Jack Palance

Palance was born Volodymyr Palahniuk on February 18, 1919,Some sources, inclusive his Santa Barbara County (California) death certificate, cite 1920 as Palance's year of birth. in Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, the son of Anna (née Gramiak) and Ivan Palahniuk, an anthracite coal miner. His parents were Ukrainian Catholic immigrants,{{cite web|url=http://www.ukemonde.com/palance/last_role.html |title=The Last Role of an American "City Slicker" with a Ukrainian Soul |website=Ukemonde.com |date=November 14, 2006 |access-date=September 25, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930020005/http://www.ukemonde.com/palance/last_role.html|archive-date=September 30, 2007}}{{cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6138310.stm |title=Entertainment | Veteran western star Palance dies |publisher=BBC News |date=November 11, 2006 |access-date=September 25, 2016}} his father a native of Ivane-Zolote in southwestern Ukraine (modern Ternopil Oblast) and his mother from the Lviv Oblast.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_YIlKNT2F7MC&pg=PA187 |title=A History of the Polish Americans |year=1987 |page=113 |publisher=Transaction Publishers |access-date=September 25, 2016|isbn=9781412825443}}[http://ukrweekly.com/archive/pdf3/2006/The_Ukrainian_Weekly_2006-47.pdf Matthew Dubas, "OBITUARY: Academy Award-winning actor Jack Palance, 87"], The Ukrainian Weekly, November 19, 2006 One of six children, he worked in coal mines during his youth before becoming a professional boxer in the late 1930s.{{Cite web |last=magazine |first=STANFORD |date=January 1, 2007 |title=Requiem for a Heavy |url=https://stanfordmag.org/contents/requiem-for-a-heavy |access-date=March 7, 2024 |website=stanfordmag.org |language=en}}

Boxing under the name Jack Brazzo, Palahniuk lost his only recorded match, in a four-round decision on points, to future heavyweight contender Joe Baksi in a Pier-6 brawl rough fight.[http://boxrec.com/en/boxer/41420 Official records only show Palance in one sanctioned fight. His other fights may have been club fights], boxrec.com. Accessed September 10, 2022.[https://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=FB0C10F6385E127A93C6A81788D85F408585F9 Schmidt, M.A., "Palance From Panic To Pagan"], The New York Times, March 14, 1954, X5. In an early interview, Palance claimed to have fought Baksi to a draw.{{cite web |last=Enk |first=Bryan |title=Real Life Tough Guys |url=https://movies.yahoo.com/photos/real-life-tough-guys-1374864278-slideshow/afi-life-achievement-award-a-tribute-to-mel-brooks-awards-presentation-photo-1374864255359.html |publisher=Yahoo.com |access-date=July 27, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130730074443/http://movies.yahoo.com/photos/real-life-tough-guys-1374864278-slideshow/afi-life-achievement-award-a-tribute-to-mel-brooks-awards-presentation-photo-1374864255359.html |archive-date=July 30, 2013}} Other sources record cite him winning 15 consecutive club fights, with 12 knockouts.{{Cite web |title=Pennsylvania Center for the Book |url=https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/literary-cultural-heritage-map-pa/bios/Palance__Jack |access-date=April 2, 2024 |website=pabook.libraries.psu.edu}} Years later he recounted: "Then I thought, 'You must be nuts to get your head beat in for $200.' The theater seemed a lot more appealing."[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-04-30-ca-60606-story.html Lawrence Christon, "Home on the Range It's been a long, dusty journey since Panic in the Streets and Shane"], Los Angeles Times, April 30, 1995. (In a later interview, Palance admits to have lost to Baksi.)

Palance enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, and was trained as the pilot of a B-24 Liberator bomber. He suffered head injuries and burns during a 1943 crash, with various sources citing it as a patrol off the coast of California, or a training flight near Tucson, Arizona (at what is now Davis–Monthan Air Force Base).{{Cite web |title=Legacy: Jack Palance |url=https://ew.com/article/2006/11/17/legacy-jack-palance/ |access-date=April 2, 2024 |website=EW.com |language=en}} He was discharged in 1944 after undergoing reconstructive surgery, which contributed to his distinctively gaunt appearance.

According to some sources he was awarded a Purple Heart, though he does not appear on official rolls for the decoration. Purple Hearts are not awarded for training injuries.

Palance won a football scholarship to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill but left after two years, disgusted by commercialization of the sport.{{cite web |title=Jack Palance Obituary |date=November 10, 2006 |url=http://www.legacy.com/ns/jack-palance-obituary/19903153 |publisher=AP}}

After the war, Palance enrolled at Stanford to study journalism, but switched to drama. He left one credit shy of graduating to pursue a career in the theater.{{cite web |title=Accomplished Alumni – School of Humanities and Sciences |url=http://humsci.stanford.edu/about/accomplished_alumni |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911023041/http://humsci.stanford.edu/about/accomplished_alumni |archive-date=September 11, 2016 |access-date=September 25, 2016 |website=Humsci.stanford.edu}} During his university years, he worked as a short order cook, waiter, soda jerk, lifeguard at Jones Beach State Park, and a photographer's model.{{Citation needed |date=February 2024}}

It was around this time that he changed his name to Walter Jack Palance, reasoning that most people couldn't pronounce his birth name. His last name was actually a derivative of his original name. In an episode of What's My Line?, he described how no one could pronounce his last name, and how it was suggested that he be called Palanski. From that he decided just to use Palance instead.{{cite web |title=YouTube |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHcjVgDGffo2 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151228101917/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHcjVgDGffo2 |archive-date=December 28, 2015 |access-date=September 25, 2016 |publisher=YouTube}}

In New York City, Palance studied method acting under Michael Chekhov,{{Cite web |title= |url=https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1642&context=etd}} while working as a sportswriter. He made his Broadway debut in 1947 as a Russian soldier in The Big Two, directed by Robert Montgomery.The Life Story of Jack Palance

Picture Show; London Vol. 62, Iss. 1605, (January 2, 1954): 12.

Palance's acting break came as Marlon Brando's understudy in A Streetcar Named Desire, and he eventually replaced Brando on stage as Stanley Kowalski. (Anthony Quinn, however, gained the opportunity to tour the play.){{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IAonAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Jack+Palance%22+%22street+car%22 |title=The New Yorker |date=1992 |publisher=F-R Publishing Corporation |pages=76 |language=en}}

Palance appeared in two plays in 1948 with short runs, A Temporary Island and The Vigil. He made his television debut in 1949.{{Cite book |last=Monush |first=Barry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NeB-EAAAQBAJ&dq=%22Jack+Palance%22+%22temporary+island%22+%22the+vigil%22%22&pg=PA581 |title=The Encyclopedia of Hollywood Film Actors: From the Silent Era to 1965 |date=April 1, 2003 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1-4803-2998-0 |pages=581 |language=en}}

Palance made his big-screen debut in Panic in the Streets (1950), directed by Elia Kazan, who had directed Streetcar on Broadway. He played a gangster, and was credited as "Walter (Jack) Palance".

That year he was featured in Halls of Montezuma (1951), about United States Marines during World War II. He returned to Broadway for Darkness at Noon (1951) by Sidney Kingsley, which was a minor hit.

Palance was second-billed in just his third film, opposite Joan Crawford in the thriller Sudden Fear (1952). His character is a former coal miner, as Palance's father had been.Sudden Fear, 1952. Palance received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor.Palance from 'Panic to Pagan' By M. A. Schmidt Hollywood.. New York Times March 14, 1954: X5.

He was nominated in the same category the following year for his role as hired gunfighter Jack Wilson in Shane (1953).{{Cite book |last=Schaefer |first=Jack |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QliD_Cf6a9kC&q=%22Jack%20Palance%22 |title=Shane: The Critical Edition |date=January 1, 1984 |publisher=U of Nebraska Press |isbn=978-0-8032-9142-3 |pages=381 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Stratton |first=W. K. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cQ5kDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Palance%22+%22shane%22&pg=PA74 |title=The Wild Bunch: Sam Peckinpah, a Revolution in Hollywood, and the Making of a Legendary Film |date=February 12, 2019 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA |isbn=978-1-63286-214-3 |pages=74 |language=en}} The film was a huge hit, and Palance was now an established film name.{{Citation needed |date=February 2024}}

Palance played a villain in Second Chance opposite Robert Mitchum, and was an Indian in Arrowhead (both 1953). He got a chance to play a heroic role in Flight to Tangier (1953), a thriller.Hopper, Hedda, "Menace Jack Palance Cast as Apache Chief", Los Angeles Times, October 17, 1952, B6.

He played the lead in Man in the Attic (1953), an adaptation of The Lodger. He was Attila the Hun in Sign of the Pagan with Jeff Chandler, and Simon Magus in the Ancient World epic The Silver Chalice (both 1954) with Paul Newman.Scheuer, Philip K., "Jack Palance as Attila Dominant 'Pagan' Figure", Los Angeles Times, December 24, 1954, p. 10.

He had the star part in I Died a Thousand Times (1955), a remake of High Sierra, and was cast by Robert Aldrich in two star parts: The Big Knife (1955), from the play by Clifford Odets, as a Hollywood star; and Attack (1956), as a tough soldier in World War II.

In 1955, he had an operation for appendicitis."Jack Palance Has Operation", The New York Times, October 19, 1955: 39.

Palance was in a Western, The Lonely Man (1957), playing the father of Anthony Perkins, and played a double role in House of Numbers (1957).

In 1957, Palance won an Emmy Award for best actor for his portrayal of Mountain McClintock in the Playhouse 90 production of Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight.{{Cite news|title=Palance Scores Again|author=Coppola, Jo|date=March 22, 1957|work=Newsday|page=3C|quote=When Jack Palance accepted the Emmy Award Saturday for his role as Mountain, the washed-up fighter in 'Requiem for a Heavyweight' done on 'Playhouse 90' in October, his diction was as precise as a diamond cutter's hand when handling a 100-carat gem.|id={{ProQuest|879938015}}}}

Warwick Films hired Palance to play the hero in The Man Inside (1958), shot in Europe. He was reunited with Robert Aldrich and Jeff Chandler when they worked on Ten Seconds to Hell (1959), filmed in Germany, playing a bomb disposal expert.

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He made Beyond All Limits (1959) in Mexico, and Austerlitz (1960) in France, then did a series of films in Italy: Revak the Rebel, Sword of the Conqueror, The Mongols, The Last Judgment, and Barabbas (all 1961), and Night Train to Milan and Warriors Five (both 1962).

Jean-Luc Godard persuaded Palance to take on the role of Hollywood producer Jeremy Prokosch in the nouvelle vague movie Le Mépris (1963) with Brigitte Bardot. Although the main dialogue was in French, Palance spoke mostly English.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}

Palance returned to the U.S. to star in the TV series The Greatest Show on Earth (1963–64).Page, Don, "Jack Palance: In the center ring", Los Angeles Times, September 1, 1963, p. C3. In 1964, his presence at a recently integrated movie theater in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, prompted a riot from segregationists who assumed Palance was there to promote civil rights."Jack Palance Presence Sparks Tuscaloosa Riot", Los Angeles Times, July 11, 1964, p. 7

He played a gangster in Once a Thief (1965) with Alain Delon. In the following year he appeared in the television film Alice Through the Looking Glass, directed by Alan Handley, in which he played the Jabberwock, and had a featured role opposite Lee Marvin and Burt Lancaster in the Western adventure The Professionals. Palance guest-starred in The Man from U.N.C.L.E., and the episodes were released as a film, The Spy in the Green Hat (1967). He went to England to make Torture Garden (1967), and made Kill a Dragon (1968) in Hong Kong.

Palance provided narration for the 1967 documentary And Still Champion! The Story of Archie Moore. He was in the TV film The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde produced by Dan Curtis, during the making of which he fell and injured himself."Jack Palance Injured in Stunt Mishap", Los Angeles Times, September 9, 1967, B5.

In 1969, Palance recorded a country music album in Nashville, released on Warner Bros. Records. It featured his self-penned song "The Meanest Guy that Ever Lived". The album was re-released on CD in 2003 by the Water label (Water 119). His films were often international co-productions by this time: They Came to Rob Las Vegas, The Mercenary (both 1968), The Desperados, and Marquis de Sade: Justine (both 1969).

Palance had a part in the Hollywood blockbuster Che! (1969) playing Fidel Castro opposite Omar Sharif in the title role, but the film flopped. Palance went back to action films and Westerns: Battle of the Commandos (1970), The McMasters (1970) and Compañeros (1970).

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Palance had another role in Monte Walsh (1970), from the author of Shane, opposite Lee Marvin, but the film was a box-office disappointment. So too was The Horsemen (1971) with Sharif, directed by John Frankenheimer. He supported Bud Spencer in It Can Be Done Amigo and Charles Bronson in Chato's Land (both 1972), and had the lead in Sting of the West (1972) and Brothers Blue (1973).{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}

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In Great Britain he appeared in a highly acclaimed TV film, Bram Stoker's Dracula (1973), in the title role; it was directed by Dan Curtis. Three years earlier, comic book artist Gene Colan had based his interpretation of Dracula for the acclaimed Marvel Comics comic book series The Tomb of Dracula on Palance, explaining, "He had that cadaverous look, a serpentine look on his face. I knew that Jack Palance would do the perfect Dracula."{{cite book |last=Field |first=Tom |title=Secrets in the Shadows: The Art & Life of Gene Colan |year=2005 |publisher=TwoMorrows Publishing |location=Raleigh, NC |page=99}}

Palance went back to Hollywood for Oklahoma Crude (1973) then to England to star in Craze (1974). He starred in the television series Bronk between 1975 and 1976 for MGM Television, and starred in the TV films The Hatfields and the McCoys (1975) and The Four Deuces (1976).{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}

In the late 1970s, Palance was mostly based in Italy. He supported Ursula Andress in Africa Express and L'Infermiera, Lee Van Cleef in God's Gun, and Thomas Milian in The Cop in Blue Jeans (all 1976). He was in Black Cobra Woman; Safari Express, a sequel to Africa Express; Mister Scarface; and Blood and Bullets (all 1976). He traveled to Canada to make Welcome to Blood City (1977) and the US for The One Man Jury (1978), Portrait of a Hitman and Angels Revenge (both 1979).

Palance later said his Italian sojourn was the most enjoyable of his career. "In Italy, everyone on the set has a drinking cubicle, and no one is ever interested in working after lunch", he said. "That's a highly civilized way to make a movie." He went back to Canada for H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come (1979).Shales, Tom, "Jack Palance: The Tough Guy Behind the Tough-Guy Exterior: Jack Palance", The Washington Post, August 22, 1980, C1.

In 1980, Jack Palance narrated the documentary The Strongest Man in the World by Canadian filmmaker Halya Kuchmij, about Mike Swistun, a circus strongman who had been a student of Houdini. Palance attended the premiere of the film on June 6, 1980, at the Winnipeg Art Gallery.{{cite web|url=https://vimeo.com/141719750 |title=Strongest Man In The World on Vimeo |website=Vimeo.com |date=October 7, 2015 |access-date=September 25, 2016}} He appeared in The Ivory Ape (1980), Without Warning (1980), Hawk the Slayer (1980), and the slasher film, Alone in the Dark (1982).

In 1982, Palance began hosting a television revival of Ripley's Believe It or Not!. The weekly series ran from 1982 to 1986 on the American ABC network. The series also starred three different co-hosts from season to season, including Palance's daughter Holly Palance, actress Catherine Shirriff and singer Marie Osmond. Ripley's Believe It or Not! was in rerun syndication on the Sci-fi Channel (UK) and the Sci-fi Channel (U.S.) during the 1990s. He appeared in the films Gor and Bagdad Café (both 1987).{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}

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Palance had never been out of work since his career began, but his success on Ripley's Believe It or Not! and the international popularity of Bagdad Cafe (1987) created a new demand for his services in big-budget Hollywood films.

He made memorable appearances as villains in Young Guns (1988) as Lawrence Murphy, Tango & Cash (1989) and Tim Burton's Batman (1989). He also performed on Roger Waters' first solo album release, The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (1984), and was in Outlaw of Gor (1988) and Solar Crisis (1990).

Palance was then cast as cowboy Curly Washburn in the 1991 comedy City Slickers, directed by Ron Underwood. He quipped:

I don't go to California much any more. I live on a farm in Pennsylvania, about 100 miles from New York, so I can go into the city for dinner and a show when I want to. I also have a ranch about two hours from Los Angeles, but I don't go there very often at all...But I will always read a decent script when it is offered, and the script to City Slickers made sense. Curly (his character in the film) is the kind of man I would like to be. He is in control of himself, except for deciding the moment of his own death. Besides all that, I got paid pretty good money to make it.Wuntch, Philip, "Jack Palance's Image Follows Him Offscreen", Sun Sentinel, July 3, 1991: 3E.

Four decades after his film debut, Palance won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on March 30, 1992, for his performance as Curly.Martin, Douglas, "Jack Palance, Living the Western", The New York Times, July 21, 1991, A17. Stepping onstage to accept the award, the 6' 4" (1.93 m) actor looked down at 5' 7" (1.70 m) Oscar host Billy Crystal (who was also his co-star in the movie) and joked, mimicking one of his lines from the film, "Billy Crystal ... I crap bigger than him." He then dropped to the floor and demonstrated his ability, at the age of 73, to perform one-armed push-ups.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}

The audience loved the moment and host Crystal turned it into a running gag. At various points in the broadcast, Crystal announced that Palance was "backstage on the StairMaster", had bungee-jumped off the Hollywood sign, had rendezvoused with the space shuttle in orbit, had fathered all the children in a production number, had been named People magazine's "Sexiest Man Alive", and had won the New York primary election. At the end of the broadcast Crystal said he wished he could be back next year, but "I've just been informed Jack Palance will be hosting."{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}

Years later, Crystal appeared on Inside the Actors Studio and fondly recalled that, after the Oscar ceremony, Palance approached him during the reception: "He stopped me and put his arms out and went, 'Billy Crystal, who thought it would be you?' It was his really funny way of saying thank you to a little New York Jewy guy who got him the Oscars."{{YouTube|F6OqjqTIujg}}

In 1993, during the opening of the Oscars, a spoof of that Oscar highlight featured Palance appearing to drag in an enormous Academy Award statuette with Crystal again hosting, riding on the rear end of it. Halfway across the stage, Palance dropped to the ground as if exhausted, but then performed several one-armed push-ups before regaining his feet and dragging the giant Oscar the rest of the way across the stage.{{cite news |last=Grimes |first=William |title=Eastwood Western Takes Top 2 Prizes In 65th Oscar Show |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/03/30/movies/eastwood-western-takes-top-2-prizes-in-65th-oscar-show.html |work=The New York Times |date=March 30, 1993 |access-date=May 9, 2017}}

He appeared in Cyborg 2 (1993); Cops & Robbersons (1994) with Chevy Chase; City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994); and on TV in Buffalo Girls (1995). He also voiced Rothbart in the 1994 animated film The Swan Princess.

Palance's final films included Ebenezer (1998), a TV Western version of Charles Dickens's classic A Christmas Carol, with Palance as Scrooge; Treasure Island (1999); Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End (2000); and Prancer Returns (2001).

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Palance, at the time chairman of the Hollywood Trident Foundation, walked out of a Russian Film Festival in Hollywood in 2004. After being introduced, Palance said, "I feel like I walked into the wrong room by mistake. I think that Russian film is interesting, but I have nothing to do with Russia or Russian film. My parents were born in Ukraine: I'm Ukrainian. I'm not Russian. So, excuse me, but I don't belong here. It's best if we leave."{{cite web|url=http://www.ukemonde.com/palance/russianfilmfest.html |title=Declaring 'I'm Ukrainian, not Russian', Palance walks out of Russian Film Festival in Hollywood |website=Ukemonde.com |date=June 11, 2004 |access-date=September 9, 2016}} Palance was awarded the title of "People's Artist" by Vladimir Putin, president of Russia; however, Palance refused it.

In 2001, Palance returned to the recording studio as a special guest on friend Laurie Z's album Heart of the Holidays to narrate the classic poem "The Night Before Christmas". In 2002, he starred in the television movie Living with the Dead opposite Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen and Diane Ladd. In 2004, he starred in another television production, Back When We Were Grownups, once again directed by Ron Underwood, opposite Blythe Danner; it was his final performance.{{citation needed|date=June 2024}}

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Palance lived for several years around Tehachapi, California. He was married to his first wife, Virginia (née Baker), from 1949 to 1968. They had three children, one of whom is retired actress Holly Palance. On New Year's Day, 2003, Virginia was struck and killed by a car in Los Angeles. In May 1987, Palance married his second wife, Elaine Rogers. His death certificate listed his marital status as "Divorced".

Palance painted and sold landscape art, with a poem included on the back of each picture. He was also the author of The Forest of Love, a book of poems published in 1996 by Summerhouse Press.{{cite book |title=The Forest of Love |url=https://archive.org/details/forestoflove00pala_0 |url-access=registration |publisher=Summerhouse Press |date=January 1, 1996 |access-date=August 15, 2012 |isbn=9781887714075}}

Palance enjoyed raising cattle on his ranch in the Tehachapi Mountains.[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-nov-11-me-palance11-story.html "Jack Palance, 87; gravelly voiced actor won Oscar as crusty trail boss in 'City Slickers'"]. latimes.com. Retrieved October 22, 2023. He gave up eating red meat after working on his ranch, commenting that he couldn't eat a cow.[https://web.archive.org/web/20231022000852/https://www.mcall.com/1999/07/25/tough-guys-write-poetry-book-reflects-softer-side-of-actor-jack-palance/ "Tough Guys Write Poetry Book Reflects Softer Side of Actor Jack Palance"]. mcall.com. Retrieved October 22, 2023.

Palance acknowledged a lifelong attachment to his Pennsylvania heritage and visited there when able. Shortly before his death, he sold his farm in Butler Township and put his art collection up for auction.{{cite web |last=Learn-Andes |first=Jennifer |title=Jump on Jack's stash |url=http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/15708541.htm |work=Times Leader |date=October 8, 2006 |access-date=October 8, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061019090024/http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/15708541.htm |archive-date=October 19, 2006}}

He was a supporter of the Republican Party.{{cite web |title=The Republicans of Classic Hollywood |url=http://fan.tcm.com/_The-Republicans-of-Classic-Hollywood/blog/4001537/66470.html |url-status=dead |publisher=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=January 7, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212073213/http://fan.tcm.com/_The-Republicans-of-Classic-Hollywood/blog/4001537/66470.html |archive-date=February 12, 2013}}

Palance died at the age of 87 from natural causes at his daughter Holly's house in Montecito, California on November 10, 2006.{{cite web |title=Oscar winner Jack Palance dead at 87 |url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Movies/11/10/palance.death/index.html |publisher=CNN |date=November 11, 2006 |access-date=September 25, 2016}} Following his death a memorial service was held at St. Michael's Ukrainian Catholic Church in Hazelton, Pennsylvania.{{Cite news |date=May 22, 2007 |title=Hazleton Mass Set For Palance, The Local Boy Who Made It Big In Films |url=https://www.timesleader.com/archive/1137039/hazleton-mass-set-for-palance-the-local-boy-who-made-it-big-in-films |access-date=March 31, 2025 |work=Times Leader}}

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Palance has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6608 Hollywood Boulevard.{{Cite web |last=Chad |date=2019-10-25 |title=Jack Palance |url=https://walkoffame.com/jack-palance/?utm_source=chatgpt.com |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=Hollywood Walk of Fame |language=en-US}}

In 1992, he was inducted into the Western Performers Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.{{Cite web |title=Jack Palance - Trivia |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001588/trivia/ |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=IMDb |language=en-US}}

According to writer Mark Evanier, comic book creator Jack Kirby modeled his character Darkseid on the actor.{{cite web |title=Archived copy |url=http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2006_11_10.html#012391 |url-status=dead |access-date=April 24, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081226011230/http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2006_11_10.html |archive-date=December 26, 2008}}

The Lucky Luke 1956 comic Lucky Luke contre Phil Defer by Morris features a villain named Phil Defer who is a caricature of Jack Palance.

The song "And now we dance" by punk band The Vandals features the lyrics, "Come on and do one hand pushups just like Jack Palance."

American comedian Bill Hicks incorporated a reference to Palance in one of his most famous routines, likening Palance's character in Shane to how he views the United States' role in international warfare.{{cite web |last=Sommerlad |first=Joe |title=Bill Hicks 25 years on: The stand-up comedian whose uncompromising attack held the powerful to account |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/comedy/features/bill-hicks-comedian-stand-up-career-death-cancer-anniversary-legacy-a8795426.html |website=The Independent |date=February 26, 2019 |access-date=June 29, 2019}}

Novelist Donald E. Westlake stated that he sometimes imagined Palance as the model for the career-criminal character Parker he wrote in a series of novels under the name Richard Stark.{{cite web |url=http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/westlake_interview.html |title=Interview with Donald Westlake, author of the Parker novels |year=2008 |publisher=The University of Chicago Press |access-date=September 1, 2010}}

In 2023, Palance was inducted into the Luzerne County Arts & Entertainment Hall of Fame. He was included among the inaugural class of inductees.[https://www.timesleader.com/news/1603775/luzerne-county-arts-entertainment-hall-of-fame-announces-inaugural-class "Luzerne County Arts & Entertainment Hall of Fame Announces inaugural class"], timesleader.com. Accessed June 2, 2024.

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