Word: talman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anticommercials themselves are sometimes just the reverse of cigarette ads; the smokers are miserable instead of happy, look stale instead of springtime-fresh, cough instead of smile. By far the most chillingly effective ad is an appeal by Actor William Talman, a longtime three-pack-a-day smoker. Talman, who played the prosecuting attorney in the Perry Mason series, looks gaunt and ill as he appears onscreen with his family. He tells viewers: "I have a family consisting of six kids and a wife whom I adore, and I also have lung cancer, which means that my time with this...
Died. William Talman, 53, stern-faced district attorney of the Perry Mason TV series, who lost all 252 of his cases during the show's nine-year run; of cancer; in Encino, Calif...