Telly Savalas, best known for starring in the crime drama series Kojak, was a proud Greek who spoke passionately about Hellenism.

If you`re Ariana Savalas, Papa does. Telly Savalas` 2-year-old toddler stole the spotlight right out from under his prominent beak at the recent TV critics` tour in Los Angeles. Savalas was supposed ...

Get beyond the lollipops and the slogan ("who loves ya baby") and you've got the consummate TV cop. This classic run began with a bang, in the 1973 pilot movie, "The Marcus-Nelson Murders," where ...

America loved Telly Savalas in the 1970s, when the veteran Greek-American actor nailed the title role in CBS’ “Kojak” series — a tough New York City police lieutenant with a heart of gold, given to ...

Giallo: a splashy ‘70s subgenre of Italian horror with soft, overlit nightscapes filmed in garish Eastman color and stars whose hairlines didn’t recede, they advanced. Except for the lollipop-sucking ...

“Kojak” is back, 11 years after the death of Telly Savalas, in a limited series from the USA Network, and let us all admit from the start that, lollipops and “New York setting” aside -- Toronto ...

Back when "Kojak" was king, Tom DiMenna wasn't even born. Yet, more than 35 years after that prime-time crime show made a star of Telly Savalas and launched one of the more enduring pop culture icons, ...

George Savalas, 58, who played the mop-topped Detective Stavros on the Kojak television show that starred his brother Telly Savalas, died Wednesday of leukemia. Savalas was a former drama teacher who ...

Actor Telly Savalas, famous for his role as a detective in the television series Kojak, is suffering from prostate cancer, his publicist said Friday. Mike Mamakos said Savalas, 69, was discharged from ...

HE SUCKED LOLLIPOPS, called everyone “baby” and remains one of the coolest bald men in American history. But in Queens, “Kojak” star Telly Savalas is also the subject of an unconfirmed yet ...

"Who loves ya, baby?" he used to say, with the lollipop in his mouth. Well, Queen Elizabeth, for one. Once upon a time, the woman whom Bette Midler immortally described as "the whitest woman in the ...