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Lloyd Bridges, Robert Stack, Airplane! Robert Stack is one of those actors I know but at the same time I don’t. I’ve watched many of his movies, but despite his good looks my focus while watching them was almost invariably on somebody or something else: Carole Lombard, Jennifer Jones, Joan Crawford, Dorothy Malone, Farrah Fawcett, Peter Graves, an inflatable doll. (Gotta add I’ve never seen Stack’s Elliot Ness.) Hopefully that can be rectified — minus The Untouchables omission, of course — on Monday, Aug. 16, as Turner Classic Movies will be showing no less than fourteen Stack films as part of its "Summer Under the Stars" series. [Full Robert Stack schedule.] Among those are six TCM premieres. They are: William Castle‘s period adventure The Iron Glove (1954); Bwana Devil (1952), notable as the first 3D feature distributed by a major Hollywood studio; My Outlaw Brother (1951), co-starring Mickey Rooney and Wanda Hendrix; [...]...

Ursula Thiess, a gorgeous German actress who came to Hollywood at the urging of Howard Hughes and later married actor Robert Taylor, died June 19 of natural causes at an assisted-care facility in Burbank. She was 86.

Thiess was billed as "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World" during the build-up to her Hollywood debut, 1952's "Monsoon," for Hughes' Rko Pictures. She quickly appeared in "The Iron Glove" (1954) opposite Robert Stack, "Bengal Brigade" (1954) with Rock Hudson, "The Americano" (1955) with Glenn Ford and "Bandido" (1956) with Robert Mitchum.

In 1952, Thiess met Taylor -- who was married to actress Barbara Stanwyck from 1939-51 -- on a blind date and wed him in May 1953. They settled down on a huge ranch in Brentwood and were together until his death in June 1969 at age 57 from lung cancer.

Thiess appeared occasionally as a police reporter on her husband's 1959-62 TV series, "The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor,...

Robert Stack, the stentorian voice behind TV's Unsolved Mysteries and the original Eliot Ness in the `50s TV series The Untouchables, died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles of heart failure; he was 84. Starting his film career in 1939 with First Love opposite Deanna Durbin, Stack made more than 40 films, including The Tarnished Angels, The Iron Glove, To Be or Not to Be, Bwana Devil, The High and the Mighty and Written on the Wind, for which he earned an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor in 1956. Despite his prolific film career (punctuated in the `80s by a scene-stealing turn in the comedy Airplane!), Stack gained most of his fame through television, starting in 1959 with The Untouchables, where he won an won an Emmy award for his role as Chicago crimefighter Eliot Ness; other TV series included The Name of the Game, Most Wanted and Strike Force. In 1988, he began a longstanding run as the host of the syndicated series Unsolved Mysteries, which ran through the late `90s. Stack is survived by his wife Rosemarie, whom he married in 1956, and his two children, Elizabeth and Charles. --Prepared by IMDb staff...