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.
Acting
Movie
Airplane!
as Captain Rex Kramer
1980
Movie
To Be or Not to Be
as Lieut. Stanislav Sobinski
1942
Movie
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
as Agent Flemming (voice)
1996
Movie
1941
as Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell
1979
TV
King of the Hill
as Reynolds Penland (voice) (uncredited)
1997
Movie
BASEketball
as Robert Stack
1998
Movie
The Transformers: The Movie
as Ultra Magnus (voice)
1986
Movie
Joe Versus the Volcano
as Dr. Ellison
1990
TV
Murder, She Wrote
as Chester Harrison
1984
Movie
Recess: School's Out
as Superintendent (voice)
2001
TV
Hercules
as Bob (voice)
1998
Movie
Written on the Wind
as Kyle Hadley
1956
TV
The Angry Beavers
as Narrator (voice)
1997
Movie
Is Paris Burning?
as General Sibert
1966
Movie
Uncommon Valor
as MacGregor
1983
Movie
Caddyshack II
as Chandler Young
1988
TV
The Love Boat
as Bret Garrett
1977
TV
Unsolved Mysteries
as Host
1988
TV
The Untouchables
as Eliot Ness
1959
TV
Diagnosis: Murder
as Peter McReynolds
1993
TV
Blossom
as Robert Stack
1990
Movie
Mumford
as Himself
1999
Movie
The Tarnished Angels
as Roger Shumann
1957
Movie
The Mortal Storm
as Otto Von Rohn
1940