Biography: life and films
Jack Palance was an American actor whose birth name was Volodymyr Jack Palahniuk. He was born in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, USA on 18th February 1919 and died in Montecito, California, USA on 10th November 2006, aged 87.His best films as an actor include Elia Kazan's crime-thriller Panic in the Streets (1950), Robert Aldrich's Attack (1956), Jean-Luc Godard's Le Mépris (1963), Sergio Corbucci's comedy Vamos a matar, compañeros (1970) and John 'Bud' Cardos's Legends of the West (1992).
Jack Palance appeared in 93 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Robert Aldrich (3 films), Sergio Corbucci (2), Rudolph Maté (2), Richard Fleischer (2), Luigi Bazzoni (2), John 'Bud' Cardos (2), Jacques Rozier (2), Henry Levin (2), Greydon Clark (2), Freddie Francis (2) and Charles Marquis Warren (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (32 films), Western (20), comedy (18), Thriller (11), War (8), crime-thriller (6), Horror (6), Fantasy (6), romance (5), Documentary (5), Biography (4), history (3), comedy-thriller (3) and comedy-drama (2).
Our average rating for Jack Palance over all films is: 2.7
Filmography
Key: a = actor
Halls of Montezuma (1950) [a]
Panic in the Streets (1950) [a]
Sudden Fear (1952) [a]
Arrowhead (1953) [a]
Flight to Tangier (1953) [a]
Man in the Attic (1953) [a]
Second Chance (1953) [a]
Shane (1953) [a]
Sign of the Pagan (1954) [a]
The Silver Chalice (1954) [a]
I Died a Thousand Times (1955) [a]
Kiss of Fire (1955) [a]
Attack (1956) [a]
House of Numbers (1957) [a]
The Lonely Man (1957) [a]
The Man Inside (1958) [a]
Ten Seconds to Hell (1959) [a]
The Barbarians (1960) [a]
Treno di Natale (1960) [a]
Barabba (1961) [a]
I mongoli (1961) [a]
Il Giudizio universale (1961) [a]
La Guerra continua (1962) [a]
Rosmunda e Alboino (1962) [a]
Il criminale (1963) [a]
Le Mépris (1963) [a]
The Professionals (1966) [a]
Kill a Dragon (1967) [a]
The Spy in the Green Hat (1967) [a]
Il mercenario (1968) [a]
Las Vegas, 500 millones (1968) [a]
Un Dollaro per 7 vigliacchi (1968) [a]
Che! (1969) [a]
Hora cero: Operación Rommel (1969) [a]
La Legione dei dannati (1969) [a]
Marquis de Sade: Justine (1969) [a]
The Desperados (1969) [a]
Monte Walsh (1970) [a]
The McMasters (1970) [a]
Vamos a matar, compañeros (1970) [a]
The Horsemen (1971) [a]
Chato's Land (1972) [a]
Imagine (1972) [a]
Si può fare... amigo (1972) [a]
Tedeum (1972) [a]
Blu Gang e vissero per sempre felici e ammazzati (1973) [a]
Oklahoma Crude (1973) [a]
Craze (1974) [a]
Il richiamo del lupo (1975) [a]
L'Infermiera (1975) [a]
Africa Express (1976) [a]
Diamante Lobo (1976) [a]
Eva nera (1976) [a]
I padroni della città (1976) [a]
Safari Express (1976) [a]
Sangue di sbirro (1976) [a]
Squadra antiscippo (1976) [a]
The Four Deuces (1976) [a]
Portrait of a Hitman (1977) [a]
Welcome to Blood City (1977) [a]
The One Man Jury (1978) [a]
Angels' Brigade (1979) [a]
Cocaine Cowboys (1979) [a]
The Shape of Things to Come (1979) [a]
Hawk the Slayer (1980) [a]
Without Warning (1980) [a]
Alone in the Dark (1982) [a]
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey (1984) [a]
Gor (1987) [a]
Out of Rosenheim (1987) [a]
Imagine: John Lennon (1988) [a]
Young Guns (1988) [a]
Batman (1989) [a]
Outlaw of Gor (1989) [a]
Tango & Cash (1989) [a]
Solar Crisis (1990) [a]
City Slickers (1991) [a]
Eli's Lesson (1992) [a]
Legends of the West (1992) [a]
Cyborg 2 (1993) [a]
City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994) [a]
Cops and Robbersons (1994) [a]
The Swan Princess (1994) [a]
The Incredible Adventures of Marco Polo (1998) [a]
Treasure Island (1999) [a]
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