Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
June 2, 1941
Place of Birth:
Savannah, Georgia, USA
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Stacy Keach
Biography
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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Lost & Found in Cleveland | Will Sokolowski |
| 2025 | Jay Kelly | Jay's Dad |
| 2023 | Buckle Up | Ronnie Straight |
| 2022 | American Greed: James McGill | Narrator(voice) |
| 2021 | Sea Monsters: Search for the Giant Squid | Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | Titus Family | Homecoming | Ken Titus |
| 2020 | Survival Skills | The Narrator |
| 2019 | Valerie | Self |
| 2018 | Gotti | Neil Dellacroce |
| 2018 | Periphery | Noah Cross |
| 2017 | Sucker Punch Blues: A Look Back on John Huston's 'Fat City' | Self |
| 2017 | Habit & Armour | Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | Girlfriend's Day | Gundy |
| 2016 | Gold | Clive Coleman |
| 2016 | Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows | Self |
| 2016 | Cell | Charles Ardai |
| 2016 | Cop Stories: The Making of Richard Fleischer’s ‘The New Centurions’ | Self |
| 2015 | Truth | Lt. Colonel Bill Burkett |
| 2015 | Sam | The Shopkeeper |
| 2015 | Father Rupert Mayer | Colonel von Bayern |
| 2015 | Fifty Shades of Erotica | (archive footage) |
| 2014 | Sin City: A Dame to Kill For | Wallenquist |
| 2014 | If I Stay | Gramps |
| 2014 | Planes: Fire & Rescue | Skipper (voice) |
| 2014 | Vitaminamulch: Air Spectacular | Skipper |
| 2013 | Meir's Festival | Self |
| 2013 | Nebraska | Ed Pegram |
| 2013 | Planes | Skipper (voice) |
| 2013 | Ooga Booga | Judge |
| 2013 | The Great Chameleon | Max |
| 2012 | The Bourne Legacy | Turso |
| 2012 | Cellmates | Warden Merville |
| 2012 | An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road | Self |
| 2011 | Storm War | Marcus |
| 2011 | Miller's Tale | Self |
| 2011 | Air Mater | Skipper (voice) |
| 2011 | Jerusalem Countdown | Jackson |
| 2010 | Machete | Doc Franklin |
| 2010 | The Portal | Professor Haffler |
| 2010 | The Aristofrogs | |
| 2009 | The Boxer | Joe |
| 2009 | Chicago Overcoat | Ray Berkowski |
| 2009 | Imbued | Donatello |
| 2009 | The Nanny Express | Reverend MacGregor |
| 2009 | The Assistants | Harlin W. Keyes |
| 2009 | The Assistants | Jasper / The Garbage Man |
| 2008 | W. | Rev. Earle Hudd |
| 2008 | Lone Rider | Robert Hattaway |
| 2008 | Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales | Skipper (voice) |
| 2008 | Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center | Merlyn |
| 2008 | The Last Full Measure | Narrator (voice) |
| 2008 | Ring of Death | Warden Carl Golan |
| 2008 | Not Quite Hollywood | Self |
| 2007 | The Pixar Story | Narrator (voice) |
| 2007 | Honeydripper | Sheriff Pugh |
| 2006 | Jesus, Mary and Joey | Jack O`Callahan |
| 2006 | Death Row | John Elias |
| 2006 | Desolation Canyon | Samuel Kendrick |
| 2006 | The Switch | |
| 2006 | Come Early Morning | Owen Allen |
| 2006 | Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America | Collin Reed |
| 2006 | Washington the Warrior | |
| 2005 | Man with the Screaming Brain | Dr. Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov |
| 2005 | Keep Your Distance | Brooks Voight |
| 2005 | Caught in the Headlights | Mr. Jones |
| 2004 | The Hollow | Claus Van Ripper |
| 2004 | John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies | Self |
| 2004 | Galaxy Hunter | 3V3 |
| 2004 | El padrino: The Latin Godfather | Gov. Lancaster |
| 2003 | Frozen Impact | Pete Crane |
| 2003 | Operation Balikatan | General Thurmond |
| 2003 | How Do You Change Your Parents? | Richard Hendersen |
| 2003 | Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science | Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Kangaroo Hitchcock: The Making of 'Road Games' | Self |
| 2003 | Miracle Dogs | C.W. Aldrich |
| 2002 | The Real Death Star | Narrator (voice) |
| 2002 | The Santa Trap | Max the Biker |
| 2001 | Lightning: Fire from the Sky | Bart Pointdexter |
| 2001 | The Face: Jesus in Art | Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | Sunstorm | Gen. John Parker |
| 2001 | Majestic White Horses | Narrator (voice) |
| 2001 | Birds of Passage | Captain Savienko |
| 2000 | Militia | George Armstrong Montgomery |
| 2000 | Mercy Streets | Tom |
| 2000 | Icebreaker | Bill Foster |
| 2000 | Fear Runs Silent | Mr. Hill |
| 2000 | Tesla: Master of Lightning | Nikola Tesla (Voice) |
| 2000 | Unshackled | Warden Kelso |
| 2000 | Savage Planet: Deadly Skies | Narrator (voice) |
| 2000 | Alien Technology | Host |
| 2000 | The Courage to Love | Jean-Baptiste Delille |
| 1999 | Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return | Dr. Michaels |
| 1999 | Dolphins: The Wild Side | Narrator (voice) |
| 1999 | Olympic Glory | Narrator (voice) |
| 1998 | American History X | Cameron |
| 1998 | Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane | Self |
| 1998 | Amanda & the Alien | Emmitt Mallory |
| 1998 | Sea Devils | Captain Savienko |
| 1997 | Future Fear | General Wallace |
| 1997 | The Sea Wolf | Wolf Larsen |
| 1997 | Legend of the Lost Tomb | Dr. William Bent |
| 1997 | Murder in My Mind | Cargill |
| 1997 | Volcano: Nature's Inferno | Narrator (voice) |
| 1996 | Escape from L.A. | Malloy |
| 1996 | Prey of the Jaguar | The Commander |
| 1996 | The Pathfinder | Compte du Leon |
| 1996 | Titanic's Lost Sister | Narrator (voice) - US Version |
| 1995 | Trust in Me | The Reverend |
| 1995 | Texas | Sam Houston |
| 1995 | Young Ivanhoe | Pembrooke |
| 1995 | Andrew Wyeth: Self Portrait - Snow Hill | Narrator |
| 1994 | Raw Justice | Deputy Mayor Bob Jenkins |
| 1994 | Reflections on Elephants | Narrator |
| 1994 | New Crime City: Los Angeles 2020 | Wynorski |
| 1994 | Against Their Will | Jack Devlin |
| 1994 | The Secret of the Wild Child | Self |
| 1993 | Body Bags | Richard |
| 1993 | Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | Phantasm / Carl Beaumont (voice) |
| 1993 | Rio Diablo | Kansas |
| 1993 | Sunset Grill | Harrison Shelgrove |
| 1993 | Irresistible Force | Harris Stone |
| 1993 | National Geographic: The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1993 | Working with Orson Welles | Himself |
| 1993 | Warren Oates: Across the Border | Self |
| 1992 | Lincoln and the War Within | |
| 1992 | Revenge on the Highway | Claude Sams |
| 1992 | Lincoln | George McClellan (voice) |
| 1992 | The Secret World Of Bats | Host |
| 1991 | Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis | Capt. Charles Butler McVay |
| 1991 | Milena | Jesenski |
| 1990 | Class of 1999 | Dr. Bob Forrest |
| 1990 | Night of 100 Stars III | Self |
| 1990 | Lindbergh | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1990 | False Identity | Ben Driscoll / Harlan Errickson |
| 1989 | The Forgotten | Adam Roth |
| 1989 | Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All | Mike Hammer |
| 1986 | The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer | Mike Hammer |
| 1986 | Intimate Strangers | Dr. Jeff Bierston |
| 1984 | More Than Murder | Mike Hammer |
| 1983 | Murder Me, Murder You | Mike Hammer |
| 1982 | Butterfly | Jess Tyler |
| 1982 | That Championship Season | James Daley |
| 1982 | Wait Until Dark | Roat / Roat Sr. / Roat Jr. |
| 1981 | Nice Dreams | Sergeant Stedenko |
| 1981 | Roadgames | Patrick 'Pat' Quid |
| 1980 | The Long Riders | Frank James |
| 1980 | The Ninth Configuration | Col. Hudson Kane |
| 1980 | Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger | Judge Murdock |
| 1979 | Diary of a Young Comic | Mr. Porzinski |
| 1978 | Gray Lady Down | Captain Bennett |
| 1978 | Slave of the Cannibal God | Professor Edward Foster |
| 1978 | The Biggest Battle | Maggiore Mannfred Roland |
| 1978 | Up in Smoke | Sergeant Stedenko |
| 1978 | Two Solitudes | Huntley McQueen |
| 1977 | The Squeeze | Jim Naboth |
| 1977 | The Duellists | Narrator (voice) |
| 1976 | The Killer Inside Me | Lou Ford |
| 1976 | Street People | Charlie Hanson |
| 1976 | Dynasty | Matt Blackwood |
| 1975 | One By One | Narrator |
| 1975 | Conduct Unbecoming | Capitano Archer |
| 1975 | James Dean: The First American Teenager | Narrator (voice) |
| 1975 | Hamburger Hamlet | |
| 1974 | All the Kind Strangers | James "Jimmy" Wheeler |
| 1974 | The Dion Brothers | Calvin |
| 1974 | Watched! | Mike Mandell / Sonny |
| 1974 | Antigone | Chorus |
| 1974 | Luther | Martin Luther |
| 1974 | The Formula One Drivers (aka The Quick and the Dead) | Narrator |
| 1972 | The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | Bad Bob |
| 1972 | The New Centurions | Roy Fehle |
| 1972 | Fat City | Tully |
| 1972 | Particular Men | |
| 1971 | Brewster McCloud | Abraham Wright |
| 1971 | Doc | Doc Holliday |
| 1970 | The Traveling Executioner | Jonas Candide |
| 1970 | End of the Road | Jacob Horner |
| 1968 | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | Blount |
| suppose | Death |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Kidding | Stacy Keach |
| 2016 | Crowded | Bob Moore |
| 2016 | Tokyo Trial | Narrator (voice) |
| 2016 | Man with a Plan | Joe Burns |
| 2014 | Enlisted | Patrick |
| 2014 | NCIS: New Orleans | Cassius Pride |
| 2013 | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | Jimmy Brogan |
| 2013 | Full Circle | Bud O'Rourke |
| 2013 | The Blacklist | Robert Vesco |
| 2013 | Sean Saves the World | Lee Thompson |
| 2012 | 1600 Penn | Frohm Thoroughgood |
| 2012 | Anger Management | Ray |
| 2012 | Malibu Country | Brad |
| 2011 | Lights Out | Pops |
| 2011 | The Exes | Bill Drake |
| 2011 | Hindenburg: The Last Flight | Edward van Zandt |
| 2010 | Blue Bloods | Kevin Kearns |
| 2010 | Blue Bloods | Archbishop Kevin Kearns |
| 2010 | Hot in Cleveland | Alex Chase |
| 2010 | Blue Bloods | Archbishop Kearns |
| 2009 | Meteor | Sheriff Crowe |
| 2007 | American Greed | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2006 | Galapagos | Bishop of Panama (voice) |
| 2006 | Warplane | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2006 | Blackbeard | Cpt. Benjamin Hornigold |
| 2006 | 30 Rock | Stacy Keach |
| 2005 | Prison Break | Warden Henry Pope |
| 2004 | Totally Outrageous Behavior | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2003 | Two and a Half Men | Tom |
| 2002 | Boomtown | Jack 'Mac' McNorris |
| 2002 | George Lopez | Blaine McNamara |
| 2002 | Girls Club | |
| 2002 | What's New, Scooby-Doo? | The Mayor (voice) |
| 2002 | What's New, Scooby-Doo? | Harold Ling (voice) |
| 2001 | Warship: Innovations that Changed the World | Host |
| 2001 | The Zeta Project | |
| 2001 | Gary & Mike | (voice) |
| 2000 | Titus | Ken Titus |
| 1999 | Batman Beyond | Vance (voice) |
| 1999 | World's Most Amazing Videos | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 1999 | The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn | Self - Guest |
| 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Orion Bauer |
| 1998 | Will & Grace | Wendell Schacter |
| 1998 | Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book | |
| 1997 | Mike Hammer, Private Eye | Mike Hammer |
| 1997 | Die Gang | Jean-Marie Bosco |
| 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story | |
| 1995 | The Outer Limits | Cord van Owen |
| 1994 | Touched by an Angel | Ty Duncan |
| 1994 | ER | Mike Gates |
| 1994 | Touched by an Angel | Maury Hoover |
| 1991 | I Misteri Della Giungla Nera | Colonel Edward Corishant |
| 1991 | Rugrats | Marvin Finster (voice) |
| 1991 | Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories | Narrator |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | Howard K. Duff VIII (voice) / Don Bookner (voice) |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | Howard Duff (voice) |
| 1989 | The Simpsons | Howard K. Duff VIII / Don Bookner (voice) |
| 1988 | Hemingway | Ernest Hemingway |
| 1988 | American Experience | Narrator (voice) |
| 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | (archive footage) |
| 1984 | Mike Hammer | Mike Hammer |
| 1984 | Mistral's Daughter | Julien Mistral |
| 1984 | Six Centuries of Verse | Self - Reader |
| 1983 | Princess Daisy | Count Alexander "Stash" Valensky |
| 1982 | The Blue and the Gray | Jonas Steele |
| 1980 | A Rumor of War | Maj. Ball |
| 1980 | The Search for Solutions | Narrator |
| 1977 | Jesus of Nazareth | Barabbas |
| 1975 | Caribe | Lt. Ben Logan |
| 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Man in 'Cold As Ice' (uncredited) |
| 1974 | NOVA | |
| 1974 | NOVA | Narrator |
| 1974 | NOVA | Narrator (voice) |
| 1971 | Great Performances | |
| 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self |
| 1954 | Lassie | |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Presenter |
| 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self |
| Mysterious Places | Series Host |