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Jack Palance
Walter Jack Palance was an American actor. He was nominated for three Academy Awards, all for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, for his roles in Sudden Fear (1952) and Shane (1953), and winning almost 40 years later for City Slickers (1991).
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entertainment · American actor (1919–2006) · film actor · stage actor · television actor · boxer · model · actor · assistant director · military officer · military personnel · also Jack Palance, Volodymyr Palahniuk, Walter J. Palance, Walter Palance, Jack Brazzo, Walter Jack Palance
Born 18 February 1919 · Died 10 November 2006 · Q193653
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2026· 1 entry
2023· 1 entry
Palance was inducted into the Luzerne County Arts & Entertainment Hall of Fame
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2006· 1 entry
Died 2006-11-10.
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2004· 2 entries
“I feel like I walked into the wrong room by mistake. I think that Russian film is interesting, but I have nothing to do with Russia or Russian film. My parents were born in Ukraine: I”
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Starred in another television production, Back When We Were Grownups, once again directed by Ron Underwood, opposite Blythe Danner; it was his final performance
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2002· 1 entry
Starred in the television movie Living with the Dead opposite Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen and Diane Ladd
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2001· 1 entry
Palance returned to the recording studio as a special guest on friend Laurie Z's album Heart of the Holidays to narrate the classic poem "The Night Before Christmas"
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2000· 1 entry
Snopes.com rated the claim “Marisa Tomei was awarded the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1993 because Oscar presenter Jack Palance read the wrong name by mistake.” False.
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1993· 1 entry
During the opening of the Oscars, a spoof of that Oscar highlight featured Palance appearing to drag in an enormous Academy Award statuette with Crystal again hosting, riding on the rear end of it
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1992· 2 entries
Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for City Slickers (1992).
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Was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
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1982· 1 entry
Palance began hosting a television revival of Ripley's Believe It or Not
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1980· 1 entry
Jack Palance narrated the documentary The Strongest Man in the World by Canadian filmmaker Halya Kuchmij, about Mike Swistun, a circus strongman who had been a student of Houdini
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1979· 1 entry
“In Italy, everyone on the set has a drinking cubicle, and no one is ever interested in working after lunch”
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1969· 1 entry
Palance recorded a country music album in Nashville, released on Warner Bros
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1964· 1 entry
His presence at a recently integrated movie theater in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, prompted a riot from segregationists who assumed Palance was there to promote civil rights
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1957· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for Playhouse 90 (1957).
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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
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1951· 1 entry
Awarded Theatre World Award (1951).
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1948· 1 entry
With short runs, A Temporary Island and The Vigil
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1947· 1 entry
As a Russian soldier in The Big Two, directed by Robert Montgomery
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1944· 1 entry
After undergoing reconstructive surgery, which contributed to his distinctively gaunt appearance
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1919· 2 entries
In Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, the son of Anna (née Gramiak) and Ivan Palahniuk, an anthracite coal miner
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Born 1919-02-18.
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