- Archivist for the heirs of Charles Chaplin.
- The first historian/author to publish individual books on "The Great Three" of silent-film comedy - Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd.
- Jeffrey Vance's book Douglas Fairbanks (Academy Imprints/University of California Press, 2008) was referenced by Michel Hazanavicius during pre-production of The Artist (2011). Vance's book contributed to Hazanavicius shaping the character of George Valentin (played by Jean Dujardin) on Fairbanks.
- Jeffrey Vance credits Mary Pickford's response to his first fan letter as providing early encouragement to enter the field of cinema history. In 1978, the eight-year-old Vance wrote Pickford after having seen her classic silent film "Sparrows" (1926).
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