Robert Stack (January 13th, 1919 – May 14th, 2003) was an American actor and television host who appeared in over forty feature films and is widely known for his deep voice and commanding presence when acting. He starred in the ABC television series The Untouchables (1959–1963), for which he won the 1960 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Series, and later hosted/narrated the true-crime series Unsolved Mysteries (1987–2002). He was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in the film Written on the Wind (1956). Later in his career, Stack was known for his deadpan comedy roles that lampooned his dramatic on-screen persona such as Big Trouble (1988), The In-Laws (1978), Caddyshack II (1988), Joe Versus The Volcano (1990), and most notably as Captain Rex Kramer in Airplane! (1980). Stack also began lending his distinctive voice to numerous animated features and series, beginning with Ultra Magnus in The Transformers: The Movie (1986) and carrying through the next two decades in Beavis and Butt-head Do America (1996), Recess: School's Out (2001) and the direct-to-video, Hercules: Zero to Hero (1999).
History with the Macy's Parade[]
Robert Stack only appeared alongside Dianne Kay at the 1979 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on the Airplane Toy Float.