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 Powell Theatre," "The Detectives," "Ben Casey," "The Untouchables," and "Cain's Hundred." He appeared in a short film, "The Sin of Jesus" (1961). Savalas was a private detective in "Cape Fear" (1962), directed by J. Lee Thompson. He was reunited with Frankenheimer and Lancaster for "Birdman of Alcatraz" (1962), one of his most acclaimed performances. He followed it playing a doctor in "The Interns" (1962). Savalas guest starred on "Alcoa Premiere," "The Untouchables" again, "The Eleventh Hour," "The Dakotas," "Grindl" (the pilot), and "Empire." He played support roles in some comedies, "The Man from the Diners' Club" (1962) with Danny Kaye