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Marvin John Nance (December 21, 1943 – December 30, 1996), known professionally as Jack Nance, was an American actor. A longtime collaborator of filmmaker David Lynch, Nance portrayed the lead in Lynch's directorial debut Eraserhead (1977).
Jack Nance. Actor: Blue Velvet. Born in Boston of Irish ancestry and raised in Dallas, Jack Nance traveled throughout the country doing children's theater. For eight years, he performed with the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Later, he became involved with avant-garde theater.
Dec 14, 2022 · On December 29, 1996, cult actor Jack Nance got into a fight. The next day, he was dead. Police called it a homicide, but the culprit was never found.
Jack Nance. Actor: Eraserhead. Born in Boston of Irish ancestry and raised in Dallas, Jack Nance traveled throughout the country doing children's theater. For eight years, he performed with the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.
Jan 11, 1997 · Jack Nance, actor who starred in the 1978 cult classic Eraserhead and other David Lynch films, dies in his home in South Pasadena, Calif, one day after an argument with two men, at least one of...
Marvin John Nance (December 21, 1943 – December 30, 1996), known professionally as Jack Nance and occasionally credited as John Nance, was an American actor of stage and screen, primarily starring in offbeat or avant-garde productions.
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Nance's debut in the surrealist 1978 David Lynch film Eraserhead helped define his offbeat career. Not only did he star in other Lynch projects such as Blue Velvet, Wildat Heart, Dune and the television show Twin Peaks, Nance also appeared in such off-the- wall comedies as Johnny Dangerously (1984) and Meatballs 4.
Jan 8, 1997 · At the very tip end of 1996, Jack Nance had a violent argument with two Hispanic men in a doughnut shop across the road from his home in South Pasadena. On 30 December a friend checked in...
Dec 30, 1996 · A cult celebrity as the star of David Lynch's nightmarish directorial debut "Eraserhead" (1977), Jack Nance lived a life every bit as bizarre as any scenario Lynch ever filmed. Born in Boston on December 21, 1943, Nance was raised in Dallas, Texas.
Jul 15, 2013 · The coroner ruled a verdict of homicide due to blunt force trauma. Nance was 53 years old. The news of Jack’s death came as a great surprise to Catherine Coulson, who had last seen him during the making of a documentary about Lynch that reunited the Eraserhead crew on the AFI estate almost 25 years after filming began.
