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Biography: Robert Stack

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. At age 20, he made his screen debut in Deanna Durbin's First Love (1939) in which he gave his teenaged co-star her very first screen kiss. Two years later he appeared opposite his former "pupil" Carole Lombard in the Ernst Lubitsch classic To Be or Not to Be (1942). After serving with the navy in WWII he resumed his film career, avoiding typecasting with such dramatically demanding film assignments as The Bullfighter and the Lady (1951), The Tarnished Angels (1957), and John Paul Jones (1959). He earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance as a self-destructive alcoholic in Written on the Wind (1956). In 1959 he gained a whole new flock of fans when he was cast as humorless federal agent Elliot Ness in TV's The Untouchables, which ran for four seasons and won him an Emmy award. He continued playing taciturn leading roles in such TV series as Name of the Game (1969-1971), Most Wanted (1976-1977), and Strike Force (1981), and from 1987 to 2002 was the no-nonsense host of the TV anthology Unsolved Mysteries. Not nearly as stoic and serious in real life, Stack was willing to spoof his established screen image in Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979) and Zucker-Abraham-Zucker's Airplane! (1980). 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. Though film appearances grew increasingly sporatic through the 1990s, Stack remained a familiar figure to television viewers thanks to syndicated reruns of Unsolved Mysteries well into the new millennium. Memorable film roles in 1990s included lending his voice to Beavis and Butthead Do America (1996) and appearing as himself in the 1999 comedy drama Mumford. In October of 2002 Stack underwent successful radiation treatment for prostate cancer. On May 14, 2003, Robert Stack's wife Rosemarie found the actor dead in their Los Angeles home. He was 84. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide less

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Killer Bud (2000)
Tags: Buddy Film Comedy
Length: 95min
Karl Hirsch directs this irrepressibly dumb buddy flick about pot, farts, and the CIA. Waylon (Corin Nemec) and Buzz (David Faustino) are a lifelong pals and lifelong losers; at the film's outset, they are canned from yet another job. After deciding...
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Lords of the Mafia: New York (2000)
Cast: Robert Stack
Tags: Social History History Biography Law & Crime
Length: 60min
This is one episode in the multi-part Lords of the Mafia series about organized crime all over the world, originally shown on Court TV and PBS. Hosted by actor Robert Stack, this episode takes a look at the rise and fall of New York's Lucchese crime...
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Lords of the Mafia: Sicily (2000)
Tags: History Social History Biography Law & Crime
Length: 60min
Lords of the Mafia: Sicily one in a series of videos that trace the history of organized crime. This edition concentrates on Toto Riina who was known as "The Beast." Riina, seeing the amount of wealth to be amassed in drug trafficking, engineers the...
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The Return of Eliot Ness (1991)
Tags: Gangster Film Crime
Length: 96min
Nearly three decades after the cancellation of the original Untouchables TV series, Robert Stack reprises his role as gangbuster Eliot Ness, who returns from retirement to hunt for the killer of a former colleague and finds himself caught in a war...
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Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996)
Cast: Bruce Willis
Tags: Gross-Out Comedy Comedy Buddy Film Road Movie
Length: 80min
This is a full-length cartoon movie featuring the dim-witted obnoxious loser teens, Beavis and Butt-head. They are obsessed with sex, TV, heavy-metal rock 'n roll, sex, coolness and sex, in that order. The trouble begins when the couch-potato duo's...
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Dangerous Curves (1988)
Tags: Comedy
Length: 93min
This direct to video, youth-oriented comedy is about Chuck (Tate Donovan) and Wally (Grant Heslov), friends in their senior year at college. Graduation is fast approaching. A wealthy industrialist (Robert Stack) offfers them jobs after graduation if...
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Baa Baa Black Sheep (1993)
Cast: Shelley Long
Length: 25min
This 30-minute cartoon special was originally part of Cinar's The Real Story of. . . anthology, wherein the histories of such popular songs as "&O Christmas Tree" and "&The Itsy Bitsy Spider" were recounted in a highly fanciful fashion. The song in...
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Caddyshack II (1988)
Cast: Dyan Cannon
Tags: Slapstick Comedy Sports Comedy
Length: 103min
This comedy returns to the exclusive but crazy country club golf course seen in the original Caddyshack. This time its the blue-bloods against the blue collars as a loud, vulgar self-made millionaire tries to join the stuffy upper-crust club after his...
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Joe Versus the Volcano (1990)
Cast: Meg Ryan Tom Hanks Lloyd Bridges Steven Spielberg Frank Marshall
Tags: Fantasy Comedy Romantic Comedy Fantasy Comedy
Length: 106min
Academy Award-winning screenwriter John Patrick Shanley's first foray into the director's chair is a quirky romantic fantasy, featuring Bo Welch's signature production design. Tom Hanks plays Joe Banks, a man who hates his job, thinks the overhead...
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The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Cast: Orson Welles Leonard Nimoy
Tags: Science Fiction Action Space Adventure Sci-Fi Action
Length: 86min
In this theatrically released chapter of the 1984-1987 syndicated animated series, the struggle between the heroic Autobots and evil Decepticons is taken twenty years into the future as both sides must deal with a world-devouring being called Unicron...
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