Robert Stack
Biography
Robert Langford Modini Stack (January 13, 1919 – May 14, 2003) was a multilingual American actor and television host. In addition to acting in more than 40 films, he also appeared on the television series The Untouchables and later served as the host of Unsolved Mysteries.
Born in Los Angeles, California, Stack spent his early childhood growing up in Europe. Becoming fluent in French and Italian at an early age, and he did not learn English until returning to Los Angeles. Stack achieved minor fame in sporting, winning multiple championships including setting two world records and winning multiple honors in skeet shooting
Stack studied drama at Bridgewater State College, earning his first Hollywood role at the age of 20 and continuing to star in numerous roles throughout the early 1940s.
After serving in the military, Stack returned to Hollywood to star in numerous films including stand out roles in The High and the Mighty (opposite John Wayne) and Written on the Wind (1957), for which he was awarded an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.
Stack later moved on to televised dramatic series, depicting the crime-fighting Eliot Ness in The Untouchables (1959–1963), which earned him a best actor Emmy Award in 1960. Stack also starred in multiple drama series, before returning to film, this time in comedies to satirize his famed stoic and humorless demeanor.
He began hosting Unsolved Mysteries in 1987, and served as the show's host throughout it's entire original run from 1987 to 2002.
Acting (76 movies)
To Be or Not to Be
1942
The Mortal Storm
1940
Airplane!
1980
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
1996
Joe Versus the Volcano
1990
Is Paris Burning?
1966
Good Morning, Miss Dove
1955
House of Bamboo
1955
1941
1979
My Outlaw Brother
1951
Mumford
1999
Uncommon Valor
1983
Nice Girl?
1941
The Last Voyage
1960
First Love
1939
Bwana Devil
1952
The Tarnished Angels
1957
Caddyshack II
1988
The High and the Mighty
1954
Written on the Wind
1956
The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World
1971
John Paul Jones
1959
These Dead Souls
2018
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
1974
Dangerous Curves
1988
Great Day in the Morning
1956
The Caretakers
1963
Badlands of Dakota
1941
Action Man
1967
Bullfighter and the Lady
1951
A Date with Judy
1948
The Y2K Crisis
1999
Big Trouble
1986
Men of Texas
1942
Fighter Squadron
1948
Sabre Jet
1953
Sealed with a Kiss
1999
Adventures of the Queen
1975
Murder on Flight 502
1975
Mr. Music
1950
Hercules: Zero to Hero
1999
War Paint
1953
Barry Norman in Celebrity City
1982
Conquest of Cochise
1953
The Gift of Love
1958
Laura
1968
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
1941
The Scarface Mob
1959
The Iron Glove
1954
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
2019
Plain Clothes
1988
The Transformers: The Movie
1986
A Little Bit of Heaven
1940
Midas Valley
1985
The Corrupt Ones
1967
Unsolved Mysteries Volume 1: UFOs
2004
Miss Tatlock's Millions
1948
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
1997
Second Wind
1978
Undercover with the KKK
1979
Eagle Squadron
1942
Riviera Dream
1950
Killer Bud
2001
Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit
1987
BASEketball
1998
Keeping Fit
1942
Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform
1943
Story of a Woman
1970
Recess: School's Out
2001
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
2001
Laura
1955
The Muppets Go Hollywood
1979
The Return of Eliot Ness
1991
Unsolved Mysteries: Behind the Legacy
2023
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
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