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  UNSOLVED MYSTERIES on LIFETIME TV
Robert Stack moved to Europe at the age of 3 with his mother following her divorce.
Robert balanced being a father and a movie star, acting in The High and the Mighty and Written on the Wind, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for his supporting role.
Robert went on to host the popular television series Unsolved Mysteries for more than a decade and in 1980, he published his memoirs entitled “Straight Shooting.” His last work was as the narrator of “Little Shop of Horrors” for Broadway in April of 2003.
www.unsolved.com /stack.html   (632 words)

  
 Robert Stack - The Untouchables - Unsolved Mysteries
When Stack was 20, he was tested with actress Helen Parrish and got a movie part at Universal Studios.
Robert and Rosemarie married in 1956 and had 2 children, Elizabeth and Charles.
Stack was born January 13, 1919 in Los Angeles.
www.geocities.com /alcus2/robertstack.html   (279 words)

  
 Robert Stack 1919 - 2003 at tedstrong.com
Stack was born on January 13, 1919, in Los Angeles; he died, just miles away in Beverly Hills, on May 14, 2003.
Robert Stack, 84, a flinty film actor who became an icon of law-and-order television programs such as "The Untouchables" and "Unsolved Mysteries," was found dead Wednesday at his Los Angeles-area home.
Stack was born in Los Angeles into one of the oldest show business families in the state.
www.tedstrong.com /robert-stack.shtml   (594 words)

  
 Robert W. Stack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Bob Stack received his Ph.D. in 1976 from Cornell University.
Stack emphasizes mycology in both his research and teaching.
Stack is assisted in his project by Jana Hansen, Nikolai Balbyshev and Dennis Tobias.
www.ndsu.nodak.edu /plantpath/staff/stack.htm   (87 words)

  
 Robert Stack's grave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Stack was born in Los Angeles, California but spent his early childhood growing up in Europe.
As a youth, Stack admitted that he had a crush on Carole Lombard and in 1942 he appeared with her in To Be or Not To Be.
Stack depicted the crime fighting Eliot Ness in the television drama The Untouchables from 1959 to 1963.
www.hollywoodusa.co.uk /WestwoodObituaries/robertstack.htm   (850 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Actor Robert Stack dies
Actor Robert Stack, who played the Prohibition detective Eliot Ness in the 1960s TV series The Untouchables, died on Wednesday in his Los Angeles home aged 84.
Stack was born into a showbusiness family in Los Angeles in 1919.
Stack's latter career was marked by comedy roles that sometimes lampooned his straight-up persona.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3031831.stm   (424 words)

  
 'Unsolved Mysteries' Host Robert Stack Dies At 84 - Entertainment - WDSU.com | WDSU
Robert Stack, who starred in "The Untouchables" and later on "Unsolved Mysteries," died Wednesday at his home.
Stack was born Robert Langford Modini on Jan. 13, 1919, in Los Angeles.
Stack was nominated for an Oscar for "Written on the Wind" in 1957, an award he once said he felt he should have won.
www.wdsu.com /entertainment/2205989/detail.html   (407 words)

  
 Robert Stack visits USS Morton DD 948
Robert Stack visits Morton in 1967 for two day.
At the time we all wished we had gotten Nancy, but in retrospect, Robert was actually the better choice.
Because I stood bridge watches while Robert was aboard and the bridge was his favorite place on the ship, he and talked a lot and we struck up
www.ussmortondd948.org /Robert_Stack.html   (605 words)

  
 Zap2it - TV news - Actor Robert Stack Dies
Stack died Wednesday (May 14) of heart failure at his home in Los Angeles, the AP reports.
Stack continued to work steadily for the rest of his life in both feature films and television.
Stack is survived by his wife, Rosemarie, and their two children, Charles and Elizabeth.
tv.zap2it.com /tveditorial/tve_main/1,1002,271|81595|1|,00.html   (258 words)

  
 The Robert Stack Studio
There he was encouraged to develop his talents by area artists and in the art program at the local elementary school.
Primarily a watercolorist, Robert captures realistic equestrian, architectural, and natural images from his surroundings.
Robert's paintings usually come into his mind as shape, color, compositions or emotion.
www.geocities.com /stackimages   (220 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Actor Robert Stack dead at 84   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
If Stack tended to appear stiffly humorless on screen, in conversation he was relaxed and jovial, with deep Hollywood roots that gave him a wealth of star-studded anecdotes.
Stack said the children were with her at the Stack home.
Stack will be buried at Westwood Village Cemetery during a private service.
www.usatoday.com /life/television/news/2003-05-15-stack-dies_x.htm   (925 words)

  
 Biography for Robert Stack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Even though Robert was born in Los Angeles, since his parents divorced when he was one year old, and his mom took him to Europe when he was 3, he couldn't speak English until he was 6; (his older brother James Langford, Jr., stayed in the USA with their dad).
Robert attended the premiere, and recalled people's reactions to the 3-D lion scenes: "People in the audience jumped out of their seats, some even fainted." The movie broke box office records, and immediately started the demand to film more movies in 3-D (such as "House of Wax").
Robert was the host of "Unsolved Mysteries" (1987) and did more zany humor in Caddyshack II (1988).
us.imdb.com /Bio?Stack,+Robert   (1583 words)

  
 Interview with Robert Stack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Robert Stack's interest was Zen meditation, not martial arts.
It was during this seminar in 1991 that some examples of ninjutsu came forth from Hayes, and Robert saw a synergy of mind and body that is forgotten in modern culture.
His interest captured, Robert began studying ninjutsu right away, training with Jan, Jimmy, Kevin, and Richard in a soccer field at Duke and then in a dance studio in Carrboro.
www.questkagami.com /ncquestnewsletter/RobertStack/RobertStack.html   (266 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: The Tarnished Angels: Video: Douglas Sirk,Rock Hudson,Robert Stack,Dorothy Malone,Jack Carson,Robert ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Stack's mania for flying ("I need to fly, just like an alcoholic needs his drink!") keeps him at arm's length from his loving family, and he even sacrifices his wife's virtue for a shot at piloting his archrival's spare plane, but his brittle emotional armor cracks in a stunning moment of redemption.
The rest of the cast is also impressive: Sirk has reunited Hudson with Dorothy Malone and Robert Stack, fresh from their Oscar caliber (award and nomination respectively) turns in WRITTEN ON THE WIND.
The flyer is played by Robert Stack, a war hero with ice in his veins, whose wife does parachute stunts, and whose son worships him.
www.amazon.ca /Tarnished-Angels-Rock-Hudson/dp/6304021690   (970 words)

  
 Lifetimetv.com: Community - Chats - Robert Stack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Robert Stack is a living legend in the entertainment industry.
Robert Stack says: I am very pro law enforcement.
Robert Stack says: 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.
www.lifetimetv.com /community/chat/robertstack_transcript.html   (1157 words)

  
 Robert Stack Photos - Robert Stack News - Robert Stack Information
Robert was the 2nd 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 in Los Angeles, since his parents divorced when he...
Captain Frank Murphy (Robert Stack) leads an elite group of detectives from various law enforcement agencies.
www.tv.com /robert-stack/person/6262/summary.html   (390 words)

  
 Robert Stack, The Comeback Coach, Turning challenges into opportunities
Robert Stack is a credentialed executive life coach with an unusual and deeply personal specialty.
Using heartfelt presentations, Comeback Circles (sm), and one-on-one coaching, Robert empowers individuals in the grip of adversity to take ownership of their lives and discover that within their challenges lie the seeds of opportunity for healing and personal growth.
After a BS from Boston University, Robert attended the executive education program at Wharton’s School of Business, taught at New York University’s Management Institute, and was honored as a William Randolph Hearst Visiting Professional Fellow at the University of Texas, Austin.
www.comebackcoach.com   (201 words)

  
 Robert Stack - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Charles Langford Modini Stack (January 13, 1919 – May 14, 2003), better known as Robert Stack, was an American stage and movie actor.
Stack also starred in three other 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).
Stack is the great-uncle of actor Taran Killam.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Stack   (836 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Robert Stack dies at age 84   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Robert Stack, one of Hollywood's original straight-shooting tough-guy characters, was found by wife Rosemarie slumped over Wednesday in his Los Angeles home, dead of heart failure.
Good-guy Stack was born into a performing arts family in Los Angeles.
Stack and his wife wed in 1956 and have two children, Elizabeth and Charles, both of Los Angeles.
www.usatoday.com /life/2003-05-15-stack_x.htm   (485 words)

  
 Robert Stack at Hollywood Cult Movies
Rock Hudson stars as the "adopted son" whose attraction to Lauren Bacall, the wife of spoiled scion Robert Stack, leads to a violent confrontation.
An exciting precursor to "The Poseidon Adventure," this drama stars Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone as a married couple who encounter an unending series of disasters when explosions rock the ocean liner they're on.
Jackie Mason, Robert Stack, Dan Aykroyd, Dyan Cannon and Jonathan Silverman star, with Chevy Chase and "Chuck the Rodent" reprising their roles from the original.
www.hollywoodcultmovies.com /html/robert_stack.html   (833 words)

  
 Satanosphere || Death Watch '03: June Carter Cash, Robert Stack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Actor Robert Stack, who achieved great TV fame as Elliot Ness in the original version of The Untouchables, then went on to serve as the grave, somberly quizzical host of Unsolved Mysteries, is about to solve the mystery of whether there's life after death at age 84, due to heart failure.
Stack then followed Nielsen's path into comedy via several roles where he parodied his badass self, primarily in television commercials.
Stack played the voice of Ultra Magnus (Warning: MIDI and Comic Sans ahead!) in Transformers: the Movie along side the late Orson Welles and Judd Nelson, Leonard Nimoy and Eric Idle.
www.satanosphere.com /story/2003/5/15/13756/3934   (1932 words)

  
 Milwaukee Homes, Muskego Homes
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www.robertstackassoc.com   (233 words)

  
 Robert Stack - MovieActors.com
Robert Stack was born on January 13, 1919 in Los Angeles, California.
Before Robert Stack was cast as Eliot Ness in THE UNTOUCHABLES, Van Johnson and Van Heflin were considered for the role.
Robert Stack brought life to many animated characters: In 2001 BUTT-UGLY MARTIANS the voice of Stoat Muldoon, RECESS: SCHOOL'S OUT the superintendent and in 1999 he was the voice of the narrator for HERCULES.
www.movieactors.com /actors/robertstack.htm   (280 words)

  
 Robert Stack Biography :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
A strapping, steely-eyed, resolute leading man, in films from 1939, Robert Stack first won notice for giving teenage singing star Deanna Durbin her famous first onscreen kiss in "First Love".
Stack continued doing well for a time, appearing as Jack Benny's rival for Carole Lombard's affections in Ernst Lubitsch's famous WWII satire, "To Be or Not To Be" (1942).
Soon thereafter, Stack would play the role for which is perhaps still best remembered, that of gangster-buster Eliot Ness on TV's hard-hitting "The Untouchables" (ABC, 1959-1963).
www.hollywood.com /celebs/fulldetail/id/192179   (511 words)

  
 Actor Robert Stack Dead At 84, 'Untouchables' Tough Guy Dies Of Heart Failure - CBS News
Stack was born into a performing arts family in Los Angeles.
Stack made more than 40 films, including "The Iron Glove" (1954); "Good Morning Miss Dove" (1955) and "Is Paris Burning?" (1966).
Stack and his wife, Rosemarie, wed in 1956 and had two children, Elizabeth and Charles, both of Los Angeles.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/05/15/entertainment/main554058.shtml   (637 words)

  
 Playbill News: Robert Stack, of Bway's Upcoming Little Shop of Horrors, Dead at 84
Robert Stack, the actor whose sonorous voice and no-nonsense quality lent credibility to his work as Eliot Ness in TV's "The Untouchables" and the true-crime series "Unsolved Mysteries," died May 14, though his voice will live on in Broadway's upcoming staging of Little Shop of Horrors.
Stack died at home in Los Angeles at the age of 84, according to the Associated Press.
Stack found success playing the dead-serious Prohibition-era agent Ness in "The Untouchables." He won an Emmy for his work.
www.playbill.com /news/article/79583.html   (501 words)

  
 The Robert Stack Picture Pages
The son of a wealthy California businessman, Robert Stack spent his teen years giving skeet shooting lessons to such Hollywood celebrities as Carole Lombard and Clark Gable; it was only natural, then, that he should gravitate to films himself after attending the University of Southern California.
The warmer side of Robert Stack could be glimpsed in the TV informational series It's a Great Life (1985), which he hosted with his wife Rosemarie, and in his 1980 autobiography, Straight Shooting.
On May 14, 2002, Robert Stack's wife Rosemarie found the actor dead in their Los Angeles home.
www.superiorpics.com /robert_stack   (413 words)

  
 Prof. Bob Stack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
The picture above shows him in his role as a teacher of mushroom identification, demonstrating the size of a mature Boletus edulis, somewhere in the Rocky mountains.
Bob Stack taught several courses in plant pathology and mycology between 1976 and 2005.
Stack's papers on the Fusarium head blight and the common root rot diseases of wheat as well as other topics go to
www.ndsu.nodak.edu /instruct/stack   (75 words)

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