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Marvin John Nance (December 21, 1943 – December 30, 1996), known professionally as Jack Nance, was an American actor. A longtime collaborator of filmmaker David Lynch, Nance portrayed the lead in Lynch's directorial debut Eraserhead (1977).
Jack Nance. Actor: Blue Velvet. Born in Boston of Irish ancestry and raised in Dallas, Jack Nance traveled throughout the country doing children's theater. For eight years, he performed with the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Later, he became involved with avant-garde theater.
Dec 14, 2022 · In the case of actor Jack Nance, it wasn't the cause of death that was so mysterious. Rather, it was who was behind it. Shortly before his death on December 30, 1996, Nance told his friend Catherine Case that he had been involved in a minor altercation while intoxicated.
Jack Nance. Actor: Eraserhead. Born in Boston of Irish ancestry and raised in Dallas, Jack Nance traveled throughout the country doing children's theater. For eight years, he performed with the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco. Later, he became involved with avant-garde theater.
Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Jeanne Bates, Judith Anna Roberts, Laurel Near, and Jack Fisk, it tells the story of a man (Nance) who is left to care for his grossly deformed child in a desolate industrial landscape.
Eraserhead: Directed by David Lynch. With Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, Jeanne Bates. Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newborn mutant child.
Jul 15, 2013 · In a piece originally written to mark the 15th anniversary of Jack Nance's death, Cyrus Shahrad looks back over the actor's life and work and talks to those close to him, including Catherine Coulson and David Lynch
Dec 30, 1996 · Marvin John Nance (December 21, 1943 – December 30, 1996), known professionally as Jack Nance and occasionally credited as John Nance, was an American actor of stage and screen, primarily starring in offbeat or avant-garde productions.
Eraserhead. Directed by David Lynch • 1977 • United States. Starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Judith Anna Roberts. David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, ERASERHEAD, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty.
A cult celebrity as the star of David Lynch's nightmarish directorial debut "Eraserhead" (1977), Jack Nance lived a life every bit as bizarre as any scenario Lynch ever filmed. Born in Boston on December 21, 1943, Nance was raised in Dallas, Texas.
