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Jack Palance was born Volodymyr Palahniuk, on February 18, 1919, in Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania. His parents, Ivan, and Anna, were Ukrainian immigrants. Palance was one of their six children.
He ended his film career playing Long John Silver in Treasure Island (1999). His three children by his first wife, actress Virginia Baker -- Holly Palance, Brooke Palance, and Cody Palance -- all pursued acting careers and appeared with their father at one time or another.
- February 18, 1919
- November 10, 2006
- Early Life and Military Experience
- Early Success and Stardom
- Frustrated by Typecasting
- Late-Career Success
- City Slickers
- Death and Legacy
Jack Palance, whose given name was Volodymyr Palahniuk, was born into a Ukrainian immigrant mining family in Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania. As a teenager, he went to work in the mines, where his father was employed. By the 1930s, he made his way out of the mines and into the world of professional boxing. Under the name Jack Brazzo, he compiled a rec...
After World War II, Palance attended Stanford University, but left shortly before graduation in order to pursue an acting career. Around the same time, he adopted his stage name, Jack Palance. Palance debuted on Broadway in 1947 in The Big Two. Later on during the same year, he signed on as Marlon Brando's understudy in Tennessee Williams' play A S...
Palance gained stardom playing characters that audiences loved to hate, and soon he became the most popular heel in Hollywood movies. He portrayed a wide array of villains, including Jack the Ripper in 1953's Man in the Attic, Apache in 1953's Arrowhead, and Attila the Hun in 1954's Sign of the Pagan. In 1957, Palance took home an Emmy Award for hi...
Jack Palance continued to work regularly through the 1970s. The 1973 British TV movie, Bram Stoker's Dracula, received critical acclaim. Palance also appeared in American TV movies, including 1975's The Hatfields and the McCoys. Palance began a surprising return to stardom with his performance as the host of the mid-1980s TV series Ripley's Believe...
Jack Palance's most significant late-career success, and one of the biggest movies of his career, hit movie theaters in 1991. He played aging cowboy Curly Washburn in Billy Crystal's comedy smash City Slickers. Palance was the first choice for the role of Curly, but he initially declined the offer due to another project. After Charles Bronson turne...
Palance continued to work until three years before his death. His last two performances took place in made-for-TV movies. He starred in 2002's Living With the Dead with Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen. His final onscreen role was a 2004 Hallmark Hall of Fame adaptation of Anne Tyler's novel Back When We Were Grownupsco-starring Blythe Danner. He di...
One of the screen's most grizzled actors, Jack Palance defined true grit for many a filmgoer. The son of a Ukrainian immigrant coal miner, he was born Volodymyr Palahnyuk (Anglicized as Walter Jack Palaniuk) on February 18, 1920, in Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania.
- February 18, 1919
- November 10, 2006
May 31, 2017 · Beyond his work, Jack had three kids with first wife Virginia Baker, one of whom, Cody, followed his father into acting. Jack’s daughter Brooke also became Elizabeth Taylor’s daughter-in-law when she married her son, Michael Wilding, Jr. Yet Palance was not tied to the Hollywood scene.
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Nov 10, 2006 · Palance is survived by the three children from his first marriage, to actress Virginia Baker (it ended in divorce, in 1966), and by his widow, Elaine Rogers (whom he married in 1987).
