Robert Stack Pierce was a Hollywood actor who was previously a boxer and professional baseball player.
18 Facts About Stack Pierce
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Stack Pierce's acting career began in the early 1970s with television roles in the series Arnie, Room 222, Mannix, Mission Impossible and later as Jake, the alien commander in the 1980s science fiction series V Stack Pierce's film roles include Night Call Nurses, Hammer, Cool Breeze, Low Blow and Weekend at Bernie's II.
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Stack Pierce came up on the radar of the Cleveland Indians and was signed to a Major League contract.
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Stack Pierce has had prominent and recurring roles in a number of Leo Fong exploitation films as well as a few Fred Williamson films.
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Stack Pierce has appeared on Michael Dante's radio show, On Deck.
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Stack Pierce pushed him to audition for his first play, Ebonites.
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Stack Pierce was diligent in studying acting and did a lot of work with a repertory company.
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Stack Pierce first appeared on television in a 1970 episode of Arnie.
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Stack Pierce moved into film roles in 1972, appearing in three films that year: he played the henchman, Tinker, in Cool Breeze; played the role of Jon Sampson in the Jonathan Kaplan directed Night Call Nurses; and appeared in Hammer, his first of five films, over his career, that starred Fred Williamson.
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In 1980, Stack Pierce played Frank Washington in The Last Reunion, his first of seven films, over his career, that starred Leo Fong.
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Stack Pierce appeared with Wings Hauser and Beverly Todd in the 1982 cult classic grindhouse film Vice Squad, playing a garage owner who Hauser heads for after escaping from the police.
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In 1997, Stack Pierce appeared as Will in Paolo Mazzucato's Moonbase, a film about a crew running a garbage dump on the moon and having to ward off deranged escaped inmates from an orbiting prison satellite who are after nuclear weapons buried in the rubbish.
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Stack Pierce then stepped away from acting, caring for his wife, Marion, until she died of cancer in June, 1998.
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Stack Pierce made a brief return to acting for the 2005 direct-to-video release Transformed, reuniting with Leo Fong.
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Stack Pierce revisited baseball, becoming a youth coach in 2006.
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In December 2011, Stack Pierce was one of the celebrity golfers in the Dennis James Golf Classic's 16th annual tournament.
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Stack Pierce had to step back from coaching baseball after he suffered a stroke in 2012.
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Amongst the other celebrities participating in 2014 was Fred Williamson, whom Stack Pierce had worked with in a number of films.