Robert Stack

Born: 1919-01-13

Robert Langford Modini Stack was a multilingual American actor and television host. In addition to acting in more than 40 films, he also appeared on the television series The Untouchables and later served as the host of Unsolved Mysteries. Born in Los Angeles, California, Stack spent his early childhood growing up in Europe.  Becoming fluent in French and Italian at an early age, and he did not learn English until returning to Los Angeles.  Stack achieved minor fame in sporting, winning multiple championships including setting two world records and winning multiple honors in skeet shooting Stack studied drama at Bridgewater State College, earning his first hollywood role at the age of 20 and continuing to star in numerous roles throughout the early 1940s. After serving in the military, Stack returned to Hollywood to star in numerous films including stand out roles in The High and the Mighty (opposite John Wayne) and Written on the Wind (1957), for which he was awarded an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Stack later moved on to televised dramatic series, depicting the crime-fighting Eliot Ness in The Untouchables (1959–1963), which earned him a best actor Emmy Award in 1960. Stack also starred in multiple drama series, before returning to film, this time in comedies to satirize his famed stoic and humorless demeanor. He began hosting Unsolved Mysteries in 1987, and served as the show's host throughout it's entire original run from 1987 to 2002.


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as Captain Rex Kramer
Released: 1980-07-02

An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew...

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as Ultra Magnus (voice)
Released: 1986-08-08

The Autobots must stop a colossal planet-consuming robot who goes after the Autobot Matrix of...

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BASEketball

as Robert Stack
Released: 1998-07-28

Two losers from Milwaukee, Coop and Remer, invent a new game playing basketball, using baseball...

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Recess: School's Out

as Superintendent (voice)
Released: 2001-02-16

The school year is finally ending, and T.J. Detweiler is looking forward to summer. But boredom...

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1941

as Maj. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell
Released: 1979-12-14

In the days after the attack on Pearl Harbor, panic grips California, where a military officer...

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Joe Versus the Volcano

as Dr. Ellison
Released: 1990-03-09

Hypochondriac Joe Banks finds out he has six months to live, quits his dead end job, musters the...

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Uncommon Valor

as MacGregor
Released: 1983-12-16

A group of Vietnam War veterans re-unite to rescue one of their own left behind and taken...

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Is Paris Burning?

as General Sibert
Released: 1966-10-26

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if...

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Written on the Wind

as Kyle Hadley
Released: 1956-10-04

Mitch Wayne is a geologist working for the Hadleys, an oil-rich Texas family. While the...

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Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

as Agent Flemming (voice)
Released: 1996-12-20

Slacker duo Beavis and Butt-Head wake to discover their TV has been stolen. Their search for a...

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Mumford

as Himself
Released: 1999-09-24

When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same...

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Caddyshack II

as Chandler Young
Released: 1988-07-22

When a crass new-money tycoon's membership application is turned down at a snooty country club,...

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Hercules: Zero to Hero

as Narrator (voice) (archive sound)
Released: 1999-08-17

The film briefly gives Hercules' history after defeating Hades for good, in which he marries Meg...

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To Be or Not to Be

as Lieut. Stanislav Sobinski
Released: 1942-03-06

During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's...

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The High and the Mighty

as John Sullivan
Released: 1954-07-03

Dan Roman is a veteran pilot haunted by a tragic past. Now relegated to second-in-command...

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The Tarnished Angels

as Roger Shumann
Released: 1957-11-21

In the 1930s, once-great World War I pilot Roger Shumann performs as a daredevil barnstorming...

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The Mortal Storm

as Otto Von Rohn
Released: 1940-06-20

The Roth family leads a quiet life in a small village in the German Alps during the early 1930s....

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Big Trouble

as Winslow
Released: 1986-05-30

Leonard Hoffman is an insurance salesman struggling to make ends meet. The fact that he has...

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The Last Voyage

as Cliff Henderson
Released: 1960-02-19

The S. S. Claridon is scheduled for her five last voyages after thirty-eight years of service....

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Plain Clothes

as Mr. Gardner
Released: 1988-04-15

To prove his brother's innocence, undercover officer Nick enrolls in high school again, dealing...

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The Muppets Go Hollywood

as Self
Released: 1979-05-16

Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the...

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House of Bamboo

as Eddie Kenner
Released: 1955-07-01

Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson,...

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War Paint

as Lt. Billings
Released: 1953-08-28

An Indian and his beautiful sister attempt to destroy a cavalry patrol trying to deliver a peace...

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Good Morning, Miss Dove

as Dr. Tommy Baker
Released: 1955-11-23

Miss Dove is a prim New England school teacher who is treasured by her students in the small...

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Action Man

as Jim Beckley
Released: 1967-05-31

An American talks a retired French crook into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as...

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Yellowface: Asian Whitewashing and Racism in Hollywood

as (archive footage)
Released: 2019-10-13

A history of anti-Asian racism and yellowface in Hollywood after the 1941 Pearl Harbor attack.

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Great Day in the Morning

as Owen Pentecost
Released: 1956-05-16

After a card game, Southerner Owen Pentecost finds himself the owner of a Denver hotel. Involved...

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Mr. Music

as Jeff Blake
Released: 1950-12-08

A golf-crazy songwriter tries to avoid the long, solitary hours of concentration needed to...

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Bwana Devil

as Bob Hayward
Released: 1952-08-22

British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head...

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Bullfighter and the Lady

as John Regan
Released: 1951-04-26

An American takes up bullfighting to impress the ladies but learns to respect the sport.

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John Paul Jones

as John Paul Jones
Released: 1959-06-16

The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through...

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The Return of Eliot Ness

as Eliot Ness
Released: 1991-11-10

Detective Eliot Ness comes back to town to fight corruption and avenge a former partner's murder...

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A Date with Judy

as Stephen Andrews
Released: 1948-07-29

Best friends Judy and Carol compete for the affection of an older man during their high school...

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The Iron Glove

as Captain Charles Wogan
Released: 1954-04-01

Irishman Charles Wogan wields his sword in the cause of James Stuart who seeks to replace George...

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The Gift of Love

as William 'Bill' Beck
Released: 1958-02-11

Fearing she will die, a physicist's wife hopes her husband will be consoled by the orphan she...

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Fighter Squadron

as Capt. Stuart L. Hamilton
Released: 1948-11-27

During World War II, an insubordinate fighter pilot finds the shoe on the other foot when he's...

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Murder on Flight 502

as Captain Larkin
Released: 1975-11-21

On a flight to London, a note is found stating that there will be murders taking place on the...

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Dangerous Curves

as Louis Faciano
Released: 1988-09-23

A college graduate is offered a deal of a lifetime - deliver a Porsche for a client and join the...

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Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit

as Jordan White
Released: 1987-05-24

Jordan White, a publisher friend of Perry, is called to a hotel where a guest, famous horror...

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The Caretakers

as Dr. Donovan MacLeod
Released: 1963-08-21

This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded...

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The Scarface Mob

as Eliot Ness
Released: 1959-04-19

Story of how a group of incorruptible federal lawmen helped put 1920s' Chicago gangster Al...

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Adventures of the Queen

as Capt. James Morgan
Released: 1975-02-14

A madman hijacks the luxury cruise liner, S.S. Queen, and threatens to blow it up unless a...

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Sealed with a Kiss

as Sumner Ethridge
Released: 1999-09-19

Bennett, who's engaged to his boss's daughter, just lost a major client for his company. When a...

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Barbara Stanwyck: Straight Down The Line

as Self
Released: 1997-05-12

Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By...

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Conquest of Cochise

as Maj. Tom Burke
Released: 1953-09-01

A cavalry officer tries to keep a lid on a volatile situation when Indian leader Cochise is...

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Unsolved Mysteries: Behind the Legacy

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2023-10-05

Sitting down with co-creators Terry Dunn Meurer and John Cosgrove, along with long-time actors,...

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A Little Bit of Heaven

as Bob Terry
Released: 1940-10-10

A child from the New York tenements sings on a radio quiz show and is eventually hired to a...

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Eagle Squadron

as Chuck S. Brewer
Released: 1942-06-16

An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in...

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The Grand Opening of Walt Disney World

as Self
Released: 1971-10-29

A celebrity-filled look at the opening festivities for Walt Disney World in Florida.

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Badlands of Dakota

as Jim Holliday
Released: 1941-09-15

In the Dakotas during the days of the Great Gold Boom, brothers Jim and Bob Holliday are bumping...

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Sabre Jet

as Col. Gil Manton
Released: 1953-09-04

The story of jet pilots flying over Korea by day, from their Itazuke Air Base in Japan, and of...

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First Love

as Ted Drake
Released: 1939-11-10

In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and...

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The Y2K Crisis

as Host
Released: 1999-03-07

Panic over the year 2000 problem will only increase as we get closer to the turn of the...

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The Corrupt Ones

as Cliff Wilder
Released: 1967-01-20

Freelance photographer Cliff Wilder (Robert Stack) finds himself the target of various colorful...

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Miss Tatlock's Millions

as Nickey Van Alen
Released: 1948-11-19

After the accidental death of an idiot heir, a stunt man is hired to impersonate him while the...

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Killer Bud

as The Gooch
Released: 2001-06-17

After losing another job, two idiots embark on an adventure of mythic proportion: to acquire...

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Barry Norman in Celebrity City

as Self
Released: 1982-09-14

Hollywood is still the home of the American Dream - the place where fame and fortune can be...

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Laura

as Mark McPherson
Released: 1968-01-24

A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.

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The Making of '1941'

as (archive)
Released: 1996-05-28

A non-narrated documentary, told mainly in interviews with the filmmakers, on the making of the...

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Un Second Souffle

as François Davis
Released: 1978-09-12

An aging dentist looks for a little liveliness by abandoning his wife in favor of a younger...

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My Outlaw Brother

as Patrick O´Moore
Released: 1951-08-22

Danny, a greenhorn from New York comes to the Mexican border in search for his older brother...

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Keeping Fit

as Bob - Factory worker
Released: 1942-10-26

Topical wartime short depicting the plight of civilians who must stay in shape in order to fight...

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Men of Texas

as Barry Conovan
Released: 1942-07-03

A Chicago reporter (Robert Stack) and photographer focus on a Confederate outlaw (Brod Crawford)...

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Nice Girl?

as Don Webb
Released: 1941-02-21

Jane is a nice girl and has had her eyes on a young man who seems more interested in his...

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Undercover with the KKK

as Host - Narrator
Released: 1979-10-23

The true story of Gary Thomas Rowe, Jr., who worked undercover for the FBI to infiltrate a Ku...

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Story of a Woman

as David Frasier
Released: 1970-02-13

Karin studies music in Rome and falls in love with Bruno. She learns that he is married and...

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Midas Valley

as Drew Hammond
Released: 1985-06-27

Set in Silicon Valley, California, follows the lives of a group of people involved in the...

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Lana Turner... a Daughter's Memoir

as Self
Released: 2001-10-01

A rare behind the scenes look at the tragedies and bitter disappointments that plagued one of...

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Laura

as Mark Macpherson
Released: 1955-10-19

A detective is assigned to a case of murder. During the investigation he finds himself taking a...

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Unsolved Mysteries Volume 1: UFOs

as Host
Released: 2004-09-07

First Look Studios released six theme-based DVD sets of "Unsolved Mysteries" in Region 1 in...

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The Strange and Deadly Occurrence

as Michael Rhodes
Released: 1974-09-24

A family moves into a new home in an isolated area, and soon realizes that someone--or...

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Riviera Dream

as uncredited
Released: 1950-01-01

This black & white novelty film features Egyptian actor Alex d'Arcy -- playing the part of a...

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Screen Snapshots (Series 23, No. 1): Hollywood in Uniform

as Himself
Released: 1943-08-15

Actors are seen in their new roles as military men during WWII: Robert Stack displaying his...

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These Dead Souls

as (archive footage)
Released: 2018-05-07

An audiovisual essay on Douglas Sirk's film The Tarnished Angels (1957). Analyzes a central...

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Clark Gable: Tall, Dark, and Handsome

as Self
Released: 1996-02-04

A snyposis of the legendary actor's career, narrated by Liam Neeson.

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-01

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight...

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The Mike Douglas Show

as Self - Co-Host
First aired: 1961-12-11

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that...

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The Mike Douglas Show

as Self
First aired: 1961-12-11

The Mike Douglas Show is an American daytime television talk show hosted by Mike Douglas that...

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Falcon Crest

as Roland Saunders
First aired: 1981-12-04

Falcon Crest is an American primetime television soap opera which aired on the CBS network for...

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King of the Hill

as Reynolds Penland (voice) (uncredited)
First aired: 1997-01-12

Set in Texas, this animated series follows the life of propane salesman Hank Hill, who lives...

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Diagnosis: Murder

as Peter McReynolds
First aired: 1993-10-29

Dr. Mark Sloan is a good-natured, offbeat physician who is called upon to solve murders.

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The Love Boat

as Bret Garrett
First aired: 1977-09-24

Passengers who search for romantic nights aboard a beautiful ship travelling to tropical or...

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Murder, She Wrote

as Chester Harrison
First aired: 1984-09-30

An unassuming mystery writer turned sleuth uses her professional insight to help solve real-life...

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Hercules

as Bob (voice)
First aired: 1998-08-31

Follow Herc's many labors during the years he spent training on how to be a hero under the...

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Hotel

as Lewis Blackwood
First aired: 1982-08-21

Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May...

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Hotel

as Charles Vandoor
First aired: 1982-08-21

Hotel is an American prime time drama series which aired on ABC from September 21, 1983 to May...

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The Angry Beavers

as Narrator (voice)
First aired: 1997-04-19

The Angry Beavers is an American animated television series created by Mitch Schauer for the...

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The Merv Griffin Show

as Self
First aired: 1962-10-01

The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran...

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Golden Globe Awards

as Self
First aired: 1944-01-20

An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and...

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Golden Globe Awards

as Self - Presenter
First aired: 1944-01-20

An annual awards ceremony recognizing excellence in film and television, both domestic and...

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Blossom

as uncredited
First aired: 1990-07-05

Blossom Russo is a highly intelligent and spunky teenager. The youngest of three, she lives with...

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The Untouchables

as Eliot Ness
First aired: 1959-10-15

Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in...

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The Lucy Show

as Agent Briggs
First aired: 1962-10-01

The Lucy Show is an American sitcom that aired on CBS from 1962–68. It was Lucille Ball's...

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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

as Self
First aired: 1975-01-12

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

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The Name of the Game

as Dan Farrell
First aired: 1968-09-20

The Name of the Game is an American television series starring Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and...

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The Red Skelton Show

as Self / Bo Bo McGoon
First aired: 1951-09-30

The Red Skelton Show is an American variety show that was a television staple for two decades,...

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The Oscars

as Self
First aired: 1953-03-19

An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...

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Unsolved Mysteries

as Host
First aired: 1988-10-05

Combines four to five segments of dramatic re-enactments, interviews and updates of real human...

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The Ed Sullivan Show

as Self
First aired: 1948-06-20

The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June...

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The Bob Hope Show

as Self - Cameo
First aired: 1950-04-09

The Bob Hope Show hosted by Bob Hope, debuted on April 9, 1950. During the 1952-1953 season, NBC...

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Suddenly Susan

as Robert Stack
First aired: 1996-09-19

Suddenly Susan is an American television sitcom. Shields plays Susan Keane, a glamorous San...

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The 20th Century Fox Hour

as Mark MacPherson
First aired: 1955-10-05

The 20th Century Fox Hour is an American drama anthology series televised in the United States...

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Brothers

as uncredited
First aired: 1984-07-13

Two conservative men support their younger brother when he comes out as gay, and help him...

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The Ford Television Theatre

as Ralph Saunders
First aired: 1952-10-02

This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to...

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The Ford Television Theatre

as Ben Barton
First aired: 1952-10-02

This show started in New York City, with Broadway actors and actresses. It then moved to...

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Dinah!

as Self
First aired: 1974-10-21

Dinah's show premiered 9 September 1974 and continued through to 4 September 1981. She started...

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Police Story

as uncredited
First aired: 1973-03-20

Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and...

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Entertainment Tonight

as Self
First aired: 1981-09-15

Daily tabloid television news show on entertainment and celebrity news with unprecedented access...

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Lights Out

as uncredited
First aired: 1949-07-19

Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a...

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The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts

as Self
First aired: 1973-09-14

The Dean Martin Celebrity Roasts is a NBC television special show hosted by entertainer Dean...

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Butt-Ugly Martians

as Stoat Muldoon (voice)
First aired: 2002-01-09

The Butt-Ugly Martians are forced to invade planets for the evil Emperor Bog. When they are sent...

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The Fanelli Boys

as Robert Stack (uncredited)
First aired: 1990-09-08

The Fanelli Boys is an American sitcom that aired on NBC as part of its 1990-91 prime time...

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The Fanelli Boys

as Kyle Hadley
First aired: 1990-09-08

The Fanelli Boys is an American sitcom that aired on NBC as part of its 1990-91 prime time...

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Hollywood Wives

as George Lancaster
First aired: 1985-02-17

Hollywood Wives tells the stories of several women in Hollywood, from powerful talent agents and...

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George Washington

as General Stark
First aired: 1984-04-08

This 1984 miniseries chronicles the life of George Washington, the 1st President of the United...

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The Danny Thomas Hour

as Angelo (Businessman)
First aired: 1967-09-11

The Danny Thomas Hour is an American anthology television series that was broadcast on NBC...

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Most Wanted

as Captain Linc Evers
First aired: 1976-03-21

Most Wanted is an American crime drama series shown on ABC

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Strike Force

as Captain Frank Murphy
First aired: 1981-11-13

Strike Force is an American action-adventure/police procedural television series that aired on...

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

as Vic Flint
First aired: 1951-10-05

Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS....

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