What is Jack Nance?
{{Infobox person | image = Jack Nance Eraserhead.jpeg | caption = Nance on the poster for ''[[Eraserhead]]'' (1977) | alt = | birth_date = {{birth date|1943|12|21|mf=y}} | birth_place = [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1996|12|30|1943|12|21|mf=y}} | death_place = [[South Pasadena, California]], U.S. | birthname = Marvin John Nance | othername = John Nance | yearsactive = 1970–1996 | spouse = {{marriage|[[Catherine E. Coulson]]|1968|1976|reason=divorced}}<ref name=PM2/><br>{{marriage|[[Kelly Jean Van Dyke]] |1991|1991|reason=died}} | occupation = Actor }} '''Marvin John Nance''' (December 21, 1943 – December 30, 1996) was an American [[actor]]. He worked with moviemaker [[David Lynch]] many times. He was in Lynch's first movie ''[[Eraserhead]]'' (1977). He was also in ''[[Twin Peaks]]'' (1990–1991) as Pete Martell. Nance died at his apartment in [[South Pasadena, California]] on December 30, 1996, one week after his 53rd birthday.<ref name=PM>{{cite web | title=Premiere Magazine Article: Erased&nbsp;– Jack Nance | work=[[Premiere (magazine)|Premiere]]| date=1997 |url= http://www.lynchnet.com/absent/nancepre.html | author=Potter, Maximillian|access-date=2007-04-30}}</ref> The cause of death was a [[subdural hematoma]] from an injury he got in a street fight the morning before.<ref name=PM2>{{cite web|title=The Death of Twins Peak actor Jack Nance was as strange as the characters he played.|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20143430,00.html |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160319081917/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20143430,00.html |archive-date=2016-03-19 |access-date=2021-06-25 |work=[[People (magazine)|People]] |author=Kyle Smith|author2=Lorenzo Benet|date=February 10, 1997}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Nance, Jack}} [[Category:1943 births]] [[Category:1996 deaths]] [[Category:Deaths from subdural hematoma]] [[Category:American movie actor