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Robert Langford Modini Stack (13 January 1919 – 14 May 2003) was an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award nominated American stage and movie actor. He was perhaps best known for his film acting as well as his role in the television series The Untouchables and as host of Unsolved Mysteries. He starred in more than 40 films. Stack was born in Los Angeles, California but spent his early childhood growing up in Europe. He became fluent in French and Italian at an early age, but he did not learn English until returning to Los Angeles. Raised by his mother, Mary Elizabeth (née Wood), Stack`s parents divorced when Stack was a year old, and his father, James Langford Stack, a wealthy advertising agency owner, died when Stack was nine. Stack always spoke of his mother with the greatest respect and love. When he wrote his autobiography, Straight Shooting, he included a picture of him and his mother. He captioned it, "Me and my best girl." Stack`s grandfather was an opera singer from Illinois named Charles Wood, who went by the name, "Modini."
By the time he reached 20-years-old, Stack achieved minor fame as a sportsman. He was an avid polo player. He and his brother won the International Outboard Motor Championships, in Venice, Italy; and, 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. Stack also starred in three other drama series, rotating the lead with Tony Franciosa and Gene Barry in the lavish The Name of the Game (1968-1971), Most Wanted, (1976) and Strike Force (1981). Interestingly, in The Name of the Game, he played a former federal agent turned true-crime journalist, evoking memories of his role as Ness. In both Most Wanted and Strike Force he played a tough, incorruptible police captain commanding an elite squad of special investigators, also evoking the Ness role. Eventually, he would reprise the role in a 1992 TV movie, The Return of Eliot Ness. Known for his steadfast, humorless demeanor, he made fun of his own persona in comedies such as 1941 (1979), Airplane! (1980), Caddyshack II (1988), and BASEketball (1998). He also provided the voice for the character Ultra Magnus in Transformers: The Movie (1986). Stack as host of Unsolved MysteriesHe began hosting Unsolved Mysteries in 1987, where his serious, ominous voice and stoic facial expressions lent an authentic gravitas to the program`s dark subject matter. He thought very highly of the interactive nature of the show, saying that it created a "symbiotic" relationship between viewer and program, and that the hotline was a great crime-solving tool. Unsolved Mysteries aired from 1987 to 2002, first as specials in 1987 (Stack did not host all the specials), then as a regular series on NBC (1988-1997), then on CBS (1997-1999) and finally on Lifetime (2001-2002). Stack served as the show`s host during its entire original series run. Unsolved Mysteries is now hosted by Dennis Farina. Stack was married to actress Rosemarie Bowe from 1956 until his death. Stack underwent radiation therapy for prostate cancer in October 2002. He died of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles on May 14, 2003. He is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Westwood, California. Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stack |
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BiographyFriends and FamilyJames Stewart [Friend] :: John F. Kennedy [Friend] :: John Wayne [Friend] :: Carole Lombard [Friend]Trivia and QuotesQuotes I find these shows very touching sometimes. I think voiceover is an adjunct that actors have picked up that have given us some security. Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space. And when I did the Untouchables, I told them going in, if you try apologizing for any of these crumb bums, get someone else to play the part. This show television wise its quite different from motion papers, you get to come into people`s homes and become in a sense part of their life. In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened. I`m working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday. They have a book of locations, and we would do a story about the Sahara Desert for instance, and in the California book you would find a comparable location, to match that location in California. I am very pro law enforcement. I`m very proud this show has been accepted for this length of time. Speed was a very important part of my life. Someone once asked me if I ever tried drugs. And I said I didn`t need it, I had speed. It`s a kick. We did a show called The Orphan Train, during the depression, when families didn`t have enough money to support their children, they`d put them on the train and hope someone would pick them up who had enough money to support their children. I think the instant communication, which is something to me of an eye opener, is the best possible way to solve crimes and mysteries. That`s why I never took this business too seriously, thinking I was something special, when I knew the truly great performers in motion pictures. pictures. These are icons to be treasured. Our profession is very much like going to a cocktail party, you check out the guest list. Lucille was a darling lady. Probably the finest comedienne in the business. It`s a word called symbiotic, you send the messages and it comes back in return. Together, it`s a wonderful thing, it`s why television is so great and film can never reach. Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I`m not E.N., but I can promise you that I`m not Al Capone! You have to love the doing of what you`re doing and not wait for the phone to ring. I wander around and my wife and I are very close, we go out and go to places we discover, we love to eat and drinking doesn`t hurt. For years people have called it a Heart Line, when you send it out it is received and recepted, on this show, they like it. I think. I don`t mind UFO`s and ghost stories, it`s just that I tend to give value to the storyteller rather than to the story itself. I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don`t ever spend too much time looking in the mirror. A great chef is an artist that I truly respect. I play bad golf for good charities like the LA Police. I never put my arms around John Gotti, Al Capone or Lucky Luciano. The dog has behaved himself quite well all day, and the show is doing fantastically well in the ratings... I have no reason to be sad! If you don`t love it, you can`t suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing it because you love it. Also the pictures themselves give a visual to the audience tuning in, that makes them a very important part of law enforcement, or pulling families together. Thru the auspices of the viewers who become - I think this is an import - in a democracy, become a working unit with law enforcement against the criminals. In terms of segments, I think we`ve done 1,200. Yes, and many times it`s frustrating, because I`m simply part of the show, and I`m not in the creative end of it, who goes out with detectives and tries to find these things out. I grew up years ago doing something that unfortunately doesn`t hardly exist any more, a medium called Radio. Whether it s the country or city, I never liked the bad guy. I grew up in France, my first language was French, and I tend to gravitate towards French cooking.Trivia Because of his expertise as an Olympic champion skeet shooter, he was assigned to teach anti-aircraft gunnery in US Navy during WWII. | ||
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