Jack Palance Overview:

Legendary actor, Jack Palance, was born Volodymyr Palanyuk on Feb 18, 1919 in Lattimer Mines, PA. Palance died at the age of 87 on Nov 10, 2006 in Montecito, CA and was cremated and his ashes given to family or friend.

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Trying to build a Jack Palance filmography is like tracking down a whirlwind. Like some workaholic Jack the Ripper, this American actor of massive physical presence travelled half the world in search of audiences on whom to impose his fearsome personality. With a face rebuilt by plastic surgery after war burns, and a ferocious acting style, this son of Russian immigrants could hardly fail to dominate his films, and continued to do so, violence smouldering beneath a surface calm, for 40 years. In 1988, his career came full circle with a sadistic western villain in Young Guns. Received Oscar nominations for Sudden Fear and Shane. He finally won an Academy Award many decades later for City Slickers. The actresses Holly and Brooke Palance are his daughters.

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HONORS and AWARDS:

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Jack Palance was nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one for Best Supporting Actor for City Slickers (as Curly) in 1991.

Academy Awards

YearAwardFilm nameRoleResult
1952Best Supporting ActorSudden Fear (1952)Lester BlaineNominated
1953Best Supporting ActorShane (1953)WilsonNominated
1991Best Supporting ActorCity Slickers (1991)CurlyWon
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He was honored with one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television. In addition, Palance was inducted into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum .

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Jack Palance Quotes:

Jesus Raza: La RevoluciÛn is like a great love affair. In the beginning, she is a goddess. A holy cause. But... every love affair has a terrible enemy: time. We see her as she is. La RevoluciÛn is not a goddess but a whore. She was never pure, never saintly, never perfect. And we run away, find another lover, another cause. Quick, sordid affairs. Lust, but no love. Passion, but no compassion. Without love, without a cause, we are... *nothing*! We stay because we believe. We leave because we are disillusioned. We come back because we are lost. We die because we are committed.


Simon The Magician: A true miracle is nothing but a good trick.


Jacob Wade: Take your dead and git. And don't bury 'em on my ground!


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