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The Untouchables is an American crime drama produced by Desilu Productions that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC television network. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalizes the experiences of Ness as a Prohibition agent fighting crime in Chicago in the 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their courage, moral character and ...
With Capone in prison, Frank Nitti tries to grab the open top spot in the empire. But Capone's bookkeeper is giving him a run for his money.. Untouchables agent "Rico" Rossi is introduced in this episode, as a barber-turned-federal agent who was a witness to Frank Nitti's murder of two top Capone lieutenants.
Robert Stack (born Charles Langford Modini Stack; January 13, 1919 – May 14, 2003) [1] [2] [3] was an American actor and television host. Known for his deep voice and commanding presence, he appeared in over forty feature films.
The Scarface Mob is an American film noir crime film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Robert Stack.It consists of the pilot episodes for the TV series The Untouchables (1959) that originally screened as a two-part installment of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse on April 20 and 27 1959.
In 1966, he and Robert Stack appeared together in an episode of The Lucy Show spoofing their roles from The Untouchables. In 1968, he played the security man in the "Sour Note" episode of It Takes a Thief, starring Robert Wagner, and also appeared, in early 1969, in the Here's Lucy episode "Lucy and the Ex-Con" with Wally Cox.
Horacio Paul Picerni (December 1, 1922 – January 12, 2011) was an American actor in film and television, perhaps best known today in the role of Federal Agent Lee Hobson, second-in-command to Robert Stack's Eliot Ness, in the ABC hit television series, The Untouchables.
Actor Robert Swan, best known for roles in The Untouchables, Hoosiers, The Babe, and more, died on Wednesday. He was 78.Swan died after a battle with liver cancer, a family friend confirmed to ...
The best-known adaptations include the 1959 TV series The Untouchables, which starred Robert Stack as Ness and was narrated by Walter Winchell, and the 1987 film The Untouchables, directed by Brian De Palma, which starred Kevin Costner as Ness, Sean Connery and Robert De Niro as Al Capone.