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Jack Palance is a Actor American born on 17 february 1919 at Pennsylvania (USA)

Jack Palance

Jack Palance
Jack Palance participated to 100 films (as actor, director or script writer).
Among those, 6 have good markets following the box office.

Here are the best films classified by number of entries :

Actor

City Slickers, 1h53
Directed by Ron Underwood
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Films about animals, Films about cows, Buddy films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère
Actors Billy Crystal, Bruno Kirby, Daniel Stern, Patricia Wettig, Helen Slater, Jack Palance
Roles Curly Washburn
Rating67% 3.397873.397873.397873.397873.39787
New Yorker Mitch Robbins has just turned 39 years old, and is having a midlife crisis. His best friends are also having crises of their own: Phil Berquist is stuck managing his father-in-law's grocery store, while trapped in a 12-year sexless marriage with his ruthless wife, Arlene, and Ed Furillo (Bruno Kirby) is a successful sporting-goods salesman and playboy, having recently married an underwear model, but is struggling with the idea of monogamous marriage and the pressure to have kids.
Shane
Shane (1953)
, 1h58
Directed by George Stevens
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Brandon deWilde, Jack Palance, Edith Evanson
Roles Jack Wilson
Rating75% 3.798473.798473.798473.798473.79847
Shane (Alan Ladd), a skilled, laconic gunslinger with a mysterious past, rides out of the desert and into an isolated valley in the sparsely settled state of Wyoming some time after enactment of the Homestead Act of 1862. At dinner with a pioneer homesteader, Joe Starrett (Van Heflin) and his wife, Marian (Jean Arthur), he learns that a war of intimidation is being waged on the valley's homesteaders. The ruthless cattle baron Rufus Ryker (Emile Meyer) is trying to run them out and seize their land. Starrett offers Shane a job, and he accepts.
The Professionals, 1h57
Directed by Richard Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure, Western
Themes Political films
Actors Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin, Carlos Romero, Claudia Cardinale, Robert Ryan, Woody Strode
Roles Jesus Raza
Rating72% 3.647733.647733.647733.647733.64773
In the latter period of the Mexican Revolution, Rancher and Oil Tycoon J.W. Grant (Ralph Bellamy) hires four men, who are all experts in their respective fields, to rescue his kidnapped wife, Maria (Claudia Cardinale) from Jesus Raza (Jack Palance), a former Mexican Revolutionary leader turned bandit.
Bagdad Cafe, 1h35
Directed by Percy Adlon
Origin German
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Feminist films, Films about magic and magicians, Political films
Actors Marianne Sägebrecht, CCH Pounder, Jack Palance, Christine Kaufmann, Monica Calhoun, George Aguilar
Roles Rudi Cox
Rating73% 3.696863.696863.696863.696863.69686
German tourist Jasmin Münchgstettner (Sägebrecht) from Rosenheim and her husband fight whilst they are driving across the desert. She storms out of the car and makes her way to the isolated truck stop, which is run by the tough-as-nails and short-tempered Brenda (Pounder), whose own husband, after an argument out front, is soon to leave as well. Jasmin takes a room at the adjacent motel. Initially suspicious of the foreigner, Brenda eventually befriends Jasmin and allows her to work at the café.
Chato's Land, 1h40
Directed by Michael Winner
Origin USA
Genres Action, Adventure, Western
Actors Charles Bronson, Jack Palance, Richard Basehart, James Whitmore, Simon Oakland, Richard Jordan
Roles Quincey Whitmore
Rating65% 3.2982653.2982653.2982653.2982653.298265
The film opens as the half-Apache Chato orders a drink at a bar. The bartender ignores him and serves the local sheriff who has arrived after Chato. The sheriff calls Chato a "redskin" and tells him the bar is for whites only. He moves behind Chato while hurling a stream of abuse at him. The sheriff's taunts escalate, and he draws his gun while saying that he is going to kill Chato. Chato whirls around and shoots the sheriff in the gut, killing him. He rides out of town on his Appaloosa.
The Horsemen, 1h49
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Sports films, Films about horses, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Horse sports in film
Actors Omar Sharif, Leigh Taylor-Young, Jack Palance, Saeed Jaffrey, Peter Jeffrey, Vernon Dobtcheff
Roles Tursen
Rating62% 3.101093.101093.101093.101093.10109
Uraz (Omar Sharif), the son of Tursen (Jack Palance), the stable master and retired buzkashi player for a feudal lord, is a master horseman who lives by a primitive code of honor. Uruz's family honor is damaged when he breaks his leg playing the game which is the Afghani equivalent of polo. His father, who lost a lot of money betting on his son, will barely speak to him. To regain the family honor (and wealth) he must somehow re-learn how to ride -- after his injuries cost him his leg below the knee. In the face of great obstacles, and despite the derision and treachery of others, he gains the chance to play in the games given by the king of Afghanistan.