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.

Robert Stack, the tough-guy hero of TV's "Untouchables," was remembered Thursday as a real-life softie. The actor was treated for prostate cancer in October. But his wife said he had been feeling good ...

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 ...

Moviegoers of a certain age will remember Eliot Ness—the upright law-enforcement figure who battled corruption and organized crime from the 1920s to the ’40s—as portrayed by a tough-talking Kevin ...

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 ...