RIP Robert Stack

[Noj]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...people_stack_dc

Thanks for the laughs in the all-time classic movie Airplane. RIP.

[J.A.W.]

...And thanks also for the unforgettable Untouchables!

[sal]

Unsolved Mysteries was one of my favorite shows growing up. He will be missed. RIP my friend.....

[chris olivarez]

Ditto to all of the above.

[BERIGAN]

Sad news, even though he was in his 80's.... He was the first person to kiss Deanna Durbin in a movie, but then you all knew that, right? 1939! An late Aunt of mine had gone skeet shooting with him(Or more likely he was there and so was she) He was just about the best skeet shooter in the country at one time... a bit more on his film career, which started in 1939 after all...well, allmovie will not let me know the page for this, so instead of a link, here is the info

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 since 1991 has been 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! (1982). 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.

[BruceH]

I heard about his passing on the radio. I knew he was getting up there, but 84? I'll never forget watching repeats of The Untouchables as a kid. He seemed to be basically doing the same "character" on Unsolved Mysteries. RIP.