Although he was only 20, Stack's natural delivery and boyish charm made him a natural for the screen. Soon, his Hollywood connections got him on a film set at Paramount, a screen test, and eventually, his first lead in a picture, opposite Deanna Durbin in First Love (1939). Stack enrolled in the University of Southern California, where he took some drama courses, and was on the Polo team, but it wasn't long before some influential people in the film industry took notice of his classic good looks, and lithe physique. He soon was giving lessons on shooting to such top Hollywood luminaries as Clark Gable and Carol Lombard, and found himself on the polo field with some notable movie moguls like Darryl Zanuck and Walter Wanger. Naturally athletic, Stack was still in high school when he became a national skeet-shooting champion and top-flight polo player. They returned to Los Angeles when he was seven, by then French was his native language and was not taught English until he started schooling. At age three, he moved with his mother to Paris, where she studied singing.
Stack was born in Los Angeles on Januto a well-to-do family but his parents divorced when he was a year old. McVicker has made a little arrangement with you guys, that’s right, a little probation… You see class, Beavis and Butthead here are not allowed to laugh for a whole week.Robert Stack, the tough, forceful actor who had a solid career in films before achieving his greatest success playing crime fighter Eliot Ness in the '60s television series The Untouchables (1959-63) and later as host of the long-running Unsolved Mysteries(1987-2002), died on May 14 of heart failure in his Los Angeles home. Ok so I’m going to quote this from memory:
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