ROBERT STACK
Updated 04-May-2020.
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Robert Stack (1919-2003) – Auteur – Ressources de la Bibliothèque nationale de France: Toutes les informations de la Bibliothèque Nationale de France sur : Robert Stack (1919-2003)
Robert Stack – IMDb: Robert Stack, Actor: Airplane!. “Straight Shooting” – whether skeet shooting, or portraying Eliot Ness, Robert Stack always tells it like it is, and shoots straight. Robert was the second child of Elizabeth Modini Wood (who named him Charles after his grandfather) and James Langford Stack (who changed his name to Robert, after no one in particular). Even though Robert was born …
ROBERT STACK FILES SUIT AGAINST C.B.S.: actor R Stack sues CBS for $25-million, charging film depicted him as supporting US mil involvement in Vietnam and implied he recd large sums of money for appearing in films to induce pub to back involvement; charges CBS used film clip in which he appeared without his permission despite warnings from mil officials
Written on the Wind (1957) – Overview – TCM.com: Overview of Written on the Wind, 1957, directed by Douglas Sirk, with Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, at Turner Classic Movies
Vet thesp Robert Stack dies at 84: Screen and television veteran Robert Stack, best known to audiences as Eliot Ness, the crimefighter on the popular series “The Untouchables,” died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. …
Robert Stack, 84, Who Starred In Television’s ‘Untouchables’: Robert Stack, film and television actor who starred in The Untouchables and more recently hosted series Unsolved Mysteries, dies at age 84; photo (M)
Robert Stack: Hero of The Untouchables whose career never quite recovered from his identification with the square-jawed agent Eliot Ness
Obituary: Robert Stack: He was television’s untouchable Eliot Ness.
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Robert Stack (born Charles Langford Modini Stack, January 13, 1919 – May 14, 2003) was an American actor, sportsman, and television host . he appeared in over 40 feature films . he became fluent in French and Italian at an early age, and did not learn English until returning to los angeles at age seven . his parents divorced when he was a year old; his mother died when Stack was an avid polo player and shooter . at age 16, he became a member of the All-American Skeet Team . he set two world records in skeet shooting and became National Champion . in 1971, he was inducted into the National Skeet Shooting Hall of Fame. He was a Republican. “Stack’s first film teamed him with Deanna Durbin . he won critical acclaim for his next role, The Mortal Storm (1940) starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart . Stack was in Pasternak’s A Little Bit of Heaven (1940) starring Gloria Jean . he then starred in a western, Badlands of Dakota (1942) Stack credits Lombard with giving him Stack played another pilot in Eagle Squadron (1942), a huge hit . Stack was in two films at Paramount: Miss Tatlock’s Millions (1948) and Mr. Music (1950) Stack had Stack supported Mickey Rooney in My Outlaw Brother (1951) and had the lead in the adventure epic Bwana Devil (1952) Stack continued making low budget action fare: Conquest of Cochise (1953) Stack supported Jennifer Jones in Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955), also at Fox . he starred in Great Day in the Morning (1956) at RKO, directed by Jacques Tourneur . Stack played the title role in John Farrow’s biopic, John Paul Jones . the show portrayed the ongoing battle between gangsters and a squad of federal agents in prohibition-era Chicago . Stack once “the show won Stack the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series in 1960” Stack worked in Europe for Is Paris Burning? (1966), The Peking Medallion (1967), Action in 1971, he sued CBS for $25 million for appearing in a documentary The Selling of the Pentagon . he later did a similar part in the series Strike Force (1981). Stack hosted unsolved mysteries from 1987 to 2002 . he served as the show’s host during its entire original series run . in 1991, Stack voiced the main police officer Lt. Littleboy Stack voiced Stoat Muldoon on the computer-animated television series, Butt-Ugly Martians on Nickelodeon . he underwent radiation therapy for prostate cancer in October 2002 and died of