Stacy Keach
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Walter Stacy Keach Jr. (born June 2, 1941) is an American actor, active in theatre, film and television since the 1960s. Keach first distinguished himself in Off-Broadway productions and remains a prominent figure in American theatre across his career, particularly as a noted Shakespearean. He is the recipient of several theatrical accolades: four Drama Desk Awards, two Helen Hayes Awards and two Obie Awards for Distinguished Performance by an Actor. He was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in Arthur Kopit's 1969 production of Indians. In film, he garnered critical acclaim for his portrayal of a washed-up boxer in the John Huston film Fat City (1972) and appeared as Sergeant Stedenko in Cheech & Chong's films Up in Smoke (1978) and Nice Dreams (1981).[4] His other notable film credits include Brewster McCloud (1970), Doc (1971), The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972), The New Centurions (1972), Luther (1974), Slave of the Cannibal God (1978), The Ninth Configuration (1980), The Long Riders (1980), Roadgames (1981), Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993), Escape from L.A. (1996), American History X (1998), The Bourne Legacy (2012) and Nebraska (2013). Keach is known to television audiences for his portrayal of private detective Mike Hammer in television movies and on the television series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984–1987), for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe, as Ken Titus on the sitcom Titus (2000–2002) and as the narrator of the crime documentary series American Greed (2007–present). He also had a main cast role on the sitcom Man with a Plan (2017–2020) and recurring roles on series such as Prison Break (2005–2007), Two and a Half Men (2010), Blue Bloods (2016–2024) and The Blacklist (2019–2023). He won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Primetime Emmy Award for playing Ernest Hemingway on the television miniseries Hemingway (1988). He is an inductee of the Theatre Hall of Fame and was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019. He is the son of theatre director Stacy Keach Sr., and the older brother of actor James Keach.
Known for
Credits
American History X (1998)
as Cameron
The Bourne Legacy (2012)
as Turso
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
as Wallenquist
Planes: Fire & Rescue (2014)
as Skipper (voice)
Escape from L.A. (1996)
as Malloy
Jay Kelly (2025)
as Jay's Dad
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)
as Phantasm and Carl Beaumont (voice)
Planes (2013)
as Skipper (voice)
Machete (2010)
as Doc Franklin
If I Stay (2014)
as Gramps
Gold (2016)
as Clive Coleman
The Pixar Story (2007)
as Narrator (voice)
Cell (2016)
as Charles Ardai
Nebraska (2013)
as Ed Pegram
Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales (2008)
as Skipper (voice)
The Long Riders (1980)
as Frank James
Up in Smoke (1978)
as Sergeant Stedenko
The Duellists (1977)
as Narrator (voice)
Air Mater (2011)
as Skipper (voice)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)
as Bad Bob
Gotti (2018)
as Neil Dellacroce
Slave of the Cannibal God (1978)
as Professor Edward Foster
The Ninth Configuration (1980)
as Col. Hudson Kane
Butterfly (1982)
as Jess Tyler
Gray Lady Down (1978)
as Captain Bennett
Truth (2015)
as Lt. Colonel Bill Burkett
Class of 1999 (1990)
as Dr. Bob Forrest
W. (2008)
as Rev. Earle Hudd
Come Early Morning (2006)
as Owen Allen
Fifty Shades of Erotica (2015)
as (archive footage)
Nice Dreams (1981)
as Sergeant Stedenko
Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows (2016)
as Self
Street People (1976)
as Charlie Hanson
Girlfriend's Day (2017)
as Gundy
Body Bags (1993)
as Richard
Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center (2008)
as Merlyn
The Squeeze (1977)
as Jim Naboth
Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (1991)
as Capt. Charles Butler McVay
Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (1999)
as Dr. Michaels
The New Centurions (1972)
as Roy Fehle
Fat City (1972)
as Tully
Sam (2015)
as The Shopkeeper
Roadgames (1981)
as Patrick 'Pat' Quid
The Courage to Love (2000)
as Jean-Baptiste Delille
The Way Things Seem to Be (2026)
as Self
El padrino: The Latin Godfather (2004)
as Gov. Lancaster
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America (2006)
as Collin Reed
Night of 100 Stars III (1990)
as Self
The Face: Jesus in Art (2001)
as Narrator (voice)
Texas (1995)
as Sam Houston
Murder Me, Murder You (1983)
as Mike Hammer
Ooga Booga (2013)
as Judge
James Dean: The First American Teenager (1975)
as Narrator (voice)
Olympic Glory: Nagano 1998 (1999)
as Narrator (voice)
The Nanny Express (2009)
as Reverend MacGregor
Two Solitudes (1978)
as Huntley McQueen
Prey of the Jaguar (1996)
as The Commander
Sunstorm (2001)
as Gen. John Parker
Hamburger Hamlet (1975)
as Hamlet
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (1968)
as Blount
Icebreaker (2000)
as Bill Foster
Amanda & the Alien (1998)
as Emmitt Mallory
Brewster McCloud (1971)
as Abraham Wright
John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies (2004)
as Self
Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All (1989)
as Mike Hammer
Doc (1971)
as Doc Holliday
Lost & Found in Cleveland (2025)
as Will Sokolowski
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1986)
as Mike Hammer
The Killer Inside Me (1976)
as Lou Ford
End of the Road (1970)
as Jacob Horner
Lightning: Fire from the Sky (2001)
as Bart Pointdexter
Jesus, Mary and Joey (2006)
as Jack O`Callahan
Revenge on the Highway (1992)
as Claude Sams
Caught in the Headlights (2005)
as Mr. Jones
Frozen Impact (2003)
as Pete Crane
Raw Justice (1994)
as Deputy Mayor Bob Jenkins
Honeydripper (2007)
as Sheriff Pugh
Man with the Screaming Brain (2005)
as Dr. Ivanov
Diary of a Young Comic (1979)
as Mr. Porzinski
Warren Oates: Across the Border (1993)
as Self
The Hollow (2004)
as Claus Van Ripper
Conduct Unbecoming (1975)
as Captain Archer
American Greed: James McGill (2022)
as Narrator(voice)
The Biggest Battle (1978)
as Maggiore Mannfred Roland
The Forgotten (1989)
as Adam Roth
Legend of the Lost Tomb (1997)
as Dr. William Bent
All the Kind Strangers (1974)
as James "Jimmy" Wheeler
That Championship Season (1982)
as James Daley
Working with Orson Welles (1993)
as Himself
Rio Diablo (1993)
as Kansas
Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane (1998)
as Self
The Pathfinder (1996)
as Compte du Leon
Not Quite Hollywood (2008)
as Self
Ring of Death (2008)
as Warden Carl Golan
Sea Devils (1998)
as Captain Savienko
Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger (1980)
as Judge Murdock
Desolation Canyon (2006)
as Samuel Kendrick
Particular Men (1972)
as William Benjamin
Death Row (2006)
as John Elias
Miracle Dogs (2003)
as C.W. Aldrich
Lincoln and the War Within (1992)
Actor
Militia (2000)
as George Armstrong Montgomery
Storm War (2011)
as Marcus
The Guillotine (1996)
as Narrator (Voice)
Murder in My Mind (1997)
as Cargill
Lone Rider (2008)
as Robert Hattaway
Periphery (2018)
as Noah Cross
New Crime City: Los Angeles 2020 (1994)
as Wynorski
Sunset Grill (1993)
as Harrison Shelgrove
Tokyo Trial (2017)
as Narrator
The Traveling Executioner (1970)
as Jonas Candide
Watched! (1974)
as Mike Mandell / Sonny
The Santa Trap (2002)
as Max the Biker
Dynasty (1976)
as Matt Blackwood
Keep Your Distance (2005)
as Brooks Voight
Milena (1991)
as Jesenski
More Than Murder (1984)
as Mike Hammer
Buckle Up (2023)
as Ronnie Straight
Miller's Tale (2011)
as Self
Jerusalem Countdown (2011)
as Jackson
Lindbergh (1990)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Fear Runs Silent (2000)
as Mr. Hill
Irresistible Force (1993)
as Harris Stone
Chicago Overcoat (2009)
as Ray Berkowski
An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road (2012)
as Self
The Portal (2010)
as Professor Haffler
False Identity (1990)
as Ben Driscoll / Harlan Errickson
The Dion Brothers (1974)
as Calvin
Tesla: Master of Lightning (2000)
as Nikola Tesla (Voice)
Planes - Vitaminamulch: Air Spectacular (2014)
as Skipper
The Boxer (2009)
as Joe
How Do You Change Your Parents? (2003)
as Richard Hendersen
Imbued (2009)
as Donatello
Against Their Will (1994)
as Jack Devlin
Titus Family | Homecoming (2020)
as Ken Titus
Lincoln (1992)
as George McClellan (voice)
Cellmates (2012)
as Warden Merville
Operation Balikatan (2003)
as General Thurmond
The Formula One Drivers (aka The Quick and the Dead) (1974)
as Narrator
Future Fear (1997)
as General Wallace
Cop Stories: The Making of Richard Fleischer’s ‘The New Centurions’ (2016)
as Self
One By One (1975)
as Narrator
The Assistants (2009)
as Harlin W. Keyes
Mercy Streets (2000)
as Tom
Volcano: Nature's Inferno (1997)
as Narrator (voice)
Valerie (2019)
as Self
Kangaroo Hitchcock: The Making of 'Road Games' (2003)
as Self
Luther (1974)
as Martin Luther
The Switch (2006)
Actor
The Sea Wolf (1997)
as Wolf Larsen
Unshackled (2000)
as Warden Kelso
Father Rupert Mayer (2015)
as Colonel von Bayern
Antigone (1974)
as Chorus
The Secret World Of Bats (1992)
as Host
Wait Until Dark (1982)
as Roat / Roat Sr. / Roat Jr.
Titanic's Lost Sister (1996)
as Narrator (voice) - US Version
National Geographic: The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal (1993)
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Meir's Festival (2013)
as Self
Survival Skills (2020)
as The Narrator
Birds of Passage (2001)
as Captain Savienko
The Secret of the Wild Child (1994)
as Self
The Real Death Star (2002)
as Narrator (voice)
Dolphins: The Wild Side (1999)
as Narrator (voice)
Sucker Punch Blues: A Look Back on John Huston's 'Fat City' (2017)
as Self
Young Ivanhoe (1995)
as Pembrooke
The Last Full Measure (2008)
as Narrator (voice)
Alien Technology (2000)
as Host
Intimate Strangers (1986)
as Dr. Jeff Bierston
Savage Planet: Deadly Skies (2000)
as Narrator (voice)
Habit & Armour (2017)
as Narrator (voice)
suppose (—)
as Death
Majestic White Horses (2001)
as Narrator (voice)
Reflections on Elephants (1994)
as Narrator
Andrew Wyeth: Self Portrait - Snow Hill (1995)
as Narrator
The Great Chameleon (2013)
as Max
Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science (2003)
as Narrator (voice)
Trust in Me (1995)
as The Reverend
Galaxy Hunter (2004)
as 3V3
Washington the Warrior (2006)
Actor
Sea Monsters: Search for the Giant Squid (1998)
as Narrator (voice)
The Orphan Trains (1995)
as Narrator (voice)