Robert Stack

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.

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Robert Stack

Filmografia

Vogliamo vivere!

Bufera mortale

L'aereo più pazzo del mondo

Beavis e Butt-Head alla conquista dell'America

Joe contro il vulcano

Parigi brucia?

Buongiorno miss Dove!

La casa di bambù

1941 - Allarme a Hollywood

Mumford

El Tigre

Douglas Sirk: Über Stars

Fratelli nella notte

Una ragazza per bene

La crociera del terrore

Il primo bacio

Bwana Devil

Il trapezio della vita

Due palle in buca

Prigionieri del cielo

Come le Foglie al Vento

The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World

Il grande capitano

These Dead Souls

Un urlo nelle tenebre

Curve pericolose

L'alba del gran giorno

Donne inquiete

Badlands of Dakota

Il più grande colpo del secolo

L'amante del torero

Così sono le donne

The Y2K Crisis

Il grande imbroglio

Men of Texas

Falchi in picchiata

Ho sposato un pilota

Sealed with a Kiss

Adventures of the Queen

Murder on Flight 502

Mr. Music

Hercules: Zero to Hero

War Paint

Barry Norman in Celebrity City

La vendetta di Kociss

Dono d'amore

Laura

Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1

FBI contro Al Capone

Il guanto di ferro

Acting for Douglas Sirk

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

Plain Clothes - Un poliziotto in incognito

The Transformers: The Movie

Asylum for a Spy

A Little Bit of Heaven

Midas Valley

Il sigillo di Pechino

Unsolved Mysteries Volume 1: UFOs

Miss Tatlock's Millions

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line

Un Second Souffle

Undercover with the KKK

Eagle Squadron

The Real Story of Baa Baa Black Sheep

Riviera Dream

Killer Bud

Perry Mason: Lo spirito del male

BASEketball

Keeping Fit

Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform

Storia di una donna

Ricreazione - La scuola è finita

The Selling of the Pentagon

Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir