Telly Savalas same year. While Savalas was going broke, he founded the Garden City Theater Center in his native Garden City. While working there he met Marilyn Gardner, a theater teacher. They married in 1960. Marilyn gave birth to daughter Penelope in 1961. A second daughter, Candace, was born in 1963. They divorced in 1974, after a long separation. In January 1969, while working on the movie "On Her Majesty's Secret Service," Savalas met actress Sally Adams (billed as Dani Sheridan, one of Blofeld's "Angels of Death"), a small-time actress 25 years his junior whose daughter from a previous relationship is Nicollette
Telly Savalas high school he worked as a lifeguard, but on one occasion was unsuccessful at rescuing a man from drowning, an event that would haunt Savalas for the remainder of his life. When he entered Columbia University School of General Studies, Savalas took courses including English language, radio, and psychology, graduating in 1948. Savalas also served three years (1943–46) in the U.S. Army during World War II, in which he received a Purple Heart. After the war he worked for the U.S. State Department as host of the "Your Voice of America" series, then at ABC News. In 1950 Savalas hosted