Cast: Telly Savalas
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Telly Savalas. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 77
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
The Twilight Zone: Living Doll (TV)
1963 · Movie · 25 min. · United States
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
Tales of the Unexpected (TV Series)
1979 · Series · 25 min. · United Kingdom
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
Direction Sydney Pollack
Cast Burt Lancaster · Shelley Winters · Telly Savalas · Ossie Davis
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
The Man from the Diner's Club
1963 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Frank Tashlin
Cast Danny Kaye · Telly Savalas · Martha Hyer · Cara Williams
6.0
107 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