Robert Stack
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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.
Known for
Credits
Airplane! (1980)
as Captain Rex Kramer
The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
as Ultra Magnus (voice)
The High and the Mighty (1954)
as John Sullivan
1941 (1979)
as Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell
Uncommon Valor (1983)
as MacGregor
Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
as Dr. Ellison
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)
as Agent Flemming (voice)
Recess: School's Out (2001)
as Superintendent (voice)
Written on the Wind (1956)
as Kyle Hadley
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
as General Sibert
BASEketball (1998)
as Robert Stack
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
as Lieut. Stanislav Sobinski
The Tarnished Angels (1957)
as Roger Shumann
Plain Clothes (1988)
as Mr. Gardner
Caddyshack II (1988)
as Chandler Young
The Mortal Storm (1940)
as Otto Von Rohn
House of Bamboo (1955)
as Eddie Kenner
John Paul Jones (1959)
as John Paul Jones
Hercules: Zero to Hero (1999)
as Narrator (voice) (archive sound)
Mumford (1999)
as Himself
Nice Girl? (1941)
as Don Webb
Riviera Dream (1950)
Actor
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line (1997)
as Self
Great Day in the Morning (1956)
as Owen Pentecost
Big Trouble (1986)
as Winslow
Murder on Flight 502 (1975)
as Captain Larkin
Fighter Squadron (1948)
as Capt. Stuart L. Hamilton
A Date with Judy (1948)
as Stephen Andrews
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987)
as Self
The Muppets Go Hollywood (1979)
as Self (uncredited)
Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)
as Dr. Tommy Baker
The Last Voyage (1960)
as Cliff Henderson
Badlands of Dakota (1941)
as Jim Holliday
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood (2019)
as (archive footage)
The Scarface Mob (1959)
as Eliot Ness
Mr. Music (1950)
as Jeff Blake
Alcatraz Express (1961)
as Eliot Ness
Dangerous Curves (1988)
as Louis Faciano
War Paint (1953)
as Lt. Billings
The Return of Eliot Ness (1991)
as Eliot Ness
Action Man (1967)
as Jim Beckley
The Caretakers (1963)
as Dr. Donovan MacLeod
First Love (1939)
as Ted Drake
Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948)
as Nickey Van Alen
The Corrupt Ones (1967)
as Cliff Wilder
Sealed with a Kiss (1999)
as Sumner Ethridge
Jacques Tati, tombé de la lune (2021)
Actor
The Gift of Love (1958)
as William 'Bill' Beck
Midas Valley (1985)
as Drew Hammond
Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
as John Regan
Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit (1987)
as Jordan White
These Dead Souls (2018)
as (archive footage)
Unsolved Mysteries: Behind the Legacy (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Killer Bud (2001)
as The Gooch
Adventures of the Queen (1975)
as Capt. James Morgan
Conquest of Cochise (1953)
as Maj. Tom Burke
Eagle Squadron (1942)
as Chuck S. Brewer
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (1996)
as Self
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence (1974)
as Michael Rhodes
The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World (1971)
as Self
The Y2K Crisis (1999)
as Host
Undercover with the KKK (1979)
as Host - Narrator
Bwana Devil (1952)
as Bob Hayward
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1 (1941)
as Self
Sabre Jet (1953)
as Col. Gil Manton
Story of a Woman (1970)
as David Frasier
The Selling of the Pentagon (1971)
as Self (archive footage)
The Iron Glove (1954)
as Captain Charles Wogan
Keeping Fit (1942)
as Bob - Factory worker
Barry Norman in Celebrity City (1982)
as Self
My Outlaw Brother (1951)
as Patrick O´Moore
Men of Texas (1942)
as Barry Conovan
The Gun of Zangara (1960)
as Eliot Ness
Laura (1968)
as Mark McPherson
Laura (1955)
as Mark Macpherson
A Little Bit of Heaven (1940)
as Bob Terry
Second Wind (1978)
as François Davis
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir (2001)
as Self
The Real Story of Baa Baa Black Sheep (1991)
as Lt. Littleboy (voice)
Asylum for a Spy (1965)
as James Andrew Congers
Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform (1943)
as Himself
Unsolved Mysteries Volume 1: UFOs (2004)
as Host
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars (1980)
as Self
My Kingdom For... (1985)
Actor
Acting for Douglas Sirk (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
Panic Button (1957)
as Jerry Cook