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Last updated on December 20, 2024.
Marvin John Nance, known professionally as Jack Nance, was an American actor. A longtime collaborator of filmmaker David Lynch, Nance portrayed the lead in Lynch's directorial film debut Eraserhead (1977). He continued to work with Lynch throughout his career, including as a series regular on the ABC mystery drama Twin Peaks (1990–1991).
Lynch is an ordinary, smalltown guy and he just sees strange things in people.
All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.
But Eraserhead was the first real intense kind of thing I had ever done before the cameras and Lynch had to really bring me down a lot and he still does.
To sum it all up: It was a great picture to do; I just wish it had never been released.
And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.
We've all got strange things about us and Lynch picks those things up.
My dog barks some. Mentally you picture my dog, but I have not told you the type of dog which I have. Perhaps you even picture Toto, from The Wizard of Oz. But I can tell you, my dog is always with me. WOOF!