Primetime Emmy winner · birth-card coordinate
Robert Stack's Birth Card: The Ace of Spades
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
- 1960 Lead performer (pre-genre split) — The Untouchables as Eliot Ness (pre genre split)
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.
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
- A♠ — Birth Card: The Truth Pioneer
- 2♣ — Karma — Environment: The Collaborative Builder
- 7♥ — Karma — Displacement: The Reflective Heart
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 7♦ — Life Spread — Venus
- 5♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- J♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- 9♠ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 2♥ — Life Spread — Neptune
- K♥ — Life Spread — Pluto
- K♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
- 9♣ — Planetary Ruling Card: The Humanitarian Builder
- 6♦ — PRC Karma — Environment: The Generous Provider
- Q♥ — PRC Karma — Displacement: The Devoted Nurturer
- 6♥ — PRC Life Spread — Saturn: The Devoted Caregiver
- 4♣ — PRC Life Spread — Uranus: The Systematic Builder
- 2♦ — PRC Life Spread — Neptune: The Financial Partner
- J♠ — PRC Life Spread — Pluto: The Messenger of Truth
- 8♣ — PRC Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward: The Ambitious Builder
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.
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
- He always spoke of his mother with the greatest respect and love.
- 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".
- 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.
- Stack took some drama courses at the University of Southern California, where he played on the polo team.
Other Emmy winners with this card
- Andre Braugher — 1998 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Homicide: Life on the Street)
- Burt Reynolds — 1991 Lead Actor in a Comedy Series (Evening Shade)
- Carl Betz — 1969 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Judd, for the Defense)
- Damian Lewis — 2012 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Homeland)
- James Garner — 1977 Lead Actor in a Drama Series (The Rockford Files)
- Jean Marsh — 1975 Lead Actress in a Drama Series (Upstairs, Downstairs)
- Jennifer Aniston — 2002 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Friends)
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus — 2006 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (The New Adventures of Old Christine); 2012 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Veep); 2013 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Veep); 2014 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Veep); 2015 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Veep); 2016 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Veep); 2017 Lead Actress in a Comedy Series (Veep)
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).