Robert Stack
{{short description|American actor (1919–2003)}}
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{{Infobox person
|name = Robert Stack
|image = Robert Stack - still.jpg
|caption = Stack in the 1950s
|birth_name = Charles Langford Modini Stack
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1919|01|13}}
|birth_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
|death_date = {{Death date and age|2003|5|14|1919|1|13}}
|death_place = Los Angeles, California, U.S.
|resting_place =
|occupation = Actor
|years_active = 1934–2003
|spouse = {{marriage|Rosemarie Bowe|1956}}
|children = 2
|signature = File:Robert Stack signature, 2002.png
}}
Robert Stack (born Charles Langford Modini Stack; January 13, 1919 – May 14, 2003){{cite news |author= |date=April 8, 1960 |title=Questions: Robert Stack |work=The Modesto Bee |location=Modesto, California |page=24 |quote=Robert Stack was born in Los Angeles, Calif., on January 13, 1919.}}{{cite news |author= |date=March 12, 1989 |title=In Step With: Robert Stack |page=22 |work=The Fort Worth Star-Telegram |quote=Born: Jan. 13, 1919 in Los Angeles.}}{{cite news |author= |date=May 16, 2003 |title=He Was Television's Untouchable Eliot Ness: Robert Stack |work=The Guardian |page=27 |quote=Robert Stack, actor, born January 13, 1919, died May 13, 2003.}} was an American actor and television host. Known for his deep voice and commanding presence, he appeared in over forty feature films. He starred in the ABC television series The Untouchables (1959–1963), 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 (1987–2002). He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film Written on the Wind (1956). Later in his career, Stack was known for his deadpan comedy roles that lampooned his dramatic on-screen persona, most notably as Captain Rex Kramer in Airplane! (1980).
Early life
He was born Charles Langford Modini Stack in Los Angeles, California, but his first name, selected by his mother, was changed to Robert by his father. He spent his early childhood in Adria and Rome, becoming fluent in French and Italian at an early age, and did not learn English until returning to Los Angeles when he was seven.{{cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1430167/Robert-Stack.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1430167/Robert-Stack.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Robert Stack |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |location=London |date=May 16, 2003 |access-date=January 17, 2013}}{{cbignore}}
His parents divorced when he was a year old, and he was raised by his mother, Mary Elizabeth (née Wood). His father, James Langford Stack, a wealthy advertising agency owner, later remarried his ex-wife, but died when Stack was 10.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.notablebiographies.com/newsmakers2/2004-Q-Z/Stack-Robert.html |title=Robert Stack Biography |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of World Biography |access-date=September 19, 2015}}
He always spoke of his mother with the greatest respect and love. When he collaborated with Mark Evans on his autobiography, Straight Shooting, he included a picture of himself and his mother that he captioned "Me and my best girl". His maternal grandfather, opera singer Charles Wood, studied voice in Italy and performed there under the name "Carlo Modini." Stack had another opera-singer relative: American baritone Richard Bonelli (born George Richard Bunn), who was his uncle.
Stack took some drama courses at the University of Southern California, where he played on the polo team. Clark Gable was a family friend.
By the time he was 20, Stack had achieved minor fame as a sportsman. He was an avid polo player and shooter. His brother and he won the International Outboard Motor Championships, in Venice, Italy, and at age 16, he became a member of the All-American Skeet Team. He set two world records in skeet shooting and became national champion. In 1971, he was inducted into the National Skeet Shooting Hall of Fame.{{cite web |url=http://www.nssa-nsca.org/index.php/nssa-skeet-shooting/recognition-programs/nssa-hall-of-fame/nssa-hall-of-fame-inductees/ |title=NSSA Hall of Fame Inductees |publisher=National Skeet Shooting Association |access-date=September 19, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150914162153/http://www.nssa-nsca.org/index.php/nssa-skeet-shooting/recognition-programs/nssa-hall-of-fame/nssa-hall-of-fame-inductees/ |archive-date=September 14, 2015}}{{cite web |url=http://www.nssa-nsca.org/index.php/2014/05/target-talk-quiz-skeet-shooting-actor/ |title=Target Talk Quiz: Skeet-Shooting Actor |publisher=Nssa-Nsca |date=February 22, 1999 |access-date=September 19, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924183013/http://www.nssa-nsca.org/index.php/2014/05/target-talk-quiz-skeet-shooting-actor/ |archive-date=September 24, 2015 }} He was a Republican.{{cite book |first=Donald T. |last=Critchlow |title=When Hollywood Was Right: How Movie Stars, Studio Moguls, and Big Business Remade American Politics |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QfHXAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA173 |date=October 21, 2013 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-19918-6 |page=173}}
The Piikani Nation of the Blackfoot Confederacy, which was known as the Peigan Nation before the 1990s, honored him by inducting him into their chieftainship in 1953 (July 2, 1953, Newspaper) as Chief Crow Flag. In 1962, Stack received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement.{{cite web|title= Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement |website=www.achievement.org|publisher=American Academy of Achievement|url= https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/}}
Career
Stack took drama courses at Bridgewater State University, a mid-sized liberal-arts school located 25 miles southeast of Boston. His deep voice and good looks attracted the attention of producers in Hollywood. When Stack visited the lot of Universal Studios at age 20, producer Joe Pasternak offered him an opportunity to enter the business. Recalled Stack, "He said, 'How'd you like to be in pictures? We'll make a test with Helen Parrish, a little love scene.' Helen Parrish was a beautiful girl. 'Gee, that sounds keen,' I told him. I got the part."{{cite web |url=http://lubbockonline.com/stories/051603/nat_0516030066.shtml |title=Lubbockonline.com |newspaper=Lubbock Avalanche-Journal |date=May 16, 2003 |access-date=January 17, 2013}}
Stack's first film, which teamed him with Deanna Durbin, was First Love (1939), produced by Pasternak. This film was considered controversial at the time, as he was the first actor to give Durbin an on-screen kiss.{{cite news |title=SCREEN NEWS HERE AND IN HOLLYWOOD |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1939/06/15/archives/screen-news-here-and-in-hollywood-gabriel-pascal-will-prepare-four.html |last=Churchill |first=Douglas W. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 15, 1939 |page=A31}}Bernstein, Adam. "Actor Robert Stack; Movie and TV Star". The Washington Post May 16, 2003: VAB6. Stack won critical acclaim for his next role, The Mortal Storm (1940) starring Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart, and directed by Frank Borzage at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He played a young man who joins the Nazi party.
Back at Universal, Stack was in Pasternak's A Little Bit of Heaven (1940), starring Gloria Jean, who was that studio's back-up for Deanna Durbin. Stack was reunited with Durbin in Pasternak's Nice Girl? (1941). Stack then starred in a Western, Badlands of Dakota (1942), co-starring Richard Dix and Frances Farmer."Robert Stack Likes His Home In Nevada More Than Hollywood". The Washington Post. November 2, 1941: L11.
United Artists borrowed him to play a Polish Air Force pilot in To Be or Not to Be (1942), alongside Jack Benny and Carole Lombard. Stack admitted he was terrified going into this role, but he credited Lombard, whom he had known personally for several years, with giving him many tips on acting and with being his mentor. Lombard was killed in a plane crash shortly before the film was released. Stack played another pilot in Eagle Squadron (1942), a huge hit. He then made a Western, Men of Texas (1942).{{cite news |title=Vet thesp Robert Stack dies at 84 |url=https://variety.com/2003/film/markets-festivals/vet-thesp-robert-stack-dies-at-84-1117886235/ |last=Natale |first=Richard |newspaper=Variety |volume=391 |issue=1 |page=52 |date=May 14, 2003}} During World War II, Stack served as an officer in the United States Navy. He worked as an aerial gunnery instructor and rose to the rank of lieutenant.{{cite news |author= |date=2022-05-16 |title=Starred as Elliot Ness in 'The Untouchables |pages=2–12 |work=The Chicago Tribune |quote=After serving as a gunnery officer in the Navy during World War II...}}{{cite book |last=Buchanan |first=Buck |date=2001 |title=Hell-Diver's Vengeance |location=Victoria, British Columbia |publisher=Trafford |page=119 |isbn=1-55212-675-7}}
Stack resumed his career after the war with roles in such films as Fighter Squadron (1948) at Warner Bros. with Edmond O'Brien, playing a pilot; A Date with Judy (1948) at MGM, with Wallace Beery and Elizabeth Taylor. He made two films at Paramount: Miss Tatlock's Millions (1948) and Mr. Music (1950). He had an excellent role in Bullfighter and the Lady (1951), a passion project of Budd Boetticher for John Wayne's company. He later said this was the first time he liked himself on screen.
Stack supported Mickey Rooney in My Outlaw Brother (1951) and had the lead in the adventure epic Bwana Devil (1952), considered the first color, American 3-D feature film. It was released by United Artists, which also put Stack in a Western, War Paint (1953). He continued making similar low-budget action fare: Conquest of Cochise (1953) for Sam Katzman; Sabre Jet (1953), playing another pilot, this time in the Korean War; The Iron Glove (1954), a swashbuckler where Stack played Charles Wogan, for Katzman.
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.Parsons, Louella. "Robert Stack Signs Long Contract". The Washington Post and Times-Herald. July 12, 1954: 15. 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.
File:Written on the wind7.jpg (1956)]]
Stack was then given a role in Written on the Wind (1956), directed by Douglas Sirk and produced by Albert Zugsmith. Stack played another pilot, the son of a rich man who marries Lauren Bacall, who in turn falls for his best friend, played by Rock Hudson. The film was a massive success and Stack was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor; Dorothy Malone, who played Stack's sister, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress. Malone won, but Stack lost, to Anthony Quinn. Stack felt that the primary reason he lost to Quinn was that 20th Century Fox, which had lent him to Universal-International, organized block voting against him to prevent one of their contract players from winning an Academy Award while working at another studio.{{cite web |url=http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/title.jsp?stid=96313&atid=52070&category=Articles&titleName=Written%20on%20the%20Wind&menuName=MAIN |title=Written on the Wind (1957) – Overview |website=Turner Classic Movies |access-date=September 19, 2015}}{{dead link|date=April 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} Stack was reunited with Hudson, Malone, Zugsmith, and Sirk on The Tarnished Angels (1957), once more playing a pilot. At Fox, he was in The Gift of Love (1958) with Bacall. Stack then was given a real star role, playing the title part in John Farrow's biopic, John Paul Jones (1959). Despite a large budget and an appearance by Bette Davis, it was not a success.
File:Robert Stack Eliot Ness 1960.JPG in the series The Untouchables (1959)]]
Stack portrayed the crimefighting Eliot Ness in the ABC television drama series The Untouchables (1959–1963) produced by Desilu Productions, in association with Stack's Langford Productions. 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."{{cite news |title=Robert Stack, 84, Who Starred In Television's 'Untouchables' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/16/arts/robert-stack-84-who-starred-in-television-s-untouchables.html |last=Lyman |first=Rick |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 16, 2003 |page=A25}} The show won Stack the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series at the 12th Primetime Emmy Awards in 1960.Korman, Seymour. "TV is Way of Life All Work and No Play for Robert Stack". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 19, 1963: B6.
During the series' run, Stack starred in a disaster film, 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.MacMinn, Aleene. "WEEKEND TV: Robert Stack Hunts Lions in New Series." Los Angeles Times. January 30, 1965: B3. He owned 25% of The Untouchables and The Caretaker.Alpert, Don. "Untouchable? No, Not Robert Stack!" The Washington Post and Times-Herald. August 9, 1963: B10. Stack worked in Europe for Is Paris Burning? (1966), The Peking Medallion (1967), Action Man (1967), and Story of a Woman (1970). He also appeared in Laura (1967).Manners, Dorothy. "Robert Stack Faces Another Publicized '1st Kiss'". The Washington Post and Times-Herald. September 11, 1967: B6.
Stack starred in a new drama series, rotating the lead with Tony Franciosa and Gene Barry in the lavish The Name of the Game (1968–1971). He played a former federal agent turned true-crime journalist, evoking memories of his role as Ness. In 1971, he sued CBS for $25 million for appearing in the documentary The Selling of the Pentagon, saying that the company had falsely portrayed him as doing propaganda to sell the Vietnam War, while in fact he'd been opposed from the start.{{cite news |title=Robert Stack Files Suit Against C.B.S. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/07/14/archives/robert-stack-files-suit-against-cbs.html |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=The New York Times |date=July 14, 1971 |page=71}}
Stack played a pilot in the TV film Murder on Flight 502 (1975) and was the lead in the series Most Wanted (1976), playing a tough, incorruptible police captain commanding an elite squad of special investigators, also evoking the Ness role. He later played a similar role in the series Strike Force (1981).Miller, Ron. "Robert Stack's Law and Ardor". The Washington Post. August 26, 1981: B3. He also starred in a French film, Second Wind, in 1978.
File:Robert Stack on the red carpet at the 60th Annual Academy Awards cropped.jpg in 1988]]
Stack parodied his own persona in the comedy 1941 (1979). His performance was well received and Stack became a comic actor, appearing in Airplane! (1980), Big Trouble (1986), Plain Clothes (1988), Caddyshack II (1988), Joe Versus the Volcano (1990), Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996), and BASEketball (1998). He also provided the voice for the character Ultra Magnus in The Transformers: The Movie (1986). In a more serious vein, he appeared in the action film Uncommon Valor (1983), the television miniseries George Washington (1984), and Hollywood Wives (1985), and appeared in several episodes of the primetime soap opera Falcon Crest in 1986. Stack's series Strike Force was scheduled opposite Falcon Crest, where it quickly folded.{{Citation needed|date=January 2012}}
He began hosting Unsolved Mysteries in 1987. He thought very highly of the interactive nature of the show, saying that it created a "symbiotic" relationship between viewer and program, and that the hotline was a great crime-solving tool. Unsolved Mysteries aired from 1987 to 2002, first as specials in 1987 (Stack did not host all the specials, which were previously hosted by Raymond Burr and Karl Malden), then as a regular series on NBC (1988–1997), then on CBS (1997–1999) and Lifetime (2001–2002). Stack served as the show's host during its entire original series run."Robert Stack Eyes His Steely Image. Chicago Tribune. May 16, 1988: 7.
In 1991, Stack voiced the main police officer Lt. Littleboy (who is also the main protagonist and narrator) in The Real Story of Baa Baa Black Sheep. In 1996, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to him.{{cite web |url=http://www.palmspringswalkofstars.com/web-storage/Stars/Stars%20dedicated%20by%20date.pdf |title=Palm Springs Walk of Stars by date dedicated |access-date=January 17, 2013 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121013165655/http://www.palmspringswalkofstars.com/web-storage/Stars/Stars%20dedicated%20by%20date.pdf |archive-date=October 13, 2012 }}
Personal life and death
File:Robert and Rosemarie Stack 1961.JPG
Stack was married to actress Rosemarie Bowe from 1956 until his death. They had two children, a son, Charles, and a daughter, Elizabeth.
He underwent radiation therapy for prostate cancer in October 2002, and died of heart failure at his home in Bel Air, Los Angeles,{{Cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-may-16-me-stack16-story.html|date=May 16, 2003|title=Robert Stack, 84; Tough-Guy Hero in 'The Untouchables'|work=Los Angeles Times|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/wz9Mrv|archive-date=February 6, 2022|last=McLellan|first=Dennis}} on May 14, 2003, at the age of 84.{{cite news |title=Robert Stack |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/may/16/guardianobituaries1 |date=May 15, 2003 |access-date=January 14, 2020 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/actor-robert-stack-dead-at-84/|work=CBS News|title=Actor Robert Stack Dead At 84|date=May 15, 2003|url-status=live|archive-date=February 6, 2022|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220206183602/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/actor-robert-stack-dead-at-84/}}
Filmography
= Film =
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
!Title !Role !Notes |
|---|
| 1939
| Ted Drake | |
| rowspan="2" | 1940
| Otto Von Rohn | |
| A Little Bit of Heaven
| Bob Terry | |
| rowspan="2" | 1941
| Don Webb | |
| Badlands of Dakota
| Jim Holliday | |
| rowspan="3" | 1942
| Lieutenant Stanislav Sobinski | |
| Eagle Squadron
| Chuck S. Brewer | |
| Men of Texas
| Barry Conovan | |
| rowspan="3" | 1948
| Stephen I. Andrews | |
| Fighter Squadron
| Captain Stuart L. Hamilton | |
| Miss Tatlock's Millions
| Nickey Van Alen | |
| 1950
| Jefferson 'Jeff' Blake | |
| rowspan="2" | 1951
| Johnny Regan | |
| My Outlaw Brother
| Patrick O'Moore | |
| 1952
| Bob Hayward | |
| rowspan="3" | 1953
| Lieutenant Billings | |
| Conquest of Cochise
| Major Tom Burke | |
| Sabre Jet
| Colonel Gil Manton | |
| rowspan="2" | 1954
| Captain Charles Wogan | |
| The High and the Mighty
| Captain John Sullivan | |
| rowspan="2" | 1955
| Eddie Kenner | |
| Good Morning, Miss Dove
| Dr. Tommy Baker | |
| rowspan="2" | 1956
| Owen Pentecost | |
| Written on the Wind
| Kyle Hadley | Nominated – Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| 1957
| Roger Shumann | |
| 1958
| Bill Beck | |
| 1959
| |
| 1960
| Cliff Henderson | |
| 1963
| Dr. Donovan MacLeod | |
| 1966
| Brigadier General Edwin L. Sibert | |
| rowspan="3" | 1967
| Sail to Glory | Narrator | |
| The Peking Medallion
| Cliff Wilder | |
| Action Man
| Jim Beckley | |
| 1970
| David Frasier | |
| 1978
| François Davis | |
| 1979
| 1941 | Major General Joseph W. Stilwell | |
| 1980
| Captain Rex Kramer | |
| 1983
| Harry MacGregor | |
| rowspan="2" | 1986
| Winslow | |
| The Transformers: The Movie |
| 1987
| Mr. Gardner | |
| rowspan="2" | 1988
| Chandler Young | |
| Dangerous Curves
| Louis Faciano | |
| 1990
| Dr. Ellison | |
| 1996
| Beavis and Butt-Head Do America | ATF Agent Flemming |
| 1998
| Himself | |
| rowspan="2" | 1999
| Narrator |Voice |
| Mumford
| Himself | |
| rowspan="2" | 2001
| Superintendent |
| Killer Bud
| The Gooch | |
= Television =
| class="wikitable sortable" |
| Year
!Title !Role !Notes |
|---|
| 1951
| Unknown | Episode: "Broken Dishes" |
| 1955
| Mark MacPherson | Episode: "A Portrait of Murder" |
| 1956
| Unknown | Episode: "The Lords Don't Play Favorites" |
| 1959–1963
| 119 episodes |
| 1964
| Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | Major Morgan | Episode: "The Command" |
| 1965
| Memorandum for a Spy | James Andrew Congers | rowspan="2" | Television film |
| 1967
| Sail to Glory | Narrator |
| 1968–1971
| Dan Farrell | 26 episodes |
| 1974
| The Strange and Deadly Occurrence | Michael Rhodes | rowspan="4" | Television film |
| rowspan="3" | 1975
| The Honorable Sam Houston |
| Adventures of the Queen
| Captain James Morgan |
| Murder on Flight 502
| Captain Larkin |
| 1976
| Sergeant Dave Stoddard | Episodes: "Odyssey of Death" |
| 1976–1977
| Captain Lincoln "Linc" Evers | 23 episodes |
| 1978
| The Adventurous Rangers of the Jungle | Charles Cross | Television film |
| rowspan="2" | 1979
| Himself | Television special |
| Undercover with the KKK
| Narrator | Television film |
| 1980
| Bret Garrett | Episode: "The Horse Lover/Secretary to the Stars/Julie's Decision/Gopher and Isaac Buy a Horse/Village People Ride Again" |
| 1981–1982
| Captain Frank Murphy | 20 episodes |
| rowspan="2" | 1984
| Hotel | Lewis Blackwood | Episode: "The Wedding" |
| George Washington
| General Stark | 3 episodes |
| rowspan="4" | 1985
| Brothers | Russell Maltby | Episode: "Donald's Dad" |
| Hotel
| Charles Vandoor | Episode: "New Beginnings" |
| Hollywood Wives
| George Lancaster | 3 episodes, |
| Midas Valley
| Drew Hammond | Television film |
| 1986
| Chester Harrison | Episode: "Christopher Bundy – Died on Sunday" |
| 1987
| Roland Saunders | 5 episodes |
| 1987–2002
| Host | 292 episodes |
| rowspan="2" | 1987
| Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit | Jordan White | rowspan="2" | Television film |
| Korea: The Forgotten War
| Narrator |
| 1990
| Kyle Hadley | Episode: "A Very Fanelli Christmas" |
| rowspan="2" | 1991
| The Real Story of... | Lt. Littleboy / Narrator |
| The Return of Eliot Ness
| Eliot Ness | Television film |
| 1993
| Blossom | Robert Stack | Episode: "Sitcom" |
| 1995
| The Pinocchio Shop | Episode: "Patriots and Apples" |
| 1996
| JAG | TV Host | Episode: "Sightings" |
| 1997
| Peter McReynolds | Episode: "Open and Shut" |
| 1998–1999
| Hercules | Bob the Narrator | Voice, 30 episodes |
| rowspan="2" | 1999
| Recess | General | Voice, episode: "A Genius Among Us" |
| Sealed with a Kiss
| Sumner Ethridge | Television film |
| rowspan="4" | 2000
| Eliot Ness | Episode: "Memorial" |
| The Lords of the Mafia
| Himself | Documentary |
| The Angry Beavers
| Narrator | Voice, episode: "Home Loners" |
| H.U.D.
| Deep Throat Man | Television film |
| 2001–2003
| Stoat Muldoon | Voice, main role |
| 2001
| Reynolds Penland | Voice, episode: "The Trouble with Gribbles"; uncredited |
| 2002
| Gordon / The Silver Shield | Voice, episode: "The Grandfather Show" |
Radio appearances
| class="wikitable" | ||
| Year | Program | Episode/source |
|---|---|---|
| 1953 | Family Theater | The Indispensable Man{{cite news |last1=Kirby |first1=Walter |title=Better Radio Programs for the Week|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2660609/the_decatur_daily_review/ |newspaper=The Decatur Daily Review |date=February 15, 1953 |page=42 |via=Newspapers.com |access-date=June 21, 2015}} {{Open access}} |
| 1950 | Lux Radio Theatre | Mr Belvedere Goes To College |
Books
- Straight Shooting (with Mark Evans) (1980); {{ISBN|0-02-613320-2}}
- Shotgun Digest (Jack Lewis, Editor) (1974); {{ISBN|978-0695804978}}
See also
- William H. Perry (Los Angeles), his great-grandfather
References
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