Holly Palance

Acting

Holly Palance

Born August 5, 1950 · Los Angeles, California, USA (age 76)

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 lead…

Known For

The OmenThe Omen · 1976
The Omen
7.41976
MovieHorrorThriller
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.
Under FireUnder Fire · 1983
Under Fire
6.71983
MovieDramaWar
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
The Best of TimesThe Best of Times · 1986
The Best of Times
5.71986
MovieComedy
A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.
The ComebackThe Comeback · 1978
The Comeback
5.81978
MovieHorrorMystery
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.
ShuttlecockShuttlecock · 1976
Shuttlecock
1976
MovieDramaTV Movie
Sam likes his children to be grown-up chaps. So nine-year-old Harry is at a disadvantage in the battle of wits that develops...
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know ItThe Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It · 1977
The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
6.31977
MovieThrillerComedy
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.
The Next Voice You SeeThe Next Voice You See · 1975
The Next Voice You See
9.01975
MovieTV MovieHorror
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.
Cast the First StoneCast the First Stone · 1989
Cast the First Stone
7.01989
MovieDramaTV 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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