1987. ABC revived Kojak in 1989 for five additional TV movies, the last of which aired in 1990.
Jun 24, 2024 · Telly Savalas, best known for starring on the crime drama series Kojak was a proud Greek who spoke passionately about Hellenism.
With Telly Savalas, Dan Frazer, Kevin Dobson, George Savalas. Kojak and his detectives try to identify the dead man found in the trunk of a Rolls Royce, while also searching for: 1) a woman who admits to killing her husband and plans to kill herself, 2) an armed youth who is on the streets looking for the pushers who've gotten his mother hooked ...
- (133)
- Action, Crime, Drama
- Charles S. Dubin
- 1977-02-01
Farewell 'KOJAK'! Last Show of the Series 'IN FULL COMMAND' Premiered MARCH 18,1978! With Guest Roles for Danny Thomas, Marc Alamo, Susan Tyrell, Donegan...
Kojak (1973 series) is an American television series starring Telly Savalas as the eponymous New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. It aired from October 24, 1973 to March 18, 1978 on CBS.
