Birth Name: Marvin John Nance
Date of Birth: December 21, 1943
Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: December 30, 1996
Place of Death: South Pasadena, California, United States
Ethnicity:
*English, Dutch, Irish, distant Cornish, German, Belgian (Flemish and Walloon), French, and Welsh (father)
*Irish (mother)
Jack Nance was an American actor. He was the son of Agnes Theresa (O’Grady) and Marvin Hoyt Nance. Jack’s patrilineal ancestry can be traced back to Cornwall, England.
Jack’s paternal grandparents were Marvin Carl Nance (the son of Leondius Miller Nance and Amelia Ethel Atwood) and Maude Myrtle Van Dorn (the daughter of Douglas Van Dorn and Asie Louise Heathcock).
Sources: Genealogies of Jack Nance (focusing on his father’s side) – http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com
http://www.geni.com
Marriage record of Jack’s parents – https://familysearch.org