Fond farewell to Jack Palance
Nov. 10th, 2006 11:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kryspenGeez... Another legend from my childhood... gone. From www.bangkokpost.com....
Actor Jack Palance dies
Los Angeles (dpa) - Oscar-winning actor Jack Palance has died at his California home at the age of 87, his spokesman said Friday.
Palance usually played tough cowboys, including an Oscar-nominated role in the 1953 classic western Shane. He won a best supporting actor Oscar for the no-nonsense cowboy he played in the 1991 comedy City Slickers, and wowed the Oscar ceremony by performing one-armed push-ups on stage.
Palance was born Vladimir Palahnuik in Pennsylvania in 1919, and was a coal miner, professional boxer and a decorated World War II veteran before starting his movie career.
Fluent in six languages he was also an avid poet and painter and one of the earliest Hollywood proponents of the school of method acting later made famous by Marlon Brando.
Actor Jack Palance dies
Los Angeles (dpa) - Oscar-winning actor Jack Palance has died at his California home at the age of 87, his spokesman said Friday.
Palance usually played tough cowboys, including an Oscar-nominated role in the 1953 classic western Shane. He won a best supporting actor Oscar for the no-nonsense cowboy he played in the 1991 comedy City Slickers, and wowed the Oscar ceremony by performing one-armed push-ups on stage.
Palance was born Vladimir Palahnuik in Pennsylvania in 1919, and was a coal miner, professional boxer and a decorated World War II veteran before starting his movie career.
Fluent in six languages he was also an avid poet and painter and one of the earliest Hollywood proponents of the school of method acting later made famous by Marlon Brando.
