Stack Pierce

Stack Pierce (June 15, 1933) is an actor who was previously a boxer and professional baseball player.

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.