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ROBERT STACK
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Robert Stack (born Charles Langford Modini Stack, January 13, 1919-May 14, 2003)
was an American actor, sportsman,
and television host. In addition to acting in more
than 40 feature films, he starred in the ABC-TV television series The
Untouchables (1959-63), for which he won the
1960 Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series, and later hosted
Unsolved Mysteries (1987 - 2002). He was also nominated for
an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his
role in the film Written on the Wind (1956).
Stack took drama courses at Bridgewater State College.
His deep voice and good looks attracted producers in Hollywood. When
Stack visited the lot of Universal Studios at age 20,
producer Joe Pasternak offered him an opportunity to
enter the business. Recalled Stack, "He said, 'How'd you like to be in
pictures? We'll make a test with Helen Parrish, a little
love scene.' Helen Parrish was a beautiful girl. 'Gee,
that sounds keen,' I told him. I got the part."[5] Stack's first film,
which teamed him with Deanna Durbin, was First Love
(1939); this film was considered controversial at the
time. He was the first actor to give Durbin an on-screen kiss. Stack won
acclaim for his next role, The Mortal Storm (1940)
starring Margaret Sullivan and James Stewart, and
directed by Frank Borzage. He played a young man who joins the Nazi
party. As a youth, Stack mentioned that he had a crush on
Carole Lombard and he appeared with her in To Be or
Not To Be (1942). He admitted he was terrified going into this role, but
he credited Lombard with giving him many tips on acting
and with being his mentor. Lombard was killed in a
plane crash shortly before the film was released.
During World War II, Stack served as gunnery
instructor in the United States Navy. He continued his film career with
roles in such films as Fighter Squadron (1948) with Edmond
O'Brien; A Date with Judy (1948) starring Wallace
Beery and Elizabeth Taylor; and the adventure epic Bwana Devil (1952),
considered the first color, American 3-D feature film.
In Written on the Wind (1956)
Stack appeared opposite John Wayne in The High and the
Mighty (1954), playing the pilot of an airliner who comes apart under
stress after the airliner encounters engine trouble.
Stack was nominated for an Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actor for Written on the Wind (1956), directed by Douglas
Sirk. He felt the primary reason he lost the Oscar to Anthony
Quinn was that 20th Century Fox, who had loaned him to
Universal-International, organized block voting against him to prevent
one of their contract players from winning an Academy
Award while working at another studio.[6]
Robert and Rosemarie Stack at home in 1961.
Stack portrayed the crime-fighting Eliot Ness in the
award-winning ABC television hit drama series, The Untouchables
(1959"63). The show portrayed the ongoing battle between
gangsters and a special squad of federal agents in
prohibition-era Chicago. The show won Stack a Best Actor Emmy Award in
1960. He starred in three other drama series, rotating the
lead with Tony Franciosa and Gene Barry in the lavish
The Name of the Game (1968"1971), Most Wanted, (1976) and Strike Force
(1981).
In The Name of the Game, he played a former federal
agent turned true-crime journalist, evoking memories of his role as
Ness. In both Most Wanted and Strike Force he played a tough,
incorruptible police captain commanding an elite squad
of special investigators, also evoking the Ness role. Eventually, he
reprised the role in a 1991 television movie, The Return
of Eliot Ness.
With Gene Barry and Tony Franciosa in The Name of the Game (1968-1971)
He parodied his own persona in comedies such as 1941
(1979), Airplane! (1980), Caddyshack II (1988), Beavis and Butt-Head Do
America (1996) and BASEketball (1998). He also provided
the voice for the character Ultra Magnus in The
Transformers: The Movie (1986). He appeared in the television miniseries
Hollywood Wives in 1985, and appeared in several episodes of
the primetime soap opera Falcon Crest in 1986. Stack's
series Strike Force was scheduled opposite Falcon Crest, where it
quickly folded.
He began hosting Unsolved Mysteries in 1987. He
thought very highly of the interactive nature of the show, saying that
it created a "symbiotic" relationship between viewer and
program, and that the hotline was a great
crime-solving tool. Unsolved Mysteries aired from 1987 to 2002, first as
specials in 1987 (Stack did not host all the specials, which were
previously hosted by Raymond Burr and Karl Malden),
then as a regular series on NBC (1988"97), then on CBS (1997"99) and
finally on Lifetime (2001"02). Stack served as the show's
host during its entire original series run. In 1991,
Stack voiced the main police officer Lt. Littleboy (who is also the main
protagonist and narrator) in The Real Story of Baa Baa
Black Sheep. For a brief period between 2001"2002,
Stack voiced Stoat Muldoon, a character featured on the
computer-animated television series, Butt-Ugly Martians on
Nickelodeon.
In 1996, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him.
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