Jack Palance Movies

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Jack Palance (1919-2006) was an Oscar®-winning American actor.   Palance’s career spanned 7 different decades.  He won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar® for 1991’s City Slickers.  His IMDb page shows over 127 acting credits from 1949 to 2004.  This page will rank Jack Palance movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings.  Sadly many of his movies from the 1960s and 1970s did not make the table (no box office). To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition.

Jack Palance Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

Year	Movie (Year)	Rating	S
Year	Movie (Year)	Rating	S
1953	Shane (1953) AA Best Picture Nom AA Best Supp Actor Nom
1966	The Professionals (1966)
1989	Batman (1989)
1951	Halls of Montezuma (1951)
1991	City Slickers (1991) AA Best Supp Actor Win
1956	Attack (1956)
1952	Sudden Fear (1952) AA Best Supp Actor Nom
1961	Barabbas (1961)
1954	Sign of the Pagan (1954)
1950	Panic in the Streets (1950)
1989	Tango & Cash (1989)
1988	Young Guns (1988)
1970	Monte Walsh (1970)
1994	City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994)
1954	The Silver Chalice (1954)
1953	Second Chance (1953)
1955	The Big Knife (1955)
1959	Ten Seconds To Hell (1959)
1987	Bagdad Cafe (1987)
1963	Contempt (1963)
1955	I Died A Thousand Times (1955)
1994	The Swan Princess (1994)
1953	Man In The Attic (1953)
1969	Che! (1969)
1972	Chato's Land (1972)
1957	House of Numbers (1957)
1971	The Horsemen (1971)
1973	Oklahoma Crude (1973)
1953	Arrowhead (1953)
1965	Once a Thief (1965)
1982	Alone In The Dark (1982)
1955	Kiss Of Fire (1955)
1957	The Lonely Man (1957)
1970	The McMasters (1970)
1953	Flight to Tangier (1953)
1998	Treasure Island (1998)
1994	Cops and Robbersons (1994)
1974	Craze (1974)
1980	Without Warning (1980)
1975	The Four Deuces (1975)
1976	God's Gun (1976)
1990	Solar Crisis (1990)
1979	The Shape of Things To Come (1979)
1987	Gor (1987)

Jack Palance Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table

The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies anyway you want.

• Sort Jack Palance movies by his co-stars
• Sort Jack Palance movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
• Sort Jack Palance movies by yearly domestic box office rank
• Sort Jack Palance movies by how they were received by critics and audiences.  60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
• Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each Jack Palance movie received.
• Sort Jack Palance movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score.  UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.

Best IMDb Trivia On Jack Palance

1. Volodymyr Palahniuk was born in Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania in 1919.

2. How Volodymyr Palahniuk became Jack Palance.  Step 1.  He started boxing under the name Jack Brazzo…compling a 15-1 record..his only recorded loss was to future heavyweight contender Joe Baski. Step 2.  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 it was suggested that he be called Palanski. From that he decided just to use Palance instead

3.  While Jack Palance was an understudy to Marlon Brando in the Broadway production of “A Streetcar Named Desire“, Brando, who was into athletics, rigged up a punching bag in the theater’s boiler room and invited Jack to work out with him. One night, Jack threw a hard punch that missed the bag and landed square on Brando’s nose. The star had to be hospitalized and understudy Palance created his own big break by going on for Brando. Jack’s reviews as Stanley Kowalski helped get him a 20th Century-Fox contract.

4. Jack Palance was infamous in Hollywood for his Method-style acting, in a time when Marlon Brando was one of its few practitioners. Once, while filming a fight scene with Burt Lancaster, Palance actually punched the unsuspecting Lancaster in the face. Lancaster responded in kind, by socking Palance in the gut, causing him to vomit.

5.  While accepting his Oscar® for Best Supporting Actor for City Slickers (1991) at the 64th Annual Academy Awards telecast (in 1992) Jack Palance commented on the casting directors thinking they can make a younger guy look older, while they wouldn’t know that an old guy did this at nights: he then flopped down on the floor and began doing a series of one-handed push-ups, stood up, spoke calmly further, even adding a slightly risqué joke. Afterwards, when asked about the stunt, he simply said, “I didn’t know what the hell else to do.” A year later, when he provided the voice of Rothbart in The Swan Princess (1994), his character is featured doing one-handed push-ups.

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