Jack Nance

Jack Nance

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.

  • Title: Jack Nance
  • Popularity: 1.0844
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1943-12-21
  • Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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  • Also Known As: John Nance, Jack Weber, جک نانس, Marvin John Nance
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Jack Nance Movies

  • 1977
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    Eraserhead

    Eraserhead

    7.3 1977 HD

    First-time father Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

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  • 1997
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    Lost Highway

    Lost Highway

    7.5 1997 HD

    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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  • 1986
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    Blue Velvet

    Blue Velvet

    7.6 1986 HD

    The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.

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  • 1988
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    Tricks of the Trade

    Tricks of the Trade

    3.25 1988 HD

    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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  • 1984
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    Dune

    Dune

    6.177 1984 HD

    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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  • 1987
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    Barfly

    Barfly

    6.856 1987 HD

    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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  • 1991
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    Whore

    Whore

    5.2 1991 HD

    This melodrama investigates the life of a sex worker, in a pseudo-documentary style.

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  • 1996
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    Little Witches

    Little Witches

    3.906 1996 HD

    When an ancient book of spells transforms 6 naughty Catholic school girls into a sexy coven of witches, all hell breaks loose. Witness the evil craft of Little Witches as the execute their devilish deeds.

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  • 1992
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    Meatballs 4: To the Rescue

    Meatballs 4: To the Rescue

    4.5 1992 HD

    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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  • 1990
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    The Hot Spot

    The Hot Spot

    6.2 1990 HD

    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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  • 1997
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    Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

    Pretty as a Picture: The Art of David Lynch

    7 1997 HD

    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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  • 1994
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    Love and a .45

    Love and a .45

    5.693 1994 HD

    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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  • 1984
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    City Heat

    City Heat

    5.465 1984 HD

    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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  • 1985
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    Ghoulies

    Ghoulies

    4.9 1985 HD

    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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  • 1991
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    Motorama

    Motorama

    6.5 1991 HD

    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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  • 1988
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    Colors

    Colors

    6.5 1988 HD

    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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  • 2002
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    I Don't Know Jack

    I Don't Know Jack

    7.7 2002 HD

    The life of actor Jack Nance, whose rise to prominence after starring in David Lynch's 1977 cult classic Eraserhead led to involvement in various further projects with Lynch.

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  • 2001
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    Eraserhead Stories

    Eraserhead Stories

    7.3 2001 HD

    David Lynch discusses the making of the film "Eraserhead."

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  • 1971
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    Bushman

    Bushman

    6 1971 HD

    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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  • 1971
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    Jump

    Jump

    1 1971 HD

    A Southern stock-car driver puts his rising career in the hands of a race promoter.

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  • 1988
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    The Cowboy and the Frenchman

    The Cowboy and the Frenchman

    6 1988 HD

    A grizzled, hard-of-hearing cowboy, Slim, and his two friends, Dusty and Pete, capture a mysterious, well-dressed Frenchman.

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  • 2014
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    Sinema

    Sinema

    1 2014 HD

    A 96 minute internet video collage made during a particularly disorientating time.

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  • 1988
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    The French as Seen by…

    The French as Seen by…

    6.9 1988 HD

    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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  • 1990
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    Wild at Heart

    Wild at Heart

    7 1990 HD

    Young lovers Sailor and Lula hit the road to start a new life together away from the wrath of Lula’s deranged, disapproving mother, who has hired a team of hitmen to cut the lovers’ surreal honeymoon short.

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  • 1996
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    The Secret Agent Club

    The Secret Agent Club

    3.9 1996 HD

    A secret agent masquerades as a toy-seller, successfully concealing his alter ego even from his young son until, on a daring mission, he is captured by an evil arms dealer, then it falls to his inexperienced offspring to save the day.

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  • 1990
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    Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch

    Jonathan Ross Presents for One Week Only: David Lynch

    5 1990 HD

    A 1990 documentary presented by Jonathan Ross, in which he interviewed filmmaker David Lynch.

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  • 1988
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    The Blob

    The Blob

    6.8 1988 HD

    In Arborville, California, three high school students try to protect their hometown from a gelatinous alien life form that engulfs everything it touches.

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  • 1995
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    Voodoo

    Voodoo

    5.271 1995 HD

    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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  • 1995
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    The Demolitionist

    The Demolitionist

    4.8 1995 HD

    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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  • 1982
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    Hammett

    Hammett

    6.2 1982 HD

    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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  • 1977
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    Breaker! Breaker!

    Breaker! Breaker!

    4.7 1977 HD

    Truck driver searches for his brother, who has disappeared in a town run by a corrupt judge.

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  • 1996
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    Assault on Dome 4

    Assault on Dome 4

    3.4 1996 HD

    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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  • 1994
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    Across the Moon

    Across the Moon

    3.5 1994 HD

    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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  • 1994
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    Another Midnight Run

    Another Midnight Run

    6.5 1994 HD

    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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  • 1984
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    Johnny Dangerously

    Johnny Dangerously

    6.277 1984 HD

    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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  • 1989
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    Twin Peaks

    Twin Peaks

    8.4 1989 HD

    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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  • 2025
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    I Know Catherine, the Log Lady

    I Know Catherine, the Log Lady

    1 2025 HD

    An authorized feature documentary about Catherine E. Coulson, best known as the Log Lady in David Lynch & Mark Frost's "Twin Peaks".

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  • 1989
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    David Lynch: Don't Look at Me

    David Lynch: Don't Look at Me

    9 1989 HD

    A documentary about American director David Lynch from the Cinéma, de notre temps series.

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  • 1988
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    No Frank in Lumberton

    No Frank in Lumberton

    7.8 1988 HD

    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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  • 1970
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    Fools

    Fools

    1 1970 HD

    A horror actor falls in love with the unhappily married young wife of an attorney.

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  • 2014
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    Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

    Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces

    7.3 2014 HD

    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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  • 2023
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    Of Things Past

    Of Things Past

    5 2023 HD

    A young couple struggling to save their marriage after the tragic loss of their baby son moves to idyllic Mammoth Lakes, CA. Filmed over thirty-five years, we see Michael and Laura's journey through love, commitment, secrets and desires.

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  • 1970
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    Old Fashioned Spankings

    Old Fashioned Spankings

    1 1970 HD

    An irate husband, outraged that his younger wife is out carousing with “heavy metal hippies” every night, forces him to eat cornbread instead of the veal cordon bleu he was anticipating. Her lack of shame at her bad behaviour means only one thing – a spanking is in order.

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  • 2018
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    Black Baby

    Black Baby

    1 2018 HD

    A black baby attempts to escape a labyrinth whilst being pursued by a gaggle of giant humanoids

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  • 2002
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    The Short Films of David Lynch

    The Short Films of David Lynch

    1 2002 HD

    A collection of visionary director David Lynch's short films from the first 29 years of his career is accompanied by a special introduction to each film by the director himself.

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  • 2011
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    Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage

    Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage

    6.875 2011 HD

    Fifty-three minutes of deleted scenes and alternate takes assembled by David Lynch.

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  • 2002
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    Mysteries of Love

    Mysteries of Love

    7.1 2002 HD

    Isabella Rossellini, Kyle MacLachlan, Dennis Hopper, Laura Dern, and producer Fred Caruso are interviewed for this 68-minute documentary about the making of David Lynch's Blue Velvet

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  • 1990
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    Twin Peaks

    Twin Peaks

    8.347 1990 HD

    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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  • 1994
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    My So-Called Life

    My So-Called Life

    7.6 1994 HD

    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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  • 1990
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    Twin Peaks

    Twin Peaks

    8.347 1990 HD

    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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  • 1993
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    Fallen Angels

    Fallen Angels

    5.9 1993 HD

    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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