American actor John Cazale died from lung cancer at the age of 42 in March 1978. A longtime chain-smoker, he had been diagnosed in 1977. He died nine months before the release of his final film, the Vietnam War epic The Deer Hunter, in which he appeared alongside Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep.
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