Jack Nance

Jack Nance

actor

Jack Nance was born on Dec 21, 1943 in USA. Jack Nance's big-screen debut came with Fools directed by Tom Gries in 1970, strarring Hippie. Jack Nance is known for Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces directed by David Lynch, Chris Isaak stars as Special Agent Chester Desmond and Kiefer Sutherland as Sam Stanley. The upcoming new movie Jack Nance plays is Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces which will be released on Aug 01, 2014.

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. He first met David Lynch in the early 1970s in Philadelphia while he was performing in a local theater, and Lynch decided to cast him as the lead in Eraserhead (1977). Originally, it was to be a six-week shooting project, but due to budget restrictions and technical complications, the production and filming took nearly five years to complete. Nance relocated to Los Angeles in the early 1980s, where he appeared in unusual and widely praised films that were not always considered mainstream Hollywood. He has appeared in almost every movie by Lynch, including the television series Twin Peaks (1990), usually playing secondary characters or quirky supporting parts. Nance died suddenly and unexpectedly on December 30, 1996 from an apparent internal head injury the morning after getting into a physical brawl at a donut shop with some rowdy patrons.

  • Birthday

    Dec 21, 1943
  • Place of Birth

    Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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