One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
Studio press agents make up anything they want to, and reporters go along with it. One flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a 'bionic face,' why didn't they do a better job of it?
He won an Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1957.
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 is the son of a coal miner.
Jack's son Cody was born in December of 1955.
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 was inducted into the Hall of Great Western Performers of the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in 1992.
Jack once fell asleep in his square during a taping of The Hollywood Squares (1966).
Jack attended the University of North Carolina.
Jack has never watched any of his own movies.
Jack is the Father of Brooke Palance.
Jack is the Father-in-law of Michael Wilding Jr.
Jack has only been married once. To Virginia Baker (1949 - 1966) (divorced). They had 3 children together.
In 1998, Jack won the Lifetime Achievement Award at WorldFest Flagstaff.
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 1957, Jack won an Emmy for Best Single Performance by an Actor for the Playhouse 90 (1956) episode Requiem for a Heavyweight.
In 1992, Jack won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture for: City Slickers (1991).
In 1954, Jack was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for: Shane (1953).
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 Taco Bell in 1995.
Jack Palance: (on tabloid stories) I'm amazed people read this crap about us - about me most of all.
Jack is the brother of Ivan Palance.
Jack is the author of The Forest of Love, a book of poems, published October 1, 1996, by Summerhouse Press.
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