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