Cast
Robert Stack
Acting
Cast
Robert Stack
Known for
Acting
Born
1919-01-13
From
Los Angeles, California, USA
Died
2003-05-14
Also known as Роберт Стэк, Charles Langford Modini Stack, رابرت استاک
Biography
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.
★7.3
MOVIE1980
Airplane!
as Captain Rex Kramer
★5.8
MOVIE1979
1941
as Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell
★7.1
MOVIE1986
The Transformers: The Movie
as Ultra Magnus (voice)
★7.2
MOVIE1966
Is Paris Burning?
as General Sibert
★6.6
MOVIE2001
Recess: School's Out
as Superintendent (voice)
★5.8
MOVIE1990
Joe Versus the Volcano
as Dr. Ellison
★6.0
MOVIE1959
John Paul Jones
as John Paul Jones
MOVIE1950
Riviera Dream
★7.0
MOVIE1961
Alcatraz Express
as Eliot Ness
★7.0
MOVIE1956
Written on the Wind
as Kyle Hadley
★6.2
MOVIE1955
House of Bamboo
as Eddie Kenner
★6.5
MOVIE1950
Mr. Music
as Jeff Blake
★5.2
MOVIE1979
Undercover with the KKK
as Host - Narrator
★6.1
MOVIE1998
BASEketball
as Robert Stack
★5.9
MOVIE1988
Plain Clothes
as Mr. Gardner
★6.6
MOVIE1996
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
as Agent Flemming (voice)
★7.8
MOVIE1942
To Be or Not to Be
as Lieut. Stanislav Sobinski
★6.1
MOVIE1948
A Date with Judy
as Stephen Andrews
★6.3
MOVIE1983
Uncommon Valor
as MacGregor
★6.0
MOVIE1956
Great Day in the Morning
as Owen Pentecost
★7.5
MOVIE2021
Jacques Tati, tombé de la lune
★3.2
MOVIE1988
Dangerous Curves
as Louis Faciano
★6.3
MOVIE1941
Nice Girl?
as Don Webb
★6.5
MOVIE1999
Hercules: Zero to Hero
as Narrator (voice) (archive sound)
★8.0
MOVIE1965
Asylum for a Spy
as James Andrew Congers
★5.4
MOVIE1986
Big Trouble
as Winslow
★4.2
MOVIE1988
Caddyshack II
as Chandler Young
★6.2
MOVIE1999
Sealed with a Kiss
as Sumner Ethridge
★6.3
MOVIE1951
Bullfighter and the Lady
as John Regan
★6.1
MOVIE1948
Fighter Squadron
as Capt. Stuart L. Hamilton
★7.3
MOVIE1958
The Gift of Love
as William 'Bill' Beck
★5.9
MOVIE1954
The High and the Mighty
as John Sullivan
★6.4
MOVIE1963
The Caretakers
as Dr. Donovan MacLeod
★5.9
MOVIE1975
Murder on Flight 502
as Captain Larkin
★6.0
MOVIE1967
Action Man
as Jim Beckley
★5.6
MOVIE1953
War Paint
as Lt. Billings
★6.8
MOVIE1957
The Tarnished Angels
as Roger Shumann
★6.2
MOVIE1960
The Last Voyage
as Cliff Henderson
★6.2
MOVIE1979
The Muppets Go Hollywood
as Self
MOVIE1960
The Gun of Zangara
as Eliot Ness
MOVIE2018
These Dead Souls
as (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1955
Good Morning, Miss Dove
as Dr. Tommy Baker
MOVIE2004
Unsolved Mysteries Volume 1: UFOs
as Host
★7.6
MOVIE1987
Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit
as Jordan White
★5.9
MOVIE1974
The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
as Michael Rhodes
★7.3
MOVIE1940
The Mortal Storm
as Otto Von Rohn
★5.4
MOVIE1967
The Corrupt Ones
as Cliff Wilder
★7.0
MOVIE1985
My Kingdom For...
★7.7
MOVIE1997
Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down the Line
as Self
★8.0
MOVIE1985
Midas Valley
as Drew Hammond
★6.0
MOVIE1941
Badlands of Dakota
as Jim Holliday
★6.0
MOVIE1987
Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
as Self
★6.5
MOVIE1999
Mumford
as Himself
★7.0
MOVIE1942
Eagle Squadron
as Chuck S. Brewer
★9.0
MOVIE1942
Men of Texas
as Barry Conovan
★5.5
MOVIE1975
Adventures of the Queen
as Capt. James Morgan
★7.6
MOVIE1939
First Love
as Ted Drake
★7.2
MOVIE1959
The Scarface Mob
as Eliot Ness
★5.7
MOVIE1968
Laura
as Mark McPherson
★6.3
MOVIE1948
Miss Tatlock's Millions
as Nickey Van Alen
★5.6
MOVIE1951
My Outlaw Brother
as Patrick O´Moore
★5.3
MOVIE1953
Conquest of Cochise
as Maj. Tom Burke
★5.0
MOVIE2001
Killer Bud
as The Gooch
★8.0
MOVIE1991
The Return of Eliot Ness
as Eliot Ness
★8.0
MOVIE1971
The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World
as Self
★5.0
MOVIE1952
Bwana Devil
as Bob Hayward
★7.0
MOVIE1953
Sabre Jet
as Col. Gil Manton
★4.5
MOVIE1940
A Little Bit of Heaven
as Bob Terry
★5.0
MOVIE1999
The Y2K Crisis
as Host
★9.0
MOVIE1996
Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
as Self
★5.7
MOVIE1954
The Iron Glove
as Captain Charles Wogan
★8.0
MOVIE1978
Second Wind
as François Davis
MOVIE1991
The Real Story of Baa Baa Black Sheep
as Lt. Littleboy (voice)
★8.0
MOVIE1971
The Selling of the Pentagon
as Self (archive footage)
MOVIE1982
Barry Norman in Celebrity City
as Self
★9.0
MOVIE2023
Unsolved Mysteries: Behind the Legacy
as Self (archive footage)
★7.0
MOVIE1970
Story of a Woman
as David Frasier
★7.3
MOVIE2001
Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
as Self
★7.0
MOVIE1943
Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform
as Himself
★5.7
MOVIE2019
Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
as (archive footage)
★9.0
MOVIE1942
Keeping Fit
as Bob - Factory worker
★9.7
MOVIE1955
Laura
as Mark Macpherson
MOVIE1941
Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
as Self
★10.0
MOVIE1980
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
as Self
MOVIE2008
Acting for Douglas Sirk
as Self (archive footage)