Telly Savalas
Films

Telly Savalas

Section Title: Films
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Year	Title	Role	Notes

1961	Mad Dog Coll	Lt. Darro	Film debut

1961	The Young Savages	Det. Lt. Gunderson

1962	Cape Fear	Private Det. Charles Sievers

1962	Birdman of Alcatraz	Feto Gomez	Nominated — Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

1962	The Interns	Dr. Dominic Riccio

1963	The Man from the Diners' Club	Foots Pulardos

1963	Love Is a Ball	Dr. Christian Gump (Millie's uncle)

1963	Johnny Cool	Vincenzo Santangelo

1964	The New Interns	Dr. Dominic Riccio

1965	The Greatest Story Ever Told	Pontius Pilate

1965	John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!	Macmuid	Uncredited

1965	Genghis Khan	Shan

1965	The Slender Thread	Dr. Joe Coburn

1965	Battle of the Bulge	Sgt. Guffy	Nominated — Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture

1966	Beau Geste	Sgt. Major Dagineau

1967	The Dirty Dozen	Archer Maggott

1968	Sol Madrid	Emil Dietrich

1968	The Scalphunters	Jim Howie

1968	Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell	Walter Braddock

1969	The Assassination Bureau	Lord Bostwick

1969	Mackenna's Gold	Sgt. Tibbs

1969	Sophie's Place	Herbie Haseler

1969	On Her Majesty's Secret Service	Ernst Stavro Blofeld

1970	Land Raiders	Vicente Cardenas

1970	Kelly's Heroes	Big Joe

1970	Violent City	Al Weber

1971	Pretty Maids All in a Row	Surcher

1971	A Town Called Bastard	Don Carlos

1971	Clay Pigeon	Redford

1972	Crime Boss	Don Vincenzo

1972	Sonny and Jed	Sheriff Franciscus

1972	Horror Express	Capt. Kazan

1972	L'assassino... è al telefono	Ranko Drasovic

1972	Pancho Villa	Pancho Villa

1972	A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die	Maggiore Ward

1973	Senza Ragione	Memphis

1974	Lisa and the Devil	Leandro

1975	Inside Out	Harry Morgan

1976	Killer Force	Harry Webb

1978	Capricorn One	Albain

1979	Escape to Athena	Zeno

1979	Beyond the Poseidon Adventure	Capt. Stefan Svevo

1979	The Muppet Movie	El Sleezo Tough

1980	Border Cop	Frank Cooper

1982	Fake-Out	Lt. Thurston

1983	Afghanistan pourquoi?	Rebel Leader

1984	Cannonball Run II	Hymie Kaplan

1985	Beyond Reason	Dr. Nicholas Mati	Originally filmed in 1977 and not released theatrically; made available on home video eight years later

1986	GoBots: Battle of the Rock Lords	Magmar	Voice

1988	Faceless	Terry Hallen

1993	Mind Twister	Richard Howland

1995	Backfire!	Most Evil Man	(final film role); posthumous release

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Savalas played Pontius Pilate in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965).

final_sentence: Savalas played Pontius Pilate in The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965).