In 1965, Telly Savalas shaved his head to appear as Pontius Pilate inThe Greatest Story Ever Told. He stayed bald for the rest of his life, and it became a signature part of his appearance as an actor. One of Savalas's most memorable film roles came in 1967 when he appeared inThe Dirt...
Savalas ended up as an actor only as a fluke, by helping an agent friend who needed someone with a passable European accent. Savalas released a record album, "Telly" in 1974. Savalas was the son of Greek immigrants. His father, Nicholas, was a businessman and his mother, Christina, ...
Scott, John Cassavetes, Ernest Borgnine, Dennis Hopper, Ryan O'Neal, Bette Davis, Telly Savalas, Jennifer Lopez, Gwyneth Paltrow, Mike Myers, Bruce Dern, Cliff Robertson, Rock Hudson, George Kennedy and others. Curb supervised the music for the Jimmy Stewart/Mickey Rooney film "Lassie" for ...
Telly Savalas Tex (archive footage) Kojak(1973) Edna Skelton Self (archive footage) (as Edna Marie Stillwell) Georgia Skelton Self (archive footage) The Red Skelton Hour(1951) Red Skelton Self - Host / Louis Blore / King Louis XV / Lt. 'Mugger' Martin / Wally 'the Fox' Benton / … ...
Nicollette Sheridan. Actress: Desperate Housewives. Nicollette Sheridan has won a worldwide audience with her past television and film roles. With her Golden Globe-nominated role of "Edie Britt," the blonde bombshell of Wisteria Lane, on ABC's hit show D
and Telly Savalas. The director then worked onThe Swimmer(1968), an adaptation of aJohn Cheeverstory, but he was not credited. Lancaster starred in that film and returned forCastle Keep(1969), aWorld War IIadventure about a group of soldiers (includingPeter FalkandBruce Dern) who take refug...
serving a life sentence. The film—shot in black-and-white, as were all of Frankenheimer’s works to that point—featured a tour-de-force performance from Lancaster, who earned anAcademy Awardnomination, as didThelma Ritter(as Stroud’s overbearing mother) and Telly Savalas (as anotherAlcatraz...
While the tough-guy cast—which included Marvin, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, Charles Bronson, Donald Sutherland, and Telly Savalas—and extreme violence earned much of the focus, the film was also noted for showing the dark side of the military and war. The Dirty Dozen became one of the ...