"The Untouchables (film) The Untouchables is a 1987 American gangster film directed by Brian De Palma, produced by Art Linson, written by David Mamet, and based on the book of the same name (1957). The film stars Kevin Costner, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro, and Sean Connery, and follows Eliot Ness (Costner) as he forms the Untouchables team to bring Al Capone (De Niro) to justice during Prohibition. The Grammy Award-winning score was composed by Ennio Morricone and features period-era music by Duke Ellington. ""The Untouchables"" premiered on June 2, 1987 in New York City, and went"
"Scouts]] [[Category:United States Army Air Forces pilots of World War II]] [[Category:Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United States)]] [[Category:United States Army Air Forces officers]] [[Category:American people of Italian descent]] [[Category:Male actors of Italian descent]] [[Category:People from the Greater Los Angeles Area]] [[Category:Burials at San Fernando Mission Cemetery]] Paul Picerni 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"". Picerni was born in [[New York"
"On October 7, 1953, London married actress Sandra Gregg, and they had two children. They were divorced on October 28, 1957. In 1982, he married Judith, and they resided in Pasadena, California, until his death on June 14, 2014 at the age of 83. Steve London Steve London (March 9, 1929 – June 14, 2014) was an American television and film actor and attorney, best known for his role as Federal Agent Jack Rossman on the ABC/Desilu Television series, """"The Untouchables"" from 1959–1963, which starred Robert Stack as Eliot Ness. Born Walter Lee Gragg in St Louis, Missouri, he entered"
"Paul Picerni 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"". Picerni was born in [[New York City to an Italian family.Raised in Corona, Queens, he was an [[Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America)|Eagle Scout]] in his youth and adolescence. After high school, Picerni studied drama at Loyola University. Picerni joined the [[United States Army Air Forces]] during [[World War II]] and served as a"
"Vice Don Johnson to portray Elliott Ness. ""The Untouchables"" opened on June 3, 1987 in 1,012 theatres where it grossed $10,023,094 on its opening weekend and ranked the sixth-highest opening weekend of 1987. It went on to make $76.2 million in North America. According to producer Art Linson, the polls conducted for the film showed that approximately 50% of the audience were women. ""Ordinarily, a violent film attracts predominantly men, but this is also touching, about redemption and relationships and because of that the audience tends to forgive the excesses when it comes to violence"". ""The Untouchables"" received positive reviews"
"Steve London Steve London (March 9, 1929 – June 14, 2014) was an American television and film actor and attorney, best known for his role as Federal Agent Jack Rossman on the ABC/Desilu Television series, """"The Untouchables"" from 1959–1963, which starred Robert Stack as Eliot Ness. Born Walter Lee Gragg in St Louis, Missouri, he entered the United States Naval Academy in the summer of 1948 and played football there. In 1951, he was selected as a tackle on the 24-member East team in the 27th East–West Shrine Game. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Air Force, specializing"
"Eliot Ness Eliot Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to bring down Al Capone and enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, and the leader of a famous team of law enforcement agents from Chicago, nicknamed The Untouchables. His co-authorship of a popular autobiography, ""The Untouchables"", which was released shortly after his death, launched several television and motion picture portrayals that established Ness's posthumous fame as an incorruptible crime fighter. Eliot Ness was born on April 19, 1903, in the Kensington neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. He was the youngest of five"
"Kevin Costner Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor, director, producer, and musician. His accolades include two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one Emmy Award. Costner has played Eliot Ness in ""The Untouchables"", Crash Davis in ""Bull Durham"", Ray Kinsella in ""Field of Dreams"", Lt. John J. Dunbar in ""Dances with Wolves"", for which he won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture, Jim Garrison in ""JFK"", Robin Hood in """", Frank Farmer in ""The Bodyguard"", Roy McAvoy in ""Tin Cup"", Jonathan Kent in the DC Extended Universe,"
"Eliot Ness in the award-winning ABC television hit drama series, ""The Untouchables"" (1959–1963). The show portrayed the ongoing battle between gangsters and a special squad of federal agents in prohibition-era Chicago. The show won Stack a Best Actor Emmy Award in 1960. During the series' run, Stack starred in a disaster movie, ""The Last Voyage"" (1960), appearing opposite Malone. At Fox he was in ""The Caretakers"" (1963) with Joan Crawford. After ""The Untouchables"" Stack had small roles in ""Is Paris Burning?"" (1966) and ""The Peking Medallion"" (1967). Stack starred in a new drama series, rotating the lead with Tony Franciosa"
"In a news release, Burke said: ""Eliot Ness had a checkered career after leaving the federal government. I simply do not think his image matches the actual reality of his legacy."" Eliot Ness Eliot Ness (April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957) was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to bring down Al Capone and enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, and the leader of a famous team of law enforcement agents from Chicago, nicknamed The Untouchables. His co-authorship of a popular autobiography, ""The Untouchables"", which was released shortly after his death, launched several television and motion picture portrayals"
"T.V. series, and for Michael Horse's character, George Steelman, Native American agent under Tom Amandes's Ness, in the revived series syndicated to local stations in 1993. William Jennings Gardner William Jennings Gardner (January 23, 1884 – June 15, 1965) was an American football player, coach, and law-enforcement agent. He was one of Eliot Ness's ""Untouchables,"" a group of 13 hand-picked United States federal law-enforcement agents who, from 1929 to 1931, sought to put an end to Al Capone's illegal empire. Ness chose Gardner for his team because he was an expert at undercover work. Gardner was born in North Dakota."
"and a second, less-successful TV series in 1993. A dynamic, hard-hitting action drama, and a landmark television crime series, ""The Untouchables"" won series star Robert Stack an Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Dramatic Series in 1960. The series originally focused on the efforts of a real-life squad of Prohibition agents employed by the United States Department of the Treasury and led by Eliot Ness (Stack), that helped bring down the bootleg empire of ""Scarface"" Al Capone, as described in Ness's bestselling 1957 memoir. This squad was nicknamed ""The Untouchables"", because of their courage and honesty; they could not"
"Tom Amandes Tom Amandes (born March 9, 1959) is an American actor. His best-known role to date is that of the role of Dr. Harold ""Hal"" Abbott on The WB Drama series ""Everwood"", and as Eliot Ness in the 1990s version of ""The Untouchables"" TV series. He also played Geena Davis' boyfriend in ""The Long Kiss Goodnight"", and Abraham Lincoln in the 2012 film ""Saving Lincoln"". Amandes was born the sixth of 11 children in Richmond, Illinois. Amandes began acting at an early age, performing at home with his siblings and starring in school productions. He graduated in 1977 from"
"ability to play older mentors to younger leads, which would become a recurring role in many of his later films. The following year, his acclaimed performance as a hard-nosed Irish-American cop in ""The Untouchables"" (1987) earned him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, his sole nomination throughout his career. Fellow nominees included Morgan Freeman and Denzel Washington, both of whom would go on to win the award. His subsequent box-office hits included ""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"" (1989), in which he played Henry Jones, Sr., the title character's father, ""The Hunt for Red October"" (1990) (where he was"
"The Untouchables (1959 TV series) The Untouchables is an American crime drama that ran from 1959 to 1963 on the ABC Television Network, produced by Desilu Productions. Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized Ness's experiences 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 incorruptibility, nicknamed the Untouchables. The book was later made into a film in 1987 (also called ""The Untouchables"") by Brian De Palma, with a script by David Mamet,"
"The Untouchables (1993 TV series) The Untouchables is an American crime drama series that aired for two seasons in syndication, from January 1993 to May 1994. The series portrayed work of the real life Untouchables federal investigative squad in Prohibition-era Chicago and its efforts against Al Capone's attempts to profit from the market in bootleg liquor. The series features Tom Amandes as Eliot Ness and William Forsythe as Al Capone, and was based on the 1959 series and 1987 film of the same name. Eliot Ness (Amandes), disgusted with the widespread criminality that Al Capone (Forsythe) has brought to his"
"16 other people, including the lawyers who helped with the house sale. Sean Connery Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is a retired Scottish actor and producer, who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films, between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in ""The Untouchables""."
"(from ""The Big Train""), and ""The Gun of Zangara"" (from ""Unhired Assassin""). On November 10, 1991, NBC ran the two-hour movie ""The Return of Eliot Ness"", with Robert Stack as Ness. It was set in 1947, after Capone's death, and depicted Ness investigating the death of an Untouchables agent named Labine. ""The Untouchables"" was a landmark television series, that has spawned numerous imitators over the decades, such as ""S.W.A.T."", ""The F.B.I."", ""Crime Story"", the original ""Hawaii Five-O"" (Five-O's creator and executive producer, Leonard Freeman, served as executive producer on ""The Untouchables"" final season), Robert Stack's two later series, ""Strike Force"""
"[[Peggy McCay]] in a scene from TV's ""[[The Young Marrieds]]"" (1964)]] After Italian organizations began to complain about the use of Italian gangsters on ABC's, ""[[The Untouchables (1959 TV series)|The Untouchables]]"", starring [[Robert Stack]] as G-man [[Eliot Ness]], Picerni joined the cast in 1960 as Ness's number-one aide, Lee Hobson, a role that he played for the duration of the series. (He was also seen in the program's pilot, playing Tony Liguri.) He also portrayed Ed Miller on ""[[O'Hara, U.S. Treasury]]"" (1971-1972) and was featured as Dan Garrett on ""[[The Young Marrieds]]"" (1964–66) In 1954, Picerni was cast as the"
"Illinois, where Eliot Ness' story begins with him recruiting his Untouchables team with the intent of taking down Al Capone. In August 1986, Paramount Pictures contacted Garry Wunderwald of the Montana Film Commissioner's Office to find a 1930-period bridge to imply a border crossing between the United States & Canada. Wunderwald suggested the Hardy Bridge, which crosses the Missouri River near the small town of Cascade, southwest of Great Falls. From the bridge was closed to traffic to film the iconic shootout sequence. Twenty five local residents were cast to ride horseback as Royal Canadian Mounted Police during the scene."
"(""Peter Gunn"", ""Richard Diamond"", ""M-Squad""). The series was spoofed in the 1963 Merrie Melodies cartoon short ""The Unmentionables"", with Bugs Bunny playing the role of Elegant Mess, a crime fighter who is assigned to infiltrate a black market ring operated by Rocky and Mugsy. The series was also spoofed on an episode of the 1961-62 ABC-TV/Hanna Barbara cartoon series ""Top Cat"" entitled ""The Unscratchables"". NBC's """"Saturday Night Live"""" spoofed The Untouchables several times during the 1970s, with Dan Aykroyd playing Eliot Ness. In their 1988 book, ""The Critics' Choice—The Best of Crime and Detective TV"", authors Max Allan Collins and"
"Sean Connery Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is a retired Scottish actor and producer, who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards, one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award and three Golden Globes, including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award. Connery was the first actor to portray the character James Bond in film, starring in seven Bond films, between 1962 and 1983. In 1988, Connery won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in ""The Untouchables"". His film career also includes such films as ""Marnie"", ""The Name of"
"Untouchables (law enforcement) The Untouchables were special agents of the U.S. Bureau of Prohibition led by Eliot Ness, who, from 1930 to 1932, worked to end Al Capone's illegal activities by aggressively enforcing Prohibition laws against his organization. Legendary for being fearless and incorruptible, they earned the nickname ""The Untouchables"" after several agents refused large bribes from members of the Chicago Outfit. Due to its significant success and enduring legacy, the unit has subsequently had a lasting impact on the techniques and methods of modern organized-crime-based law enforcement units. Shortly after taking office in 1929, Herbert Hoover, the 31st President"
"as Ness and featuring Sean Connery and Robert De Niro. These two fictionalized portrayals, more than actual history, have inspired numerous novels, a second, short-lived 1993 TV series titled ""The Untouchables"" and comic books such as ""Torso"". Max Allan Collins used Ness as the ""police contact/best friend"" character in his series of historical private eye novels featuring Chicago detective Nate Heller. Later he spun Ness off into his own series, set during his tenure as Cleveland's Public Safety Director. The first book, ""The Dark City"" (1987), depicted Ness's getting hired and undertaking a cleanup of the graft-ridden police force; the"
"the time of his death, Gordon lived in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife Marla. Bruce Gordon (actor) Bruce Gordon (February 1, 1916January 20, 2011) was an American actor best known for playing gangster Frank Nitti in the ABC television series ""The Untouchables"". His acting career ranged over a half century and included stage, movies, and a varied number of roles on the small screen. Gordon was born in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. His first appearance on Broadway was in 1937 in the musical drama ""The Fireman’s Flame"". From 1941-1945, he played the role of Officer Klein alongside Boris Karloff in"
"age 19, he realized this would not happen and returned to finish high school. After graduating from high school, he attended Ryerson University in Toronto, auditioned for the Stratford Shakespearean Festival in Ontario and was accepted as a member of its Young Company. Subsequently, moving to Los Angeles, he took the stage name David James Elliott, having found an actor was already named David Smith. He appeared in the film """" in 1986, and subsequently in the television series ""Street Legal"", ""Knots Landing"" as Bill Nolan, and in 1993's ""The Untouchables"" as Agent Paul Robbins. The following year, Elliott landed"
"be bribed or intimidated by the Mob. Eliot Ness himself had died suddenly in May 1957, shortly before his memoir and the subsequent TV adaptation were to bring him fame beyond any he experienced in his lifetime. The pilot for the series was a two-part episode entitled ""The Untouchables"" originally aired on CBS's ""Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse"" on April 20 and 27, 1959. Later retitled ""The Scarface Mob"", these episodes, which featured Neville Brand as Al Capone, were the only episodes in the series to be more-or-less directly based on Ness's memoir, and ended with the conviction and imprisonment of Capone."
"The Untouchables (1957 book) The Untouchables is an autobiographical memoir about Eliot Ness co-written by Oscar Fraley, published in 1957. The book deals with the experiences of Eliot Ness, a federal agent in the Bureau of Prohibition, as he fights crime in Chicago in the late 1920s and early 1930s with the help of a special team of agents handpicked for their incorruptibility, nicknamed The Untouchables. The main part of the book is written in first-person anecdotal style, as if directly from Ness's reminiscences; a foreword and afterword by Fraley provide historical context. In fact, Fraley, who was a prominent"
"he was cast as Stevens in ""Mr. Flotsam"" and as Red Munce in ""Adam San"". His subsequent frequent, energetic performances as Capone-era mobster Frank ""The Enforcer"" Nitti in Desilu Productions' ""The Untouchables"" (1959–1963) led to his being typecast as an often darkly humorous 'heavy' for the rest of his career. Often stealing scenes from the stolid, humorless Eliot Ness, as portrayed by Robert Stack, his famous catch-phrase in ""The Untouchables"" (directed at the victims of Nitti's wrath) was ""You're dead!"" In 1959, Gordon starred, alongside Pernell Roberts, as Capt. Emil Tremaine in an episode of ABC's """" entitled ""The Vision."""
"Sean Connery filmography Sir Sean Connery is a retired Scottish actor and producer. He was the first actor to have portrayed the literary character James Bond in a film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and again in an unofficial Bond film in 1983. He is also known for his roles as Jimmy Malone in ""The Untouchables"" (1987), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, along with his portrayals of Mark Rutland in ""Marnie"" (1964), Juan Sánchez Villa-Lobos Ramírez in ""Highlander"" (1986), Henry Jones Sr. in ""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"" (1989), Captain Marko"
"Crystal Lake Central High School. In 1981, after graduating from The Goodman School of Drama at DePaul University, Amandes set out to apprentice on the Chicago stage. A turning point in Amandes' career was being cast as Eliot Ness in the television series ""The Untouchables"". He went on to star in ""The Pursuit of Happiness"" with Brad Garrett and Larry Miller. Amandes co-starred in the TV drama ""Everwood"" from 2002 to 2006. Other television credits include recurring roles on ""The Guardian"", ""JAG"", ""Spin City"", ""Sisters"" and ""From the Earth to the Moon"", in which Amandes portrayed Astronaut Harrison 'Jack' Schmitt."
"Smart""<br> 2. Sean Connery – ""The Untouchables""<br> 3. Albert Brooks – ""Broadcast News"" 1. Kathy Baker – ""Street Smart""<br> 2. Vanessa Redgrave – ""Prick Up Your Ears""<br> 3. Anjelica Huston – ""The Dead"" 1. John Boorman – ""Hope and Glory""<br> 2. Joel and Ethan Coen – ""Raising Arizona""<br> 3. Juzo Itami – ""Tampopo"" 1987 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 22nd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 4 January 1988, honored the best filmmaking of 1987. 1. The Dead<br> 2. ""Hope and Glory""<br> 3. ""The Last Emperor"" 1. John Boorman – ""Hope and Glory""<br> 2. John Huston"
"Nelsan Ellis Nelsan Ellis (November 30, 1977 – July 8, 2017) was an American actor and playwright. He achieved critical acclaim for his portrayal of Lafayette Reynolds in the HBO television series ""True Blood"" (2008–2014), for which he won a Satellite Award from the International Press Academy, among other accolades. He also starred as Shinwell Johnson in ""Elementary"" from 2016 to 2017, and played a variety of guest roles in other television series, including ""Veronica Mars"" and ""Without a Trace."" In addition to his television work, Ellis appeared in several feature films throughout his career; he portrayed Eddie Sweat in"