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 Cop" (1980). Savalas returned to Alcatraz in "" (1980) and starred in a pilot for a TV series "Hellinger's Law" (1981). He did "My Pallikar" for "American Playhouse" (1982), "Fake-Out" (1982) with Pia Zadora, "Cannonball Run II" (1984), "The Cartier Affair" (1984), and an episode of "The Love Boat." Savalas reprised his role of Kojak in a TV movie, "" (1985). Savalas was one of many names in "Alice in Wonderland" (1985), then did "Kojak: The Price of Justice" (1987). He did a "Dirty Dozen" sequel, "" (1987), playing an entirely new character. Savalas guest-starred in "The Equalizer" and "J.J.