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Robert Stack
Actor
Died May 14, 2003 (84 years)
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.
Filmography
| 2019 | Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood · as (archive) |
| 2002 | Teamo Supremo (TV Series) · as Gordon |
| 2001 | Recess: School's Out · as Superintendent (voice) |
| 2001 | Killer Bud · as The Gooch |
| 2001 | Butt Ugly Martians (TV Series) · as Stoat Muldoon (voice) |
| 1999 | Sealed with a Kiss · as Sumner Ethridge |
| 1998 | BASEketball · as Robert Stack |
| 1998 | Hercules (TV Series) · as Bob (voice) |
| 1997 | Twentieth Century Fox: The First 50 Years · as Actor 'A Portrait of Murder' |
| 1997 | The Angry Beavers (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1997 | Recess (TV Series) · as General |
| 1997 | King of the Hill (TV Series) · as Reynolds Penland |
| 1996 | Suddenly Susan (TV Series) · as Robert Stack |
| 1996 | Beavis and Butt-Head Do America · as Agent Flemming (voice) |
| 1993 | Diagnosis Murder (TV Series) · as Peter McReynolds |
| 1991 | The Return of Eliot Ness · as Eliot Ness |
| 1990 | Joe Versus the Volcano · as Dr. Ellison |
| 1990 | Blossom (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1988 | Caddyshack II · as Chandler Young |
| 1988 | Dangerous Curves · as Louis Faciano |
| 1987 | Plain Clothes · as Mr. Gardner |
| 1987 | Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit · as Jordan White |
| 1987 | Unsolved Mysteries (TV Series) · as Host |
| 1987 | Korea: The Forgotten War · as Narrator |
| 1986 | The Transformers: The Movie · as Ultra Magnus |
| 1986 | Big Trouble · as Winslow |
| 1985 | Hollywood Wives (TV Series) · as George Lancaster |
| 1984 | George Washington (1984) (TV Series) · as General Stark |
| 1984 | Murder, She Wrote (TV Series) · as Chester Harrison |
| 1983 | Uncommon Valor · as MacGregor |
| 1983 | Hotel (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1981 | Falcon Crest (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1980 | Airplane! · as Captain Rex Kramer |
| 1979 | 1941 · as Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell |
| 1978 | Un second souffle · as Unknown |
| 1977 | The Love Boat (TV Series) · as Bret Garrett |
| 1976 | Most Wanted (TV Series) · as Captain Linc Evers |
| 1975 | Murder on Flight 502 · as Captain Larkin |
| 1973 | Police Story (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1970 | Story of a Woman · as David Frasier |
| 1968 | The Name of the Game (TV Series) · as Dan Farrell |
| 1967 | Action Man · as Jim Beckley |
| 1967 | The Corrupt Ones · as Cliff Wilder |
| 1966 | Is Paris Burning? · as General Sibert |
| 1965 | Hollywood My Home Town · as Unknown |
| 1963 | The Caretakers · as Dr. Donovan MacLeod |
| 1962 | The Lucy Show (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1960 | The Last Voyage · as Cliff Henderson |
| 1959 | John Paul Jones · as John Paul Jones |
| 1959 | The Untouchables (TV Series) · as Eliot Ness |
| 1957 | The Tarnished Angels · as Roger Shumann |
| 1956 | Written on the Wind · as Kyle Hadley |
| 1956 | Great Day in the Morning · as Owen Pentecost |
| 1955 | House of Bamboo · as Eddie Kenner |
| 1954 | The High and the Mighty · as John Sullivan |
| 1953 | Conquest of Cochise · as Maj. Tom Burke |
| 1952 | Bwana Devil · as Bob Hayward |
| 1951 | My Outlaw Brother · as Patrick O´Moore |
| 1951 | The Red Skelton Show (TV Series) · as Bo Bo McGoon |
| 1950 | The Lux Video Theatre (TV Series) · as First Man |
| 1948 | A Date with Judy · as Stephen Andrews |
| 1948 | Fighter Squadron · as Capt. Stuart L. Hamilton |
| 1946 | Lights Out (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1942 | To Be or Not to Be · as Lieut. Stanislav Sobinski |
| 1941 | Badlands of Dakota · as Jim Holliday |
| 1940 | The Mortal Storm · as Otto Von Rohn |