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5 unusual facts about Robert Stack


Brushy Bill Roberts

Robert Stack did a segment on Brushy Bill in early 1990 on the NBC television series Unsolved Mysteries.

Cliff Potts

Potts was a regular supporting player during the first season of The Name of the Game, a revolving 90-minute 1968 series about a publishing empire that featured Tony Franciosa, Gene Barry, and Robert Stack.

Jo Ann Harris

She also had a co-starring role in the short-lived 1977 ABC police series Most Wanted (starring Robert Stack) as well as a small role in the Rich Man, Poor Man (TV mini-series).

Mike McGlone

He is perhaps best known as the film noiresque spokesman for GEICO insurance posing rhetorical questions in the vein of Robert Stack or Rod Serling, which are then acted out in humorous fashion.

Myrtles Plantation

According to host Robert Stack, the production crew experienced technical difficulties during the production of the segment.


Herbie Faye

That same year, he appeared as "Lefty" in the episode "Fall Guy" of ABC's crime drama The Untouchables, starring Robert Stack as Eliot Ness.

L.A. 2017

Presenting the story as a dream was the only way that Wylie's science fiction tale could be fitted into the peculiar format of The Name of the Game, a show about the magazine business set in the present and rotating between Gene Barry, Tony Franciosa, and Robert Stack (and in the third season also featuring Peter Falk, Robert Wagner, and Robert Culp).

Paul Picerni

(December 1, 1922 – January 12, 2011), was an American actor with a long, distinguished career in film and television, perhaps best known today in the role of Federal Agent Lee Hobson, second-in-command to Robert Stack's Eliot Ness in the ABC hit television series, The Untouchables.

Paul Sharratt

Sharratt moved to Los Angeles and was one of the owners and Executive Producers for Associated Television, where he worked at various times with several actors, including Roger Moore, Robert Stack, and Lee Majors.

Steve London

Steve London (born August 1, 1930) is an American television and film actor and attorney, best known for his role as Federal Agent Jack Rossman on the ABC/Desilu Television series, The Untouchables from 1959–1963, which starred Robert Stack as Eliot Ness.


see also

The Tarnished Angels

The Universal-International film reunited director Sirk with Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, and Rock Hudson, with whom he had collaborated on Written on the Wind two years earlier.