Born in Los Angeles, Robert Stack passes his infancy to Europe, to return to the United States only at age the 6 years. Resulting from a family of artists (his grandmother was a professional singer of reputation), it côtoie as of his youth all high-speed motorboats of the time (of which Clark Gable and Carole Lombard). Soon it is impassioned for the shooting of competition, a discipline where it excels at the point to count among the members of the national team in 1935. Complete athlete, he is also champion of sports shirt. At the same time, Stack also does not discover a passion for the dramatic art and goes up on the boards. Noticed by Universal, this young first with the physique of playboy obtains its first contract and gives, as of its first film (First Love), the counterpart with a high-speed motorboat of the moment, Deanna Durbin. It connects then films of war (The Mortal Storm, the Flotilla of the eagles) and westerns (Men of Texas). Dangerous plays (with Carole Lombard), where it composes a tasty Polish lieutenant under the direction of Lubitsch, marks the point of organ of this beginning of career. In 1942, it joined the American navy where it officiates 3 ye

f return to the civil life, it connects the roles, with a predilection for films of war (Giants of the Sky) and the comedies (Thus are the women). In 1951, the commercial failure of the Lady and the toreador (produced by his/her friend John Wayne) confine it with more confidential works. Its course is marked out all the same of some large productions like film of Ecrit adventures in the sky (with John Wayne), the police officer the House of bamboo, and especially Ecrit on wind (1956), which marks its first collaboration with Douglas Sirk. Its composition of desperate drunkard remains unforgettable. In 1958, it finds the realizer for a new drama, the Round of the paddle, according to a novel of Faulkner. The following year, it is engaged in the series the Incorruptible ones, for incarner Eliot Ness, the role which returns it universally celebrates and for which it passes to the posterity. During 4 years, and some 118 episodes, it tracking without slackening gangsters of Chicago and his godfather Al Capone. The actor does not devote himself consequently to television, not appearing any more but episodically on the large screen. In years 1960, 70 and 80, its catalogue of films grows rich all the same by titles estimables: Does Paris burn? (1966), are the Sun of the hooligans (1967), 1941 (1979), and there a pilot on the aircraft? (1980

grows rich all the same by titles estimables: Does Paris burn? (1966), are the Sun of the hooligans (1967), 1941 (1979), and there a pilot on the aircraft? (1980