Jack Palance
Birthday: 1919-02-18
Place of Birth: Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, USA
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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Contempt
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Batman
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City Slickers
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Solar Crisis
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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Shane
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Bagdad Cafe
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Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval
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The Sensuous Nurse
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Second Chance
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City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold
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The Professionals
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The Swan Princess
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Angels' Brigade
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Barabbas
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Young Guns
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Ten Seconds to Hell
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Panic in the Streets
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Attack
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Cops & Robbersons
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Hawk the Slayer
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Tango & Cash
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Chato's Land
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Ebenezer
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Monster Mania
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Man in the Attic
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Torture Garden
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I Died a Thousand Times
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The Shape of Things to Come
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Once a Thief
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Black Cobra
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The Lonely Man
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Arrowhead
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Compañeros
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Che!
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The Cop in Blue Jeans
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Without Warning
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Cyborg 2
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Halls of Montezuma
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It Can Be Done Amigo
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The Silver Chalice
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Rulers of the City
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The Battle of Austerlitz
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The Big Knife
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House of Numbers
Story of twin brothers - one trying to help another escape from prison....
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The Mercenary
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The Horsemen
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Monte Walsh
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Sudden Fear
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I'll Be Home For Christmas
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Prancer Returns
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Portrait of a Hitman
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Kill a Dragon
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The Helm of Destiny
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The Four Deuces
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The Unknown Force
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Living with the Dead
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The Last Judgment
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Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End
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The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo
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The McMasters
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Gor
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God's Gun
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Father Jackleg
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Africa Express
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Welcome to Blood City
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The Desperados
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Craze
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Buffalo Girls
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Back When We Were Grownups
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They Came to Rob Las Vegas
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The Great Adventure
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Treasure Island
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Evil Stalks This House
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The Spy in the Green Hat
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Safari Express
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Oklahoma Crude
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The Man Inside
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Kiss of Fire
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Flight to Tangier
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The One Man Jury
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Sign of the Pagan
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, war...
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The Mongols
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The Barbarians
Revak is an Iberian prince from Penda, a small island where the Carthagian fleet ransacked and ensla...
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Blood and Bullets
A deadly manhunt takes three people through the sordid streets of the Philadelphia underworld, in se...
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Alice returns to Wonderland through the looking glass in this TV musical....
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The Hatfields and the McCoys
A retelling of the famous feud between two mountain families, the Hatfields and the McCoys, in rural...
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The Godchild
Three Union POWs fleeing across the desert to escape both their Confederate pursuers and rampaging A...
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The Omen Legacy
The true stories that spawned the serie tale of Damien, a small boy with an angelic face, whose very...
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Marquis de Sade: Justine
Without a family, penniless and separated from her sister, a beautiful chaste woman will have to cop...
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The Death of Manolete
The story of the last hours in the life of Spain's most celebrated matador....
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Sword of the Conqueror
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Battle of the Commandos
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Cocaine Cowboys
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Vem Var Dracula
A look at "Dracula" in the arts and his supposed real-life inspiration Vlad Tepes....
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And Still Champion! The Story of Archie Moore
1967 documentary about the light heavyweight champion boxer Archie Moore...
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The Ivory Ape
An ivory ape escapes from a freighter and makes its way to Bermuda. Two anthropologists want to save...
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Warriors Five
World War II Italy...1943. After parachuting behind enemy lines on an espionage mission, an American...
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Joan Crawford: Always the Star
Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winni...
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The Last Tycoon
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The Golden Moment: An Olympic Love Story
This Olympics film, tied in with the planned 1980 games from which the United States subsequently wi...
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Night of 100 Stars II
This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a...
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A Bullet for Rommel
During World War II, a tough officer organizes a commando raid into Germany....
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National Geographic: The Volga
Film cameras cruise the Soviet Union's mighty Volga River, providing a view of the Russian people al...
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Brothers Blue
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Paparazzi
Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers att...
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Night Train to Milan
A thriller with Jack Palance as a nazi doctor hiding after the war. While riding on a train, he is r...
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Unknown Powers
A documentary –actually three episodes of a canceled TV series edited together– examining various ph...
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The Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics
James Earl Jones hosts this film based on two stories by the late Rod Serling, who wrote the stories...
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The Dinosaur and the Baby
An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety of ar...
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Imagine
A surreal, half-fiction, half real life footage of a day in the life of John lennon and Yoko Ono, co...
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The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang
A light-hearted view of the Dalton Gang's legendary raid on Coffeyville, Kansas and the years leadin...
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Bardot et Godard
A documentary short following director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of Contempt....
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Beyond All Limits
This typical Mexican melodrama is set in a coastal fishing village where a wealthy fisherman lives w...
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Psychic Confession
Professional magician Danny Korem speaks to purported telekinetic/martial arts instructor James Hydr...
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Joe D'Amato Totally Uncut - The Erotic Experience
The story of Joe D'Amato, Italian director of sexploitation and gore, narrated by himself....
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Alone in the Dark
A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay si...
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Legends of the West
Host Jack Palance explores how Hollywood has depicted Western legends like George Armstrong Custer, ...
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Requiem for a Heavyweight
An over-the-hill heavyweight boxing champion who suffers from the ravages of years of head trauma is...
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Keep the Change
A struggling artist visits his family on their Montana ranch and finds that his former flame, daught...
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Madigan's Millions
When a deported gangster dies in Italy, the U.S. Treasury Department is very interested in the one m...
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When It Was a Game 2
Composed entirely of never-before-seen 8mm and 16mm footage filmed between 1925 and 1961 by baseball...
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Horror of the Hungry Humongous Hungan
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Buck Rogers in the 25th Century: Planet of the Slave Girls
The majority of Earth's fighter squadron becomes incapacitated after using poisoned food discs. Buck...
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Imagine: John Lennon
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