Biography
Robert Langford Modini Stack (January 13, 1919 – May 14, 2003) was a multilingual American actor and television host. In addition to acting in more than 40 films, he also appeared on the television series The Untouchables and later served as the host of Unsolved Mysteries. Born in Los Angeles, California, Stack spent his early childhood growing up in Europe. Becoming fluent in French and Italian at an early age, and he did not learn English until returning to Los Angeles. Stack achieved minor...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Unsolved Mysteries: Behind the Legacy
2023
as Self (archive footage)
Sitting down with co-creators Terry Dunn Meurer and John Cosgrove, along with long-time actors, producers, and directors of the show, this documentary...

Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood
2019
as (archive footage)
A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.

These Dead Souls
2018
as (archive footage)
An audiovisual essay on Douglas Sirk's film The Tarnished Angels (1957). Analyzes a central scene 40 minutes into the narrative, and also refers both ...
Acting for Douglas Sirk
2008
as Self (archive footage)
The stars and director of 'Written on the Wind' and 'The Tarnished Angels' talk about director Douglas Sirk's techniques. Archival interviews original...

Unsolved Mysteries Volume 1: UFOs
2004
as Host
First Look Studios released six theme-based DVD sets of "Unsolved Mysteries" in Region 1 in 2004/2005. The sets were re-released on June 21, 2005 with...

Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir
2001
as Self
A rare behind the scenes look at the tragedies and bitter disappointments that plagued one of MGM's most popular leading ladies

Killer Bud
2001
as The Gooch
After losing another job, two idiots embark on an adventure of mythic proportion: to acquire "Feed Bags," the discontinued entire-meal-in-a-bag, to im...

Recess: School's Out
2001
as Superintendent (voice)
The school year is finally ending, and T.J. Detweiler is looking forward to summer. But boredom quickly sets in when his friends leave for camp — unti...

Mumford
1999
as Himself
When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his talent for listening and a disarm...

Sealed with a Kiss
1999
as Sumner Ethridge
Bennett, who's engaged to his boss's daughter, just lost a major client for his company. When a letter meant for someone else is accidentally mailed t...

Hercules: Zero to Hero
1999
as Narrator (voice) (archive sound)
After defeating Hades for good, Hercules marries Meg and revisits his teenage years. In particular, it shows an adolescent Hercules's enrollment and t...

The Y2K Crisis
1999
as Host
Panic over the year 2000 problem will only increase as we get closer to the turn of the millennium; adding fuel to the flame is The Y2K Crisis, an inv...

BASEketball
1998
as Robert Stack
Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop and Remer, invent a new game combining basketball with the rules of baseball. When the game becomes a huge success, th...

Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line
1997
as Self
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 she was a Ziegfeld Girl. At 20 she earned excellen...

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
1996
as Agent Flemming (voice)
Slacker duo Beavis and Butt-Head wake to discover their TV has been stolen. Their search for a new one takes them on a clueless adventure across Ameri...

The Making of '1941'
1996
as Self (archive footage)
A non-narrated documentary, told mainly in interviews with the filmmakers, on the making of the cult comedy classic, featuring outtakes, rare behind-t...

Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome
1996
as Self
A snyposis of the legendary actor's career, narrated by Liam Neeson.

The Return of Eliot Ness
1991
as Eliot Ness
Detective Eliot Ness comes back to town to fight corruption and avenge a former partner's murder with the help of the son.
The Real Story of Baa Baa Black Sheep
1991
as Lt. Littleboy (voice)
With the help of the Master Wolf, Baa Baa makes a daring breakout from the Muttonville State Pen. In order to thank the Master Wolf, Baa Baa sets up h...

Joe Versus the Volcano
1990
as Dr. Ellison
Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the courage to ask his co-worker out on a date, and is th...

Dangerous Curves
1988
as Louis Faciano
A college graduate is offered a deal of a lifetime - deliver a Porsche for a client and join the company of your dreams in return. When the car gets s...

Caddyshack II
1988
as Chandler Young
When a crass new-money tycoon's membership application is turned down at a snooty country club, he retaliates by buying the club and turning it into a...

Plain Clothes
1988
as Mr. Gardner
To prove his brother's innocence, undercover officer Nick enrolls in high school again, dealing with crushes, bullies, humiliations, popularity swings...

Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit
1987
as Jordan White
Jordan White, a publisher friend of Perry, is called to a hotel where a guest, famous horror writer David Hall, has cleared out the hotel for a weeken...

Happy 100th Birthday, Hollywood
1987
as Self
A TV special on the 100th anniversary of the birth of film.

The Transformers: The Movie
1986
as Ultra Magnus (voice)
The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of Leadership. At the same time, they must defend themselve...

Big Trouble
1986
as Winslow
Leonard Hoffman is an insurance salesman struggling to make ends meet. The fact that he has triplet sons who all want to go to Yale isn't making thing...

Midas Valley
1985
as Drew Hammond
Set in Silicon Valley, California, follows the lives of a group of people involved in the competitive world of computer electronics and the greed, pas...
My Kingdom For...
1985
When Robert and Rosemarie Stack (Robert starred in Boetticher's "The Bullfighter and the Lady") visit Mary and Budd Boetticher to attend the Boettiche...

Uncommon Valor
1983
as MacGregor
A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.

Barry Norman in Celebrity City
1982
as Self
Hollywood is still the home of the American Dream - the place where fame and fortune can be achieved overnight. Or so the story goes. For some it does...

Airplane!
1980
as Captain Rex Kramer
An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.
Douglas Sirk: Über Stars
1980
as Self
Douglas speaks about some of the stars he has directed like Asta Nielsen, Lili Dagover, Zarah Leander, George Sanders, Signe Hasso, Barbara Stanwyck, ...

1941
1979
as Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell
In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer leads a mob chasing a Japanese sub.

Undercover with the KKK
1979
as Host - Narrator
The true story of Gary Thomas Rowe, Jr., who worked undercover for the FBI to infiltrate a Ku Klux Klan group in his Alabama hometown and later testif...

The Muppets Go Hollywood
1979
as Self
Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere of the Muppets' first feature film, The Muppet Movi...

Second Wind
1978
as François Davis
An aging dentist looks for a little liveliness by abandoning his wife in favor of a younger woman. When he learns that his mistress also has another y...

Murder on Flight 502
1975
as Captain Larkin
On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the airliner before it lands.

Adventures of the Queen
1975
as Capt. James Morgan
A madman hijacks the luxury cruise liner, S.S. Queen, and threatens to blow it up unless a millionaire pays him the the contents of a safe deposit box...

The Strange and Deadly Occurrence
1974
as Michael Rhodes
A family moves into a new home in an isolated area, and soon realizes that someone--or something--doesn't want them there.

The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World
1971
as Self
A celebrity-filled look at the opening festivities for Walt Disney World in Florida.
The Selling of the Pentagon
1971
as Self (archive footage)
The Selling of the Pentagon, was an important documentary aired in primetime on CBS on 23 February 1971. The aim of this film, produced by Peter Davis...

Story of a Woman
1970
as David Frasier
Karin studies music in Rome and falls in love with Bruno. She learns that he is married and therefore returns to Sweden. She meets David. They marry a...

Laura
1968
as Mark McPherson
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.

Action Man
1967
as Jim Beckley
An American talks a retired French crook into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as ransom.

The Corrupt Ones
1967
as Cliff Wilder
Freelance photographer Cliff Wilder (Robert Stack) finds himself the target of various colorful villains in this quest for an ancient Chinese treasure...

Is Paris Burning?
1966
as General Sibert
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if ...
Asylum for a Spy
1965
as James Andrew Congers
A spy wants to "come in from the cold" since his last assignment resulted in the death of two innocent people. But the service cannot let a man quit.

The Caretakers
1963
as Dr. Donovan MacLeod
This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.

The Last Voyage
1960
as Cliff Henderson
The S. S. Claridon is scheduled for her five last voyages after thirty-eight years of service. After an explosion in the boiler room, Captain Robert A...

John Paul Jones
1959
as John Paul Jones
The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.

The Scarface Mob
1959
as Eliot Ness
Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s' Chicago gangster Al Capone in prison.

The Gift of Love
1958
as William 'Bill' Beck
Fearing she will die, a physicist's wife hopes her husband will be consoled by the orphan she adopts.

The Tarnished Angels
1957
as Roger Shumann
In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming pilot at aerial stunt shows while his wife, LaVerne, wor...

Written on the Wind
1956
as Kyle Hadley
Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the patriarch, Jasper, works hard to establish the family business...

Great Day in the Morning
1956
as Owen Pentecost
After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved with two women, he then has to make even more fundame...

Good Morning, Miss Dove
1955
as Dr. Tommy Baker
Miss Dove is a prim New England school teacher who is treasured by her students in the small town of Liberty Hill. When she falls ill, a kindly doctor...

Laura
1955
as Mark Macpherson
A detective is assigned to a case of murder. During the investigation he finds himself taking a more than professional interest in the victim, the mys...

House of Bamboo
1955
as Eddie Kenner
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen...

The High and the Mighty
1954
as John Sullivan
Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command cockpit assignments he finds himself on a routine Honolulu-t...

The Iron Glove
1954
as Captain Charles Wogan
Irishman Charles Wogan wields his sword in the cause of James Stuart who seeks to replace George I on the throne of England.

Sabre Jet
1953
as Col. Gil Manton
The story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of their wives, on station with them, who have dinner read...

Conquest of Cochise
1953
as Maj. Tom Burke
A cavalry officer tries to keep a lid on a volatile situation when Indian leader Cochise is being prodded into starting a war.

War Paint
1953
as Lt. Billings
An Indian and his beautiful sister attempt to destroy a cavalry patrol trying to deliver a peace treaty to their chief.

Bwana Devil
1952
as Bob Hayward
British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to ki...

My Outlaw Brother
1951
as Patrick O´Moore
Danny, a greenhorn from New York comes to the Mexican border in search for his older brother whom he has always looked up to. A Texas Ranger charged w...

Bullfighter and the Lady
1951
as John Regan
An American takes up bullfighting to impress the ladies but learns to respect the sport.

Mr. Music
1950
as Jeff Blake
A golf-crazy songwriter tries to avoid the long, solitary hours of concentration needed to produce a hit musical. His producer and his secretary consp...

Riviera Dream
1950
This black & white novelty film features Egyptian actor Alex d'Arcy -- playing the part of a discharged American soldier -- traveling the French Rivie...

Fighter Squadron
1948
as Capt. Stuart L. Hamilton
During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's promoted.

Miss Tatlock's Millions
1948
as Nickey Van Alen
After the accidental death of an idiot heir, a stunt man is hired to impersonate him while the family gathers to determine the dispersment of the esta...

A Date with Judy
1948
as Stephen Andrews
Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school dance. As Carol tries to rekindle Judy's relationship w...

Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform
1943
as Himself
Actors are seen in their new roles as military men during WWII: Robert Stack displaying his remarkable skill as an artillery training officer; Tyrone ...

Keeping Fit
1942
as Bob - Factory worker
Topical wartime short depicting the plight of civilians who must stay in shape in order to fight the good fight.

Men of Texas
1942
as Barry Conovan
A Chicago reporter (Robert Stack) and photographer focus on a Confederate outlaw (Brod Crawford) in post-Civil War Texas.

Eagle Squadron
1942
as Chuck S. Brewer
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.

To Be or Not to Be
1942
as Lieut. Stanislav Sobinski
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.

Badlands of Dakota
1941
as Jim Holliday
In the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, brothers Jim and Bob Holliday are bumping heads over the affections of pretty Anne Grayson. Whi...

Screen Snapshots Series 21 No. 1
1941
as Self
This edition of Screen Snapshots has more of a vaudeville flavor as opposed to Ralph Staub's usual candid-camera at home with the stars offerings. Ken...

Nice Girl?
1941
as Don Webb
Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his hand-built car than in Jane. She decides to shed her "nice gi...

A Little Bit of Heaven
1940
as Bob Terry
A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a big-bucks contract, which allows her and her family to mov...

The Mortal Storm
1940
as Otto Von Rohn
The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s. After the Nazis come to power, the family is divided ...

First Love
1939
as Ted Drake
In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's har...