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Walter Jack Palance [1] (/ ˈ p æ l ən s / PAL-əns; born Volodymyr Ivanovych Palahniuk; [a] February 18, 1919 – November 10, 2006) was an American screen and stage actor, known to film audiences for playing tough guys and villains.
Brad Dexter (born Boris Michel Soso; [1] April 9, 1917 – December 12, 2002) was an American actor and film producer. He is known for tough-guy and western roles, including the 1960 film The Magnificent Seven (1960), and producing several films for Sidney J. Furie such as Lady Sings the Blues.
With much of his career and personal life repeatedly embroiled in legal problems and hampered by chronic alcoholism, Tierney elected to never marry despite having several short-term relationships with a number of women in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. He did, however, father a daughter named Elizabeth who was born in 1961. [1] [3] [44]
Dennis Waterman (24 February 1948 – 8 May 2022) was an English actor and singer. He was best known for his tough-guy leading roles in television series including The Sweeney, Minder and New Tricks, singing the theme tunes of the latter two.
He is best known for his portrayal of Willie Stark in the film All the King's Men (1949), which earned him an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Often cast in tough-guy or slob roles, he later achieved recognition for his starring role as Dan Mathews in the crime television series Highway Patrol (1955–1959).
The Bronx-born, Queens-raised actor appeared in more than 90 films after making an uncredited appearance as “Soldier With Radio” in Billy Wilder’s 1963 rom-com Irma la Douce, starring Jack ...
Oscar-nominated actor Burt Young has died, aged 83. Young was best known for his role in the Rocky movies, in which he starred as Paulie, the butcher friend of Rocky Balboa (played by Sylvester ...
Lawrence Tierney: Hollywood's Real-Life Tough Guy is the first biography of the notorious and legendary screen actor Lawrence Tierney, written by Burt Kearns and published on 6 December 2022 by the University Press of Kentucky, [1] as part of its Screen Classics series. [2]