Legacy
Television programs and feature films have been made based on the life of Eliot Ness, and the legend surrounding his work in Chicago. The three best-known of these include the 1950s/1960s TV series titled The Untouchables, which starred Robert Stack as Ness and which Walter Winchell narrated, and Brian De Palma's Oscar-winning film of the same title, The Untouchables, which starred Kevin Costner as Ness and also featured Sean Connery and Robert De Niro. These two fictionalized portrayals, more than actual history, have inspired numerous novels, a second, short-lived TV series, comic books, and references in animated cartoons and rap lyrics. In 2011, Ness was portrayed as a monster-hunter in the CW series "Supernatural," in which he helps track down a time-traveling monster.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)