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Robert Stack

Robert Stack

3 films · 133 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19421979

Born 13 January 1919 · Los Angeles, California, USA · died 14 May 2003

Robert Langford Modini Stack was a multilingual American actor and television host. In addition to acting in more than 40 films, he also appeared on the television series The Untouchables and later served as the host of Unsolved Mysteries.

Born in Los Angeles, California, Stack spent his early childhood growing up in Europe.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 3 films · 133 frames · top-billed in 2 · 19421979

  • Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series1960
  • Golden Plate Award1962
  • star on Hollywood Walk of Fame

How their films are shot

Measured across 133 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Robert takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 3 films we hold, 52% of their frames are night, 44% low key — the look of the work Robert takes.

Time of day

Night52%
Day36%
Interior12%

Lighting

Low key44%
Natural29%
High key14%
Chiaroscuro10%

Shot size

Medium66%
Wide19%
Fullbody8%
Closeup5%

Camera angle

Eye level87%
High angle7%
Low angle6%

Mood

Neutral67%
Tense27%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 133 frames from Robert Stack's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.