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Sealed with a Kiss

as Sumner Ethridge

1999
BASEketball

as

1998
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

as Agent Flemming (voice)

1996
Joe Versus the Volcano

as Dr. Ellison

1990
Dangerous Curves

as Louis Faciano

1988
Caddyshack II

as Chandler Young

1988
Plain Clothes

as Mr. Gardner

1988
Big Trouble

as Winslow

1986
George Washington

as General Stark

1984
Uncommon Valor

as MacGregor

1983
Airplane!

as Captain Rex Kramer

1980
1941

as Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell

1979
Adventures of the Queen

as Capt. James Morgan

1975
The Selling of the Pentagon

as Self (archive footage)

1971
Laura

as Mark McPherson

1968
The Last Voyage

as Cliff Henderson

1960
John Paul Jones

as John Paul Jones

1959
The Scarface Mob

as Eliot Ness

1959
The Gift of Love

as William 'Bill' Beck

1958
Robert Stack Robert Stack

Birthday

1919-01-13

Place of Birth

Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography

Robert Langford Modini Stack 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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