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Actor Born: January 13, 1919 in Los Angeles, CA Death: May 14, 2003 in Los Angeles, CA Biography:The son of a wealthy California businessman, "Robert Stack" spent his teen years giving skeet shooting lessons to such Hollywood celebrities as "Carole Lombard" and "Clark Gable"; it was only natural, then, that he should gravitate to films himself after attending the University of Southern California. At age 20, he made his screen debut in "Deanna Durbin"'s "First Love" (1939) in which he gave his teenaged co-star her very first screen kiss. Two years later he appeared opposite his former "pupil" "Carole Lombard" in the "Ernst Lubitsch" classic To Be or Not to Be (1942). After serving with the navy in WWII he resumed his film career, avoiding typecasting with such dramatically demanding film assignments as "The Bullfighter and the Lady" (1951), "The Tarnished Angels" (1957), and "John Paul Jones" (1959). He earned an Academy Award nomination for his performance as a self-destructive alcoholic in... Full Biography
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