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, whose granite-eyed stare and menacing baritone spelled trouble for fictional criminals in TV's The Untouchables and real ones in Unsolved Mysteries, has died at his home. He was 84.

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).

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 ...

LOS ANGELES - Robert Stack, whose granite-eyed stare and menacing baritone spelled trouble for television's fictional criminals in "The Untouchables" and real ones in "Unsolved Mysteries," died at his ...

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 ...

Robert Stack, the tough-guy hero of TV's "Untouchables," was remembered Thursday as a real-life softie. Stack, 84, was found dead of a heart attack Wednesday evening at his home by his wife, Rosemarie ...

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 ...