On Her Majesty's Secret Service (novel) 1964–1965. In 1969 the novel was adapted as the sixth film in the Eon Productions James Bond film series and was the only film to star George Lazenby as Bond. In 2014 "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was adapted as a play on BBC Radio, starring Toby Stephens. For more than a year, James Bond, British Secret Service operative 007, has been involved in "Operation Bedlam": trailing the private criminal organisation SPECTRE and its leader, Ernst Stavro Blofeld. The organisation had hijacked two nuclear devices and subsequently blackmailed the western world, as described in "Thunderball". Convinced SPECTRE no longer exists,
Telly Savalas (1970)", Pretty Maids All in a Row" (1971), "Lisa and the Devil" (1973), "Inside Out" (1975), and "Escape to Athena" (1979). He then starred as television's "Kojak" (1973–78), co-starring his brother George Savalas. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "Birdman of Alcatraz" (1962). The second of five children, Telly Savalas was born Aristotelis Savalas on January 21, 1924, in Garden City, New York, to Greek American parents Christina (née Kapsalis; 1904–88), a New York City artist who was a native of Sparta, and Nick Savalas [Tsavalas] (1904–48), a Greek restaurant owner.