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 a radio show called The Coffeehouse in New York City. Savalas began as an executive director and then senior director of the news special events at ABC. He then became an executive producer for the "Gillette Cavalcade of Sports," where he gave Howard Cosell his first job in television. In the fall of 1959 Savalas directed Scott Vincent and Howard Cosell in "Report to New York," WABC-TV's first local TV news program. Savalas did not consider acting as a career until asked if he could recommend an actor who could do a European accent. He did but the friend could