Robert Stack
Milestones
- Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
- Birthday: January 13, 1919
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1998 to 0000
Resumed hosting duties of "Unsolved Mysteries" when it switched networks to CBS
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1991
Reprised most famous role in the NBC TV-movie "The Return of Eliot Ness"
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1990
Last on camera feature role (to date) "Joe Versus the Volcano"
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1985
Co-starred in teh ABC miniseries "Hollywood Wives"
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1980
Demonstrated comic flair in the spoof "Airplane!"
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1975
Played title role in "The Honorable Sam Houston" (ABC)
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1968
Again played detective investigating the case in an ABC remake of "Laura"
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1959 to 1963
Co-produced and starred as Eliot Ness in the ABC crime drama "The Untouchables"; won Best Actor Emmy in 1960
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1959
Formed Langford Productions
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1959
Had title role in the biopic "John Paul Jones"
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1957
Co-starred in the SIrk-directed "The Tarnished Angels"
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1956
Received a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for "Written on the Wind", directed by Douglas Sirk
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1955
Played the destective investigating the case in a TV version of "Laura" (CBS)
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1954
Delivered a strong supporting turn as a pilot in "The High and the Mighty"
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1951
Had leading role in "The Bullfighter and the Lady"
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1942
Appeared as a Polish flying ace in "To Be or Not To Be"
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1939
Screen debut, "First Love", in which he gave screen star Deanna Durbin her first screen kiss
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Film career interrupted during WWII when he served with US Air Force
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National skeet champion at age 16; member of all-American team
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Played the lead in the ABC series "Strike Force"
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Returned to series TV in "Most Wanted" (ABC)
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Served as host for "Unsolved Mysteries" (NBC); began as occasional specials before becoming a weekly series
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Starred in the NBC crime drama "The Name of the Game"
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TV debut on live programs: "Lux Video Theatre", "Ford Theatre", "Producers Showcase" during the early 1950s
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