FrameThrower · Actors · Telly Savalas
Telly Savalas
4 films · 222 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1962–1973
Born 21 January 1922 · Garden City, Long Island, New York, USA · died 22 January 1994
Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas 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).
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 4 films · 222 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1962–1973
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama1976
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama1975
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series1974
- Ellis Island Medal of Honor
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 222 frames from the 4 films we hold. This is the look of the work Telly takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 4 films we hold, 58% of their frames are day, 55% natural — the look of the work Telly takes.
Time of day
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 222 frames from Telly Savalas's 4 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.