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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1919-02-18 (106 years old)

Place of Birth

Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, USA

Jack Palance

Biography:

Jack Palance (born Volodymyr Palahniuk; February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American actor. Known for playing tough guys and villains, he was nominated for three Academy Awards, all for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, receiving nominations for his roles in Sudden Fear (1952) and Shane (1953) and winning almost 40 years later for his role in City Slickers (1991).

Born in Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, the son of Ukrainian immigrants, Palance served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He went on to briefly attend Stanford University before pursuing a career in the theatre. He made his film acting debut in Panic in the Streets (1950). Following his roles in Sudden Fear and Shane, Palance starred as Count Dracula in the 1974 television film Bram Stoker's Dracula, and played crime lord Yves Perret in Tango & Cash (1989). He also served as the host of the ABC television series Ripley's Believe It or Not! (1982–1986). In 2006, Palance died of natural causes at the home of his daughter Holly in Montecito, California.

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Known For

Acting

2004

Back When We Were Grownups as Paul 'Poppy' Davitch

2002

Living with the Dead as Allan Van Praagh

2001

The Omen Legacy as Narrator (voice)
Night Visions as Jake Jennings (segment "Bitter Harvest")

1999

Treasure Island as Long John Silver

1998

Ebenezer as Ebenezer Scrooge

1997

1996

Joan Crawford: Always the Star as Self (archive footage)

1995

Buffalo Girls as Bartle Bone

1994

The Swan Princess as Lord Rothbart (voice)
Cops & Robbersons as Jake Stone
The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics as Dr. Jeremy Wheaton (segment "Where the Dead Are")

1993

Cyborg 2 as Mercy

1992

Solar Crisis as Travis
Keep the Change as Overstreet
When It Was a Game 2 as Passage Narrator (voice)

1991

City Slickers as Curly Washburn

1989

Batman as Grissom
Tango & Cash as Yves Perret

1988

Young Guns as L. G. Murphy

1987

Bagdad Cafe as Rudi Cox
Gor as Xenos

1985

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey as Self (archive footage)

1983

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

1982

The Helm of Destiny as Narration
Psychic Confession as Narrator
Alone in the Dark as Frank Hawkes

1981

1980

Hawk the Slayer as Voltan
Without Warning as Joe Taylor
The Ivory Ape as Marc Kazarian

1979

Angels' Brigade as Mike Farrell
Cocaine Cowboys as Raphael

1978

The One Man Jury as Lieutenant Wade
Unknown Powers as Himself - Host

1977

The Unknown Force as Self - Host
Welcome to Blood City as Frendlander
National Geographic: The Volga as Narrator (voice)

1976

Black Cobra as Judas Carmichael
The Cop in Blue Jeans as Norman Shelley / Richard J. Russo
Rulers of the City as Scarface' Manzari
God's Gun as Sam Clayton
Safari Express as van Daalen

1975

The Sensuous Nurse as Mr. Kitch
The Four Deuces as Vic Morono, the Boss
Africa Express as Robert Preston / Willaim Hunter
The Great Adventure as William Bates
The Hatfields and the McCoys as Devil Anse Hatfield
Bronk as Lt. Alex Bronkov

1974

Dracula as Dracula
Craze as Neal Mottram
The Godchild as Rourke
Dinah! as Self

1973

Oklahoma Crude as Hellman
Brothers Blue as Hillman

1972

Chato's Land as Quincey Whitmore
It Can Be Done Amigo as Sonny Bronson
Father Jackleg as Buck Santini
Imagine as Self

1971

The Horsemen as Tursen

1970

Compañeros as John
Monte Walsh as Chet Rollins
The McMasters as Kolby

1969

Che! as Fidel Castro
The Desperados as Parson Josiah Galt
Battle of the Commandos as Charley MacPherson
A Bullet for Rommel as Major John Heston

1968

The Mercenary as Ricciolo ("Curly")
Madigan's Millions as Matteo Cirini (voice) (uncredited)

1967

Torture Garden as Ronald Wyatt (segment 4 "The Man Who Collected Poe")
Kill a Dragon as Rick Masters
The Spy in the Green Hat as Louis Strago
The Dinosaur and the Baby as Jeremy Prokosch (archive footage)
The Carol Burnett Show as Self - Guest / Various Characters

1966

The Professionals as Jesus Raza

1965

Once a Thief as Walter Pedak
Run for Your Life as Julian Hays

1964

Paparazzi as Self
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. as Louis Strago

1963

Contempt as Jeremy Prokosch

1962

Night Train to Milan as Herr Bauer / Schneider

1961

Barabbas as Torvald
The Last Judgment as Matteoni
The Mongols as Ogataï
The Mike Douglas Show as Self - Co-Host

1960

The Battle of Austerlitz as Gen. Weirother

1959

Ten Seconds to Hell as Eric Koertner
Beyond All Limits as Jim Gatsby

1958

The Man Inside as Milo March

1957

The Lonely Man as Jacob Wade
House of Numbers as Arnie Judlow / Bill Judlow
The Last Tycoon as Monroe Stahr

1956

Attack as Joe Costa
Requiem for a Heavyweight as Harlan 'Mountain' McClintock
Playhouse 90 as Self - Host
Playhouse 90 as Harlan 'Mountain' McClintock
The Steve Allen Show as Self - Guest

1955

I Died a Thousand Times as Roy Earle / Roy Collins
The Big Knife as Charles Castle
Kiss of Fire as El Tigre

1954

The Silver Chalice as Simon The Magician

1953

Shane as Jack Wilson
Second Chance as Cappy Gordon
Arrowhead as Toriano
Flight to Tangier as Gil Walker
The Oscars as Self

1952

Sudden Fear as Lester Blaine

1951

Halls of Montezuma as Pigeon Lane
Hallmark Hall of Fame as Paul 'Poppy' Davitch

1950

What's My Line? as Self - Mystery Guest

1949

Suspense as Tom Walker
Suspense as Count Alessandro di Cagliostro

1948

Studio One as Arky

1944

Golden Globe Awards as Self - Winner

Production

1992

Legends of the West as Executive Producer

Directing