Jack Palance
Gender: Male
Born: 18th February 1919
Died: 10th November 2006
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: NET Playhouse, Bronk, The Greatest Show on Earth, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
Movies: Barabbas, City Slickers, City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold, Contempt, Cops and Robbersons, Ebenezer, Panic in the Streets, Shane, Sudden Fear, Torture Garden, The Swan Princess, Cyborg 2, The Big Knife, Batman, Tango & Cash, The Mercenary, I Died a Thousand Times, Hawk the Slayer, Che!, The Horsemen, Angels Revenge, Halls of Montezuma, The Last Judgement, Young Guns, L'Infermiera, The Silver Chalice, Dracula, Second Chance, Austerlitz, The Professionals, Requiem for a Heavyweight, Monte Walsh, Man in the Attic, Solar Crisis, God's Gun, Mister Scarface, The Ivory Ape, Attack, Chato's Land, Alone in the Dark, Invasion from Inner Earth, The Great Adventure, Ten Seconds to Hell, Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End, H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come, Welcome to Blood City, Without Warning, Treasure Island, Arrowhead, Portrait of a Hitman, The Four Deuces, The Lonely Man, Marquis de Sade: Justine, The Cop in Blue Jeans, Talking to Heaven, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Horror of the Hungry Humongous Hungan, Black Cobra Woman, Back When We Were Grownups, Beyond All Limits, Kill a Dragon, Monte Walsh, Once a Thief, The Man Inside, Craze, Flight to Tangier, Gor, Buffalo Girls, It Can Be Done Amigo, They Came to Rob Las Vegas, Outlaw of Gor, The Desperados, Sign of the Pagan, Unknown Force, Monster Mania, Bagdad Café, Prancer Returns, Keep the Change, The Twilight Zone – Rod Serling’s lost classics, I'll Be Home for Christmas, The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang, Cocaine Cowboys, The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story, Africa Express, The Sensuous Nurse, Oklahoma Crude, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Compañeros, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Madigan's Millions, The Battle of Austerlitz, The Godchild, The McMasters, The Barbarians, The One Man Jury
Jack Palance (born Volodymyr Palahniuk, Ukrainian: Володимир Палагнюк; February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006), was an American actor. During half a century of film and television appearances, Palance was nominated for three Academy Awards, all as Best Actor in a Supporting Role, winning in 1991 for his role in City Slickers.
Palance, one of 6 children, was born Volodymyr Palahniuk in the Lattimer Mines section of Hazle Township, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, the son of Anna (née Gramiak) and Ivan Palahniuk, who was an anthracite coal miner. Palance's parents were Ukrainian immigrants, his father a native of Ivane Zolote in Southwestern Ukraine (Ternopil Oblast) and his mother from the Lviv region. He worked in coal mines during his youth before becoming a boxer.
In the late 1930s, Palance started a professional boxing career. Fighting under the name Jack Brazzo, Palance reportedly compiled a record of 15 consecutive victories with 12 knockouts before fighting the future heavyweight contender Joe Baksi in a "Pier-6" brawl. Palance lost a close decision, and recounted: "Then, I thought, you must be nuts to get your head beat in for $200".
With the outbreak of the Second World War,
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