The Kojak star, Telly Savalas, lived in the Sheraton-Universal Hotel in Universal City for 20 years until his death in 1994.

Fans still continue to be entertained by the likes of Kojak and On Her Majesty's Secret Service, but away from the screen, Telly Savalas is a dad to six children, including a famous singer ...

On Oct. 24, 1973, one of the most memorable cop series in the history of the world officially arrived. Starring Garden City native Telly Savalas, with the indomitable dome and incisive wit, "Kojak" ...

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 ...

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, ...

When you hear the name Telly Savalas, you probably think Kojak, the iconic character he played on the show of the same name. Actually, if you;re under thirty, you probably think, “Who the fuck is ...

Universal Pictures is fast-tracking a “Kojak” remake with Vin Diesel playing the tough-talking New York detective made famous by the equally bald Telly Savalas, Deadline.com reported. “Skyfall” ...

An online campaign launched this week to rename a Duluth street for actor Telly Savalas, the bald-headed, crime-solving, lollipop-sucking star of TV's "Kojak" in the 1970s. "Telly Savalas lived in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Universal Studios is gearing up its “Kojak” movie with playwright Philip Gawthorne on board for Vin Diesel’s bigscreen version of ...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. Ving Rhames hears the question often. Why make Lt. Theo Kojak black? After all, everyone remembers the no-nonsense, Tootsie Pops-sucking New York City detective being Greek, ...

Intrigued? From my latest Daily Beast column: I started receiving People magazine recently, and as I was leafing through its ho-hum 40th anniversary issue, I stumbled across this 1974 cover featuring ...