Robert Stack was born on January 13, 1919 in Los Angeles,
California. On May 14, 2003 Robert Stack passed away in Beverly
Hills, California from a heart attack.
Robert Stack's birth name was Charles Langford Modini Stack.
Never interested in team sports, Robert Stack took up skeet
shooting. In 1935, he came in 2nd in the National Skeet Shooting
Championship.
In 1939 Robert made his screen debut in FIRST LOVE. As a
child, Robert Stack mother introduced him to movie stars like
Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy so they could act as surrogate
father figures to him. They often took him hunting and fishing.
Before Robert Stack was cast as Eliot Ness in THE UNTOUCHABLES,
Van Johnson and Van Heflin were considered for the role.
On television is how Robert Stack made his lasting impression,
playing G-Man Eliot Ness in the Prohibition-era dramatic series
THE UNTOUCHABLES (1959-63), which earned him an Emmy in its
first season. Stilwell crying at Disney's Dumbo the following
year Robert Stack threw all caution to the wind with a hilarious
self-parody in AIRPLANE! (1980).
In 1956 Robert Stack received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar
nomination for WRITTEN ON THE WIND.
Starting in 1988 Robert Stack became the host of TV's UNSOLVED
MYSTERIES.
Robert Stack brought life to many animated characters: In
2001 BUTT-UGLY MARTIANS the voice of Stoat Muldoon, RECESS:
SCHOOL'S OUT the superintendent and in 1999 he was the voice
of the narrator for HERCULES. Teenagers nationwide would reconize
his voice as ATF Agent Flemming on BEAVIS AND BUT-HEAD DO
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