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Final years

In 2001, Palance returned to the recording studio as a special guest on friend Laurie Z 's album Heart of the Holidays to narrate the classic poem " The Night Before Christmas ". In 2002, he starred in the television movie Living with the Dead opposite Ted Danson, Mary Steenburgen and Diane Ladd. In 2004, he starred in another television production, Back When We Were Grownups, once again directed by Ron Underwood, opposite Blythe Danner; it was his final performance.