Primetime Emmy winner · birth-card coordinate

Robert Stack's Birth Card: The Ace of Spades

1960 Lead performer (pre-genre split) (The Untouchables)

Born January 13, 1919

Died May 14, 2003

The Truth Pioneer

A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict an Emmy.

In the record

Robert Stack (born Charles Langford Modini Stack; January 13, 1919 – May 14, 2003) was an American actor and television host. The birth-card coordinate for January 13 is the Ace of Spades — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1960 Lead performer (pre-genre split) (The Untouchables) win.

Primetime Emmy Lead record

The Ace of Spades coordinate

Robert Stack's birthday maps to the Ace of Spades (The Truth Pioneer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about an Emmy and not a verdict on Robert Stack. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You say the true thing early, before it has to become a crisis to be heard.

Live Ace of Spades meaning page

Robert Stack in the public record

Known for his deep voice and commanding presence, he appeared in over 40 feature films. 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, most notably as Captain Rex Kramer in Airplane! (1980). He was born Charles Langford Modini Stack in Los Angeles, California, but his first name, selected by his mother, was changed to Robert by his father. He spent his early childhood in Adria and Rome, becoming fluent in French and Italian at an early age, and did not learn English until his return to Los Angeles when he was seven. His parents divorced when he was a year old, and he was raised by his mother, Mary Elizabeth (née Wood). His father, James Langford Stack, a wealthy advertising agency owner, later remarried his ex-wife, but died when Stack was 10.

Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article Robert Stack (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.

Where the record meets the King of Hearts

A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about Robert Stack, and not a forecast of an Emmy.

Cards in Robert Stack's fixed path

Birth card and karma

Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)

Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread

Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.

You hold emotional authority without hiding behind it. You carry authority in the realm of feeling—the maturity and depth to lead others emotionally and hold space with real strength. At your best, you command emotional situations with both power and authentic care, the steady presence people anchor to.

K♥ — Life Spread — Pluto, fixed to the A♠, from the published King of Hearts meaning

Known for his deep voice and commanding presence, he appeared in over 40 feature films.

Paired on shared wording: commanding, presence. This line comes from the Pluto position of the A♠'s Life Spread.

Also on the record

  1. He always spoke of his mother with the greatest respect and love.
  2. When he collaborated with Mark Evans on his autobiography, Straight Shooting, he included a picture of himself and his mother that he captioned "Me and my best girl".
  3. His maternal grandfather, opera singer Charles Wood, studied voice in Italy and performed there under the name "Carlo Modini." Stack had another opera-singer relative: American baritone Richard Bonelli (born George Richard Bunn), who was his uncle.
  4. Stack took some drama courses at the University of Southern California, where he played on the polo team.

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FAQ

What is Robert Stack's birth card?
The Ace of Spades. January 13 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
Does a birth card predict an Emmy?
No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast awards, character, or fate.
Where do Robert Stack's dates come from?
Birth date 1919-01-13 is the day-precision date on Robert Stack's Wikipedia article infobox or lead, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only dates and Wikipedia↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Lead Actor/Actress wins come from the Primetime Emmy drama and comedy Wikipedia lists, which compile Television Academy (emmys.com) results. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Sources: Television Academy / Emmys (emmys.com) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (Robert Stack; winner list) + Wikidata CC0 (Q355153). Birth date 1919-01-13 is the Wikipedia day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).