Die Soldner (1976)

aka’s: Killer Force/The Diamond Mercenaries/Die Söldner

Telly Savalas is brought in to oversee security at a South African diamond mine after some thefts are discovered. Another security officer (Peter Fonda), is sent to lure the thieves out into the open, but instead he enlists a group of former soldiers of fortune (Hugh O’Brian, O.J. Simpson and Christopher Lee) to help him pull off the biggest heist the mine has ever seen. Also with Maud Adams.

Telly Savalas died on January 22, 1994, at the age of 72, just one day after his birthday, of complications of cancer of the bladder and prostate at the Sheraton-Universal Hotel in Universal City, CA.