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Eliot Ness was born on April 19, 1903, in the Roseland neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. He was the youngest of five children born to Peter Ness (1850–1931) and Emma King (1863–1937).
Children Timothy Fraley (son) Oscar Fraley (August 2, 1914 – January 6, 1994) was an American sports writer and author , perhaps best known, with Eliot Ness , as the co-author of the American memoir The Untouchables .
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 ...
The Cleo Redd Fisher Museum’s Speaker Series continues with discussions about Eliot Ness, the Torso Murderer and Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run. Cleveland's Torso Murders, Mad Butcher are program ...
Eliot Ness around 1933. The Untouchables were special agents, also known as "dry 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.
Melvin Horace Purvis II (October 24, 1903 – February 29, 1960) was an FBI agent instrumental in capturing bank robbers John Dillinger and Pretty Boy Floyd in 1934. All of this would later overshadow his military career which saw him directly involved with General George Patton, Hermann Göring, and the Nuremberg Trials.
Kevin Costner as Eliot Ness. Paramount Pictures Marking the first real-life hero on the list, Ness was immortalized in Brian De Palma's acclaimed 1987 movie, "The Untouchables."
Untouchability, the practice of socially ostracizing a minority group of very low social status; Untouchables, word for the Dalits or Scheduled Castes of India; Untouchables (law enforcement), a 1930s American law enforcement unit led by Eliot Ness