Telly Savalas - Movie Roles

Movie Roles

His silver screen career usually involved him being cast as the villain in such films as:

• Mad Dog Coll (1961)
• The Young Savages (1961)
• Johnny Cool (1963)
• The Man from the Diner's Club (1963)
• Love Is a Ball (1963)
• The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) as Pontius Pilate
• The Slender Thread (1965)
• Beau Geste (1966) as Sergeant Dagineau
• The Dirty Dozen (1967) as Archer Maggott
• The Karate Killers (1967) as Count Valeriano De Fanzini
• The Scalphunters (1968) as Jim Howie
• The Assassination Bureau (1969)
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
• Land Raiders (1969)
• Crooks and Coronets (1969) as Herbie Haseler
• Mackenna's Gold (1969) as Cavalry Sergeant Tibbs
• Violent City (1970)
• A Town Called Bastard (1971)
• Pancho Villa (1972)
• Crime Boss (1972)
• Scenes from a Murder (1972)
• Sonny and Jed (1972)
• Horror Express (1973)
• Lisa and the Devil (1973)
• A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die (1973)
• Senza Ragione aka Redneck (1973)
• Inside Out (1975)
• Killer Force (1976)
• Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) as Doctor Stefan Svevo
• Tales of the Unexpected: Completely Foolproof (1981) as Joe Brisson
• Cannonball Run II (1984) as Hymie Kaplan
• Gobots: Battle of the Rock Lords (voice) (1986)

Other movie roles where Savalas didn't play the villain were:

• Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) as Feto Gomez
• Cape Fear (1962)
• Love Is a Ball (1963) as P.I. Charles Sievers
• The New Interns (1964)
• Genghis Khan (1965) as Shan
• The Slender Thread (1965)
• Battle of the Bulge (1965) as Tank Sgt. Guffy
• Sol Madrid (1968)
• Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
• Kelly's Heroes (1970) as Master Sergeant "big" Joe
• Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
• Clay Pigeon (1971)
• Inside Out (1975) as Harry Morgan
• Capricorn One (1978) as Albain, the biplane pilot
• Escape to Athena (1979) as Zino
• Border Cop (1979) as Frank Cooper
• Nevada Heat (1982) as Detective
• The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland (1985) as the Cheshire Cat
• The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987) as Major Wright
• Faceless (1988) as Terry Hallen
• The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988) as Major Wright