LOS ANGELES - Jack Palance, the craggy-faced menace in Shane, Sudden Fear and other films who turned successfully to comedy in his 70s with his Oscar-winning self-parody in City Slickers, died Friday.
Decades before he starred as racketeer rancher Lawrence Murphy in Christopher Cain’s 1988 Western movie Young Guns, Jack Palance played an equally iconic villain in his first Western film. Palance’s ...