Oscar winner Jack Palance dead at 87

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POSTED: 5:30 p.m. EST, November 10, 2006

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Actor Jack Palance, who often played a craggy-face menace in films and won an Oscar for "City Slickers," has died at the age of 87.

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Oscar-winning actor Jack Palance, who starred as a hired gun in the classic western "Shane," has died, a family spokesman said Friday. The 87-year-old died at his home in Montecito, California.

Palance won an Academy Award for a tough cowboy in the 1991 comedy "City Slickers" and famously performed one-armed push-ups on stage when accepting his award.

The craggy-faced star appeared as a menace in such films as "Shane," "Sudden Fear."

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Aww man, Palance was cool. Ripleys Believe It Or Not freaked me out as a kid mostly because of his voice.

He was dope in Young Guns also. City Slickers was classic.

RIP Jack.

-HECK!

He was a great actor... and just all around cool dude. He will be missed.

I was just recently wondering how he was doing, too... His Oscar acceptance speech will go down in history as the best ever, at least imho. That was how I discovered that one-armed push-ups were possible, and then realizing that he was over 60 and was doing them.... That freakin blew my adolescent mind...

He was a WW2 hero too. He got that messed up nose in a plane crash. Or so I remember.

I liked him best in Batman.

Awe! Palance was cool. He was in, like, EVERYTHING.