Robert Stack

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Robert Stack (born Charles Langford Modini Stack, 1919-2003) was an American actor, sportsman, and television presenter.

He was known for his deep, commanding voice, and presence in over 40 feature films.

He appeared in the legendary ABC television series Untouchables (1959–1963), for which he received the Best Actor in a Dramatic Series in 1960, and Unsolved Mysteries (1987–2002).

He was also nominated for the Best Support Actor award for his role in the film Written on the Wind (1956).

Early life

He was born Charles Langford Modini Stack in Los Angeles, California, but his first name, chosen by his mother, was changed to Robert by his father. He spent his youth in Adria and Rome, becoming fluent in French and Italian at an early age, but did not learn English until returning to Los Angeles when he was seven years old.

When he was a year old, his parents divorced, but Mary Elizabeth (née Wood) raised him. James Langford Stack, the owner of a successful advertising company, later remarried his mother, but Stack died when Stack was 10.

He treated his mother with the greatest respect and admiration. As he worked with Mark Evans on his autobiography, Straight Shooting, he included a portrait of himself and his mother, which he captioned "Me and my best friend." Charles Wood, his maternal grandfather, studied voice in Italy and appeared under the name "Carlo Modini." Stack had another opera-singer cousin, American baritone Richard Bonelli (born George Richard Bunn), who was his uncle.

Stack took some drama classes at the University of Southern California, where he competed for the polo team. Clark Gable was a family friend.

Stack had little fame as a sportsman by the time he was 20 years old. He was a keen polo player and shooter. He and his brother won the International Outboard Motor Championships in Venice, Italy, and, at the age of 16, he became a member of the All-American Skeet Team. He set two world records in skeet shootings and became the national champion. In 1971, he was inducted into the National Skeet Shooting Hall of Fame. He was a Republican.

The Blackfoot Confederacy, which was known as the Peigan Nation before the 1990s, honored him by inducting him into their chieftainship in 1953 (July 2, 1953, Newspaper) as Chief Crow Flag. Stack was given the Gold Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1962.

Personal life and death

Stack was married to actress Rosemarie Bowe from 1956 to his death. They had two children, Charles, his son, and Elizabeth, the daughter.

In October 2002, he underwent radiation therapy for prostate cancer, but at the age of 84, he died of heart disease at his Bel Air, Los Angeles, Los Angeles.

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Career

Stack studied drama at Bridgewater State University, a mid-sized liberal arts college 25 miles southeast of Boston. Producers in Hollywood were attracted by his deep voice and good looks.

Producer Joe Pasternak, who was at the lot of Universal Studios at the age of 20, gave him the opportunity to enter the company. "How would you like to be in pictures?" says Recalled Stack. We'll do a little love scene with Helen Parrish.' Helen Parrish was a pretty child. 'Gee, that sounds excited,' I told him. "I got the part."

First Love (1939), directed by Pasternak, was Stack's first film, which partnered him with Deanna Durbin. At the time, this film was considered controversial because he was the first actor to give Durbin an on-screen kiss.

Stack's next film, The Mortal Storm (1940), starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart, and directed by Frank Borzage at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, earned critical praise for his performance. He was a young man who joined the Nazi party as a youth.

Stack was back at Universal in Pasternak's A Little Bit of Heaven (1940), starring Gloria Jean, who was Deanna Durbin's back-up. In Pasternak's Nice Girl, Stack was reunited with Durbin. (1941): A century of misdeeds.

Stack appeared in a Western Badlands of Dakota (1942), co-starring Richard Dix and Frances Farmer.

To Be or Not To Be (1942), United Artists co-pilot Jack Benny and Carole Lombard, borrowing him to act as a Polish Air Force pilot. Stack confessed to being afraid of going into this career, but he credited Lombard, who had worked with him for many years, for his leadership and guidance. Lombard was killed in a plane crash right before the film was released.

Stack was also a pilot in Eagle Squadron (1942), a huge success. He then made a Western, Men of Texas (1942).

Stack served in the US Navy as an aerial gunnery officer and firearms instructor during World War II.

After the war, Stack resumed his work after appearing in such films as Fighter Squadron (1948) at Warner Bros. with Edmond O'Brien, playing a pilot; A Date with Judy (1948) at MGM, with Wallace Beery and Elizabeth Taylor.

Stack appeared in two Paramount films: Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948) and Mr. Music (1950). He had a great role in Bullfighter and the Lady (1951), Budd Boetticher's passion project for John Wayne's company. This was the first time he liked himself on film, according to his later comments.

In My Outlaw Brother (1951), Stack aided Mickey Rooney (1951) and was the lead in the adventure epic Bwana Devil (1952), which was the first color, American 3-D film. It was released by United Artists, which also put Stack in a Western War Paint (1953). Sam Katzman's conquest of Cochise (1953) - his second pilot in the Korean War; Sabre Jet (1953), a swashbuckler in which Stack played Charles Wogan for Katzman;

Stack was back in "A" photos when he appeared alongside John Wayne in The High and Mighty (1954), playing the pilot of an airliner that comes apart under strain after the airliner faces engine problems. The film was a success, and Stack received raves. He began working for Fox in 1954 and was on a seven-year deal.

Sam Fuller appeared in House of Bamboo (1955), shot in Japan for the 20th Century Fox. Jennifer Jones appeared in Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955), also on Fox, and starred in Great Day in the Morning (1956), directed by Jacques Tourneur.

Stack appeared in Written on the Wind (1956), directed by Douglas Sirk and produced by Albert Zugsmith, and was later given a role by him. In turn, Stack played another pilot, Lauren Bacall, who marries Lauren Bacall, who falls for his best friend, who played by Rock Hudson. The film was a huge success, and Stack was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; Dorothy Malone, who played Stack's sister, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Malone won, but Stack lost to Anthony Quinn. Stack argued that the primary reason he lost to Quinn was that 20th Century Fox, which had lent him to Universal-Integrit block voting against him to discourage one of their contract players from winning an Academy Award when working at another studio, was that he was voting against him.

Stack was reunited with Hudson, Malone, Zugsmith, and Sirk on The Tarnished Angels (1957), once more playing a pilot. He was in The Gift of Love (1958) with Bacall at Fox.

Stack appeared in John Farrow's biography, John Paul Jones (1959), and had a leading role. Despite a large budget and Bette Davis' appearance, it was not a success.

In the ABC television drama series The Untouchables (1959–1963) produced by Desilu Productions, Stack portrayed crimefighter Eliot Ness, as well as Stack's Langford Productions. In prohibition-era Chicago, the show portrayed the ongoing war between gangsters and a small group of federal agents. "No one expected it to be a series," Stack once said. "If you tell the same story every week, it seemed like a vendetta between Ness and the Italians."

At the 12th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1960, the show received the Stack Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

Stack appeared in The Last Voyage (1960), opposite Malone, during the series's run. He was in The Caretakers (1963) with Joan Crawford and appeared in a special on hunting, The American Sportsman. He owned 25% of The Untouchables and The Caretaker.

Stack worked in Europe for Is Paris Burning? (1966) The Peking Medallion (1967), Action Man (1967), and Later for Story of a Woman (1970). Laura (1967) on film.

Stack appeared in a new drama series, swapping the lead with Tony Franciosa and Gene Barry in the lavish The Name of the Game (1968-1972). He evoked memories of his time as Ness, a former federal agent and true-crime reporter.

In 1971, he sued CBS for $25 million for appearing in the documentary The Selling of the Pentagon, claiming that the corporation had misrepresented his information about the Vietnam War.

Stack was a pilot in the TV show Murder on Flight 502 (1975) and was the pilot in the film Most Wanted (1976), playing a tough, incorruptible police captain commanding an elite team of special investigators, as well as evoking the Ness position. He appeared in Strike Force (1981), a sequel.

Second Wind (1978), he made a film in France.

In the comedy 1941 (1979), Stack parodied his own persona. Stack became a comedic actor after his appearance in Airplane. (1980), Big Trouble (1986), Plain Clothes (1988), Caddyshack II (1988), Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996), and BASEketball (1998). In The Transformers: The Movie (1986), he also provided the voice for the character Ultra Magnus.

In a more serious vein, he appeared in the action film Uncommon Valor (1983), the television miniseries George Washington (1984), and Hollywood Wives (1985), and he appeared in many episodes of the primetime soap opera Falcon Crest in 1986.

Strike Force, Stack's series, was scheduled opposite Falcon Crest, where it collapsed quickly.

In 1987, he began hosting Unsolved Mysteries. He praised the show's interactive aspect, adding that it created a "symbiotic" relationship between viewer and programmer, and that the hotline was a useful crime-solving device. Unsolved Mysteries aired from 1987 to 2002, first as specials (Stack did not own any of the specials, which were previously hosted by Raymond Burr and Karl Malden), then as a regular series on NBC (1988–1999), then on Lifetime (2001–2002). Stack appeared as the show's host throughout the entire original series run. With a six-episode run, Netflix revived the series in July 2020. A silhouette of Stack can be seen towards the end of the first credits, paying tribute to the late host.

In 1991, Stack portrayed Lt. Littleboy, the main protagonist and narrator) in The Real Story of Baa Baa Black Sheep.

A Golden Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars actor Richard Deaney was dedicated to him in 1996.

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