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
The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
as Ultra Magnus (voice)
Airplane! (1980)
as Captain Rex Kramer
Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
as Dr. Ellison
Is Paris Burning? (1966)
as General Sibert
Recess: School's Out (2001)
as Superintendent (voice)
1941 (1979)
as Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell
Plain Clothes (1988)
as Mr. Gardner
Uncommon Valor (1983)
as MacGregor
Optimus Prime Awakening (2026)
as Ultra Magnus (archived audio)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
as Lieut. Stanislav Sobinski
BASEketball (1998)
as Robert Stack
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)
as Agent Flemming (voice)
Riviera Dream (1950)
Actor
Nice Girl? (1941)
as Don Webb
Alcatraz Express (1961)
as Eliot Ness
Written on the Wind (1956)
as Kyle Hadley
House of Bamboo (1955)
as Eddie Kenner
The High and the Mighty (1954)
as John Sullivan
Panic Button (1957)
as Jerry Cook
Mr. Music (1950)
as Jeff Blake
Undercover with the KKK (1979)
as Host - Narrator
Jacques Tati, tombé de la lune (2021)
Actor
John Paul Jones (1959)
as John Paul Jones
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line (1997)
as Self
A Date with Judy (1948)
as Stephen Andrews
The Muppets Go Hollywood (1979)
as Self (uncredited)
Caddyshack II (1988)
as Chandler Young
Great Day in the Morning (1956)
as Owen Pentecost
The Gun of Zangara (1960)
as Eliot Ness
Mumford (1999)
as Robert Stack
Hercules: Zero to Hero (1999)
as Narrator (voice) (archive sound)
Unsolved Mysteries Volume 1: UFOs (2004)
as Host
The Tarnished Angels (1957)
as Roger Shumann
The Last Voyage (1960)
as Cliff Henderson
Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit (1987)
as Jordan White
Asylum for a Spy (1965)
as James Andrew Congers
Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955)
as Dr. Tommy Baker
These Dead Souls (2018)
as (archive footage)
Action Man (1967)
as Jim Beckley
The Mortal Storm (1940)
as Otto Von Rohn
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood (1987)
as Self
Barry Norman in Celebrity City (1982)
as Self
Murder on Flight 502 (1975)
as Captain Larkin
The Y2K Crisis (1999)
as Host
Big Trouble (1986)
as Winslow
My Kingdom For... (1985)
Actor
Sealed with a Kiss (1999)
as Sumner Ethridge
Fighter Squadron (1948)
as Capt. Stuart L. Hamilton
The Scarface Mob (1959)
as Eliot Ness
A Little Bit of Heaven (1940)
as Bob Terry
The Corrupt Ones (1967)
as Cliff Wilder
Adventures of the Queen (1975)
as Capt. James Morgan
The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World (1971)
as Self
Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
as John Regan
Badlands of Dakota (1941)
as Jim Holliday
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood (2019)
as (archive footage)
First Love (1939)
as Ted Drake
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence (1974)
as Michael Rhodes
Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948)
as Nickey Van Alen
The Return of Eliot Ness (1991)
as Eliot Ness
The Gift of Love (1958)
as William 'Bill' Beck
Story of a Woman (1970)
as David Frasier
Unsolved Mysteries: Behind the Legacy (2023)
as Self (archive footage)
Eagle Squadron (1942)
as Chuck S. Brewer
Dangerous Curves (1988)
as Louis Faciano
My Outlaw Brother (1951)
as Patrick O´Moore
Sabre Jet (1953)
as Col. Gil Manton
Midas Valley (1985)
as Drew Hammond
War Paint (1953)
as Lt. Billings
Killer Bud (2001)
as The Gooch
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1 (1941)
as Self
Second Wind (1978)
as François Davis
Conquest of Cochise (1953)
as Maj. Tom Burke
Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform (1943)
as Himself
The Iron Glove (1954)
as Captain Charles Wogan
The Real Story of Baa Baa Black Sheep (1991)
as Lt. Littleboy (voice)
Laura (1955)
as Mark Macpherson
The Selling of the Pentagon (1971)
as Self (archive footage)
Bwana Devil (1952)
as Bob Hayward
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome (1996)
as Self
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir (2001)
as Self
The Caretakers (1963)
as Dr. Donovan MacLeod
Laura (1968)
as Mark McPherson
Acting for Douglas Sirk (2008)
as Self (archive footage)
Men of Texas (1942)
as Barry Conovan
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars (1980)
as Self
Keeping Fit (1942)
as Bob - Factory worker