Telly Savalas

Telly Savalas

January 21, 1922 · 104 years old

Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas (January 21, 1922 – January 22, 1994) was an American film and television actor and singer whose career spanned four decades. Best known for playing the title role in the 1970s crime drama Kojak, Savalas was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for hi…

Known For

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1
On Her Majesty's Secret Service

On Her Majesty's Secret Service

1969 · 2h 22m · Movie

British agent James Bond goes undercover to pursue the villainous Ernst Stavro Blofeld, who is planning to hold the world to ransom.

6.7
2
The Dirty Dozen

The Dirty Dozen

1967 · 2h 30m · Movie

During World War II, a rebellious U.S. Army Major is assigned a dozen convicted murderers to train and lead them into a mass assassination mission of German officers.

7.7
3
Kelly's Heroes

Kelly's Heroes

1970 · 2h 24m · Movie

A group of U.S. soldiers sneaks across enemy lines in WWII France to get their hands on a secret stash of Nazi treasure.

7.6
4
Cape Fear

Cape Fear

1962 · 1h 46m · Movie

A lawyer's family is stalked by a man he once helped put in jail.

7.7
5
Capricorn One

Capricorn One

1977 · 2h 3m · Movie

When the first manned flight to Mars is deemed unsafe and scrubbed on the launch pad, anxious authorities must scramble to save face and retain their funding - and so an unthinkable plot to fake the mission is hatched.

6.8
6
Birdman of Alcatraz

Birdman of Alcatraz

1962 · 2h 27m · Movie

A surly convicted murderer held in permanent isolation redeems himself when he becomes a renowned bird expert.

7.8
7
Battle of the Bulge

Battle of the Bulge

1965 · 2h 47m · Movie

A dramatization of Nazi Germany's final Western Front counterattack of World War II.

6.8
8
Cannonball Run II

Cannonball Run II

1984 · 1h 48m · Movie

The original characters from The Cannonball Run (1981) race across the country once more in various cars and trucks.

5.1
9
Horror Express

Horror Express

1972 · 1h 28m · Movie

While on the Trans-Siberian Express, an anthropologist and his rival must contain the threat posed by the former's cargo: a prehistoric ape which is the host for a parasitic life-form.

6.5
10
Mackenna's Gold

Mackenna's Gold

1969 · 2h 8m · Movie

A bandit kidnaps a Marshal who has seen a map showing a gold vein on Indian lands, but other groups are looking for it too, while the Apache try to keep the secret location undisturbed.

6.7
11
Lisa and the Devil

Lisa and the Devil

1973 · 1h 35m · Movie

A tourist spends the night in a derelict Spanish villa seemingly held in the supernatural grip of an eccentric butler, who resembles a depiction of the Devil she had seen on an old fresco.

6.2
12
The Scalphunters

The Scalphunters

1968 · 1h 42m · Movie

Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.

6.7
13
Violent City

Violent City

1970 · 1h 48m · Movie

After being double-crossed by his mistress and barely escaping a murder attempt, a hit-man sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the mob boss who put her up to it.

6.2
14
The Assassination Bureau

The Assassination Bureau

1969 · 1h 50m · Movie

A woman causes a group of assassins to face their greatest challenge.

6.4
15
The Young Savages

The Young Savages

1961 · 1h 43m · Movie

A district attorney investigates three white teenagers accused of murdering a blind Puerto Rican kid.

6.9
16
Pretty Maids All in a Row

Pretty Maids All in a Row

1971 · 1h 31m · Movie

California State Police Captain Sam Surcher investigates a string of teenage-girl murders at Oceanfront High School.

6.1
17
Genghis Khan

Genghis Khan

1965 · 2h 0m · Movie

During the thirteenth century, the shy Mongol boy Temujin becomes the fearless leader Genghis Khan, who unites all Mongol tribes and conquers most of Asia, Europe, and the Middle East.

5.8
18
The Slender Thread

The Slender Thread

1965 · 1h 38m · Movie

College volunteer Alan Newell is working alone at the crisis center one evening when he receives a telephone call from suicidal caller Inga Dyson, who has swallowed a bottle of sleeping pills. Can Alan save her?

7.0
19
A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die

A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die

1972 · 1h 32m · Movie

Branded a coward for surrendering his New Mexico fort to the Confederates without firing a shot, a Union colonel leads a band of condemned prisoners on a suicide mission to recapture it.

6.1
20
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

1968 · 1h 48m · Movie

Carla Campbell receives maintenance payment from three former soldiers who all believe themselves to be the father of her daughter, Gia.

6.8
21
Faceless

Faceless

1988 · 1h 38m · Movie

When model Barbara Hallen disappears in France, her father's private detective traces her steps to a private plastic surgery clinic run by Dr.Flamand.

5.8
22
The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission

1987 · 1h 30m · Movie

During WW2, American General Worden orders Major Wright to pick 12 condemned soldiers from the brig and parachute into occupied France where they must destroy a Nazi nerve gas facility and extricate the foreign scientists working ...

5.2
23
A Town Called Hell

A Town Called Hell

1971 · 1h 35m · Movie

A group of Mexican revolutionaries murders a town priest and a number of his christian followers. Ten years later, a widow arrives in town intent to take revenge from her husband's killers.

5.0
24
The House of Exorcism

The House of Exorcism

1975 · 1h 32m · Movie

A troubled priest attempts to exorcise the soul of a tourist who has been possessed by the Devil after witnessing supernatural events at a Spanish villa.

4.6
25
Sonny and Jed

Sonny and Jed

1972 · 1h 32m · Movie

A vulgar Mexican social bandit reluctantly takes on an aspiring young outlaw as his partner in crime and love, all while the duo is pursued by a vengeful sheriff and bounty hunters.

6.3
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Killer Force

Killer Force

1976 · 1h 42m · Movie

A five-man team of professionals undertake a daring robbery at a diamond mine.

5.4
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Beau Geste

Beau Geste

1966 · 1h 43m · Movie

In 1906, two American brothers join the French Foreign Legion and, led by a sadistic Sergeant-Major, they defend a fort against Berber and Tuareg attack.

6.1
28
Love Is a Ball

Love Is a Ball

1963 · 1h 51m · Movie

On the French Riviera, a professional matchmaker assisted by an American adventurer arranges for convenience marriages between titled impoverished aristocratic men and rich low-bred women.

6.0
29
The Marcus-Nelson Murders

The Marcus-Nelson Murders

1973 · 2h 5m · Movie

A homicide detective begins to suspect that the black teenager accused of murdering two white girls is being framed by his fellow detectives.

7.7
30
The Man from the Diners' Club

The Man from the Diners' Club

1963 · 1h 36m · Movie

An employee at Diner's Club issues a credit card to a well-known mobster and has to retrieve it in order to keep his job.

6.1
31
Kojak: The Belarus File

Kojak: The Belarus File

1985 · 1h 35m · Movie

Lieutenant Theo Kojak teams up with Dana Sutton, a comely federal agent, to uncover a conspiracy reaching back to the Nazi occupation of the Soviet Union.

6.9
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Kojak: The Price of Justice

Kojak: The Price of Justice

1987 · 1h 35m · Movie

The bald detective in a fedora finds himself attracted to a foxy, enigmatic woman who is suspected in the murders of her two small sons.

6.5
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Kojak: Fatal Flaw

Kojak: Fatal Flaw

1989 · 1h 30m · Movie

Investigating the murder of a writer responsible for a Mob exposé, Kojak discovers that the dead man's wife is an old flame.

6.3
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Kojak: Flowers for Matty

Kojak: Flowers for Matty

1990 · 1h 35m · Movie

Kojak charms his way into high society to investigate art thefts that are tied to munitions smuggling and murder.

6.5