observer Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 Poor Jack has died aged 87. The ultimate bad guy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 The first film I saw him in was PANIC IN THE STREETS, a story about bubonic plague coming into New Orleans (I think) by ship. His name was not Jack Palance at the time. When he made SHANE in 1954 or so, I think he still didn't use that name. I once tried to write a screenplay on the life of Nicolo Paganini with Palance in mind to play the virtuoso violinist who had sold his soul to the devil in exchange for such hypnotic ability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve the Original Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 Remember him well a sad loss... Black was his favourite colour at least in the Films.. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 He had a long life and he had a lot of fun - REST IN PEACE JACK! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted November 11, 2006 Report Share Posted November 11, 2006 A great character sorely missed in today's films.They don't make them like him any more! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted November 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 Jack had the face of a villain; which made him look the part in his films ... even remember him playing Attilla the Hun! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted November 12, 2006 Report Share Posted November 12, 2006 I believe he was very believable in that role but would have also mentioned a film (The Silver Chalice?) where he was a gladiator emeritus, and would enter the Coliseum in a speeding chariot and kill a gladiator or two just for the love of sport. Or was it Barrabas with Anthony Quinn? Maybe Quinn was the guy that hacked the evil grimace from his face. Come to think of it, in Silver Chalice he wasn't a gladiator, he was an evil magician with Virginia Mayo as his sexy assistant, eh? Am I getting old? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted November 13, 2006 Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 methink that a quick visit to the internet movie database is in order. the silver chalice 1954 jack palance.......simon the magician virginia mayo......Helen barabbas barabbas........anthony quinn torvald.........jack palance seems the little grey cells are still working there jerry obs attilla??? not according to my search. anthony quinn has played him but not as far as i can find jack palance. mind you they may not be correct in their film listings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted November 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2006 90% sure on this one Sid: I can still see him now, sat atop a funeral pyre (unlit); following his defeat at the battle of Chalons. :confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted November 14, 2006 Report Share Posted November 14, 2006 fair enough may be one that slipped the net as it were. any chance you can remember the name of the film?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted November 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 It was about "Atilla the Hun" who was known as "the scourge of God"; if that helps?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Jack Palance AKA Vladimir Palahnuik Born: 18-Feb-1919 Birthplace: Lattimer Mines, PA Died: 10-Nov-2006 Location of death: Montecito, CA Cause of death: Natural Causes Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Actor Nationality: United States Executive summary: Performed one-handed push-ups Military service: U.S. Army Air Force Jack Palance was a handsome yet ferocious-looking actor who usually played savage thugs or tough-as-nails cops. His breathless, staccato style of speaking added to his intimidating presence. He appeared in about 90 movies, stealing scenes in supporting roles and carrying films in leading roles. American audiences knew him as "Joker" Jack Nicholson's doomed sidekick in Batman, as the cartoonish heavy in Stallone and Russell's Tango & Cash, and as the aging bad guy in the Gen-X western Young Guns. In City Slickers, he spoofed his tough image, leading Billy Crystal and Daniel Stern on a cattle drive. Born Vladimir Palahnuik to Ukranian immigrants, he called himself Walter Jack Palance to keep from being teased. As a young man, he was a professional boxer, which explains his rippled nose. He served in the Army Air Force during World War II, and required facial reconstruction after the B-24 bomber he was flying crashed while patrolling the coast of California. While he was a struggling actor, he worked as a short-order cook, soda jerk, and lifeguard. He understudied Marlon Brando in the original Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire, and Brando invited Palance to work out with him in the theater's basement. The actors were pounding a punching bag when Palance missed the bag and splattered Brando's nose. Brando was taken to a hospital for medical attention, while Palance took the stage in the lead, and his performance drew a contract offer from 20th Century Fox. Palance always maintained that making his own "big break" was an accident. In his first film, Panic in the Streets (1950) with Richard Widmark, he played a killer infected with bubonic plague. In Shane with Alan Ladd, he played a cold-hearted gunfighter. In the classic Sudden Fear with Joan Crawford, he played her murderous husband. He starred in the '50s noir classic I Died A Thousand Times with Shelley Winters and Lon Chaney, Jr., and in the wild western The Professionals, he played "the bloodiest cutthroat in Mexico", alongside macho men Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Robert Ryan, and Woody Strode. He played Attila the Hun in Sign of the Pagan. And in a near-forgotten gem from 1955, The Big Knife with Ida Lupino, he played a movie star who wanted to leave Hollywood and make more highbrow, artistic films. That was Palance, too. He often took work in Europe, where he could play roles unavailable to him in Hollywood, and work unfettered by his American movie-star image. In the spaghetti western Companeros, he played a sadistic one-handed pot-smoker. In 1959's Beyond All Limits, he played a shrimp fisherman, and delivered his lines in Spanish. He played Fidel Castro in Che!, and may have done his best work in Jean-Luc Godard's tragedy Contempt. He also excelled as the grizzled WWII hero in Attack with Eddie Albert and Lee Marvin. In Robert Aldrich's Ten Seconds to Hell, he played a former German soldier working in a bomb squad. In Baghdad Caf?, Palance played a creatively stifled painter in the middle of nowhere. With his mean demeanor, he was the studio's first choice to play the Klingon Commander in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, but Palance had to decline, as the filming schedule conflicted with City Slickers. At the next year's Oscars ceremony, where he won the Best Supporting Actor statue for City Slickers, Palance performed several one-handed push-ups, just to show that he could. On TV, he joined the circus in The Greatest Show on Earth, played the detective Bronk, and hosted Ripley's Believe It or Not! for several years. He once fell asleep and began snoring in his square on The Hollywood Squares. Palance lived his last years on his ranch in rural California, and also owned a farm in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. His daughter Brooke is married to Michael Wilding Jr., son of Elizabeth Taylor. Father: (coal miner) Wife: Virginia Baker (Greenpeace activist, m. 21-Apr-1949, div. 1966, three children) Mistress: Mamie Van Doren (circa 1954) Daughter: Holly Palance (actress, b. 5-Aug-1950) Daughter: Brooke Palance (actress, b. 9-Feb-1952) Son: Cody Palance (actor, b. Dec-1955, d. 15-Jul-1998 cancer) Wife: Elaine Palance University: University of North Carolina University: BA Drama, Stanford University (1949) Oscar for Best Supporting Actor 1992 for City Slickers Golden Globe 1992 for City Slickers Emmy 1957 for Playhouse 90 "Requiem for a Heavyweight" Hollywood Walk of Fame 6608 Hollywood Blvd. (television) Ukrainian Ancestry FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR Living with the Dead (28-Apr-2002) Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (21-Nov-1999) Buffalo Girls (30-Apr-1995) The Swan Princess (18-Nov-1994) [VOICE] City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (10-Jun-1994) Cops and Robbersons (15-Apr-1994) Cyborg 2 (1993) City Slickers (7-Jun-1991) Solar Crisis (14-Jul-1990) Tango & Cash (22-Dec-1989) Batman (23-Jun-1989) Outlaw of Gor (1989) Young Guns (12-Aug-1988) Gor (1988) Bagdad Caf? (12-Nov-1987) Alone in the Dark (12-Nov-1982) Without Warning (26-Nov-1980) Hawk the Slayer (1980) Angels' Brigade (1979) The Cop in Blue Jeans (1976) Oklahoma Crude (3-Jul-1973) Dracula (1973) Chato's Land (7-Jun-1972) The Horsemen (24-Jul-1971) Monte Walsh (2-Oct-1970) Compa?eros (17-Aug-1970) The Mercenary (6-Mar-1970) The Desperados (16-May-1969) They Came to Rob Las Vegas (5-Feb-1969) Torture Garden (1967) The Professionals (2-Nov-1966) Once a Thief (27-Jul-1965) Contempt (29-Oct-1963) Barabbas (10-Oct-1962) Austerlitz (17-Jun-1960) The Lonely Man (12-Aug-1957) Attack (19-Sep-1956) The Big Knife (8-Nov-1955) The Silver Chalice (20-Dec-1954) Man in the Attic (23-Dec-1953) Flight to Tangier (21-Nov-1953) Arrowhead (3-Aug-1953) Second Chance (18-Jul-1953) Shane (24-Apr-1953) Sudden Fear (6-Aug-1952) Halls of Montezuma (05-Jan-1951) Panic in the Streets (12-Jun-1950) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Mary, was that Wikipedia? I looked in the list of films for SIGN OF THE PAGAN, a title I vaguely remember and read in the text above the list. I missed it in the list if its there. Wanted to see what year it might have been. I didn't know he was the one who broke Marlon Brando's nose, but had read that he understudied the Stanley Kowalski role with him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted November 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 Very good Mary; some of those films have brought back memories; but some I havn't seen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 strangely enough jerry i missed it as well when i first looked at imdb. don't know why as it is listed there below chalice and was 1954. definitely need new glasses [ 15.11.2006, 12:17: Message edited by: Evil Sid ] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Posted November 15, 2006 Report Share Posted November 15, 2006 No I went to my search engine Yahoo and wrote - Jack Parlance as Attila the Hun and got it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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