Tall, masculine, and blessed with a matinee idol’s baritone voice, Robert Stack certainly looked every inch... (Learn more)
Top Projects: Unsolved Mysteries, The Untouchables, The Untouchables (View All)
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Robert Stack’s Milestones
| Film career interrupted during WWII when he served with US Air Force | |
| National skeet champion at age 16; member of all-American team | |
| Played the lead in the ABC series "Strike Force" | |
| Returned to series TV in "Most Wanted" (ABC) | |
| Served as host for "Unsolved Mysteries" (NBC); began as occasional specials before becoming a weekly series | |
| Starred in the NBC crime drama "The Name of the Game" | |
| TV debut on live programs: "Lux Video Theatre", "Ford Theatre", "Producers Showcase" during the early 1950s | |
| 1939 | Screen debut, "First Love", in which he gave screen star Deanna Durbin her first screen kiss |
| 1942 | Appeared as a Polish flying ace in "To Be or Not To Be" |
| 1951 | Had leading role in "The Bullfighter and the Lady" |
| 1954 | Delivered a strong supporting turn as a pilot in "The High and the Mighty" |
| 1955 | Played the destective investigating the case in a TV version of "Laura" (CBS) |
| 1956 | Received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for "Written on the Wind", directed by Douglas Sirk |
| 1957 | Co-starred in the SIrk-directed "The Tarnished Angels" |
| 1959 - 1963 | Co-produced and starred as Eliot Ness in the ABC crime drama "The Untouchables"; won Best Actor Emmy in 1960 |
| 1959 | Formed Langford Productions |
| 1959 | Had title role in the biopic "John Paul Jones" |
| 1968 | Again played detective investigating the case in an ABC remake of "Laura" |
| 1975 | Played title role in "The Honorable Sam Houston" (ABC) |
| 1980 | Demonstrated comic flair in the spoof "Airplane!" |
| 1985 | Co-starred in teh ABC miniseries "Hollywood Wives" |
| 1990 | Last on camera feature role (to date) "Joe Versus the Volcano" |
| 1991 | Reprised most famous role in the NBC TV-movie "The Return of Eliot Ness" |
| 1998 - 0 | Resumed hosting duties of "Unsolved Mysteries" when it switched networks to CBS |
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