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11-11-2006, 12:23 AM
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Oscar-Winning Actor Jack Palance Dies
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 Oscar-Winning Actor Jack Palance Dies Nov 10, 5:14 PM EST Video: Remembering Palance The Associated Press 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 self-parody 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, but his family gave his age as 87. When Palance accepted his Oscar for best supporting actor he delighted viewers of the 1992 Academy Awards by dropping to the stage and performing one-armed push-ups to demonstrate his physical prowess. "That's nothing, really," he said slyly. "As far as two-handed push-ups, you can do that all night, and it doesn't make a difference whether she's there or not." That year's Oscar host, Billy Crystal, turned the moment into a running joke, making increasingly outlandish remarks about Palance's accomplishments throughout the night's awards presentations. It was a magic moment that epitomized the actor's 40 years in films. Always the iconoclast, Palance had scorned most of his movie roles. "Most of the stuff I do is garbage," he once told a reporter, adding that most of the directors he worked with were incompetent, too. "Most of them shouldn't even be directing traffic," he said. Movie audiences, though, were electrified by the actor's chiseled face, hulking presence and the calm, low voice that made his screen presence all the more intimidating. His film debut came in 1950, playing a murderer named Blackie in "Panic in the Streets." After a war picture, "Halls of Montezuma," he portrayed the ardent lover who stalks the terrified Joan Crawford in 1952's "Sudden Fear." The role earned him his first Academy Award nomination for supporting actor. The following year brought his second nomination when he portrayed Jack Wilson, the swaggering gunslinger who bullies peace-loving Alan Ladd into a barroom duel in the Western classic "Shane." That role cemented Palance's reputation as Hollywood's favorite menace, and he went on to appear in such films as "Arrowhead" (as a renegade Apache), "Man in the Attic" (as Jack the Ripper), "Sign of the Pagan" (as Attila the Hun) and "The Silver Chalice" (as a fictional challenger to Jesus). Other prominent films included "Kiss of Fire," "The Big Knife," "I Died a Thousand Deaths," "Attack!" "The Lonely Man" and "House of Numbers." Video: Remembering Palance More on Jack Palance |
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Rest In Peace, Jack Palance. He will always be remembered in some of the important films that he has acted in. He was one of the good actors who would go beyond.
Thanks for sharing the news with us, DeafMonkey.
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Oscar-Winning Actor Jack Palance Dies
Actor Jack Palance, whose distinctive craggy face cemented a long career playing villains – until he spoofed himself with his Oscar-winning turn in the 1991 comedy City Slickers – died of natural causes Friday at his home in Montecito, Calif., surrounded by family, his spokesman told the Associated Press. He was 87. By the time he had costarred with Billy Crystal in the tenderfoot comedy, Palance had spent 42 years as an actor, racking up several indelible performances, including those in the 1952 film noir classic Sudden Fear, with Joan Crawford, and the 1953 western Shane, as evil gunslinger Jack Wilson – who toughed it out with star Alan Ladd in one of the screen's definitive barroom brawls. And though Palance was memorably menacing and outrageous in that comedy with Billy Crystal, he was equally jolting when collecting his Best Supporting Actor trophy for that role. When presenter Whoopi Goldberg called his name, Palance, then 72, bounded to the rostrum, accepted his statue, then moments later dropped to the floor to astound the audience with a swift series of one-arm push-ups. "That's nothing, really," Palance told reporters backstage afterward – adding that he worked out every day and could do 27,643 push-ups. Born in Hazleton, Pa., the son of Ukrainian-immigrant parents, Palance arrived in Hollywood in the late '40s with a rebuilt face (his was burned in World War II) and a voice like a whisper from the grave, as PEOPLE described him in 1992, the week after his Oscar feat. Palance used his villainous visage and ominous speaking style to such advantage that during the filming of his first movie, 1950's Panic in the Streets, legendary director Elia Kazan told him, "You're going to win an Oscar for this." The golden statuette didn't arrive for another 40 years, prompting Palance to tell a reporter long after his screen debut: "Most of the stuff I do is garbage." And of the directors he worked with, Palance said, "Most of them shouldn't even be directing traffic." He was one tough guy. 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). Oscar-Winning Actor Jack Palance Dies | Jack Palance : People.com he great actors and he will rest in peace i watch his movie on batman 1989 when i was kids
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