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Jack Palance, the raspy-voiced actor who made his name playing movie villains but won an Oscar at age 73 for his work as a grizzled cowboy in the comedy "City Slickers," has died. He was 87. By Duane ...

LOS ANGELES — Jack Palance, the craggy-faced menace in “Shane,” “Sudden Fear” and other films who turned successfully to comedy in his 70s with his Oscar-winning self-parody in “City Slickers,” died ...

Born Walter Jack Palahnuik in Pennsylvania coal country on Feb. 18, 1919, Palance was the third of five children of Ukrainian immigrants. A strapping 6-feet-4 and 210 pounds, Palance excelled at ...

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But it was his next film, the iconic western "Shane," that gained him movie immortality. He played Jack Wilson, a laconic, sinister hired gun brought to a western frontier town to dispatch the ...

Friend Jerry Blaine, of Wilkes-Barre, remembers the late actor as a regular guy. Wilkes-Barre’s Jerry Blaine said he often called Jack Palance, pictured in 1996. Times leader staff photo/Pete G.

Jack Palance's Curly Washburn is seen in closeup against a blue sky in City Slickers - Columbia Pictures Jack Palance is a true Hollywood legend who made his name in film noir and Westerns, charting a ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oscar-winning actor Jack Palance, one of Hollywood's best-known screen villains who personified evil as a cold-blooded gunslinger in the classic western "Shane," died on Friday ...