Screen and television veteran Robert Stack, best known to audiences as Eliot Ness, the crimefighter on the popular series “The Untouchables,” died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84.

In 1993, Robert De Niro and Kevin Costner's iconic movie The Untouchables got a TV series with a new cast but was cancelled ...

Veteran actor Robert Stack, who earned an Emmy as the tough-guy hero of TV's "Untouchables" and an Oscar nomination at the height of his movie fame in the 1950s, has died. He was 84. Stack, 84, was ...

CHICAGO – In the pantheon of Chicago crime fighters, nobody has the worldwide reputation of Eliot Ness. He’s the Prohibition agent who brought down Al Capone, the principled lawman in a city awash in ...

Hollywood's been known to dramatize even the most dramatic of real-life narratives. So of course the real Eliot Ness wasn't nearly as dashing as Robert Stack or Kevin Costner (although maybe he was).

Our impressions of well known historical figures are frequently derived from television programs. This reviewer’s image of the legendary Eliot Ness had been shaped by watching reruns of the hit TV ...

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Eliot Ness is an indelible figure in American folklore—the straight-arrow Prohibition agent who ended Al Capone’s reign as the bootlegging and prostitution kingpin of Chicago. Capone was actually ...

CHICAGO - In the pantheon of Chicago crime fighters, nobody has the worldwide reputation of Eliot Ness. He's the Prohibition agent who brought down Al Capone, the principled lawman in a city awash in ...