John Daniel Edward "Jack" Torrance is the main antagonist in Stephen King's horror novel The Shining.
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17 Facts About Jack Torrance
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Jack Torrance was portrayed by Jack Nicholson in the novel's 1980 film adaptation, by Steven Weber in the 1997 miniseries, by Brian Mulligan in the 2016 opera and by Henry Thomas in the 2019 film adaptation of Doctor Sleep.
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In 2008, Jack Torrance was selected by Empire magazine as one of the 100 greatest movie characters.
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Jack Torrance is a writer, former teacher, and debate team coach whose alcoholism and volatile temper costs him his teaching position at Stovington Preparatory School, when he assaults George Hatfield, a student and former member of the debate team, whom he catches vandalizing his car.
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Jack Torrance finally decides to quit drinking after a drunk driving accident in which he and a friend run over an abandoned bicycle in the road and realize they could've killed a child.
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Jack Torrance accepts a position maintaining the isolated Overlook Hotel in Colorado for the winter, hoping this will salvage his family, re-establish his career, and give him the time and privacy to finish a promising play.
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Jack Torrance has encounters with ghosts of previous staff of the hotel, who insist he has always been working there and he must kill his family.
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Jack Torrance eventually succumbs to these supernatural forces, starts drinking again, and grows to hate his own wife and child.
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Jack Torrance then tries to kill Wendy, who knocks him out and locks him in a food storage room.
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Jack Torrance is later helped out of the storage room by the ghost of the previous caretaker, who murdered his own family before committing suicide.
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Jack Torrance is interrupted by the arrival of Hallorann, whom he almost beats to death.
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Jack Torrance finds and confronts Danny, and is about to kill him when his son reaches through the hotel's power and brings out his father's true self.
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Jack Torrance tells Danny to run and remember how much he loves him, before the hotel's power takes over again and forces Jack Torrance to bash in his own face with the mallet.
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Jack Torrance had forgotten to dump the boiler, which grows too hot and causes the hotel to explode.
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Jack Torrance is killed, but Danny, Wendy and Hallorann get out just in time.
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Jack Torrance is portrayed in a less sympathetic manner in the 1980 film.
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Wendy and Danny escape the hotel in Hallorann's Snowcat, while Jack Torrance gets lost trying to pick up Danny's tracks, sits down to rest, and freezes to death.
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