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 ...

Maybe Robert Stack is making up for lost time — all those television hours as the lockjawed Eliot Ness on “The Untouchables.” Because at least on this particular day, over the phone from Los ...

On June 3, 1987, director Brian De Palma unveiled 'The Untouchables,' based on the true story of how Treasury agent Eliot Ness brought down notorious Chicago mobster Al Capone. By Duane Byrge On ...

Robert Stack stars as famed lawman Elliot Ness, battling bootlegging gangsters in Chicago in the 1930s. Always innovative, Ness and his incorruptible G-Men use the latest crime-fighting techniques ...

On this day, May 16, 1957, Eliot Ness, the leader of a legendary team of law enforcement agents nicknamed “The Untouchables,” died of a heart attack. He was 54. Ness was best remembered for ...

Congressional legislation has been introduced to name the bureau’s D.C. headquarters the “Eliot Ness ATF Building’’ after the agent whose battles with bootleggers and mobsters in ...