William Stack

William Stack was an American actor who started on the stage in England and later moved into movies, beginning with a leading part in the 1918 British silent picture The Girl from Downing Street. A native of Baker, Oregon, he took another lead in the 1922 British release The Scourge. In 1930 he came back to the United States and made his American debut in Sarah and Son. Over a career that covered more than fifty films in both countries, he was frequently seen in small supporting parts, yet he also had a notable role in Becky Sharp (1935), the first feature filmed entirely in three-strip Technicolor. He also appeared in Mary of Scotland (1936), and in both Captains Courageous and Gone with the Wind, and his last screen work came in Confidential Agent (1945), where he played a butler. Stack died in 1949.