Robert Stack: Eliot Ness of The Untouchables Dies at 84

Robert Stack was an American actor and television host, best known for playing Eliot Ness on The Untouchables and for hosting Unsolved Mysteries. Born on January 13, 1919, in Los Angeles, he was also a champion skeet shooter.

Stack starred in To Be or Not to Be (1942) and earned an Oscar nomination for Written on the Wind (1956). He won an Emmy for The Untouchables (1959-1963) and hosted Unsolved Mysteries from 1987 to 2002. He showed a comic side as Captain Rex Kramer in Airplane! (1980).

Stack set two world records in skeet shooting and spoke fluent French and Italian as a child. He married actress Rosemarie Bowe in 1956 and they had two children. He died at his home in Bel Air on May 14, 2003, at age 84, of heart failure.

Achievements: Emmy for The Untouchables (1960), Oscar nomination for Written on the Wind (1956), Unsolved Mysteries host.

Birth: January 13, 1919 - Los Angeles, California.

Profession: Actor and television host.

Interesting Facts: He was honored by the Piikani Nation with the name Chief Crow Flag.