Jack Palance

Name: Jack Palance
Date of Birth: February 18, 1919
Place of Birth: Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, USA

Mini-bio: Jack Palance (February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an Oscar-winning American film actor. With his rugged facial features and gravelly voice, Palance was best known to modern movie audiences as b...( read more)

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Jack Palance mini-bio: Jack Palance (February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an Oscar-winning American film actor. With his rugged facial features and gravelly voice, Palance was best known to modern movie audiences as both the characters of Curly and Duke in the two City Slickers movies, but his career spanned half a century of film and television appearances.

Palance's acting break came as Marlon Brando's understudy in A Streetcar Named Desire, and he eventually replaced Brando on stage as Stanley Kowalski. In 1947, Palance made his Broadway debut, and this was followed three years later by his screen debut in the movie Panic in the Streets (1950). He was quickly recognized for his skill as a character actor, receiving an Academy Award nomination for only his third film role, as Lester Blaine in Sudden Fear. The following year, Palance was Oscar-nominated again, this time for his role as the evil gunfighter Jack Wilson in Shane. Several other Western roles followed, but he also played such varied roles as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula and Attila the Hun. In 1957, Palance won an Emmy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Mountain McClintock in the Playhouse 90 production of Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight.

Jean-Luc Godard persuaded Palance to take on the role of Hollywood producer Jeremy Prokosch in the 1963 nouvelle vague movie Le Mépris, with Brigitte Bardot and Michel Piccoli. Although the main dialogue was in French, Palance spoke mostly English. While still busy making movies, in the 1980s Palance also co-hosted (with his daughter Holly Palance) the television series Ripley's Believe It or Not. Appearances in Young Guns (1988) and Tim Burton's Batman (1989) reinvigorated Palance's career, and demand for his services kept him involved in new projects each year right up to the turn of the century.

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Le Mépris (Contempt) (Unrated, 2008)
Back When We Were Grownups (Unrated, 2004)
Black Cobra Woman (G, 2004)
Talking to Heaven (Living with the Dead) (Unrated, 2002)
The Omen Legacy (Unrated, 2001)
Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (Unrated, 1999)
Treasure Island (PG-13, 1998)
Marco Polo (The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo) (PG-13, 1998)
I'll Be Home for Christmas (Unrated, 1997)
The Swan Princess (G, 1995)

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