Robert Stack

Acting · Born 1919-01-13 in Los Angeles, California, USA

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.…

Filmography

• To Be or Not to Be as Lieut. Stanislav Sobinski
• Airplane! as Captain Rex Kramer
• Is Paris Burning? as General Sibert
• Written on the Wind as Kyle Hadley
• The Transformers: The Movie as Ultra Magnus (voice)
• The Mortal Storm as Otto Von Rohn
• Beavis and Butt-Head Do America as Agent Flemming (voice)
• Joe Versus the Volcano as Dr. Ellison
• Good Morning, Miss Dove as Dr. Tommy Baker
• House of Bamboo as Eddie Kenner

TV

• Unsolved Mysteries as Host
• The Untouchables as Eliot Ness
• Falcon Crest as Roland Saunders
• Murder, She Wrote as Chester Harrison
• The Lucy Show as Agent Briggs
• Hercules as Bob (voice)
• The Merv Griffin Show as Self
• Blossom as Robert Stack
• Police Story
• Butt-Ugly Martians as Stoat Muldoon (voice)