Scripted series · ABC
The Untouchables
The true story of FBI man Eliot Ness's savage war on the notorious mobsters Al Capone left behind!
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Robert Stack
Eliot Ness
118 eps
Nicholas Georgiade
Enrico Rossi
118 eps
Paul Picerni
Lee Hobson
118 eps
Abel Fernandez
William Youngfellow
118 eps
Walter Winchell
Narrator
118 eps
Steve London
Jack Rossman
121 eps
Anthony George
Cam Allison Jr.
8 eps
Chuck Hicks
LaMarr Kane
3 eps
Dale Van Sickel
Running Racetrack Cop (uncredited)
4 eps
Cyril Delevanti
Newsboy
5 eps
Frank Wilcox
Beecher Asbury
12 eps
Hal Taggart
Sully Hindman (uncredited)
3 eps
Sol Gorss
Carmen (uncredited)
3 eps
Phyllis Coates
Ellie Morley
3 eps
Robert Middleton
Mayor Anton J. Cermak
4 eps
Eugene Iglesias
Tony Cestari
4 eps
Richard Reeves
Hugger Davis
6 eps
Howard Culver
Joe (uncredited)
3 eps
John Harmon
Lab Tech (uncredited)
3 eps
Joe Turkel
Garvin
4 eps
Gavin MacLeod
Three-Fingered Jack White
4 eps
Lovyss Bradley
Matron (uncredited)
7 eps
Bruce Gordon
Frank Nitti
4 eps
Roy Damron
Observer at Scene (uncredited)
4 eps
Russell Custer
Boxing Spectator (uncredited)
4 eps
Frank De Kova
The Man
6 eps
John Daheim
Rocky Pearson
3 eps
Frank Puglia
Carlo Giovanni
3 eps
Charles Sherlock
Police Photographer (uncredited)
6 eps
Claude Akins
Karl Hansa
3 eps
Frank J. Scannell
Carnival Barker (uncredited)
3 eps
Michael Hinn
Bailiff at Hearing (uncredited)
3 eps
Harold J. Stone
Adam Stone
6 eps
Eddie Hice
Hood (uncredited)
6 eps
Raymond Bailey
John Carvell
3 eps
Nehemiah Persoff
Jake 'Greasy Thumb' Guzik
4 eps
Richard Bakalyan
Lucky
5 eps
Lee Marvin
Mike Brannon
3 eps
Dick Cherney
Police Officer (uncredited)
14 eps
Marc Lawrence
Mike Genna
3 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How The Untouchables actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
The Untouchables reads strongest on Character Depth, Serialized and Emotional Weight.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Special Agent Eliot Ness and his elite team of incorruptible agents battle organized crime in 1930s Chicago.
The run
Seasons
4 seasons · 118 episodes.
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
19591 episode
The Scarface Mob is an American feature film directed by Phil Karlson and starring Robert Stack. It consists of the pilot episodes for the TV series The Untouchables (1959) that originally screened as a two-part installment of Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse on April 20 and 27 1959. The episodes were cut together and released theatrically as a stand-alone feature outside America in 1959 and inside the US in 1962.
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
195928 episodes
7.8IMDb
Season 2 · Complete
Season 2
196032 episodes
Season 3 · Complete
Season 3
196128 episodes
7.0IMDb
Season 4 · Complete
Season 4
196230 episodes
8.0IMDb
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Ernest KinoyWriter
- Leonard KantorWriter
- David KarpWriter
Direction
- John PeyserDirector
- Walter GraumanDirector
Where to watch
Streaming
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