Holly Palance

Acting

Holly Palance

Born 1950-08-05 · 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Holly Palance, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Acting credits

The Omen poster
7.4

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.

The Omen

1976

Under Fire poster
6.7

Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.

Under Fire

1983

The Best of Times poster
5.7

A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.

The Best of Times

1986

The Comeback poster
5.8

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.

The Comeback

1978

Shuttlecock poster
NR

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...

Shuttlecock

1976

The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It poster
6.3

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 Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It

1977

The Next Voice You See poster
9.0

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.

The Next Voice You See

1975

Cast the First Stone poster
7.0

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.

Cast the First Stone

1989

Rock Bottom poster
NR

Rock Bottom chronicles the cosmic/comic misadventures of a girl undergoing a life crisis after she locks herself out of her apartment with no pants on and is thereby forced to confront her emotional, philosophical, and logistical problems.

Rock Bottom

2019

Tuxedo Warrior poster
5.5

A jaded soldier-of-fortune who runs a bar in Zimbabwe aids a bank-robbing couple in their attempt to evade the authorities.

Tuxedo Warrior

1982