page_title: Robert Stack
section_title: The Untouchables
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Stack / Career / The Untouchables
caption_attribution_description: 1961 photo of Robert and Rosemarie Stack at home issued by ABC-TV. Stack was the star of the ABC show The Untouchables at the time.
context_page_description: Robert Stack was an American actor, sportsman, and television host. Known for his deep, commanding voice and presence, he appeared in over 40 feature films. He starred in the landmark ABC-TV television series The Untouchables, for which he won the 1960 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series, and later hosted/narrated the true crime series Unsolved Mysteries. He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film Written on the Wind.
context_section_description: Stack portrayed the crimefighting Eliot Ness in the award-winning ABC television hit drama series, The Untouchables (1959–1963). The show portrayed the ongoing battle between gangsters and a special squad of federal agents in prohibition-era Chicago. "No one thought it was going to be a series," Stack once said, "When you tell the same story every week, it seemed like a vendetta between Ness and the Italians."
  The show won Stack the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series at the 12th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1960.
  During the series' run, Stack starred in a disaster movie, The Last Voyage (1960), appearing opposite Malone. At Fox he was in The Caretakers (1963) with Joan Crawford and he appeared in a special on hunting, The American Sportsman. He had 25% of The Untouchables and The Caretaker.
  After The Untouchables Stack worked in Europe for Is Paris Burning? (1966), The Peking Medallion (1967), Action Man (1967) and later for Story of a Woman (1970). He did Laura (1967) on film.
caption: Robert and Rosemarie Stack at home in 1961
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