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Jack Palance
Age: 87 (passed away Nov. 10th, 2006)
Height: 6' 4"
Birth Place: Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, USA
Born: Feb. 18th, 1919
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Jack Palance's Main TV Roles
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at
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BIOGRAPHY: Few people know that veteran movie actor Jack Palance was a professional heavyweight boxer in the early 1940s. Fighting under the name Jack Brazzo, Palance a product of Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, won his first 15 fights, 12 by knockout before losing a 4th round decision to future heavyweight contender Joe Baksi on Dec. 17, 1940. With the outbreak of World War II, Jack Palance's boxing career ended and his military career began. Wounded in combat, he received the purple heart, good conduct medal, and the World War II Victory Medal. After the war he began his long and famous motion picture career.
TRIVIA:
- Studied acting with 'Michael Chekhov' (qv) in Hollywood.
- Director 'Elia Kazan' (qv) promised to cast him as 'Marlon Brando' (qv)'s brother in _Viva Zapata! (1952)_ (qv), but then changed his mind and cast 'Anthony Quinn (I)' (qv) instead. Quinn won a Best Supporting Oscar for the film and Palance never spoke to Kazan again.
- Once fell asleep in his square during a taping of _"The Hollywood Squares" (1965)_ (qv).
- Was 'Stephen King (I)' (qv)'s choice of preference for the (similarly named, coincidentally or not) role of Jack Torrance in _The Shining (1980)_ (qv).
- Was forced to decline the role of Gen. Chang in _Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)_ (qv) due to scheduling conflicts over his work on _City Slickers (1991)_ (qv). He went on to win the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for _City Slickers (1991)_ (qv). 'Christopher Plummer (I)' (qv) was eventually cast as Chang.
- Member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (Actors Branch).
- Father of 'Cody Palance' (qv) (b. Dec. 1955, d. Jul. 15, 1998), with whom he starred in the film _Young Guns (1988)_ (qv).
- Shortly before his death in 2006, he put his farm house near Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and its contents up for sale. Thousands of items were auction off and more than $700,000 was raised.
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