Don Johnson was the first choice for Eliot Ness in Brian De Palma's The Untouchables, but he turned the role down for fear of being typecast.

Don Johnson's refusal to star in Brian De Palma's 1987 film paved the path for Kevin Costner to become a breakout Hollywood star.

When we talk about “The Untouchables,” the first scene that leaps to mind is the famous exchange between Kevin Costner’s Eliot Ness and Sean Connery’s Jimmy Malone at Our Lady of Sorrows ...

Before he was a household name, Kevin Costner got his big acting break in 1987, but only after Don Johnson turned down the same role. Looking back, it's hard to remember a time when Kevin Costner ...

A legendary Kevin Costner film with an A-list cast is airing on TV tonight (Saturday, May 17) for free across the UK. It’s ...

Moviegoers of a certain age will remember Eliot Ness—the upright law-enforcement ... to the ’40s—as portrayed by a tough-talking Kevin Costner in Brian De Palma’s 1987 movie “The ...

Our TV movie pick for tonight (Saturday, 17 May) is The Untouchables, the legendary '80s crime thriller based on real events.

There is a classic scene in the film The Untouchables starring Kevin Costner (Eliot Ness) and Sean Connery (Jim Malone) where the two characters are discussing how to bring down the American ...

NESS, ELIOT PAUL (19 April 1903-16 May 1957 ... and by the 1987 Paramount film The Untouchables, starring Kevin Costner. Although Ness's book was largely based upon actual events in Ness's life, the ...

Kevin Costner, at the height of his matinee-idol ... That is the myth of Eliot Ness, and so what? Hasn’t he served his nation well, in the realms of fact and fiction? What more can you ask ...

The duo has teamed with NBC for Nemesis, an eight-hour miniseries about famous Prohibition agent Eliot Ness, who was portrayed by Kevin Costner in Brian Fe Palma’s Oscar-winning The Untouchables.

Neilson Barnard/Getty Kevin Costner, the king of the Western, is turning 70. The actor, who celebrates his birthday on Saturday, Jan. 18, 2025, rose to fame in the late '80s with a string of ...