Oscar-Winning Actor Jack Palance Dies

[Herman Munster]

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[AllegroRondo]

1. I just heard. What a great loss.

[Little Wing]

2. Those will be some short pushups he'll be doing

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[AllegroRondo]

3. Link to Yahoo story

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061110/ap_en_ce/obit_palance

[ReadTomPaine]

4. Farewell, Voltan!

RIP Jack. You'll be missed.

[bigdarryl]

5. As the saying goes they go in threes Lavert Bradly and now...

Palance

[GrumpyGreg]

6. Sad! I loved Jack. He will be missed.

[dipsydoodle]

7. imdb link

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001588/

He was one of those guys who made the successful transition from only playing bad guys to invariably playing good guys. Yes - he'll be sadly missed.

[Lautremont]

8. And I just found this a few days ago:

Sad news. I was a big fan. I even have his country album, and you know what? It's great.

[tabasco]

9. Jack Palance was a war hero from Pennsylvania.

Not only did he play a tough guy in the movies, he was a tough guy in real life.

He was a professional boxer and a decorated combat vet.

I didn't know that until I googled it just now. I liked him as an actor very much.

RIP :cry:

[RamboLiberal]

13. Yep - like a few old time actors he came out of PA coal country

Of Ukrainian descent, Jack Palance was born in the Lattimer Mines section of Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, near Hazleton in Northeastern Pennsylvania. He was the son of an anthracite coal miner.

Palance worked in the coal mines in his youth and was also a boxer. In the late 1930s he started a professional boxing career. Fighting under the name Jack Brazzo, Palance reportedly compiled a record of 15 consecutive victories with 12 knockouts before losing a decision to future heavyweight contender Joe Baksi.

With the outbreak of World War II, Palance's boxing career ended and his military career began. Palance's rugged face, which took many beatings in the boxing ring, was disfigured when he bailed out of his burning B-24. Plastic surgeons repaired the obvious damage but left him with a distinctive, somewhat gaunt look. After much reconstructive surgery, he was discharged in 1944.

Palance graduated from Stanford University in 1947 with an AB in Drama; during that time he worked as a short order cook, waiter, soda jerk, lifeguard at Jones Beach, and a photographer's model.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Palance

We also had Jimmy Stewart from Indiana, PA who was a high-ranking AF officer who flew B-24 bombers in WWII.

And Charles Bronson from Ehrenfeld in Cambria County, Pennsylvania who flew as a tail-gunner in B-29s in the Pacific WWII.

I think actors and actresses from that era were distinct and colorful with their own style. I must be getting old cause I have a hard time distinguishing many of the young actors - they seem to almost look and talk alike. There's a couple of course that stand out.

[THUNDER HANDS]

10. gee, i thought he was dead already

i would have lost the 'dead or alive' game if he came up.

[RamboLiberal]

14. I would've lost too

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[Dr Fate]

11. He was terrific- RIP tough guy!!! n/t

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[Frank Cannon]

12. This is terrible news

I loved Jack Palance. He was the tough guy's tough guy. Enough so that he even portrayed a biker on Roger Waters' "The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking".

He was terrific on "Ripley's Believe It Or Not" back in the '80s. I remember him reenacting (in excruciating detail) the incredibly weird death of Rasputin. No one could have done it better.

Godspeed, Mr. Palance.

[xchrom]

15. bless you jack palance.

as you can see you were well loved.

god speed you, good sir.

[Domitan]

16. Damn! I almost met him 6 years ago

I was involved in the Canadian-Ukrainian community 6 years ago as part of my university work. Jack Palance (who is Ukrainian) was invited as our special guest of honour. However, plans did not pan out, so he could not make it. Now I'll never have the chance to meet him in this lifetime.

Jack still craps bigger than Billy Crystal!

[Paula Sims]

17. To my fellow Ukrainian . . .

Veechnaya Pamyat!

(Translation: may he be always remembered!)


Paula

[lpbk2713]

18. Damn shame

He was at his nastiest (best) in Oklahoma Crude.


RIP Jack

[-..__...]

23. Damn, Shane...

killed Jack.

"That was Wilson, all right, and he was fast, fast on the draw".

[Cooley Hurd]

19. A great actor... a guy who could scare the shit out of you...

Rest in peace, Jack.:(

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

20. He always seemed to be having the time of his lilfe on "Believe it or Not"

skulking around the ruins and doing dramatic reenactments of history.

On the side, the man was a boxer, pu out a country album- 'Jack Palance Sings' and wrote two books of romantic poetry (he did a reading at my school in the late 90s.)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

21. Bradley, Palance.....

Who's it going to be?

[Divine Discontent]

22. God bless you Jack!

n/t

[Octafish]

24. Farewell, Hero.

Mr. Palance piloted a B-17 bomber in World War II.
He was burned and suffered other injuries when he had to crash-land the plane returning from a combat mission.
In the process, he saved his crew.

May he find peace in the next world.

[PtotheJ]

25. I laughed so hard in

City Slickers 1 and 2. He will be missed.

[newyawker99]

28. Hi PtotheJ!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Vidar]

26. Bidding a very fond farewell to a magnificent screen villain & real herol

[dweller]

27. so long jack

you had many devoted admirers. Fitting that you left on Veteran's Day.
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