FrameThrower · Actors · Jack Palance
Jack Palance
5 films · 603 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1953–1989
Born 18 February 1919 · Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, USA · died 10 November 2006
Jack Palance was an American actor. Known for playing tough guys and villains, he was nominated for three Academy Awards, all for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, receiving nominations for his roles in Sudden Fear (1952) and Shane (1953) and winning almost 40 years later for his role in City Slickers (1991).
Born in Lattimer Mines, Pennsylvania, the son of Ukrainian immigrants, Palance served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He went on to briefly attend Stanford University before pursuing a career in the theatre. He made his film acting debut in Panic in the Streets (1950).…
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 603 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1953–1989
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor1992
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie1957
- Theatre World Award1951
- star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
How their films are shot
Measured across 603 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Jack takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 61% of their frames are day, 57% natural — the look of the work Jack takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 603 frames from Jack Palance's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.