Robert Stack

AKA:
Robert Langford Stack
Nationality:
American
Birthdate:
01/13/1919
Birthplace:
Los Angeles, California
Death Date:
05/14/2003
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biography
Tall, masculine, and blessed with a matinee idol’s baritone voice, Robert Stack certainly looked every inch the movie star, but he actually found his greatest fame on television. His iron jaw and terse delivery made him the ideal crime fighter to tackle the worst gangsters of the Jazz Age on “The Untouchables” (ABC, 1959-1963). That air of moral inflexibility still carried freight almost 30 years later, when he hosted “Unsolved Mysteries” (NBC/CBS, 1987-2002). Prior to and between those two series, he co-starred in a number of popular films, earned an Academy Award nomination, and even got a Continued
Credits
of Superintendent
2001
Rex Kramer
1980
Mr Gardner--Principal
Winslow
Actor
Doctor Ellison
2001
Kyle Hadley
1956
Roger Shumann
Bill Beck
Owen Pentecost
Jim Beckley
of Ultra Magnus
David Frasier
Chandler Young
Eddie Spanier
Hugh MacGregor
Cliff Henderson
Dr Donovan MacLeod
Charles Wogan
John Paul Jones
Francois Davis
milestones
Year
Milestone
 
National skeet champion at age 16; member of all-American team
1939 
Screen debut, "First Love", in which he gave screen star Deanna Durbin her first screen kiss
1942 
Appeared as a Polish flying ace in "To Be or Not To Be"
 
Film career interrupted during WWII when he served with US Air Force
 
TV debut on live programs: "Lux Video Theatre", "Ford Theatre", "Producers Showcase" during the early 1950s
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