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Unofficial Steven Seagal Forums - Robert Stack Although he had a lengthy film career beginning in 1939 with "First Love," Stack's greatest fame came with the 1959-63 TV drama "The Untouchables," in which he played Chicago crimebuster Eliot Ness and won a best actor Emmy. The series, awash in Prohibition Era shoot-'em-ups between gangsters and federal agents, drew harsh criticism about its violence along with good ratings for ABC. He gave popular young actress Deanna Durbin her much-publicized first screen kiss in "First Love," and played a series of youthful romantic leads before leaving Hollywood to serve with the Navy as an aerial gunnery instructor in World War II. www.steven-seagal.net /forum/printthread.php?t=759   (1101 words)

The Untouchables - 1959-1963 ABC-TV The Untouchables original Desilu pilot and the initial episodes of the series were supervised by a young staff producer named Quinn Martin, starting a long string of TV crime show hits (The Fugitive, Barnaby Jones, The FBI, The Invaders, Most Wanted, The Streets Of San Francisco and Twelve O'Clock High) I was told by Columbia House as of Jan. 10, 2006, that The Untouchables (1959-63 ABC-TV) were not available on video through them, but to watch their site for updates. There was a book written about the Untouchables TV series called "The Untouchables" by Tise Vahimagi, published by BFI publishing. www.geocities.com /alcus2/untouch.html   (1207 words)

Untouchables, The While the fictional Ness and his Untouchables were somewhat lifeless characters, the back-stories and motivations established for the series' criminals were incredibly well-defined. Airing on ABC from 1959-63, the series was panned for what critics at the time deemed "excessive and senseless violence." But it was enormously popular with audiences and made names for producer Quinn Martin and actor Robert Stack. The series centered on a greatly embellished version of the real life Eliot Ness, played by Robert Stack, and his incorruptible treasury agents whom Chicago newspapers had dubbed "The Untouchables." Their battles against organized crime served as the source material for the television series. www.museum.tv /archives/etv/U/htmlU/untouchables/untouchables.htm   (555 words)

Related Website - Frank Nitti: The Enforcer (1988) (TV) - Bruce Gordon Joe (1959) The Untouchables - Frank Nitti, "The Enforcer" - The Empty Chair (1959) Johnny Theatre - Kavenaugh - Abe Lincoln In Illinois (1951&; Movie/Mini-Series In Brian DePalmers 1987 movie "The Untouchables", the cinema going and video watching public were introduced t... Frank Nitti, Al Capone’s right-hand man, in 1988 in Frank Nitti: The Enforcer (1988) (TV), was ori... rotteneggs.com /r/show/se/1646071.html   (555 words)

The Untouchables TV Show - The Untouchables Television Show - TV.com The series ran from 1959-63 on ABC and sparked great controversy in its day both for its violent content and its... Classic crime drama series about an elite group of law enforcement officers headed by the incorruptible Eliot Ness and their battles against organized crime and gang lords such as Al Capone, Frank "the Enforcer" Nitti, Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik, Joe "the Teacher" Kulak and others. Eliot Ness and his men notice that the top bosses are leaving Chicago: Frank Nitti has gone to Atlantic City; Bugs Moran and Lou Diamond have left, too. www.tv.com /untouchables/show/674/summary.html   (380 words)

BBC NEWS Entertainment Actor Robert Stack dies Actor Robert Stack, who played the Prohibition detective Eliot Ness in the 1960s TV series The Untouchables, died on Wednesday in his Los Angeles home aged 84. His greatest role, however, came in 1959, when he was cast as the hard-bitten Chicago detective Ness in The Untouchables, which ran for four years in the US. The actor, who became internationally famous for his role as Ness, died of heart failure, his wife Rosemarie said. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3031831.stm   (416 words)

MTV.com - Movies - Dane Clark On TV, Clark starred as news correspondent Dan Miller on the weekly adventure series Wire Service (1956), and played hotel owner Slate Shannon on the 1959 TV version of the old Bogart-Bacall radio series Bold Venture. He also co-starred as Lt. Tragg on the ill-advised New Perry Mason (1973), and made innumerable guest appearances on such series as Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone, The Untouchables and Ellery Queen (1975 version). As the 1940s drew to a close, Clark was afforded a few leading roles by Warners, though it was while on loan-out to Republic that he delivered his finest performance, as emotionally overwrought accidental murderer Danny Hawkins in Moonrise (1948). www.mtv.com /movies/person/11868/bio.jhtml   (328 words)

Detective Programs Especially in its music, Peter Gunn was a more compelling program than Richard Diamond, though its plots were reductive and often as violent as those of The Untouchables (1959-64, ABC), notorious even in its own day for its surfeit of murder. The very title sequence of Perry Mason signals something of the way TV drama by the late 1950s had begun to develop an appropriately smallened audio-visual vocabulary: a confident, swooping camera glides through a courtroom to a close-up of the hero, its graceful dipping motion synchronized with the rhythms of Fred Steiner's dramatic theme music. Similar audio-visual effects are intermittently present in two notable series created by Blake Edwards, Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957-60, CBS, NBC) and Peter Gunn (1958-61, NBC, ABC), both of which center on wise-acre heroes whose sexual bravado is more important to their appeal than their brains or their marksmanship. www.museum.tv /archives/etv/D/htmlD/detectivepro/detectivepro.htm   (2930 words)

VH1.com : Movies : Person : Nehemiah Persoff : Biography He was often cast as a gangster, both serious (Johnny Torrio in the 1959 feature Capone, Jake Guzik on the TV series The Untouchables) and satiric (Little Bonaparte in 1959's Some Like It Hot). His credits in the 1980s included Stalin in the 1980 TV movie FDR: The Last Year, Barbra Streisand 's father in Yentl (1983), and the robust voice of Papa Mousekewitz in the 1986 animated feature An American Tail. After attaining prominence in the mid-1950s, Persoff alternated between villainy and sympathetic roles, utilizing his ear for dialects to depict a wide array of nationalities. www.vh1.com /movies/person/49581/bio.jhtml   (2930 words)

NewStandard: 11/21/98 His famous voice and staccato delivery was so closely associated with the radio age that he was hired to provide the narration for the 1959 TV series "The Untouchables," starring Robert Stack as Eliot Ness. Like Winchell's broadcasts, the film moves rapidly from the 1920s to the late 1960s, from the time that Winchell ruled the fabled Stork nightclub like a king to the television era that made him a has-been. Perhaps Walter Winchell's life story is simply too big for one picture. www.s-t.com /daily/11-98/11-21-98/b04ae081.htm   (907 words)

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