The Eclectic Life and Career of TV’s Famed ‘Kojak’ Star Telly Savalas
3 min readApr 9, 2024
From 1973 to 1978 Telly Savalas portrayed the hairless and tough-but-lollipop-loving Lt. Theo Kojak on the CBS TV prime-time detective series, Kojak.
Savalas, who died in 1994 from prostate cancer, ignited his career as the host of ABC’s Your Voice of America for the U.S. State Department while serving in the U.S. Armed Forces during World War II…
