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