Eliot Ness ( April 19, 1903 – May 16, 1957 ) was an American Prohibition agent, famous for his efforts to enforce Prohibition in Chicago, Illinois, and the leader of a legendary team of law enforcement agents nicknamed The Untouchables.

In 2012 he portrayed Eliot Ness who formed the law enforcement group The Untouchables in the Supernatural episode ' Time after Time '.

De Palma has also worked with composers Pino Donaggio ( Carrie, Home Movies, Dressed to Kill, Blow Out, Body Double, Raising Cain ), Ennio Morricone ( The Untouchables, Casualties of War, and Mission to Mars ) and Ryuichi Sakamoto ( Snake Eyes, Femme Fatale ).

1961 ), The Untouchables ( 1962 ), The Eleventh Hour ( 1962 ), Combat!

Other early hit series on ABC during this period which helped establish the network included The Lone Ranger ( ABC's only Top 10 show before Disneyland ), The Adventures Of Ozzie And Harriet, ( starring the real-life Nelson family ), Leave It To Beaver ( which moved over from CBS ), The Detectives and The Untouchables.

Several films spoof it, including Woody Allen's Bananas and Love and Death, Australia, Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker's Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult ( though actually a parody of The Untouchables ), Soviet-Polish comedy Deja Vu, Jacob Tierney's The Trotsky and the Italian comedy Il secondo tragico Fantozzi.

High quality ( i. e., high cost ), original production concepts ( such as The Untouchables or Star Trek ) were approved by Ball for development into broadcast series.

Prior to Hogan's Heroes, Klemperer appeared in the 1956 episode ' Safe Conduct ' of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, along with future co-star John Banner ; twice appeared as Hugo on the syndicated romantic comedy series, How to Marry a Millionaire ( 1957 – 1959 ), with Barbara Eden and Merry Anders ; and appeared on the " Purple Gang " episode of The Untouchables.

* The Untouchables ( 1957 book ), an autobiography by Eliot Ness

* The Untouchables ( film ), a 1987 film directed by Brian De Palma, based on Ness's book

* The Untouchables ( 1959 TV series ), a series based on Ness's book, starring Robert Stack

* The Untouchables ( 1993 TV series ), a series based on the 1987 film, starring Tom Amandes

* The Untouchables ( video game ), a video game based on the film

* The Untouchables ( band ), an American soul / mod revival band

* Untouchables ( band ), an American hardcore punk band

* Untouchables ( album ), by Korn

It features Bugs Bunny with Rocky and Mugsy ( in their final appearance ), and spoofs The Untouchables, a popular television crime drama ( complete with an impression of Walter Winchell's frantic narration, by Ralph James ).

Only the football and boys ' lacrosse teams retain the traditional Pegleg moniker ; other teams have their own unique names, such as the Runnin ' Rebels ( boys ' basketball ), Vixens ( girls ' volleyball ), Lemurs ( boys ' gymnastics ), Phoenix ( girls ' basketball ), Renegades ( girls ' softball ), Felines ( girls ' gymnastics ), Hookers ( boys ' bowling ), Pinheads ( girls ' bowling ), Huskies ( girls ' lacrosse ), Penguins ( girls ' swimming ), Pirates ( boys ' swimming ), Ballers ( boys ' soccer ), Mimbas ( girls ' soccer ), The Furies ( girls ' handball ), Dragons ( boys ' handball ), Smokin ' Aces ( boys ' tennis ), Sticky Fingers ( boys ' and girls ' Ultimate ), Lobsters ( girls ' tennis ), Hitmen ( baseball ), Untouchables ( boys ' and girls ' fencing ) Flying Dutchmen ( hockey ), Greyducks ( track ), Tigers ( cricket ) and Spartans ( wrestling and roller hockey ).

With Chicago's corrupted law-enforcement agents endemic, Ness went through the records of all Prohibition agents to create a reliable team, initially of 50, later reduced to 15 and finally to just eleven men called, " The Untouchables ".

An attempt by Capone to bribe Ness ' agents was seized on by Ness for publicity, leading to the media nickname, " The Untouchables.

Based on the memoir of the same name by Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley, it fictionalized Ness ' 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 and incorruptibility, nicknamed the Untouchables.

The revival movement of Buddhism in India underwent a major change when after publishing a series of books and articles arguing that Buddhism was the only way for the Untouchables to gain equality, Ambedkar publicly converted on October 14, 1956 in Nagpur and then in turn led a mass-conversion ceremony for over 380, 000 Dalits.

The UK mod revival was followed by a mod revival in North America in the early 1980s, particularly in Southern California, led by bands such as The Untouchables.

The founding director of CBS News, Paul White, for whom the top award given by the broadcast news directors organization Radio Television Digital News Association ( RTDNA ) is named, Kent Cooper, who later became the longtime GM of rival Associated Press, early ABC News president Elmer Lower, Raymond Clapper, originator of the term " smoked-filled room ", Merriman Smith, Helen Thomas, Marie Colvin, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Webb, Henry Tilton Gorrell, Seymour Hersh, Lucien Carr, Neil Sheehan, Brit Hume, Keith Olbermann, New York Times columnists Thomas Friedman and Gail Collins, Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen, sportswriter and Untouchables co-author Oscar Fraley, author H. Allen Smith, military author Joe Galloway, Saigon evacuation photographer Hubert van Es, photographer Stan Stearns, 1970s White House photographer David Hume Kennerly, White House spokesmen George Reedy, Ron Nessen and Larry Speakes, longtime Las Vegas bureau manager Myram Borders, onetime CIA Director Richard Helms, who interviewed Adolf Hitler for United Press during the 1936 Olympics, diplomat Edward M. Korry, former UP correspondent to Moscow Eugene Lyons, C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, ex-Dow Jones CEO Les Hinton, 1980's-90's Singapore President Wee Kim Wee and novelists Allen Drury, Tony Hillerman and Daniel Silva.

* The Real Untouchables ( TV 2001 ) – Luciano was portrayed by David Viggiano

This book, among others about the Untouchables by Oscar Fraley, was heavily spiced with fiction including fictional characters and events to make the books more appealing to a general audience.

In India, he was active in the conversion movement of Dalits — so-called " Untouchables "— initiated in 1956 by B. R. Ambedkar.

Ambedkar died six weeks later, leaving his conversion movement leaderless, and Sangharakshita, who had just arrived in Nagpur to visit dalit Buddhists, continued what he felt was Ambedkar's work by lecturing to former Untouchables, and presiding over a ceremony in which a further 200, 000 Untouchables converted.

The team, dubbed The Untouchables by the local press because they were unscored upon for the first half of the season, had few stars but a solid and tenacious body of players.

Desilu Productions, co-owned by husband and wife Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball, was best known for its hit productions such as I Love Lucy, Star Trek, and The Untouchables.

* " Raid ", a song by Lakeside on the album 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, and a second less successful TV series in 1993.

The Untouchables was considered one of the most violent television shows when it aired and was described by the National Association for Better Radio and Television " not fit for the television screen ".

The other Untouchables were played by:

CBS DVD ( distributed by Paramount ) have released the first three seasons of The Untouchables on DVD in Region 1.

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Buchalter was portrayed by David J. Stewart in the 1960 film Murder Inc., Gene Roth and Joseph Ruskin in The Untouchables as well as by John Vivyan and Shepherd Sanders in The Lawless Years television series.

* The Untouchables, an English progressive rock band formed by Adrian Smith, pre-Psycho Motel

* Untouchables, by Lakeside

Tom Farrell in No Way Out, Mariner in Waterworld, Eliot Ness in The Untouchables and Devil Anse Hatfield in Hatfields & McCoys.

Full-blown movie star status for Costner arrived in 1987, when he starred as federal agent Eliot Ness in The Untouchables and in the leading role of the thriller No Way Out.

* Eliot Ness and Oscar Fraley — The Untouchables

Lord was considered for Eliot Ness in The Untouchables before Robert Stack won the role.

Special Agent Eliot Ness and several members of The " Untouchables ", who had worked for the Prohibition Bureau while the Volstead Act was still in force, were transferred to the ATU.

* The Untouchables ( 1959 – 1963 ) fictionalized real-life Federal Agent Eliot Ness's ongoing fight with Prohibition-era gangdom in Chicago and elsewhere.

Others adapted police stories from other mediums, like the radio-inspired anthology comic Gang Busters, Dell's 87th Precinct issues, which adapted McBain's novels, or The Untouchables, which adapted the fictionalized TV adventures of real-life policeman Eliot Ness.

In 1961, character actor Robert F. Simon appeared as Cummings in an episode of ABC's crime drama, The Untouchables, starring Robert Stack as Eliot Ness.

** The Untouchables ( TV Asahi edition ) ( Eliot Ness )

* In the 1987 film The Untouchables, during a raid on the Canadian border, one of Al Capone ’ s bookkeepers agrees to provide Eliot Ness with information after Jim Malone ( Sean Connery ) pretends to kill the bookkeeper ’ s friend by putting a gun in his mouth and blowing the back of his head off.

* by Bruce Gordon in many episodes of the original ABC television series The Untouchables, based on Eliot Ness ' memoirs, which ran from 1959 to 1963.

In 1959, he turned down an opportunity to star as Eliot Ness in The Untouchables, which went on to become a successful TV series with Robert Stack in the Ness role.

The episode parodies the series The Untouchables, with the character of Rex Banner based on Robert Stack's portrayal of Eliot Ness, and the voice of the narrator being based on that of Walter Winchell.

Paris had roles in major 1950s films like The Caine Mutiny, The Wild One and also played Martin " Marty " Flaharty, one of Eliot Ness's men in a recurring role in the first season of ABC-TV's The Untouchables.

When Italian organizations began to complain about the use of Italian gangsters on TV's, The Untouchables, starring Robert Stack as G-man Eliot Ness, Picerni joined the cast of the show as Ness's number-one aide, Lee Hobson, from 1960-63.