Obit: Robert Stack

Subject: Obit: Robert Stack
From: GUEST
Date: 15 May 03 - 01:07 PM

'Untouchables' star Robert Stack dies at 84

Robert 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 home. He was 84.
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Stack was born into a performing arts family in Los Angeles. His great-great-grandfather opened one of the city's first theaters, and his grandparents, uncle and mother were opera singers.

His father, however, "was the only Irishman in County Kerry who couldn't sing, and that's whose singing voice I got," Stack said in 1998.
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His role as Ness in "The Untouchables" brought him a best actor Emmy in 1960.

Subject: RE: Obit: Robert Stack
From: wysiwyg
Date: 15 May 03 - 01:37 PM

Ah, so he's embarked on the Big Unsolved Mystery.

~S~

Subject: RE: Obit: Robert Stack
From: Cluin
Date: 15 May 03 - 09:47 PM

Exit line: "Rico!... Youngfellow!... Let's go!"

Subject: RE: Obit: Robert Stack
From: ex-pat
Date: 15 May 03 - 10:36 PM

Loved "The Untouchables" as a teenager. RIP.

Subject: RE: Obit: Robert Stack
From: Sorcha
Date: 15 May 03 - 10:55 PM

Damme! They are falling like flies this week....wouldn't surprise me if Johnny Cash is soon.........I'll miss him and his music terribly, but I think he is ready, esp. with June gone.

Subject: RE: Obit: Robert Stack
From: musicmick
Date: 16 May 03 - 03:24 AM

Wasn't Robert Stack a champion skeet shooter? I'm sure I read, somewhere, he was in the Skeet Shooting Hall of Fame, if such an edifice exists. I am old enough to remember Robert Stack's film career. He was a dashing leading man in the early 1940's. Then, he got type cast as a tough G-Man. It wasn't until AIRPLANE that he got a meaty comic role and he performed it beautifully.

Subject: RE: Obit: Robert Stack
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 16 May 03 - 09:30 AM

I enjoyed the series (despite the fact that one gangster,( was it Frank Nitti?)played I think by Neville Brand, was killed at least twice!) but thought Stack's acting very wooden. He was my mother's favourite, though, so he may be in for a shock when he gets to the pearly gates!

RtS

Subject: RE: Obit: Robert Stack
From: Kim C
Date: 16 May 03 - 10:17 AM

I was an Unsolved Mysteries FREAK! Yes, he was a shooting champion.

Subject: RE: Obit: Robert Stack
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 16 May 03 - 12:02 PM

It appears this belongs in BS.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Obit: Robert Stack
From: GUEST
Date: 16 May 03 - 12:17 PM

so do you...but we don't complain..

Subject: RE: Obit: Robert Stack
From: catspaw49
Date: 16 May 03 - 01:19 PM

Give it a break Dave.......

Robert Stack was a champion skeet shooter and even as a teenager was giving lessons to a lot of Hollywood stars which helped open the acting door for him. He is also a member of the National Skeet Hall of Fame.

I remember as a kid that a lot of the sample pictures in the picture frams were of Robert Stack in a Skeet jacket, often with a shotgun.....remember those?

I'm sad to see him go. Like Leslie Nielson, I think he really enjoyed the roles he got late in his career as a chance to poke a little fun at himself (or at least the type of characters he generally portrayed). Caddyshack II was a classic role for him, perhaps even better than Airplane. Overall, a nice guy from what others have said, and a loyal friend. Not a bad way to be described.

Spaw

Subject: RE: Obit: Robert Stack
From: musicmick
Date: 16 May 03 - 11:15 PM

Thank you, Spaw. May we all be so remembered.