Cazale was dying of cancer. His last movie was the Deer Hunter, I believe, and he died soon after it was completed.
28 posted on 08/13/2011 5:03:41 PM PDT by Frank Sheed
(Fr. V. R. Capodanno, Lt, USN, Catholic Chaplain. 3rd/5th, 1st Marine Div., FMF. MOH, posthumously.)