met. I've got lung cancer... So take some advice about smoking and losing from someone who's been doing both for years... If you don't smoke, don't start. If you do smoke, quit!.... Don't be a loser." Four weeks after filming the second public service announcement, Talman died of lung cancer (which had metastasized to his liver, bones and brain) on August 30, 1968, at the age of 53, and was buried in the Court of Liberty, lot 833, at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) in Los Angeles. Theatre credits Filmography Notes References External links When TV D.A. William Talman Got Busted For Narcotics and Lewd Vagrancy at Invisible Themepark 1915 births 1968 deaths American male film actors American male television actors Cranbrook Educational Community alumni American people of English descent Deaths from lung cancer in California Male actors from Detroit Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills) 20th-century American male actors Anti-smoking activists Dartmouth College alumni University of Michigan alumni United States Army personnel of World War II American health activists United States Army officers