Brief Obit: Actor Jack Palance, 87, died of natural causes on Friday, Nov. 10. Palance's film career, which spanned nearly half a century, consisted mostly of supporting roles — often villains — in major productions and lead roles in minor fare.
Among his most important film appearances are his evil gunslinger in George Stevens' elegiac Western Shane (1953), and his friendly man of the West in Ron Underwood's popular 1991 comedy City Slickers, for which Palance won a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award. (He received two other nominations, also in the supporting category: for plotting to kill Joan Crawford in David Miller's 1952 suspense melo Sudden Fear, and for Shane.)
In truth, Palance will quite possibly be better remembered for his push-ups at the 1992 Oscar ceremony than for any of his film roles.
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