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