Movie Roles
His silver screen career usually involved him being cast as the villain in such films as:
- Mad Dog Coll (1961)
- The Young Savages (1961)
- Johnny Cool (1963)
- The Man from the Diner's Club (1963)
- Love Is a Ball (1963)
- The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965) as Pontius Pilate
- The Slender Thread (1965)
- Beau Geste (1966) as Sergeant Dagineau
- The Dirty Dozen (1967) as Archer Maggott
- The Karate Killers (1967) as Count Valeriano De Fanzini
- The Scalphunters (1968) as Jim Howie
- The Assassination Bureau (1969)
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) as Ernst Stavro Blofeld
- Land Raiders (1969)
- Crooks and Coronets (1969) as Herbie Haseler
- Mackenna's Gold (1969) as Cavalry Sergeant Tibbs
- Violent City (1970)
- A Town Called Bastard (1971)
- Pancho Villa (1972)
- Crime Boss (1972)
- Scenes from a Murder (1972)
- Sonny and Jed (1972)
- Horror Express (1973)
- Lisa and the Devil (1973)
- A Reason to Live, A Reason to Die (1973)
- Senza Ragione aka Redneck (1973)
- Inside Out (1975)
- Killer Force (1976)
- Beyond the Poseidon Adventure (1979) as Doctor Stefan Svevo
- Tales of the Unexpected: Completely Foolproof (1981) as Joe Brisson
- Cannonball Run II (1984) as Hymie Kaplan
- Gobots: Battle of the Rock Lords (voice) (1986)
Other movie roles where Savalas didn't play the villain were:
- Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) as Feto Gomez
- Cape Fear (1962)
- Love Is a Ball (1963) as P.I. Charles Sievers
- The New Interns (1964)
- Genghis Khan (1965) as Shan
- The Slender Thread (1965)
- Battle of the Bulge (1965) as Tank Sgt. Guffy
- Sol Madrid (1968)
- Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell (1968)
- Kelly's Heroes (1970) as Master Sergeant "big" Joe
- Pretty Maids All in a Row (1971)
- Clay Pigeon (1971)
- Inside Out (1975) as Harry Morgan
- Capricorn One (1978) as Albain, the biplane pilot
- Escape to Athena (1979) as Zino
- Border Cop (1979) as Frank Cooper
- Nevada Heat (1982) as Detective
- The Adventures of Alice in Wonderland (1985) as the Cheshire Cat
- The Dirty Dozen: The Deadly Mission (1987) as Major Wright
- Faceless (1988) as Terry Hallen
- The Dirty Dozen: The Fatal Mission (1988) as Major Wright
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