Robert Stack Discussion

Robert Stack: Robert Stack. Actor: Airplane!. "Straight Shooting" -- whether skeet shooting, or portraying Eliot Ness -- Robert Stack always told it like it was, and shot straight. Born in Los Angeles, California, the younger son of James Langford Stack (1860-1928), the owner of an advertising agency, and Mary Elizabeth Modini Wood (1891-1975), he was originally named Charles Langford Modini Stack at birth by his mother but his father soon changed the...

Known For: Airplane! (Captain Rex Kramer), Written on the Wind (Kyle Hadley), To Be or Not to Be (Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski), 1941 (Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell)