
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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