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Robert Stack (1919-2003) was an American actor and voice actor. Throughout a long career, he is perhaps best remembered for the role of Elliot Ness in the original version of the television series The Untouchables and as the host of Unsolved Mysteries.
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Actor Robert Stack poses with actress Jane Wyatt as they hold the Emmys they won in this June 20, 1960 photo, at the awards ceremony in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Stack won the television award for "The Untouchables," while Wyatt won for "Father Knows Best." Stack, whose granite-eyed stare and menacing baritone spelled trouble for television's fictional criminals in The Untouchables and real ones in Unsolved Mysteries, died at his Los Angeles home, Wednesday, May 14, 2003. He was 84.
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Tall, masculine, and blessed with a matinee idol’s baritone voice, Robert Stack certainly looked every inch the movie star, but he actually found his greatest fame on television. His iron jaw and terse delivery made him the ideal crime fighter to tackle the worst gangsters of the Jazz Age on “The Untouchables†(ABC, 1959-1963). That air of moral inflexibility still carried freight almost 30 years later, when he hosted “Unsolved Mysteries†(NBC/CBS, 1987-2002). Prior to and between those two series, he co-starred in a number of popular films, earned an Academy Award nomination, and even got a few chances to poke fun at his rigid on-screen persona in several comedies and animated series.
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Despite his success in the movies, Robert Stack is perhaps best known for his work in TV. He endeared himself to television audiences as the crime-fighting Eliot Ness, a role he played from 1959 to 1963 in the ABC drama series The Untouchables. In 1988, he made a comeback on the small screen as the authoritative host of Unsolved Mysteries, which he stayed with until 2002.
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Robert Stack: "The blobs rained down over Oakville six times over a three week period. Dozens of people took ill and many animals died after coming into contact with the toxic droplets. But the nature of the substance, and any connection it may have had with the outbreak, remained a mystery. Dotty took a sample of the material to a private research lab."
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LOS ANGELES - Actor Robert Stack, who gained fame portraying the Prohibition-era crimebuster Eliot Ness in the TV series The Untouchables and later hosting Unsolved Mysteries , has died. He was 84.
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