![]() Later, his drinking nearly ends his marriage to his wife, Wendy, after he breaks his son Danny's arm in a blind rage. He 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. He also has three older siblings: Brett, Becky and Mike. Jack grew up in Berlin, New Hampshire, where his father Mark Torrance worked in the Regional Community Hospital. Premiere magazine also ranked Torrance on their list of their 100 greatest movie characters of all time. In 2008, Jack Torrance was selected by Empire magazine as one of the 100 greatest movie characters. The American Film Institute rated the character (as played by Nicholson) the 25th-greatest film villain of all time. He 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. John Daniel Edward "Jack" Torrance is the main character in Stephen King's horror novel The Shining (1977). Lucy Stone (née Reynolds illegitimate daughter)
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