Screen and television veteran Robert Stack, best known to audiences as Eliot Ness, the crimefighter on the popular series “The Untouchables,” died Wednesday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 84.

Robert Stack, whose granite-eyed stare and menacing baritone spelled trouble for fictional criminals in TV's The Untouchables and real ones in Unsolved Mysteries, has died at his home. He was 84.

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Stack never lost hope that some of the country’s most shocking cold cases could be solved. The veteran actor, who earned an Emmy as the tough-guy hero of TV’s "Untouchables" and an ...