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Robert Stack: Los Angeles
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A fifth-generation Californian, Stack was born Robert Langford Modini in Los Angeles. He began to pursue acting seriously at the University of Southern California. At the same time, he became a national skeet champion, a star of the university polo team and a speedboat racer. He was seen in an amateur stage production by a Universal Studios talent scout and signed a contract.
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Born in 1919, Stack was destined to be in show business. His family opened one of the first theaters in Los Angeles, and his grandparents, mother and unlce were all opera singers. Stack, who once told the Associated Press that he didn't inherit his mothers singing voice, did not get his big break until he was 20 years old....
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After two sterling westerns, Conquest of Cochise and War Paint (both 1953), in which Stack was a cavalry officer dealing with Native Americans, he was back to playing pilots. In Sabre Jet (1953), he was busy bombing Koreans, while in The High and the Mighty (1954), he was the jittery captain of a passenger plane that has lost an engine.
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