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Jack Palance has passed.
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His character in Shane set the mark for bad guys, IMO. His passing is something I never considered--he seemed like he would be around forever.
RIP, you will be missed...
Yea , there are some people that seem 'immortal' for some reason. Like Arnold , can you imagine The Terminator passing ??
Anyways , RIP Mr. Palance.
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If you want to read in interesting biography...
From Wikipedia:
Biography
Early life and career
Born as Vladimir Palaniuk (Ukrainian: Володимир Паланюк, Volodymyr Palanyuk) in the Lattimer Mines section of Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, near Hazleton in Northeastern Pennsylvania, Palance was of Ukranian descent and the son of an anthracite coal miner.
Palance worked in coal mines during his youth, and he was also a boxer. In the late 1930s he started a professional boxing career. Fighting under the name Jack Brazzo, Palance reportedly compiled a record of 15 consecutive victories with 12 knockouts before losing a decision to the future heavyweight contender Joe Baksi.
With the outbreak of World War II, Palance's boxing career ended and his military career began. Palance's rugged face, which took many beatings in the boxing ring, was disfigured when he bailed out of his burning B-24 Liberator while on a training flight over southern Arizona, where he was a student pilot. Plastic surgeons repaired as much of the damage that they could, but he was left with a distinctive, somewhat gaunt, look. After much reconstructive surgery, he was discharged in 1944.
Palance graduated from Stanford University in 1947 with an Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama. During his university years, he also worked as a short order cook, waiter, soda jerk, lifeguard at Jones Beach State Park, and as a photographer's model, to make ends meet.
Career
In 1947, Palance made his Broadway debut, 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.
Jack Palance earned his second Oscar nomination playing cold-blooded gunfighter Jack Wilson in 1953s cinema classic Shane.
The following year, Palance was Oscar-nominated again, for his role as the evil gunfighter Jack Wilson in Shane. Several other Western roles followed, but he would also play 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 him 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 only 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.
Appearing 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 until the turn of the century.
Academy Award
Four decades after his film debut, Palance won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on March 30, 1992, for his performance as cowboy Curly Washburn in the 1991 comedy City Slickers.
Stepping onstage to accept the award, the intimidatingly fit 6' 4" (1.93 m) actor looked down at 5' 7" (1.70 m) Oscar host Billy Crystal (who was also his co-star in the movie), and joked, "Billy Crystal... I crap bigger than him." [citation needed] He then dropped to the floor and demonstrated his ability, at age 73, to perform one-handed push-ups.
Crystal then turned this into a running gag. At various points in the broadcast, he announced that Palance was backstage on the Stairmaster; had "just bungee-jumped off the Hollywood sign"; had rendezvoused with the Space Shuttle in orbit; had fathered all the children in a production number; had been named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive; and had won the New York primary election. At the end of the broadcast, Crystal told everyone he'd like to see them again "but I've just been informed Jack Palance will be hosting next year." (The following year, host Crystal arrived on stage atop a giant model of the Oscar statuette, towed by Palance). [citation needed]
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Palance has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6608 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1992, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Personal life
Palance's first wife was Virginia Baker from 1949 to 1966. They had three children; Holly (born 1950), Brooke (born 1952) and Cody (1955-1998).
An actor in his own right, Cody Palance appeared alongside his father in the film Young Guns, and was 42 when he died from malignant melanoma in 1998. His father had hosted The Cody Palance Memorial Golf Classic to raise awareness and funds for a cancer center in Los Angeles.
Palance was married to Elaine Rogers in May 1987.
Palance painted and sold landscape art, with a poem included on the back of each picture. He is also the author of The Forest of Love, a book of poems, published October 1, 1996, by Summerhouse Press.
True to his roots, Jack Palance acknowledged a life-long endearment for his Pennsylvania heritage and visited there when able. Palance had recently placed his Butler Township, Pennsylvania, Holly-Brooke Farm up for sale and its contents, his personal lifetime collection, up for auction.
Palance died November 10, 2006 of natural causes at his home in Montecito, California in Santa Barbara County.
From Wikipedia:
Biography
Early life and career
Born as Vladimir Palaniuk (Ukrainian: Володимир Паланюк, Volodymyr Palanyuk) in the Lattimer Mines section of Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, near Hazleton in Northeastern Pennsylvania, Palance was of Ukranian descent and the son of an anthracite coal miner.
Palance worked in coal mines during his youth, and he was also a boxer. In the late 1930s he started a professional boxing career. Fighting under the name Jack Brazzo, Palance reportedly compiled a record of 15 consecutive victories with 12 knockouts before losing a decision to the future heavyweight contender Joe Baksi.
With the outbreak of World War II, Palance's boxing career ended and his military career began. Palance's rugged face, which took many beatings in the boxing ring, was disfigured when he bailed out of his burning B-24 Liberator while on a training flight over southern Arizona, where he was a student pilot. Plastic surgeons repaired as much of the damage that they could, but he was left with a distinctive, somewhat gaunt, look. After much reconstructive surgery, he was discharged in 1944.
Palance graduated from Stanford University in 1947 with an Bachelor of Arts degree in Drama. During his university years, he also worked as a short order cook, waiter, soda jerk, lifeguard at Jones Beach State Park, and as a photographer's model, to make ends meet.
Career
In 1947, Palance made his Broadway debut, 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.
Jack Palance earned his second Oscar nomination playing cold-blooded gunfighter Jack Wilson in 1953s cinema classic Shane.
The following year, Palance was Oscar-nominated again, for his role as the evil gunfighter Jack Wilson in Shane. Several other Western roles followed, but he would also play 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 him 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 only 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.
Appearing 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 until the turn of the century.
Academy Award
Four decades after his film debut, Palance won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on March 30, 1992, for his performance as cowboy Curly Washburn in the 1991 comedy City Slickers.
Stepping onstage to accept the award, the intimidatingly fit 6' 4" (1.93 m) actor looked down at 5' 7" (1.70 m) Oscar host Billy Crystal (who was also his co-star in the movie), and joked, "Billy Crystal... I crap bigger than him." [citation needed] He then dropped to the floor and demonstrated his ability, at age 73, to perform one-handed push-ups.
Crystal then turned this into a running gag. At various points in the broadcast, he announced that Palance was backstage on the Stairmaster; had "just bungee-jumped off the Hollywood sign"; had rendezvoused with the Space Shuttle in orbit; had fathered all the children in a production number; had been named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive; and had won the New York primary election. At the end of the broadcast, Crystal told everyone he'd like to see them again "but I've just been informed Jack Palance will be hosting next year." (The following year, host Crystal arrived on stage atop a giant model of the Oscar statuette, towed by Palance). [citation needed]
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Palance has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6608 Hollywood Boulevard. In 1992, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Personal life
Palance's first wife was Virginia Baker from 1949 to 1966. They had three children; Holly (born 1950), Brooke (born 1952) and Cody (1955-1998).
An actor in his own right, Cody Palance appeared alongside his father in the film Young Guns, and was 42 when he died from malignant melanoma in 1998. His father had hosted The Cody Palance Memorial Golf Classic to raise awareness and funds for a cancer center in Los Angeles.
Palance was married to Elaine Rogers in May 1987.
Palance painted and sold landscape art, with a poem included on the back of each picture. He is also the author of The Forest of Love, a book of poems, published October 1, 1996, by Summerhouse Press.
True to his roots, Jack Palance acknowledged a life-long endearment for his Pennsylvania heritage and visited there when able. Palance had recently placed his Butler Township, Pennsylvania, Holly-Brooke Farm up for sale and its contents, his personal lifetime collection, up for auction.
Palance died November 10, 2006 of natural causes at his home in Montecito, California in Santa Barbara County.
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I did a couple of photo magazine layouts with Jack at his 1000 acre ranch about a hundred miles north of Los Angeles back in the early 1990's. I remember walking into this hugh wooden barn which was filled with his oil paintings and old cars, I remember him pointing out this old La Sale from the late 1930's he said that the car once belonged to Al Capone. I went back to the ranch a couple of more times to photograph him dressed up as a cowboy around a campfire.
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Ralph: I would love to visit those photos next time I get to California. Please send me an email, eafwb@wyoming.com
I just ordered a used copy of "The Forest of Love" from Abebooks. Can't wait to read his thoughts.
I just ordered a used copy of "The Forest of Love" from Abebooks. Can't wait to read his thoughts.
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I love the scene in City Slickers where Billy Crystal says to Jack Palance, "Hey Curly, you killed anyone today?" Jack says "Nope", and Crystal smiles to his buddies, the Jack Palance looks over and says "but the day ain't over".
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Truly sad to hear of his passing. Shane was a great piece of work - I understand his portrayal of Wilson was the inspiration for Lee Marvins evil gunfighter character in Cat Ballou. I remember reading a story some time back that Jack Palance was not familiar with horses and a scene in Shane where he either mounted or dismounted a horse had to be shown in reverse to make it look a lot more elegant than it really was. I also seem to remember him in a TV series back in the 60s - The Greatest Show on Earth. Does anyone else recall it?
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RIP Dann, you were a good guy.
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Jack was a "man's man"...RIP, Jack.
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AMEN! Rest IN Peace