Stack Pierce

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

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.

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.

To television audiences he may be familiar as Jake, the alien commander in the 1980s science fiction series V.

He was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for his role in the "Sweet Land of Liberty" episode of the television series Quincy, M.E..

Since the late 1990s, his acting career has been scaled down and his last acting work was in 2005, a role in the Leo Fong film Transformed which also featured Fred Williamson, Ken Moreno and Tadashi Yamashita. He had also directed some plays which included A Raisin in the Sun, My Brothers' Blood, In My Father's House and One Last Look.

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