Highest rated movie: The Dirty Dozen (1967)
Lowest rated movie: Backfire! (1995)
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Looking for reviews of Telly Savalas movies? Cinafilm has a total of 3,465 reviews across 36 movies.
Movies starring Telly Savalas have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 57%.
The Dirty Dozen - released in 1967 - is Telly Savalas's highest rated movie, with a score of 78% based on 509 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Telly Savalas is Backfire! - released in 1995 - with a score of 33% based on 2 reviews.
Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas (Greek: Αριστοτέλης "Τέλι" Σαββάλας; 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 his performance in Birdman of Alcatraz (1962). His other movie credits include The Young Savages (1961), The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965), Battle of the Bulge (1965), The Dirty Dozen (1967), The Scalphunters (1968), supervillain Ernst Stavro Blofeld in the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969), Kelly's Heroes (1970), Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971), Inside Out (1975) and Escape to Athena (1979).
Telly Savalas has acted in films with Shelley Winters, Paul Picerni, Roddy McDowall and Elliott Gould.
Telly Savalas has worked with these film directors: J. Lee Thompson, Sydney Pollack, John Frankenheimer and David Swift.
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