page_title: Robert Stack
section_title: Return to "A" movies
hierarchical_section_title: Robert Stack / Career / Return to "A" movies
caption_attribution_description: English: Screenshot of Robert Stack from the trailer for the film w:en:Written on the Wind
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 was back in "A" pictures when he appeared opposite John Wayne in The High and the Mighty (1954), playing the pilot of an airliner who comes apart under stress after the airliner encounters engine trouble. The film was a hit and Stack received good reviews. In 1954 he signed a seven year contract with Fox.
  Sam Fuller cast him in the lead of House of Bamboo (1955), shot in Japan for 20th Century Fox. He supported Jennifer Jones in Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955), also at Fox, and starred in Great Day in the Morning (1956) at RKO, directed by Jacques Tourneur.
caption: In Written on the Wind (1956)
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