Telly Savalas Looks At Birmingham In the 1970s, Birmingham attempted to reinvent itself as a city of the future - and recruited Telly Savalas to voice the narrative. A world of multi-storey car parks, concrete shopping centres and motorways. Telly Savales, the star of classic movies such as The Birdman Of Alcatraz and The Dirty Dozen, not to forget the quinessential '70s cop show, Kojak. Who loves ya baby!