Cast: Telly Savalas

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Telly Savalas. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

1959 · Series · 30 min. · United States

Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik

Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman

Synopsis TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end with an ironic twist that would see the guilty punished.

8.0

4K votes

8.0

4K votes

Birdman of Alcatraz

1962 · Movie · 143 min. · United States

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Burt Lancaster · Karl Malden · Neville Brand · Thelma Ritter

Synopsis Robert Stroud (Burt Lancaster), a murderer sentenced to Alcatraz, cures a sick bird that flies into his cell and eventually becomes a world-renowned ornithologist -- all while serving a life sentence.

7.9

6K votes

7.9

6K votes

The Dirty Dozen

1967 · Movie · 145 min. · United States

Direction Robert Aldrich

Cast Lee Marvin · Charles Bronson · John Cassavetes · Ernest Borgnine

Synopsis An Army Major who likes to butt heads with his superiors, is being "given" a new assignment, to train 12 men who are either sentenced to death or life imprisonment, to go behind enemy lines raid a chateau that the...

7.7

38K votes

7.7

38K votes

Cape Fear

1962 · Movie · 106 min. · United States

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Gregory Peck · Robert Mitchum · Polly Bergen · Lori Martin

Synopsis Small-town lawyer Sam Bowden's life becomes torturous when Max Cady re-enters his life. Cady went to jail for 8 years after Bowden testified that Cady attacked a young woman. Now that Cady has been released, he begins to terrorize Bowden...

7.5

8K votes

7.5

8K votes

Kelly's Heroes

1970 · Movie · 138 min. · United States

Direction Brian G. Hutton

Cast Clint Eastwood · Donald Sutherland · Telly Savalas · Don Rickles

Synopsis Lieutenant Kelly (Clint Eastwood) is an atypical Army man who, while boozing with a captured German general, learns of $16 million worth of gold bars behind enemy lines. Kelly reveals a plan to his fellow soldiers: They will use their...

7.4

11K votes

7.4

11K votes

Direction Richard C. Sarafian

Cast Telly Savalas · Mary LaRoche · Tracy Stratford · June Foray

Synopsis A frustrated father does battle with his stepdaughter's talking doll, whose vocabulary includes such phrases as "I hate you" and "I'm going to kill you".

7.4

133 votes

7.4

133 votes

The Fugitive (TV Series)

1963 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Roy Huggins · Jerry Hopper · Walter Grauman · Alexander Singer

Cast David Janssen · Barry Morse · William Conrad · Paul Birch

Synopsis TV Series (1963-1967). 4 Seasons. 120 Episodes. Dr. Richard Kimble, an Indiana pediatrician, is accused, arrested, tried and convicted of the murder of his wife. Kimble claims he was on his way home from a drive when the murder occurred,...

7.0

1K votes

7.0

1K votes

The Young Savages

1961 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction John Frankenheimer

Cast Burt Lancaster · Dina Merrill · Edward Andrews · Vivian Nathan

Synopsis A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a Puerto Rican boy. He begins to discover that the facts in the case aren't exactly as they seem to be.

6.9

1K votes

6.9

1K votes

Direction Graham Evans · John Gorrie · Alan Gibson · Herbert Wise

Cast Roald Dahl · John Houseman · Andrew Ray · Joan Collins

Synopsis TV Series (1979-1988). 9 seasons. 112 episodes. A British anthology of mystery, suspense, horror and black comedy, highlighted by plot twists and surprise endings (in the early seasons, all by Roald Dahl), with lots of prestigious guest stars starring in...

6.8

49 votes

6.8

49 votes

Capricorn One

1978 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Peter Hyams

Cast Elliott Gould · James Brolin · Brenda Vaccaro · Sam Waterston

Synopsis The government fakes a Mars landing then sets out to kill the astronauts involved.

6.4

3K votes

6.4

3K votes

Battle of the Bulge

1965 · Movie · 167 min. · United States

Direction Ken Annakin

Cast Henry Fonda · Robert Ryan · Robert Shaw · Dana Andrews

Synopsis This World War II spectacular tells the story of the tank battles of December, 1944, in which the Nazi Panzer forces staged a massive last-ditch offensive on the Belgian front. An action-packed drama about the battle that brought World War...

6.4

2K votes

6.4

2K votes

The Slender Thread

1965 · Movie · 98 min. · United States

Direction Sydney Pollack

Cast Sidney Poitier · Anne Bancroft · Telly Savalas · Steven Hill

Synopsis Alan is a Seattle college student volunteering at a crisis center. One night when at the clinic alone, a woman calls up the number and tells Alan that she needs to talk to someone. She informs Alan she took a...

6.4

105 votes

6.4

105 votes

Mackenna's Gold

1969 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction J. Lee Thompson

Cast Gregory Peck · Omar Sharif · Telly Savalas · Camilla Sparv

Synopsis The gangster Colorado kidnaps Marshal McKenna. He believes that McKenna has seen a map which leads to a rich vein of gold in the mountains and forces him to show him the way. But they're not the only ones who're...

6.3

2K votes

6.3

2K votes

The Scalphunters

1968 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

6.1

775 votes

6.1

775 votes

Kojak (TV Series)

1973 · Series · 60 min. · United States

Direction Charles S. Dubin · Jeannot Szwarc · Russ Mayberry · Sigmund Neufeld Jr.

Cast Telly Savalas · Dan Frazer · Kevin Dobson · George Savalas

Synopsis TV Series (1973-1978). 5 Seasons. 118 Episodes. Emmy and Golden Globe winner Telly Savalas is Lieutenant Theo Kojak, television’s greatest detective, in the unforgettable homicide series Kojak. He’s got style, street smarts and a penchant for lollipops, and he’s hitting...

6.0

2K votes

6.0

2K votes

The Greatest Story Ever Told

1965 · Movie · 200 min. · United States

Direction George Stevens · David Lean · Jean Negulesco

Cast Max von Sydow · Dorothy McGuire · Charlton Heston · Claude Rains

Synopsis George Stevens presents his monumental adaptation of the story of Jesus Christ starring Max von Sydow. The film concentrates on the most familiar episodes of the biblical story, including the birth of Christ in Bethlehem, Herod's (Jose Ferrer) decree of...

6.0

3K votes

6.0

3K votes

6.0

107 votes

Johnny Cool

1963 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction William Asher

Cast Henry Silva · Elizabeth Montgomery · Richard Anderson · Jim Backus

Synopsis Colini, an exiled American gangster living in Sicily, rescues Giordano, a young Sicilian outlaw, from the police. After Giordano is groomed, polished, and renamed "Johnny Cool," Colini sends him on a vengeance mission to the United States to assassinate the...

5.9

32 votes

5.9

32 votes

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell

1968 · Movie · 108 min. · United States

Direction Melvin Frank

Cast Gina Lollobrigida · Shelley Winters · Phil Silvers · Peter Lawford

Synopsis Twenty years after their initial war-time visit three U.S. servicemen hold a reunion at an Italian village. They all have fond memories, especially of local girl Carla. But she has been telling each of them that they are the father...

5.9

185 votes

5.9

185 votes

Horror Express

1972 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Eugenio Martín

Cast Christopher Lee · Peter Cushing · Alberto de Mendoza · Silvia Tortosa

Synopsis An English anthropologist has discovered a frozen monster in the frozen wastes of Manchuria which he believes may be the Missing Link. He brings the creature back to Europe aboard a trans-Siberian express, but during the trip the monster thaws...

5.8

2K votes

5.8

2K votes