"Telly" likes to play jokes on us too............
From the real Telly's official web site:
On January 22, 1994, 70-year-old Telly died from complications of bladder cancer. He was laid to rest in the George Washington section of Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles. Inscribed on his headstone, a familiar quote from Plato reads: "The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways - I to die and you to live. Which is better God only knows."