Years active 1970-2005 Name Stack Pierce | Role Actor | |
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Born July 23, 1933 (age 90) ( 1933-07-23 ) Occupation Film, stage, television actor Movies and TV shows Similar People Kenneth Johnson, Al Adamson, Jonathan Kaplan, Fred Williamson, John Badham | ||
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Robert Stack Pierce (June 15, 1933 - March 1, 2016) was an actor who was previously a boxer and professional baseball player.
Contents
- Interview with stack pierce
- Interviews with Gar Heard John Egan and Stack Pierce
- Background
- Acting career
- Recent activities
- Filmography
- References
Interviews with Gar Heard, John Egan and Stack Pierce
Background
Pierce was state boxing champion. Later he played professional baseball, beginning with the Cleveland Indians organization and later the Milwaukee Braves organization. He never played at the major league level.
Acting career
His acting career began in the early 1970s with television roles in the series Arnie, Room 222, Mannix and Mission Impossible and film roles in Night Call Nurses, Hammer and Cool Breeze.
He has had prominent and recurring roles in a number of Leo Fong exploitation films as well as a few Fred Williamson films. Among the films in which he appeared with Williamson are Hammer (1972), No way Back (1976, in the part of Bernie). Others included, The Big Score (1983), The Messenger (1986) and Transformed (2005).
He also appeared with Wings Hauser and Beverly Todd in the early 1980s cult classic grindhouse film Vice Squad, playing a garage owner who Hauser heads for after escaping from the police.
To television audiences he may be familiar as Jake, the alien commander in the 1980s science fiction series V.
He was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for his role in the "Sweet Land of Liberty" episode of the television series Quincy, M.E..
Since the late 1990s, his acting career has been scaled down and his last acting work was in 2005, a role in the Leo Fong film Transformed which also featured Fred Williamson, Ken Moreno and Tadashi Yamashita. He had also directed some plays which included A Raisin in the Sun, My Brothers' Blood, In My Father's House and One Last Look.
Recent activities
Since his acting career has been scaled down, recent years have seen him involved with youth and charity work. Some of the events in relation to this have included the Multicultural Golf Association of America in which he has been involved in the Youth Empowerment Program. He is also a member of Speakers International.
In August 2011, along with the basketball legend Lenny Wilkens, he was involved in the Lenny Wilkens Foundation fundraiser for the Odessa Brown Children's Clinic. In December 2011, with Johnny Bench, Sam Boghosian, Billy Erickson, Patrick Evans, Ron Fairley, Barry Jaeckel, Tom Kennedy, UCPIE board member Kris Long, Dan McGrath, Ron Masak, Bill Marx, Nolan North and Frankie Randall, Pierce was one of the celebrity golfers in the Dennis James Golf Classic's 16th annual tournament.
On August 28, 2014, Stack participated in the 13th annual Jim "Mudcat" Grant golf tournament in Binghamton, New York. This was Stack's tenth year at the golf tournament that is sponsored by Security Mutual Life. The tournament benefits The Boys & Girls Club of Binghamton, Catholic Charities, Broome County Urban League, CHOW and the U.S. Military. Other celebrities participating in 2014 were Fred Williamson, Meadowlark Lemon, Gina "Chirpie" Casey, Vernon Law, Al Downing, Fergie Jenkins, Michael Norris, J.R. Richard, Cliff Johson and Bob Kendrick.
Pierce died on March 1, 2016.