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William Talman
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Screenwriter, Actor Born: February 4, 1915 in Detroit, MI Death: August 30, 1968 in Encino CA Biography:The scion of a wealthy Detroit family, "William Talman" would later claim that he learned to "champion the underdog" while a member of his Episcopal church boxing team. In his 20s, Talman became an evangelist for the Moral Re-Armament Movement, and later made at stab at studying law. He drifted to New York, where, through the intervention of an actor friend of his father, he began picking up small stage roles. After extensive experience in New York and in the touring company of Of Mice and Men, Talman moved to Hollywood, where in 1949 he played his first important screen role as a gangster in "Red, Hot and Blue" (1949). At his best when his characters were at their worst, Talman developed into one of Tinseltown's most fearsome screen villains, never more so than when he played a psycho killer who slept with one eye open in the noir classic "The Hitchhiker" (1955). In 1957, Talman was cast as Hamilton... Full Biography
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