The Film:

The name Jack Nance (née Marvin John Nance) will be immediately recognizable to anyone familiar with the decidedly odd universe of David Lynch. A character actor who never found the levels of success when venturing outside of that universe as he did within it, Nance created indelible roles in most of Lynch's films. His most celebrated must be Eraserhead, in which Nance played Henry, a man plagued by anxiety and a singularly bizarre haircut. He also appeared in Lynch's Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway, and – perhaps most memorably – as Pete Martell in the television series Twin Peaks, wherein he spoke the immortal lines regarding Laura Palmer in characteristically inimitable fashion: "She's dead...wrapped in plastic." (My personal favorite from Twin Peaks is his curiously detached intonation of "two by four...Read the entire review