Robert Stack

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Robert Stack, 1950s
Stack at the 60th Academy Awards

Robert Stack (born January 13, 1919 in Los Angeles , † May 14, 2003 in Beverly Hills , California ; actually Charles Langford Modini Stack ) was an American actor with a film and television career of over 60 years.

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Robert Stack was born in Los Angeles, but his mother moved to Europe with him at the age of three after divorcing his father. He spoke no English until he was six when he returned to Los Angeles, but fluent in Italian and French. At college he was successful as an athlete, so he was considered one of the best sport shooters in the USA. But at the same time he took acting lessons for the first time and came to Universal Studios in 1939 . His first film, First Love , already attracted him: He gave the young film star Deanna Durbin her first kiss on the big screen. The Universal producers caused a lot of publicity for this "event" with long press reports and many tested actors. He established himself as an actor and appeared the following year as a young National Socialist in Deadly Storm alongside James Stewart .

In the first ten years of his film career, Stack played mostly in westerns and war films. In 1942 he was seen in Ernst Lubitsch's film To be or not to be as a Polish pilot lieutenant. Because of his experience as a marksman, he served as a shooting instructor in the United States Navy during World War II . After the mission he returned to the screen with roles in films such as Fighter Squadron with Edmond O'Brien or A Date with Judy with Elizabeth Taylor . In 1952, Stack starred in Bwana the Devil , the first large-scale film production in 3D. In 1954 he starred in the second leading role alongside John Wayne in William A. Wellman's aviator drama It Always Goes To See Day . Two years later, Stack celebrated one of his greatest hits with Douglas Sirk's drama In the Wind . He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of the alcoholic playboy Kyle Hadley .

From the end of the 1950s, Stack turned more and more to television, so he played the leading role in the successful drama series Die Unbrechlichen , of which around 120 episodes were made between 1959 and 1963. The Untouchable was about the fight between cops and gangsters in Chicago during the Prohibition era and brought Stack an Emmy Award, among other things . This was followed by other leading roles for Stack in the television series The Name of the Game (1968-1971), Most Wanted (1976) and Strike Force (1981). The multilingual Stack also took on the leading role in the German-language film Die Hölle von Macao alongside Elke Sommer in 1966 , and he also played in French and Italian-language productions. As he got older, Stack often took on self-deprecating roles - which satirized his image as a "tough man" - in films such as 1941 - Where Please Go to Hollywood , The Unbelievable Journey in a Crazy Plane or Caddyshack II . His voice can also be heard in cartoons. Between 1987 and 2002 he was the presenter of the television series Unsolved Mysteries , which was devoted to mysterious murder cases. He worked as an actor until his death

In 1956 he married the actress Rosemarie Bowe (1932-2019), with whom he was married for the rest of his life. The couple had two children. He died of pneumonia in 2003 at the age of 84 and was buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

  • 1957: Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for Written in the Wind
  • 1960: Emmy win for Outstanding Acting on a Series for The Untouchables
  • 1960: Laurel Award - 2nd place in the Best Action Actor category for The Last Voyage
  • 1960: Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
  • 1961: Emmy nomination for Outstanding Acting in a Series for The Untouchables
  • 2000: Golden Boot Award for his life's work

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Commons : Robert Stack  - collection of images, videos and audio files
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SURNAME Stack, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stack, Charles Langford Modini (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film actor
DATE OF BIRTH January 13, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH los Angeles
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2003
Place of death Beverly Hills , California