Jack Palance, (born Volodymyr Palanyuk [Ukr: Володимир Паланюк] on February 18, 1919, in Hazle Township, Pennsylvania, USA), died November 10, 2006, is an Academy Award-winning American actor.
With his rugged facial features and gravelly voice, Palance is best known to modern movie audiences as both the characters of Curly and Duke in the City Slickers movies, but his career has spanned half a century of film and television appearances.
Palance had recently placed his Butler Township, Pennsylvania, Holly-Brooke Farm up for sale and its contents, his personal lifetime collection, up for auction.[1]
As of Friday afternoon, November 10, 2006, the Associated Press is reporting that Jack has passed away at his home in Motecito, CA.
