John Joseph Nicholson is an American retired actor and filmmaker. He received numerous accolades throughout his five-decade-spanning career, including three Academy Awards.
Who was Jack Nicholson’s father Donald Furcillo?
Donald Furcillo is an Italian-American showman (stage name Donald Rose; 1909–1997), Donald was married to Nicholson’s mother at the same time married to another woman, without her knowing. In a real-life Hollywood heartbreak, Jack Nicholson never met his father.
Donald Furcillo’s cause of death
The Italian-American showman died of Cancer. Don Furcillo Rose departed this earth in the summer of 1997. Jack was raised by his maternal grandparents. He was led to believe that June was his older sister and his grandparents were his parents.
Nicholson’s mother was of Irish, English, German, and Welsh descent. Nicholson has identified as Irish, comparing himself to the playwright Eugene O’Neill, whom he played in the film Reds, “I’m not saying I’m as dark as he was, but I am a writer, I am Irish, I have had problems with my family.
