Jack Palance, the raspy-voiced actor who made his name playing movie villains but won an Oscar at age 73 for his work as a grizzled cowboy in the comedy "City Slickers," has died. He was 87. By Duane ...

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LOS ANGELES - Jack Palance, the craggy-faced menace in Shane, Sudden Fear and other films who turned successfully to comedy in his 70s with his Oscar-winning self-parody in City Slickers, died Friday.

Palance died of natural causes at his home in Montecito, Calif., surrounded by family, said spokesman Dick Guttman. He was 85, according to Associated Press records, but his family gave his age as 87.