Jack Palance
A portrait in the Jack Palance Collection 2006
Jack Palance, (born Volodymyr Palanyuk [Ukr: Володимир Паланюк] on February 18, 1919, in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, USA, died November 10, 2006, in Montecito, California) was an Academy Award-winning American actor.
With his rugged facial features and gravelly voice, Palance was best known to modern movie audiences as both the characters of Curly and Duke in the City Slickers movies, but his career spanned half a century of film and television appearances.
Palance had recently placed his Butler Township, Pennsylvania, Holly-Brooke Farm up for sale and its contents, his personal lifetime collection, up for auction.[1]
- 1952 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Sudden Fear
- 1953 - Nominated - Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Shane
- 1992 - Won - Best Actor in a Supporting Role - City Slickers
AP--LOS ANGELES — Jack Palance, the craggy-faced menace in "Shane," "Sudden Fear" and other films who turned to comedy at 70 with his Oscar-winning role in "City Slickers," died Friday.
Palance died of natural causes at his home in Montecito, Calif., surrounded by family, said spokesman Dick Guttman. Palance was 85 according to Associated Press records. The family indicated he was 87.
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