Jack Nance

Jack Nance

Born: December 21, 1943
Died: December 30, 1996
in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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. He was known for his work with director David Lynch, particularly for his roles in Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Twin Peaks.

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Sinema
Title: Sinema
Character: Henry Spencer
Released: July 26, 2014
Type: Movie
A 96 minute internet video collage made during a particularly disorientating time.
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Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Title: Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces
Character: Pete Martell
Released: July 16, 2014
Type: Movie
Ninety minutes of deleted and alternate takes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, assembled by David Lynch to continue the story of the final week of Laura Palmer’s life.
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The Short Films of David Lynch
Title: The Short Films of David Lynch
Character: Pete
Released: June 1, 2002
Type: Movie
The Short Films of David Lynch (2002) is a DVD collection of the early student and commissioned film work of American filmmaker David Lynch. As such, the collection does not include Lynch's later short work, which are listed in the filmography. The films are listed in chronological order, with brief descriptions of each film. The DVD contains introductions by Lynch to each film, which can be viewed individually or in sequence. # 1 Six Figures Getting Sick (Six Times) # 2 The Alphabet # 3 The Grandmother # 4 The Amputee # 5 The Cowboy and the Frenchman # 6 Premonitions Following an Evil Deed
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I Don't Know Jack
Title: I Don't Know Jack
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 2002
Type: Movie
Feature documentary about actor Jack Nance, who rose to prominence after starring in the cult classic 1977 film, "Eraserhead".
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Eraserhead Stories
Title: Eraserhead Stories
Character: Self / Henry Spencer (archive footage)
Released: September 6, 2001
Type: Movie
David Lynch discusses the making of the film "Eraserhead."
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Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
Title: Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch
Character: Self
Released: October 14, 1997
Type: Movie
An in-depth look at artist/filmmaker David Lynch's movies, paintings, drawings, photographs, and various other works of art. Features interview footage and commentary by family members, friends, fans, and people he's worked with, as well as behind-the-scenes antics of some of his most critically praised efforts.
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Lost Highway
Title: Lost Highway
Character: Phil
Released: January 15, 1997
Type: Movie
A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
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Little Witches
Title: Little Witches
Character: Father Michae
Released: December 23, 1996
Type: Movie
Six misfit schoolgirls at an all-girl Catholic high school, left alone at the school for Easter week, get mixed up with the occult and witchcraft after an old Satanic temple is found underneath the church where they attend as well as an old book of black magic spells for conjuring up an ancient demon from the pits of Hell. Janie, the most characteristic and cruelest of the girls, takes charge of the group and plots to resurrect the demon using a series of black arts spells, while one innocent girl, Faith, has a change of heart and tries to stop them from completing their spell which also includes a human sacrifice.
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Assault on Dome 4
Title: Assault on Dome 4
Character: Mellow, Dome 4 Oldtimer
Released: October 8, 1996
Type: Movie
In this science-fiction action opus, intergalactic extremist Alex Windham has seized control of Dome 4, a scientific outpost on another planet, after escaping from a penal colony on Mars. Windham is forcing the staff of Dome 4 to construct new weapons that he can use to destroy his enemies, but what he doesn't know is that one of his captives is the wife of interstellar lawman Chase Moran, and Mor
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Voodoo
Title: Voodoo
Character: Lewis
Released: November 28, 1995
Type: Movie
Andy comes to campus in order to be close to his girlfriend Rebecca. Since he needs a place to stay he joins one of the college fraternities. However, a strange looking man warns him that the fraternity is just a cover-up for the weird voodoo cult.
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Across the Moon
Title: Across the Moon
Character: Old Cowboy
Released: March 28, 1995
Type: Movie
Two young women bond while living together out in the California desert to be close to their boyfriends who are serving time at the nearby state prison.
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The Demolitionist
Title: The Demolitionist
Character: Father McKenzie
Released: March 9, 1995
Type: Movie
A murdered police officer is brought back to life by a cold-hearted scientist to serve as "The Demolitionist", the ultimate crime-fighting weapon in a city overrun by criminals and internal corruption
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Love and a .45
Title: Love and a .45
Character: Justice Thurman
Released: November 23, 1994
Type: Movie
Small-time criminal Watty Watts attempts to rob a convenience store with his drug-addict buddy, Billy Mack Black. The robbery, however, leads to murder, and soon Watty leaves Billy behind and goes on the run with his beloved girlfriend, Starlene. Heading toward Mexico, the fugitive couple gets plenty of media coverage, until there are even more people on their trail. Can Watty and Starlene make it south of the border without getting caught?
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Title: My So-Called Life
Character: Warren
Released: August 25, 1994
Type: TV
The life of a 15 year-old high school student, whose angst-ridden journey through adolescence, friendship, parents, and life teaches her what it means to grow up.
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Another Midnight Run
Title: Another Midnight Run
Character: Reilly
Released: February 5, 1994
Type: Movie
Jack Walsh tries to track down two of the top con-artists around. But they know every trick in the book and Jack has trouble bringing them back to LA and getting a $45,000 pay day reward.
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Title: Fallen Angels
Character: Sheriff
Released: August 1, 1993
Type: TV
A neo-noir anthology television series, set in somber Los Angeles right after World War II and before the election of American President John F. Kennedy. The episodes, although filmed in color, mimicked what had been done by Hollywood filmmakers during the film noir era of the 1940s and 1950s in terms of tone, look, and story content.
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Meatballs 4: To the Rescue
Title: Meatballs 4: To the Rescue
Character: Neil Peterson
Released: March 6, 1992
Type: Movie
Ricky is the hottest water-ski instructor around and has just been rehired by his former employer/camp to whip up attendance. Unfortunately, the camp is in serious financial trouble. The owner of a rival, more popular camp wants to buy them out. Therefore they will have to engage in a mean, winner-takes-all competition that will settle the score once and for all.
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Motorama
Title: Motorama
Character: Motel Clerk
Released: September 10, 1991
Type: Movie
A ten year old boy gets tired of life with abusive parents and cashes in his piggy bank and steals a Mustang. He rides off into a surreal America playing "Motorama," a game sponsored by Chimera Gas Company. He has various encounters with different people, and eventually reaches the Chimera Gas Company where he finds they are not playing by the rules of the game.
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Whore
Title: Whore
Character: Man Who Helps Liz
Released: June 21, 1991
Type: Movie
This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.
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The Hot Spot
Title: The Hot Spot
Character: Julian Ward
Released: October 12, 1990
Type: Movie
Upon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
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Wild at Heart
Title: Wild at Heart
Character: 00 Spool
Released: August 17, 1990
Type: Movie
After serving prison time for a self-defense killing, Sailor Ripley reunites with girlfriend Lula Fortune. Lula's mother, Marietta, desperate to keep them apart, hires a hitman to kill Sailor. But he finds a whole new set of troubles when he and Bobby Peru, an old buddy who's also out to get Sailor, try to rob a store. When Sailor lands in jail yet again, the young lovers appear further than ever from the shared life they covet.
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Title: Twin Peaks
Character: Pete Martell
Released: April 8, 1990
Type: TV
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
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Title: Twin Peaks
Character: Pete Martell (archive footage)
Released: April 8, 1990
Type: TV
The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into the heart of the surrounding woodland and his very own soul.
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Twin Peaks
Title: Twin Peaks
Character: Pete Martell
Released: September 3, 1989
Type: Movie
An idiosyncratic FBI agent investigates the murder of a young woman in the even more idiosyncratic town of Twin Peaks. (This standalone version of the series pilot was produced for the European VHS market and has an alternate, closed ending.)
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David Lynch: Don't Look at Me
Title: David Lynch: Don't Look at Me
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
A documentary about American director David Lynch from the Cinéma, de notre temps series.
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Tricks of the Trade
Title: Tricks of the Trade
Character: Al
Released: December 6, 1988
Type: Movie
After her picture perfect husband is murdered in a prostitute's apartment, Beverly Hills homemaker Catherine is devastated. But she doesn't spend too long mourning, because she's soon on a mission to put her husband's killer behind bars. To do so, she forms an unlikely partnership with Marla, the Hollywood hooker who serviced the deceased. Under Marla's guidance, the pair navigate the seedier side of Los Angeles to put this mystery to rest.
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The French as Seen by…
Title: The French as Seen by…
Character: (Segment "The Cowboy and the Frenchman")
Released: October 26, 1988
Type: Movie
In 1988, Figaro magazine asked a few famous directors to direct a series of short movies to celebrate the 10 years of the revue. The movies have been released for the French revolution bicentenary. Includes: Werner Herzog's Les Gaulois, David Lynch's The Cowboy and the Frenchman, Andrzej Wajda's Proust contre la déchéance, Luigi Comencini's Pèlerinage à Agen, Jean-Luc Godard's Le dernier mot.
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The Blob
Title: The Blob
Character: Doctor
Released: August 5, 1988
Type: Movie
In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches. The first to discover the substance and live to tell about it, the trio witness the Blob destroying an elderly man, then it growing to a terrifying size. But no one else has seen the goo, and the police refuse to believe the kids without proof.
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Colors
Title: Colors
Character: Officer Samuels
Released: April 15, 1988
Type: Movie
A confident young cop is shown the ropes by a veteran partner in the dangerous gang-controlled barrios of Los Angeles, where the gang culture is enforced by the colors the members wear.
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No Frank in Lumberton
Title: No Frank in Lumberton
Released: January 19, 1988
Type: Movie
A very surreal video shot behind the scenes during the production of Blue Velvet in Wilmington, North Carolina in 1985 by Peter Braatz.
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The Cowboy and the Frenchman
Title: The Cowboy and the Frenchman
Character: Pete
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A grizzled, hard-of-hearing cowboy, Slim, and his two friends, Dusty and Pete, capture a mysterious, well-dressed Frenchman.
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Barfly
Title: Barfly
Character: Detective
Released: September 2, 1987
Type: Movie
Downtrodden writer Henry and distressed goddess Wanda aren't exactly husband and wife: they're wedded to their bar stools. But, they like each other's company—and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.
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Blue Velvet
Title: Blue Velvet
Character: Paul
Released: September 19, 1986
Type: Movie
Clean-cut Jeffrey Beaumont realizes his hometown is not so normal when he discovers a human ear in a field, the investigation soon catapulting him toward a disturbed nightclub singer and a drug-addicted sadist.
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Ghoulies
Title: Ghoulies
Character: Wolfgang
Released: January 18, 1985
Type: Movie
A young man and his girlfriend move into the man's old mansion home, where he becomes possessed by a need to control ancient demons.
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Johnny Dangerously
Title: Johnny Dangerously
Character: Priest
Released: December 21, 1984
Type: Movie
An honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
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Dune
Title: Dune
Character: Nefud
Released: December 14, 1984
Type: Movie
In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice extends life. The spice expands consciousness. The spice is vital to space travel. The spice exists on only one planet in the entire universe, the vast desert planet Arrakis, also known as Dune. Its native inhabitants, the Fremen, have long held a prophecy that a man would come, a messiah who would lead them to true freedom.
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City Heat
Title: City Heat
Character: Aram Strossell
Released: December 7, 1984
Type: Movie
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob.
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Hammett
Title: Hammett
Character: Gary Salt
Released: June 9, 1982
Type: Movie
Chinatown, San Francisco, 1928. Former private detective Dashiell Hammett, a compulsive drinker with tuberculosis who writes pulp fiction for a living, receives an unexpected visit from an old friend asking for help.
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Eraserhead
Title: Eraserhead
Character: Henry Spencer
Released: February 3, 1978
Type: Movie
First time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child. David Lynch arrived on the scene in 1977, almost like a mystical UFO gracing the landscape of LA with its enigmatic radiance. His inaugural work, "Eraserhead" (1977), stood out as a cinematic anomaly, painting a surreal narrative of a young man navigating a dystopian, industrialized America, grappling not only with his tumultuous home life but also contending with an irate girlfriend and a mutant child.
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Breaker! Breaker!
Title: Breaker! Breaker!
Character: Burton
Released: April 1, 1977
Type: Movie
Truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge.
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Bushman
Title: Bushman
Character: Felix
Released: October 1, 1971
Type: Movie
1968: Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, and Bobby Hutton are among the recent dead. In Nigeria, the Civil War is entering its second year with no end in sight. In San Francisco, the adventures of Gabriel, a young Nigerian reflects tribal, personal, and racial frictions during the tumultuous sixties. Truth is stranger than fiction in Bushman, a rare sort of film portrait, part document, part imagined - poetic in its approach to real events.
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Jump
Title: Jump
Character: Ace
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
A Southern stock-car driver puts his rising career in the hands of a race promoter.
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Fools
Title: Fools
Character: Hippie
Released: December 23, 1970
Type: Movie
A horror actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.
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I Know Catherine, The Log Lady
Title: I Know Catherine, The Log Lady
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
An authorized feature documentary about Catherine E. Coulson, best known as the Log Lady in David Lynch & Mark Frost's "Twin Peaks".