Jack Palance

In 1992, Jack won an Academy Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role playing Curly on City Slickers.

He maintained a farm in central Pennsylvania, called Holly-Brooke Farm, named after his daughters.

He was buried in Kiev, Ukraine.

He won an Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1957.

In the 1940s, he fought as a professional heavyweight boxer under the name Jack Brazzo.

Palance was originallly scheduled to play the psychotic Archer Maggott in the 1967 war drama The Dirty Dozen. He pulled out at the last minute and was replaced by Telly Savalas.

Jack was forced to decline the role of General Chang in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, due to scheduling conflicts over his work on City Slickers. He went on to win the Oscar Best Supporting Actor for City Slickers. Christopher Plummer was eventually cast as Chang.

Jack is the son of a coal miner.

While an understudy to Marlon Brando in the Broadway production of A Streetcar Named Desire, Brando, who was into athletics, rigged up a punching bag in the theater's boiler room and invited Jack to work out with him. One night, Jack threw a hard punch that missed the bag and landed square on Brando's nose. The star had to be hospitalized and understudy Palance created his own big break by going on for Brando. Jack's reviews as Stanley Kowalski helped get him a 20th Century-Fox contract.

Jack's son Cody was born in December of 1955.

During Jack's struggling days, he worked as a short order cook, waiter, soda jerk, lifeguard at Jones Beach, and a photographer's model.

During the early phases of pre-production for Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), 20th Century Fox studio chief Darryl F. Zanuck suggested Jack for the role of the robot Gort. The role was eventually filled by a much taller non-actor.

Jack graduated from Stanford University in 1949 with an AB in Drama.

Jack was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1992.

Jack's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is in front of the display window of Fredericks of Hollywood, a seller of intimate apparel.

Jack once fell asleep in his square during a taping of The Hollywood Squares (1966).

Jack speaks six languages; Ukrainian, Russian, Italian, Spanish, French and English.

Jack attended the University of North Carolina.

Jack reportedly underwent plastic surgery (a facial reconstruction) for severe injuries after his B-17 bomber crashed landed in England in 1943 during World War II. According to a 1985 TV Guide interview with Palance, the story is only a rumor.

Jack has never watched any of his own movies.

Jack is the Father of Holly Palance.

Jack is the Father of Brooke Palance.

Jack is from a Ukrainian background.

Jack is the Father-in-law of Michael Wilding Jr.

Jack is the former father-in-law of Roger Spottiswoode.

Jack has only been married once. To Virginia Baker (1949 - 1966) (divorced). They had 3 children together.

Jack made his film debut in the movie Panic In The Streets in 1950.

In 1998, Jack won the Lifetime Achievement Award at WorldFest Flagstaff.

Jack's Star on the Walk of Fame for Television can be located at 6608 Hollywood Blvd.

In 1992, Jack won the Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for: City Slickers (1991).

In 1993, Jack won the Golden Boot Award.

In 1957, Jack won an Emmy for Best Single Performance by an Actor for the Playhouse 90 (1956) episode Requiem for a Heavyweight.

In 2001, Jack won the Video Premiere Award for Best Supporting Actor for: Prancer Returns (2001).

In 1992, Jack won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for: City Slickers (1991).

In 1953, Jack was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
for: Sudden Fear (1952).

In 1954, Jack was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
for: Shane (1953).

Jack released an album of country-western songs, several of which he wrote himself in 1970 called Palance.

Jack played "Hell's Angel" in Roger Waters' stage presentation of The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking in 1984.

Jack appeared in a TV commercial for Ford pickup trucks in 1996.

Jack appeared in a TV commercial for Taco Bell in 1995.

Jack appeared in a TV commercial for Arby's in 1998.

Jack Palance: (on tabloid stories) I'm amazed people read this crap about us - about me most of all.

Jack Palance: The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

Jack is the brother of Ivan Palance.

Jack paints and sells landscape art, with a poem included on the back of each picture.

Jack is the author of The Forest of Love, a book of poems, published October 1, 1996, by Summerhouse Press.

Jack is 6' 3" (1.91 m).