ACTOR

Telly Savalas

1922 - 1994

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Aristotelis "Telly" Savalas (January 21, 1922 – January 22, 1994) was a Greek American actor. Noted for his bald head and deep, resonant voice, he is perhaps best known for portraying Lt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Telly Savalas has received more than 7,806,418 page views. His biography is available in 44 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 43 in 2019). Telly Savalas is the 329th most popular actor (up from 338th in 2019), the 607th most popular biography from United States (up from 626th in 2019) and the 166th most popular American Actor.

Telly Savalas is most famous for his role as Kojak in the 1970s television series of the same name.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 44

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Telly Savalas by language

Over the past year Telly Savalas has had the most page views in the with 1,016,368 views, followed by German (131,817), and Italian (106,547). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (137.11%), Irish (76.12%), and Danish (75.36%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Telly Savalas ranks 329 out of 13,578. Before him are Sammo Hung, Ellen Burstyn, Goldie Hawn, Sam Neill, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Julie Christie. After him are Ralph Fiennes, Lola Montez, Matthew Perry, Val Kilmer, Martin Landau, and Cary Grant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Telly Savalas ranks 33. Before him are Christiaan Barnard, Miguel Muñoz, Stanley Cohen, Renata Tebaldi, Yang Chen-Ning, and Alain Robbe-Grillet. After him are Otto Carius, Hans Georg Dehmelt, Iannis Xenakis, Nándor Hidegkuti, Ahmed Sékou Touré, and Nikolay Basov. Among people deceased in 1994, Telly Savalas ranks 28. Before him are Léon Degrelle, Paul Feyerabend, Jan Tinbergen, Dorothy Hodgkin, Guy Debord, and Paul Delvaux. After him are Domenico Modugno, Robert Doisneau, George Peppard, André Michel Lwoff, Richard Laurence Millington Synge, and Henry Mancini.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Telly Savalas ranks 607 out of 20,380. Before him are Art Garfunkel (1941), Goldie Hawn (1945), Ellen G. White (1827), Ice-T (1958), Jada Pinkett Smith (1971), and Theodore Dreiser (1871). After him are Napoleon Hill (1883), Matthew Perry (1969), Milton H. Erickson (1901), Margaret Mead (1901), Val Kilmer (1959), and Glenn Miller (1904).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Telly Savalas ranks 166. Before him are Carrie Fisher (1956), Gene Kelly (1912), John Belushi (1949), Ellen Burstyn (1932), Goldie Hawn (1945), and Jada Pinkett Smith (1971). After him are Matthew Perry (1969), Val Kilmer (1959), Martin Landau (1928), Joan Crawford (1904), Harold Ramis (1944), and Jamie Lee Curtis (1958).

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Television and Movie Roles

On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
James Bond tracks his archnemesis, Ernst Blofeld, to a mountaintop retreat in the Swiss alps where he is training an army of beautiful, lethal women. Along the way, Bond falls for Italian contessa Tracy Draco, and marries her in order to get closer to Blofeld.
Dec 18o 19696.586 / 10
Lisa and the Devil
Leandro
Lisa is a tourist in an ancient city. When she gets lost, she finds an old mansion in which to shelter. Soon she is sucked into a vortex of deception, debauchery and evil presided over by housekeeper Leandre.
May 8o 19736.329 / 10
Kelly's Heroes
Master Sergeant "Big Joe"
A misfit group of World War II American soldiers goes AWOL to rob a bank behind German lines.
Jun 22o 19707.385 / 10