“A Great Lost”

Actor Robert Stack died earlier today died at 84 today. Stack best known to our generation as the host and voice of unsolved mysteries, and to our parents generation as Eliot Ness in the original untouchables series. He was nominated for an Oscar for his role in Written on the Wind.

He didn’t really take Hollywood or himself to seriously and his career reflected that when he moved over into the comedy genre. Most notable was his deadpan hilarious role in Airplane!. He also showed up in Steven Spielberg’s 1941, BASEketball, and the good awful Caddyshack II. He also did a voice for the transformers movie and Beavis and Butthead do America.

He is one of the actors that I would easily put on “cool” guys list. He could walk into a room, read a phone book, and make it seem compelling in some way.

He died of a heart attack and had been battling cancer.