Jack Palance
Born Volodymir Ivanovich Palahniuk on
Feb. 18, 1919
in Lattimer Mines, PA
Died
Nov. 10, 2006
of natural causes in Montecito, CA
Jack Palance was one of the best-loved bad guys in motion picture and television history — the murderous husband in "Sudden Fear" (1952), the creepy gunslinger in "Shane" (1953) and the cantankerous cattle driver Curly in "City Slickers." Equally at home on television, Palance earned an Emmy for his role as a has-been boxer in "Requiem for a Heavyweight" in 1956. In reality, the gruff-seeming character actor was actually a sensitive fellow. Although he enjoyed raising cattle, he was a vegetarian who had painted abstract landscapes since the 1950s, loved trees and wrote poetry. He wrote and illustrated a book with the non-villainous title of "The Forest of Love: A Love Story in Blank Verse," which was published in 1996. Surrounded by art in Rome, where he lived for a number of years making spaghetti westerns, Palance was inspired to take up painting. His artwork, which bore the stamp of Impressionism, had been exhibited about a dozen times.
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| Year | Category | Work | |
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| 1952 | Best Supporting Actor | Sudden Fear | Nomination |
| 1953 | Best Supporting Actor | Shane | Nomination |
| 1991 | Best Supporting Actor | City Slickers | Win |
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Two thoughts about Jack Palance
Jack had the reputation of being one of the "toughest"men in hollywood,i.e.he could take care of himself!!
I did not have the opportunity to meet
him but would certainly have loved to meet such a big actor who was a class by himself.
I do not know any such star.
Other places were certainly important to him as is evident from his life.
Jack Palance truly deserved the Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but he had no parallel in looks.
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