“Then I thought, ‘You must be nuts to get your head beat in for $200.’ The theater seemed a lot more appealing,” Palance told The Times.
JACK PALANCE PROFESSIONAL
He had a 12-2 record as a professional boxer, and by the 1940s he was making $200 a fight, The Times reported in 1995. He attended the University of North Carolina on a football scholarship and dropped out to try boxing. The celluloid tough guy, at 6 feet 3 and 200 pounds, grew up in coal-mining country but had no intention of becoming a miner. These little ones - they’ll run after you like a dog. Because if you walk amongst the cattle, occasionally you’ll find that you have a friend. “I’m not inspired as much by California.”Īs for his refusal to eat red meat, Palance told the Morning Call: “I’ve got so many cattle that I didn’t want to feel like I was eating them. “Everything I talk about is about Pennsylvania,” he said of the prose poem that was published among his paintings and line drawings of trees. It was the farm, he said, that inspired his book about a man’s love for a woman and nature. His ranch brand was an “H” with a “B” and a “C” woven around it, the initials of the first names of his children, Holly, Brooke and Cody. Palance maintained a 1,000-acre cattle ranch in California’s Tehachapi Mountains and a 500-acre farm near his roots in heavily forested Luzerne County, Pa. His artwork, which bore the stamp of Impressionism, had been exhibited about a dozen times, he told the Allentown (Pa.) Morning Call in 1999. Surrounded by art in Rome, where he lived for a number of years making spaghetti westerns, Palance was inspired to take up painting. He wrote and illustrated a book with the non-villainous title of “The Forest of Love: A Love Story in Blank Verse,” which was published in 1996. 18, 1919, and named Volodymir Ivanovich Palahniuk hailed not from the West but from the coal country around Lattimer Mines, Pa., and was a fairly sensitive fellow.Īlthough he enjoyed raising cattle, he was a vegetarian who had painted abstract landscapes since the 1950s, loved trees and wrote poetry. His name is listed with such classic western toughs as John Wayne and Clint Eastwood.
JACK PALANCE MOVIE
Given his customary vile appearance in the black garb of various bad guys in the Old West, there was little wonder that Palance and his pictures easily made 1997’s “The Manly Movie Guide” by David Everitt and Harold Schechter. “This Ebenezer Scrooge is no harmless old crank he’s a gun ready to go off - and that makes his redemption all the more cathartic,” a Times reviewer wrote. The classic Charles Dickens story was updated with a protagonist who runs a saloon in the 1870s and snarls, “Christmas, hogwash.” In the Wild West retelling of “A Christmas Carol,” Palance starred as the title character in the movie “Ebenezer, " which premiered on cable in 1998. And he was still doing quality work on television in the 1990s - notably in the third installment of the Glenn Close-Christopher Walken vehicle “Sarah Plain and Tall,” in which he portrayed Walken’s long-lost and resented father. Palance was “a constant revelation and delight,” the Times review said, and emerged “as a terrific comedian.”Įqually at home on television, Palance earned an Emmy for his role as a has-been boxer in “Requiem for a Heavyweight” in 1956.
He had shown a flair for funny in the comic fable “Bagdad Cafe” (1988), in which he played a retired Hollywood set painter turned primitive artist. “He’s as gnarled and critter-like as ever.” “Only Palance returns with a flourish,” the Times review said. The two men worked together again in the 1994 sequel “City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold.” Since Palance’s Curly had died in the first film, he portrayed Curly’s equally curmudgeonly identical twin. Palance’s performance accepting the Oscar may have been more memorable than the gnarly star turn that earned it. “He was a scary, intimidating guy with a very warm and giving heart.” “When it comes to playing hard-bitten cowboys, there could never be anyone better than Jack,” “City Slickers” director Ron Underwood told The Times on Friday.
JACK PALANCE DRIVER
He was one of the best-loved bad guys in motion picture and television history - the murderous husband in “Sudden Fear” (1952), the creepy gunslinger in “Shane” (1953) and the cantankerous cattle driver Curly in “City Slickers” - and kept acting well into his 80s. Palance, who had been in failing health with a number of maladies, died Friday of natural causes at the Montecito home of his daughter Holly, family members said. Jack Palance, the leather-faced, gravelly voiced actor who earned Academy Award nominations for “Sudden Fear” and “Shane,” and who finally captured the Oscar almost 40 years later as the crusty trail boss in the 1991 comedy western “City Slickers,” has died.
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