Robert Stack was a multilingual American actor, television host, and memoirist. In addition to acting in more than 40 feature films, he starred in the 1959-63 television series The Untouchables, and later hosted Unsolved Mysteries. Robert Stack was born Charles Langford Modini Stack in Los Angeles, California, but his first name was changed to Robert by his father. He spent his early childhood growing up in Europe. He became fluent in French and Italian at an early age, but he did not learn English until returning to Los Angeles. Stack's parents divorced when he was a year old, and he was... raised by his mother, Mary Elizabeth . His father, James Langford Stack, a wealthy advertising agency owner, died when Stack was nine. He always spoke of his mother with the greatest respect and love. When he wrote his autobiography, Straight Shooting, he included a picture of him and his mother. He captioned it, "Me and my best girl." His grandfather was an opera singer named Charles Wood, who went by the name "Modini". By the time he was twenty, Stack had achieved minor fame as a sportsman.
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