CNN reports that Oscar-winning actor Jack Palance died at the age of 87 on Friday of natural causes. Jack Palance’s movie and TV career lasted over 50 years, finally earning him a Best Supporting Oscar Award for 1991’s City Slickers. The entire Best Supporting Oscar Award segment is viewable in the embedded YouTube video above, including Palance in all of his one-handed push-up glory and classic quip “That’s nothing, really. As far as two-handed push-ups, you can do that all night, and it doesn’t make a difference whether she’s there or not.”
I think I first saw Palance when he hosted Ripley’s Believe It Or Not, or was it on Buck Rogers in the 25th Century? In any case, he never failed to entertain, and I had a soft spot for him ever since. I didn’t find out until much later that he was of Ukrainian descent, born Volodymyr Palanyuk, which made him that much cooler to me. He will most definitely be missed… 🙁
