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Robert Stack
Los Angeles, California, USA
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…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2026
Optimus Prime Awakening
Movie Ultra Magnus (archived audio)
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2023
Unsolved Mysteries: Behind the Legacy
Movie Self (archive footage)
- 2021
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2019
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
Movie (archive footage)
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2018
These Dead Souls
Movie (archive footage)
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2008
Acting for Douglas Sirk
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2004
Unsolved Mysteries Volume 1: UFOs
Movie Host
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2002
Butt-Ugly Martians
TV show Stoat Muldoon (voice)
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2001
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
Movie Self
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2001
Killer Bud
Movie The Gooch
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2001
Recess: School's Out
Movie Superintendent (voice)
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1999
Lords of the Mafia
TV show Self - Narrator
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1999
Mumford
Movie Himself
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1999
Sealed with a Kiss
Movie Sumner Ethridge
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1999
Hercules: Zero to Hero
Movie Narrator (voice) (archive sound)
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1999
The Y2K Crisis
Movie Host
More credits
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1998
Hercules
TV show Bob (voice)
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1998
BASEketball
Movie Robert Stack
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1997
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
Movie Self
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1997
The Angry Beavers
TV show Narrator (voice)
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1997
King of the Hill
TV show Reynolds Penland (voice) (uncredited)
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1996
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
Movie Agent Flemming (voice)
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1996
Suddenly Susan
TV show Robert Stack
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1996
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
Movie Self
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1993
Diagnosis: Murder
TV show Peter McReynolds
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1992
Vicki!
TV show Self
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1991
The Return of Eliot Ness
Movie Eliot Ness
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1991
Unsolved Mysteries: UFOS
TV show
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1991
The Real Story of Baa Baa Black Sheep
Movie Lt. Littleboy (voice)
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1990
Unsolved Mysteries: Ghosts
TV show
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1990
The Fanelli Boys
TV show Robert Stack (uncredited)
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1990
Blossom
TV show Robert Stack
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1990
Joe Versus the Volcano
Movie Dr. Ellison
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1988
Unsolved Mysteries
TV show Host
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1988
Dangerous Curves
Movie Louis Faciano
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1988
Caddyshack II
Movie Chandler Young
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1988
Plain Clothes
Movie Mr. Gardner
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1987
Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit
Movie Jordan White
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1987
Korea: The Forgotten War
TV show Host
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1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
Movie Self
