The rest, he says, is history. He had a deformed left index finger and was diagnosed with cell cancer in the bladder and prostate. She is a good-looking woman with fair skin, blonde hair and beautiful brown eyes. Gregory C. Pappas Savalas was married three times. He also had a successful movie career earning an Academy Award nomination for Birdman of Alcatraz in 1962. For a few years, the actor had cystoscopies every three or four months in order to check for new growths, and seemed to be stable, but by December 1993, things took a turn for the worst. 'target="_blank">