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Robert Stack

Most Recent Role: Stoat Muldoon on Butt Ugly Martians
Gender: Male
Birthplace: Los Angeles, California, USA
Birthday: 1-13-1919
Birth Name: Robert Langford Modini Stack
Date of Death: 5-14-2003
Cause of Death: Heart Failure
On January 13, 1919, Robert Stack was born in Los Angeles, California. However, he spent his early childhood growing up in Europe. Stack took drama courses at the University of Southern California. He entered Hollywood at the age of 20. During World War II, Stack served as gunnery instructor in the United States Navy. In 1957, Stack was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting...
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Butt Ugly Martians
This is...the Butt-Uglies
Friday 21 February 2003 on Nickelodeon

Dr. Damage proves once and for all that the Uglies aren't conquering Earth but goofing off. He shows Emperor Bog a tape of them making a video showing that they are friendly to get the humans to trust them. That's proof enough for bog and any trust he had for them just went right out the window.

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Robert did the voice-over at the end of Miller Lite commercials in the 70s and 80s. (edit)
Robert met the real life Mrs. Eliot Ness when his biography was presented on This Is Your Life in 1960. She praised his portrayal of her late husband, Eliot Ness. (edit)
Robert was raised by his mother. His parents divorced when Stack was one, and his father died when Stack was nine. (edit)
Robert spent his early childhood growing up in Europe. He became fluent in French and Italian at an early age. (edit)
Robert is a veteran of WW2. He was awarded the World War II Victory Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, American Campaign Medal, Expert Rifle Ribbon, and Expert Pistol Ribbon. (edit)
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Robert Stack: I am very pro law enforcement. (edit)
Robert Stack: Someone once accused me of being like Eliot Ness. I sad no sir, I'm not Eliot Ness, but I can promise you that I'm not Al Capone! (edit)
Robert Stack: (About his father) [He] was the only Irishman in County Kerry who couldn't sing, and that's whose singing voice I got. (edit)
Robert Stack: When I was a kid, I was good. I had not brains but I could shoot a shotgun! (edit)
Robert Stack: I got an Academy Award nomination [for Written on the Wind] for a part in which I’d played a maniac, and chewed the scenery, and beat up my wife, and tried to kill my best friend, and all of that. It was “over the top,” if anything. And to go from that, to be criticized for being “The Great Stone Face”...somehow, it doesn’t fit!
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"One of the all-time greats"
Scary as hell, but cool anyways!
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"One of the all-time greats"
Mr. Untouchable
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