Julie Hovland Family and Career Life
Julie Hovland is a professional golfer and is known for being the fourth wife of actor and singer Telly Savalas. She earned medalist honors at the Lady Red Wolves Classic and USA Intercollegiate. Julie Hovland was born in December 1998 in Bergen, Norway. She got married to Telly Savalas in December 1984 in Clark, Nevada. She has two children Christian and Ariana.
Who is Telly Savalas?
Telly Savalas is a Greek American actor and singer. He is known for his bald head and deep voice and his role as Lt. Theo Kojak on the series Kojak and James Bond in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. He has been featured in films such as Escape to Athena, The Dirty Dozen, Kelly’s Heroes, Battle of the Bulge, and The Greatest Story Ever Told. His role on Birdman of Alcatraz won him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor.
For his music career, he released five music albums and twelve singles from 1972 to 1982 including This is Telly Savalas, Sweet Surprise, and cover versions of Johnny Cash’s I Walk the Line. He released a cover of the Bread song If and it was the number-one single in the UK in 1975. He was ranked number 18 on the 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list by TV Guide and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In 1941, he joined the United States Army serving in Company C, 12th Medical Training Battalion, 4th Medical Training Regiment at Camp Pickett, Virginia. After his involvement in a car accident, he was discharged from the Army in 1943 and spent a year recovering. He joined the Armed Forces Institute and studied radio and television production and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Columbia’s School of General Studies.
His brother George Savalas was an actor playing Stavros in the original series and he died from leukemia in 1985. Savalas died on January 22, 1994, due to prostate and bladder cancer complications at the age of 72. He had an estimated net worth of $5 million and a mansion in Ferndown Dorset, England he bought with the $1,000,000 he received for his role on Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
Telly Savalas Marriage Life
Savalas married his college girlfriend Katherine Nicolaides in 1948. They welcomed their daughter Christina in 1950 and unfortunately divorced in 1957. He met Marily Gardner a theater teacher and they got married in 1960. Their daughter Penelope was born in 1961 and Candace in 1963. The marriage did not work out and they divorced in 1974.
He met his third wife Sally Adams while working on the movie Her Majesty’s Secret Service. She was 24 years younger than her and moved in with her daughter Nicollette Sheridan. They welcomed their son Nicholas Savalas in 1973 and the couple separated in 1980 with Sally demanding child support. Savalas married Hovland in 1984 and were together till his death. They had two children; Ariana an actress and songwriter, and Christian a singer and entrepreneur.