Jack Palance

ACTOR, SOUNDTRACK, DIRECTOR

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29th May 2022 | FlixCatalog Staff

Jack Palance often exemplified evil incarnate on film -- portraying some of the most intensely despised villains witnessed in 1950s westerns and melodrama, enhanced by his tall, powerful build, icy voice, and piercing eyes. He received two Best Supporting Actor nominations early in his career, but it would take a grizzled, eccentric comic performance 40 years later for him to finally grab the coveted statuette.Of Ukrainian descent, Palance was born Volodymir Ivanovic Palahniuk (later renaming himself Walter Jack Palance) on February 18, 1920, in Lattimer Mines (Pennsylvania coal country), to Anna (nee Gramiak) and Ivan Palahniuk. His father, an anthracite miner, died of black lung disease. The sensitive, artistic lad worked in the mines in his early years but averted the same fate as his father.Athletics was his ticket out of the mines when he won a football scholarship to the University of North Carolina. He subsequently dropped out to try his hand at professional boxing. Fighting under the name "Jack Brazzo", he won his first 15 fights, 12 by knockout, before losing a 4th round decision to future heavyweight contender Joe Baksi on December 17, 1940. With the outbreak of World War II, his boxing career ended and his military career began, serving in the Army Air Force as a bomber pilot. Wounded in combat and suffering severe injuries and burns, he received the Purple Heart, Good Conduct Medal, and the World War II Victory Medal. He resumed college studies as a journalist at Stanford University and became a sportswriter for the San Francisco Chronicle. He also worked for a radio station until the acting bug bit.Palance made his stage debut in "The Big Two" in 1947 and immediately followed it understudying Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski in the groundbreaking Broadway classic "A Streetcar Named Desire", a role he eventually took over. Following stage parts in "Temporary Island" (1948), "The Vigil" (1948) and "The Silver Tassle" (1949), Palance won a choice role in "Darkness of Noon" and a Theatre World Award for "promising new personality". This recognition helped him secure a 20th Century-Fox contract. The facial burns and resulting reconstructive surgery following the crash and burn of his WWII bomber plane actually worked to his advantage. Hardly possessing the look of a glossy romantic leading man, Palance instead became an archetypal villain equipped with an imposing glare, intimidating stance and killer-shark smile.He stood out among a powerhouse cast that included actors such as Richard Widmark, Zero Mostel and Paul Douglas in his movie debut in Elia Kazan's Panique dans la rue (1950), as a plague-carrying fugitive. He was soon on his way. Initially billed as Walter Jack Palance, the actor made fine use of his former boxing skills and war experience for the film Okinawa (1951) as a boxing Marine in Richard Widmark's platoon. He followed this with the first of his back-to-back Oscar nods. In Le masque arraché (1952), only his third film, he played rich-and-famous playwright Joan Crawford's struggling actor husband who plots to murder her and run off with gorgeous Gloria Grahame. Finding the right menace and intensity to pretty much steal the proceedings without chewing on the scenery, he followed this with arguably his finest villain of the decade, that of sadistic gunslinger Jack Wilson who becomes Alan Ladd's biggest nightmare in the classic western L'homme des vallées perdues (1953).Throughout the 1950s Palance won good film roles such as those in L'étrange Mr. Slade (1953) (his first lead), Le grand couteau (1955) and the war classic Attaque! (1956). Mixed in were a few routine to highly mediocre parts in Vol sur Tanger (1953), Le signe du païen (1954) (as Attila the Hun), and the biblical bomb Le calice d'argent (1954). In between filmmaking were a host of television roles, none better than his down-and-out boxer in Playhouse 90: Requiem for a Heavyweight (1956), a rare sympathetic role that earned him an Emmy.Overseas in the 1960s, Palance appeared in biblical and war epics and in "spaghetti Westerns". Also included in his 1960s foreign work was Jean-Luc Godard's Le mépris (1963). On television, he played a number of nefarious nasties to perfection, ranging from Dracula to Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde. Into his twilight years he showed a penchant for brash, quirky comedy capped by his Oscar-winning role in La vie, l'amour... les vaches (1991), its sequel, and other films. He even played Ebenezer Scrooge in a TV-movie incongruously set in the Wild West.Married twice, his three children -- Holly, Brooke and Cody -- all dabbled in acting and appeared with their father at one time or another. A man of few words off the set, he owned his own cattle ranch and displayed other creative sides as a exhibited painter and published poet. His last years were marred by failing health and the death of his son Cody from cancer in 1998. He died at age 86 at his daughter Holly's home in Montecito, California. - IMDb Mini Biography By: Gary Brumburgh/Robert Sieger

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Streaming Availability

Amazon Video has the most number of Jack Palance’s flixes, followed by Vudu compared to other streaming platforms. See the full graph below.

Releases by Year

Jack Palance on average has worked on 1 movies per year from 1970 to 2004. See the full graphs of the number of Jack Palance movies released per year from 1988 till 2004.

Top Genres

Jack Palance works mostly in Drama Genre followed by Comedy Genre flixes. 19% of Jack Palance movies are Drama Genre movies. See Top Genres that Jack Palance worked on in the graph below.

Average IMDB Score

On average the IMDB score of the movies that Jack Palance has worked on is 5.8.

5.8 / 10

Jack Palance's Movies and Tv Series available to Stream now ..

Comedy,Drama
Bagdad Cafe (1987)

A lonely German woman ends up in the most desolate motel on Earth and decides to make it brighter.

7.4/1095 min

Available in 14 platform(s).

Comedy,Western
City Slickers (1991)

On the verge of turning 40, an unhappy Manhattan yuppie is roped into joining his two friends on a cattle drive in the southwest.

6.8/10113 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

On a cold winter day a mysterious stranger shows up at the Witting Farm. He is John Witting, the father of Jacob Witting who abandoned Jacob and his mother when Jacob was little. Jacob is ...

6.7/1095 min

Available in 1 platform(s).

In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.

6.6/10100 min

Available in 8 platform(s).

Wild. Untamed. Legendary. Buffalo Girls celebrates the bold escapades of tough-talking Calamity Jane Canary and her illustrious cohorts. It's the waning days of the Wild West and Jane, the ...

6.5/10180 min

Available in 2 platform(s).

Adventure,Animation,Comedy
The Swan Princess (1994)

A power-hungry sorcerer curses a princess to live as a swan by day in this tale of everlasting love.

6.4/1093 min

Available in 10 platform(s).

Action,Comedy,Crime
Tango & Cash (1989)

Framed by their ruthless arch-nemesis, a mismatched LAPD crime-fighting duo has to put its differences aside to even the score with the evil kingpin who put them behind bars once and for all.

6.4/10104 min

Available in 9 platform(s).

Comedy,Drama,Western
Oklahoma Crude (1973)

In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle (Faye Dunaway), aided by her father (Sir John Mills) and a hobo (George C. Scott), is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.

6.3/10108 min

Available in 9 platform(s).