Robert Stack
Acting
🎂 1919-01-13
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.
Cast credits(134)
Self
1962
Self
1962
Self - Co-Host
1961
Self
1961
Self / Bo Bo McGoon
1951
Self
1992
Self
1975
Chester Harrison
1984
Reynolds Penland (voice) (uncredited)
1997
Dan Farrell
1968
Self
1944
Self - Presenter
1944
Self - Cameo
1950
Peter McReynolds
1993
1990
Self
1948
Host
1988
Agent Briggs
1962
Ralph Saunders
1952
Ben Barton
1952
Narrator (voice)
1997
Major Morgan
1963
James Andrew Congers
1963
Bret Garrett
1977
1973
Angelo (Businessman)
1967
Roland Saunders
1981
Self
1973
Bob (voice)
1998
Stoat Muldoon (voice)
2002
Self
1953
Eliot Ness
1959
Lewis Blackwood
1982
Charles Vandoor
1982
1984
Self
1974
Robert Stack (uncredited)
1990
Kyle Hadley
1990
1949
Captain Linc Evers
1976
Mark MacPherson
1955
Self
1981
First Man
1950
Self - Intermission Guest
1950
Captain Frank Murphy
1981
Captain Rex Kramer
1980
1990
Robert Stack
1996
1991
General Stark
1984
Vic Flint
1951
Captain Larkin
1975
George Lancaster
1985
Ultra Magnus (voice)
1986
Superintendent (voice)
2001
General Sibert
1966
Agent Flemming (voice)
1996
Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell
1979
Dr. Ellison
1990
Robert Stack
1998
Kyle Hadley
1956
MacGregor
1983
John Sullivan
1954
Chandler Young
1988
Lieut. Stanislav Sobinski
1942
Self
1987
Narrator (voice) (archive sound)
1999
Himself
1999
Jim Beckley
1967
Patrick O´Moore
1951
Eddie Kenner
1955
Winslow
1986
Otto Von Rohn
1940
Self
1971
Roger Shumann
1957
Lt. Billings
1953
Self
1979
Stephen Andrews
1948
Jim Holliday
1941
Cliff Henderson
1960
John Regan
1951
Louis Faciano
1988
(archive footage)
2019
Mr. Gardner
1988
Eliot Ness
1991
James Andrew Congers
1965
Ted Drake
1939
Eliot Ness
1959
Chuck S. Brewer
1942
Dr. Tommy Baker
1955
John Paul Jones
1959
Owen Pentecost
1956
Jordan White
1987
Capt. Stuart L. Hamilton
1948
Drew Hammond
1985
Sumner Ethridge
1999
Self (archive footage)
1996
Don Webb
1941
Dr. Donovan MacLeod
1963
Captain Charles Wogan
1954
Capt. James Morgan
1975
Self
2001
Bob Hayward
1952
Maj. Tom Burke
1953
Michael Rhodes
1974
Mark Macpherson
1955
Nickey Van Alen
1948
Self
1997
Host - Narrator
1979
Self
1982
The Gooch
2001
Lt. Littleboy (voice)
1991
Cliff Wilder
1967
Mark McPherson
1968
Self (archive footage)
1971
Col. Gil Manton
1953
David Frasier
1970
Self (archive footage)
2023
Jeff Blake
1950
1950
François Davis
1978
Barry Conovan
1942
William 'Bill' Beck
1958
1985
Bob Terry
1940
Host
1999
Self (archive footage)
2008
Self
1996
(archive footage)
2018
Self
1941
Bob - Factory worker
1942
Host
2004
Himself
1943
Self
1980