- Telly Savalas
Telly Savalas (January 21, 1922 - January 22, 1994) was a prominent Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor whose career spanned four decades. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1963 for his supporting role in "Birdman of Alcatraz". He also starred with Burt Lancaster in "The Young Savages" and "The Scalphunters". For the course of his long career, he was best known for his work playing the title role in the popular 1970s crime drama, … - Kevin Dobson
Kevin James Dobson is a U.S. actor, primarily on soap operas and television. He was born on March 18, 1943 and raised in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City. He is best known for his roles as Telly Savalas's young trusted partner, Sgt. Bobby Crocker, in the popular 1970s crime drama, "Kojak", and for playing Michele Lee's second husband, charming and strict lawyer, M. Patrick "Mack" McKenzie, in the popular 1980s soap opera, … - Ving Rhames
Irving Rameses Rhames (born May 12 1959) is a Golden Globe-winning American actor. - Liz Sheridan
Liz Sheridan (born Elizabeth Sheridan on April 10, 1929, in Westchester County, New York) is an American actress. She began her career as a dancer working in New York City in nightclubs and musicals. There, she met the then-unknown James Dean. Sheridan claims that that she and Dean became engaged and had a short-lived romance. However, after he was cast in a play which looked to be successful, … - Martin Kove
Martin Kove (March 6 1947 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor who has appeared in both feature films and television series. His most well known role was on the 1980's hit TV series "Cagney & Lacey" as Det. Victor Isbecki and in the 1984 hit film "The Karate Kid" as Cobra Kai Sensei John Kreese. He reprised his role as Kreese in the 1986 hit sequel "The Karate Kid, Part II" and the 1989 sequel "The Karate Kid, Part III". - George Savalas
George Demosthenes Savalas (December 5, 1924 - October 2, 1985) was an American actor, known professionally as George Savalas. - Legs McNeil
Roderick Edward "Legs" McNeil (b. 1956 in Cheshire, Connecticut), is the co-founder and a writer for "Punk Magazine". He is also a former senior editor at "Spin Magazine", and the founder and editor of "Nerve" magazine (print only; 1992). - Christopher Walken
Christopher Walken (born March 31, 1943) is an Academy Award-winning American film and theatre actor who is best known for roles such as the Bond villain Max Zorin in the 1985 blockbuster "A View to a Kill". In 1979, Walken won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for "The Deer Hunter", where he played a disturbed Vietnam vet alongside Robert De Niro. Walken was nominated again in 2002 for "Catch Me if You Can". - Alan Fudge
Alan Fudge (born February 27, 1944) is an American actor known for being part of the cast of four television programs: "Man from Atlantis", "Eischied", "Paper Dolls", and "Bodies of Evidence", along with a recurring role (eighteen appearances over eight years, as of 2005) on "7th Heaven". Fudge was born in Wichita, Kansas. He has scores of credits, including appearances on many of the top-rated shows in the US, such as "Banacek", … - Thaao Penghlis
Thaao Penghlis (born December 15, 1945 in Sydney, Australia) is an actor best known for roles in U.S. daytime soap operas such as "Days of Our Lives", "Santa Barbara", and "General Hospital", but he has also guest-starred on a number of crime dramas, such as "Kojak", "Cannon", "Tenspeed and Brown Shoe", "Hart to Hart", "Nero Wolfe", and "Magnum, P.I.". - Albert Hall
Albert P. Hall (born November 10, 1937) is an American actor. Born in Brighton, Alabama, Hall graduated from the Columbia University School of the Arts in 1971. That same year he appeared off-Broadway in "The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel" and on Broadway in the Melvin Van Peebles musical "Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death". - Joseph Sargent
Joseph Sargent (born 22 July 1925, Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American film director. He has directed many television movies, but his best known feature film works are probably "MacArthur", "Nightmares" and "Jaws: The Revenge". He has won four Emmy Awards. Sargent began his career as an actor. He switched to directing in the mid 1950s, … - Leo Penn
Leo Penn was an American actor and director. Leo Penn's parents were Russian and Lithuanian Jews. Claims of their Sephardic extraction (the original surname was reportedly Piñon and was allegedly altered by officials at Ellis Island; see) are highly improbable: there were no known Sephardic Jews in Russia, where Penn is a relatively common Ashkenazic surname. He was married to actress Eileen Ryan, and the father of singer Michael Penn and actors Sean Penn and Chris Penn. - John Cacavas
Composer and conductor John Cacavas (born 13 August 1930 in Aberdeen, South Dakota) is probably best known for his television scores, notably "Kojak", for which he was the chief composer. The well known Kojak theme however is not by Cacavas, rather the work of Billy Goldenberg, who scored the early episodes. His television credits also include "Hawaii Five-O", "The Bionic Woman", "Mrs. Columbo", and "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century". - Maud Adams
Maud Adams (born February 12 1945) is a Swedish actress known for her roles as two different Bond girls in two James Bond films, "The Man with the Golden Gun" (1974) and as the title character in "Octopussy" (1983). She was also an extra in "A View to a Kill" (1985). - Andrea Marcovicci
Andrea Marcovicci (born November 18,1948 in New York City) is a Golden Globe-nominated American actress and singer. As an actress she first became known in the television soap opera "Love is a Many Splendored Thing", as Dr. Betsy Chernak Taylor from 1970-1973. She also appeared in the short-lived 1985 series "Berrenger's", as well as starring on the hit CBS series "Trapper John, M.D." as Fran Brennan Gates from 1985-1986. - Jerry London
Jerry London has been a director and producer of a wide range of American TV shows and movies for almost forty years. He was born on January 21, 1947 in Los Angeles, California. Starting work in 1965, he directed a host of classic US sitcoms and dramas - such as "Hogan's Heroes", "Hawaii Five-O", "The Brady Bunch", "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", "The Rockford Files" and "Kojak". He has directed over 40 movies for television. - Zohra Lampert
Zohra Lampert (born May 13 1937) is an American character actress, perhaps best remembered for her role in the 1971 cult horror film "Let's Scare Jessica to Death". Born in New York, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants, Lampert attended New York's High School of Music and Art, and then the University of Chicago. After initially working for several years on stage, … - Jeffrey Demunn
Jeffrey DeMunn (born April 25, 1947 in Buffalo, New York) is an American theatre, film and television actor. DeMunn graduated from Union College with a Bachelor of Arts in English. He moved to England in the early 1970s, receiving theatrical training at the Old Vic Theatre. When he returned to the States, he performed in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of "King Lear" and several off-Broadway productions, including "Bent", … - William P. McGivern
William Peter McGivern (December 6 1918 - November 18 1982) was an American novelist and television scriptwriter. He published more than 20 novels, mostly mysteries and crime thrillers, some under the pseudonym Bill Peters. His novels were adapted for a number of films, among them "Odds Against Tomorrow" (1959), a noir tale of three losers, and "The Big Heat" (1953), starring Glenn Ford as a cop that will do anything to get his man. - Jocelyn Brando
Jocelyn Brando was an American character actress with rare film appearances. She appeared in the movies "The Ugly American" (1963) and "The Chase" (1966) with her brother, Marlon Brando. She debuted on Broadway before her brother, appearing in Arnold Sungaard's ill-fated "The First Crocus" which ran for only five performances in January 1942. - Harrison Page
Harrison Page (born August 27, 1941) is an American television and film actor who has appeared in many popular shows, including "Cold Case", "JAG", "ER", "Ally McBeal", "Melrose Place", "Quantum Leap", "The Wonder Years", "21 Jump Street", "Murder She Wrote", "Fame", "Gimme a Break!", "Benson", "Hill Street Blues", "Webster", "The Dukes of Hazzard", "Kung Fu", … - Jennifer Warren
Jennifer Warren (born August 12, 1941) is an American actress and film director. Born in the Greenwich Village section of New York City, Warren graduated from Elisabeth Irwin High School. She made her Broadway debut in 1972 in "6 Rms Riv Vu", for which she won the Theatre World Award. She also appeared in the short-lived "P. S. Your Cat Is Dead!". Warren's film credits include "Slap Shot" (as the fed-up wife of hockey coach Paul Newman), … - Marc Alaimo
Marc Alaimo (born Mike Alaimo on May 5, 1942) is an American actor. Alaimo was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. After working with the Marquette University Players and the Milwaukee Repertory Theater Company, Alaimo moved to New York and landed the recurring role of villainous Virgil Paris in the TV soap opera, "Somerset". Alaimo has been playing characters in television shows since 1973. He has appeared, mostly as villains, in shows such as "Kojak, … - Art Eisenson
Art Eisenson is an American television writer and labor activist. His credits include the series "Kojak" and "The Gangster Chronicles". In 2005, he ran for a position on the board of the Writers Guild of America, and was one of only two candidates not belonging to a political slate. As a senior at Columbia College of Columbia University, he was president of a briefly revived incarnation of the Philolexian Society. - Cristina Raines
Cristina Raines (birth name Tina Herazo, born 28 February 1952 in Manila, Philippines) is an American actress. She co-starred in the TV mini-series "Centennial", a 22 hour epic depicting the history of Colorado. She appeared as Lucinda McKeag-Zendt, a woman who lived in the 1840's and married a Pennsylvania farmer. She is probably best known for her role as Lane Ballou in the 1980s prime-time soap opera "Flamingo Road". - Stewart Moss
Stewart Moss (born 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, USA) is an American actor. He has appeared in such TV shows as "Murder, She Wrote", "Matlock", "Riptide", "Cagney and Lacey", "Magnum P.I.", "Barnaby Jones", "The Rockford Files", "Cannon", "Kojak", "Hogan's Heroes", "Star Trek: The Original Series" and "Bonanza". He also wrote an epiode of "Trapper John, M.D." called Old Man Liver. - Nick Dennis
Nick Dennis (April 26, 1904-November 14, 1980) was an American film actor born in Thessaly, Greece. The supporting actor, who began in films in 1947, was known for playing ethnic types (usually Greek) in films such as "Kiss Me Deadly" and the Humphrey Bogart film "Sirocco". Dennis, who also spoke Greek fluently, appeared in a number of television programs in the 1960s and 1970s including playing the part of Uncle Constantine on the detective show Kojak. - Brian Murray
Brian Murray (born September 10 1937) is a South African actor and theatre director. Born in Johannesburg, Murray made his Broadway debut in the play "All in Good Time" in 1965. Two years later he was cast as one of the leads in "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", earning the first of three Tony Award nominations for his performance. Murray made his directorial debut with the 1973 revival of "The Waltz of the Toreadors". - David Margulies
David Margulies is an American actor. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Margulies graduated from City College of New York. Immediately afterward, he made his stage debut in the off-Broadway play "Golden 6" (1958). His first Broadway appearance was in the 1973 revival of "The Iceman Cometh". Margulies' extensive film credits include "The Front", "All That Jazz", "Dressed to Kill", "9½ Weeks", "Ghostbusters", … - Leonardo Cimino
Leonardo Cimino is an Italian film and television actor. Arguably, Leonardo's most well known role is in the 1983 NBC mini series "V" as Abraham Bernstein. Leonardo Cimino has made guest appearances on tv shows,some of those appearances range from "Naked City", "Kojak", "The Equalizer" and "Law & Order". - Allan Miller
Allan Miller (born 14 February 1929 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American actor. He is best known for his appearances on television, including "Kojak", "The Rockford Files", "The Streets of San Francisco", "Hawaii Five-0", "Lou Grant", "Wonder Woman", "Starsky and Hutch", "Barnaby Jones", "Soap", "Galactica 1980", "Barney Miller", "Knots Landing", "Quincy", "Cagney and Lacey", … - Richard Lawson
Richard Lawson (born Rickey Lee Lawson on March 7, 1947 in Loma Linda, California, USA) is an African-American actor who has starred in movies and on television. He is best known in the science fiction community as Ryan in the 1982 hit movie "Poltergeist" and in the 1983 mini series "V" as Dr. Ben Taylor. - David Ackroyd
David Ackroyd (born May 30, 1940 in Orange, New Jersey) is an American actor, who first came to prominence in soap operas such as "The Secret Storm" (as Kevin Kincaid, 1971-74) and "Another World" (as Dr. Dave Gilchrist, 1974-77). He is also notable for being the first actor to play Gary Ewing, the "black sheep" of the central family in the drama series "Dallas". When the spin-off series, "Knots Landing", was being developed, … - Jane Elliot
Jane Elliot (born January 17, 1947 in New York, New York) is an award-winning American actress. She has played Tracy Quartermaine on two TV series: "General Hospital" (1978-1980, 1989-1993, 1996, 2003-present) and "The City" (1996-1997), and also won several awards including a Daytime Emmy in 1981 for Best Supporting Actress. Her career has also extended beyond television appearances to include dramatic roles for film and Broadway, … - Clarence Felder
Clarence Felder (born September 2, 1938 in St. Matthews, South Carolina, USA) is an American character actor who has starred in films and on television. Clarence's first feature film was in the 1974 movie "Man on a Swing", his other films include "After Hours" (1985), "Ruthless People" (1986), "The Hidden" (1987), "The Last Boy Scout" (1991), and "The Ride" (1997). - Reb Brown
Reb Brown (born Robert Brown on April 29, 1948 in Los Angeles, California) is an American actor. After playing football at USC, Brown began his acting career in 1973 appearing in the film, "SSSSSSS". He moved forward to appear in guest starring roles in several television series; including "Marcus Welby, M.D.", "Kojak", and "The Rockford Files". He continued this trend of appearing on television, … - Joe Turkel
Joe Turkel (15 July 1927, in Brooklyn, New York) is a prolific American character actor. He is noted for his craggy looks and distinctive, penetrating voice. His most famous roles are Dr. Eldon Tyrell, the eccentric God-figure in Ridley Scott's "Blade Runner" (1982), and Lloyd, the Overlook Bartender in Stanley Kubrick's "The Shining" (1980). - Milt Kogan
Milt Kogan (born 1936 in Camden, New Jersey) is an American actor. He is best known for playing the desk sergeant, Officer Kogan, on the television series "Barney Miller" in 1975. He also made guest appearances on the television series "It Takes a Thief", "Mission: Impossible", "Ironside", "Sanford and Son", "Mannix", "The Law", "Cannon", "Police Story", "Kojak", "Eight Is Enough", … - Don Knight
Donald Knight (February 16, 1933 - August 18, 1997) was an English movie, television, and stage actor. Born in Manchester, United Kingdom, Knight moved to North America where he studied at Sir George Williams University in Montreal, Canada, and later Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C.. Knight was also an ordained minister, and during his acting career he also served as pastor at many churches. In 1965 he moved to California to pursue acting, …
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