Robert Stack
Age: 84 | From: Los Angeles, California, USA
Person Details
Birthday: 1919-01-13 20:24:51
Death: 2003-05-14 20:24:51
Aliases: No known aliases
Gender: Male
Place of birth: Los Angeles, California, USA
Homepage:
Movie Involvements: 54
TV Involvements: 11
Most Famous Work
Biography
Robert Langford Modini Stack 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.
Most Famous Work
Diagnosis: Murder
(1993) Peter McReynolds
Murder, She Wrote
(1984) Chester Harrison
Lux Video Theatre
(1950) First Man
The Untouchables
(1959) Eliot Ness
The Name of the Game
(1968) Dan Farrell
Unsolved Mysteries
(1988) Host
The Oscars
(1953) Self
The Bob Hope Show
(1950) Self - CameoActing
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
|---|---|---|
| 2019 | (archive) | |
| 2008 | Self (archive footage) | |
| 2004 | Host | |
| 2001 | Self | |
| The Gooch | ||
| Superintendent (voice) | ||
| Stoat Muldoon (voice) | ||
| 1999 | Himself | |
| Sumner Ethridge | ||
| Narrator (voice) (archive sound) | ||
| Host | ||
| 1998 | Bob (voice) | |
| Robert Stack | ||
| 1997 | Reynolds Penland (voice) (uncredited) | |
| 1996 | Agent Flemming (voice) | |
| (archive) | ||
| 1993 | Peter McReynolds | |
| 1991 | Eliot Ness | |
| 1990 | N/A | |
| Dr. Ellison | ||
| 1988 | Host | |
| Louis Faciano | ||
| Chandler Young | ||
| Mr. Gardner | ||
| 1987 | Jordan White | |
| 1986 | Ultra Magnus (voice) | |
| Winslow | ||
| 1985 | Drew Hammond | |
| George Lancaster | ||
| 1984 | Chester Harrison | |
| N/A | ||
| General Stark | ||
| 1983 | MacGregor | |
| 1982 | Self | |
| N/A | ||
| 1981 | N/A | |
| N/A | ||
| 1980 | Captain Rex Kramer | |
| Self | ||
| 1979 | Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell | |
| Host - Narrator | ||
| Self | ||
| 1978 | François Davis | |
| 1976 | Captain Linc Evers | |
| 1975 | Captain Larkin | |
| Capt. James Morgan | ||
| Self | ||
| 1974 | Michael Rhodes | |
| 1973 | Self | |
| N/A | ||
| 1971 | Self | |
| Self (archive footage) | ||
| 1970 | David Frasier | |
| 1968 | Dan Farrell | |
| Mark McPherson | ||
| 1967 | Jim Beckley | |
| Cliff Wilder | ||
| 1966 | General Sibert | |
| 1965 | Self (archive footage) | |
| James Andrew Congers | ||
| 1963 | Dr. Donovan MacLeod | |
| 1962 | Agent Briggs | |
| Self | ||
| Self | ||
| 1961 | Self - Co-Host | |
| Self | ||
| 1960 | Cliff Henderson | |
| 1959 | Eliot Ness | |
| John Paul Jones | ||
| Eliot Ness | ||
| N/A | ||
| 1958 | William 'Bill' Beck | |
| 1957 | Roger Shumann | |
| 1956 | Kyle Hadley | |
| Owen Pentecost | ||
| 1955 | Dr. Tommy Baker | |
| Mark Macpherson | ||
| N/A | ||
| Eddie Kenner | ||
| 1954 | John Sullivan | |
| Captain Charles Wogan | ||
| 1953 | Col. Gil Manton | |
| Maj. Tom Burke | ||
| Lt. Billings | ||
| Self | ||
| 1952 | Bob Hayward | |
| 1951 | Vic Flint | |
| Patrick O´Moore | ||
| John Regan | ||
| 1950 | Jeff Blake | |
| First Man | ||
| Self - Cameo | ||
| 1948 | Capt. Stuart L. Hamilton | |
| Nickey Van Alen | ||
| Stephen Andrews | ||
| Self - Magician's Assistant | ||
| 1946 | N/A | |
| 1943 | Himself | |
| 1942 | Bob - Factory worker | |
| Barry Conovan | ||
| Chuck S. Brewer | ||
| Lieut. Stanislav Sobinski | ||
| 1941 | Jim Holliday | |
| Self | ||
| Don Webb | ||
| 1940 | Bob Terry | |
| Otto Von Rohn | ||
| 1939 | Ted Drake | |
| (archive footage) | ||
| Year | Character | Movie/Tv |
