Holly Palance

Holly Palance

Born: August 5, 1950
in Los Angeles, California, USA
Holly Kathleen Palance (born August 5, 1950) is an American former actress and journalist. She is perhaps best known for her role as the nanny of Damien Thorn in Richard Donner's The Omen (1976). Palance also appeared in Pete Walker's horror film The Comeback (1978). Beginning in 1984, she also co-hosted the series Ripley's Believe it or Not! with her father, Jack Palance.

Palance also had a leading role opposite Robin Williams and Kurt Russell in the comedy The Best of Times (1986) before retiring from acting. She later shifted to a career in journalism, serving as the editor-in-chief of the Los Angeles Times's lifestyle magazine.

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Movies for Holly Palance...

Cast the First Stone
Title: Cast the First Stone
Character: Ellen Armstrong
Released: November 13, 1989
Type: Movie
After Diane Martin is raped by a hitchhiker and becomes pregnant, she must face the pious faculty at the school where she teaches who condemn her "loose morals" and ostracize her. Based on a true story.
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The Best of Times
Title: The Best of Times
Character: Elly Dundee
Released: January 31, 1986
Type: Movie
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.
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Terror in the Aisles
Title: Terror in the Aisles
Character: Nanny (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: October 26, 1984
Type: Movie
A non-stop roller coaster ride through the scariest moments of the greatest terror films of all time.
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Under Fire
Title: Under Fire
Character: Journalist
Released: October 21, 1983
Type: Movie
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
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Title: Ripley's Believe It or Not!
Character: Host
Released: September 26, 1982
Type: TV
Strange occurrences, odd historical facts and unusual artistic and social activities are explored. Ripley's Believe It or Not! is the name of several documentary television series based on the newspaper feature. The first series aired on NBC from 1949 to 1950, and was hosted by Robert L. Ripley until his death. The series was revived again on ABC, running from 1982 to 1986, and was hosted primarily by Jack Palance.
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Tuxedo Warrior
Title: Tuxedo Warrior
Character: Sally
Released: May 8, 1982
Type: Movie
A jaded soldier-of-fortune who runs a bar in Zimbabwe aids a bank-robbing couple in their attempt to evade the authorities.
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The Comeback
Title: The Comeback
Character: Gail
Released: June 16, 1978
Type: Movie
A singer holes up at a sinister estate to write new songs for his act. His ex-wife is brutally murdered, and the killer may be stalking him next.
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The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
Title: The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
Character: Air Hostess
Released: September 18, 1977
Type: Movie
John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of international power politics and intrigue. Unlike his illustrious grandfather however, he only succeeds in bungling every job he organizes. Also stars Arthur Lowe as the "bionic" grandson of Dr. Watson, Stratford Johns as the Commissioner of Police, and Connie Booth as Mrs. Hudson.
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Title: Dickens Of London
Character: Miss Baldwin
Released: September 28, 1976
Type: TV
A mini-series based on the life of Charles Dickens.
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The Omen
Title: The Omen
Character: Young Nanny
Released: June 25, 1976
Type: Movie
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.
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The Next Voice You See
Title: The Next Voice You See
Released: May 17, 1975
Type: Movie
An American jazz pianist, blinded in a London bank robbery ten years before, makes his first return appearance in England at an engangement party where he believes he hears the voice of the gunman who cost him his sight.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Susie Kay
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: TV
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.