I started receiving People magazine recently, and as I was leafing through its ho-hum 40th anniversary issue, I stumbled across this 1974 cover featuring Telly Savalas, the man who mainstreamed ...

Telly Savalas—born in the early 1920s, a World War II vet, and beloved as the eponymous star of TV's Kojak—was an alternative type of cultural icon in his day.

People notice when Telly Savalas walks into a bar. For one, the "Kojak" actor and Academy Award nominee has been dead for 17 years. When the six-foot-four bald man in a superbly tailored cream ...

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 offi… ...

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 ...

Telly Savalas, who became a television favorite as the gruff, lollipop-loving detective in the 1970s series Kojak, died Saturday of prostate cancer at age 70. Savalas starred in dozens of movies ...

America loved Telly Savalas in the 1970s, when the veteran Greek-American actor nailed the title role in CBS’ “Kojak” series — a tough New York City police lieutenant with a heart of gold ...

But, to the very last, Savalas remained, as he once said himself, ''the kind of gorilla that people can identify with''. Telly Savalas stars in a feature length Kojak on C5 at 3.35pm ...

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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 ...

I started receiving People magazine recently, and as I was leafing through its ho-hum 40th anniversary issue, I stumbled across this 1974 cover featuring Telly Savalas, the man who mainstreamed ...