Stacy Keach

TV Actor

Stacy Keach was born in Savannah, Georgia, United States on June 2nd, 1941 and is the TV Actor. At the age of 82, Stacy Keach biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, movies, TV shows, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
June 2, 1941
Nationality
United States
Place of Birth
Savannah, Georgia, United States
Age
82 years old
Zodiac Sign
Gemini
Networth
$8 Million
Profession
Actor, Character Actor, Composer, Drug Trafficker, Film Actor, Film Producer, Screenwriter, Stage Actor, Television Actor, Television Producer, Voice Actor
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Stacy Keach Religion, Education, and Hobbies
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Education
University of California, Berkeley, Yale University
Stacy Keach Spouse(s), Children, Affair, Parents, and Family
Spouse(s)
Kathryn Baker ​ ​(m. 1964, divorced)​, Marilyn Aiken ​ ​(m. 1975; div. 1979)​, Jill Donahue ​ ​(m. 1981; div. 1986)​, Małgosia Tomassi ​(m. 1986)​
Children
2
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Parents
Stacy Keach Sr. (father), Mary Peckham (mother)
Siblings
James Keach (brother)
Stacy Keach Life

Walter Stacy Keach Jr. (born June 2, 1941) is an American actor and voice actor.

Throughout his career, he has appeared in law enforcement or as a private investigator.

Mike Hammer, Mickey Spillane's fictional detective, appeared in numerous stand-alone television films and at least three different television series during the 1980s and 1990s.

In 1984, his work earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination. In films such as Fat City and The Ninth Configuration, he has been leading characters.

He has also appeared as a narrator for CNBC's American Greed (2008-) and several educational television shows.

Ken is the father of comedian Christopher Titus (2001-2002), and Sergeant Stedenko in Cheech & Chong's films Up in Smoke (1978) and Nice Dreams (1981).

For the television miniseries Hemingway (1988), Keach received a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award.

He is a member of the Theatre Hall of Fame, and he has been inducted into The Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019.

Early life

Keach was born in Savannah, Georgia, to Mary Cain (née Peckham), an actress, and Stacy Keach Sr., a theatre designer, drama coach, and actress with scores of television and theatrical film credits under his name "Stacy Keach." James' brother James is an actor and television producer. Keach earned two BA degrees at the University of California, Berkeley (1963): one in English and the other in Dramatic Art. In 1966, he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts at the Yale School of Drama and was a Fulbright Scholar at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Laurence Olivier, his acting hero, met Keach while studying in London.

Personal life

Keach was born with a cleft lip and a partial cleft of the hard palate, and he underwent numerous surgeries as an infant. He has often wore a mustache to mask the scars throughout his adult life. He is now the honorary chairman of the Cleft Palate Foundation and a supporter for surgical insurance coverage.

Keach was arrested by London police in 1984 for cocaine importation at Heathrow Airport. Keach pleaded guilty and served six months in Reading Prison.

The Keach described his time in prison as the lowest point in his life, as well as the friendship he formed with a priest during that period, which led to his conversion to Roman Catholicism. He and his wife later met Pope John Paul II, who was subpoena. Magosia Tomassi, his wife's wife, had attended the same Warsaw academy as the pope.

Keach has been married four times, first to Kathryn Baker in 1964, Marilyn Aiken in 1975, Jill Donahue in 1981, and finally to Maegu in 1986. Shannon Keach and daughter Karolina Keach are the father of two children with Magosia: son Shannon Keach and daughter Karolina Keach. Keach became a Polish citizen in 2015.

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Stacy Keach Career

Career

In MacBird!, Barbara Garson's Off-Broadway anti-war satire performed at the Village Gate in 1966, Keach played the title role. In 1967, he appeared in George Tabori's The Niggerlovers, also Off-Broadway. Morgan Freeman was his first appearance in The Niggerlovers. Freeman cites Keach with teaching him the most about acting on this day. In 1967, Keach appeared in We Bombed in New Haven, a play by Joseph Heller that premiered at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven and later was produced on Broadway. Arthur Kopit's Buffalo Bill in Indians appeared on Broadway for the first time in 1969. He was first credited as Stacy Keach Jr. to distinguish himself from his father early in his career. He appeared as the lead actor in The Nude Paper Sermon, an avant-garde musical theatre work for media performance commissioned by composer Eric Salzman of Nonesuch Records.

Keach has received numerous accolades, including Obie Awards, Drama Desk Awards, and Vernon Rice Awards. He appeared in the national touring company of the musical Barnum in the early 1980s, arranged by Cy Coleman. He received the Helen Hayes Award for his performances in Richard III and Macbeth with the Shakespeare Theatre Company in 1991 and 1996. He was one of the three main characters in a London West End production of 'Art' starring David Dukes and George Wendt in 1998.

Keach appeared in Shakespeare's King Lear at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in 2006. He appeared in Lerner and Loewe's Camelot in 2008, and in 2009, he appeared in Lerner and Loewe's Camelot, performed with the New York Philharmonic. The Shakespeare Theatre Company revived King Lear's production at Sidney Harman Hall in Washington, D.C., for which Keach received another Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Actor in 2009.

He has appeared in two separate Hamlet productions.

In 2008 and 2009, Keach portrayed Richard M. Nixon in the Frost/Nixon touring company.

In the off-Broadway premiere of Jon Robin Baitz' acclaimed new play Other Desert Cities, Keach appeared as patriarch Lyman Wyeth on December 16, 2010. The production was transferred to the Booth Theatre in Broadway, where it opened on November 3, 2011.

Keach is a founding member of L.A. Theatre Works. He has appeared in numerous productions with the company, including "Willy Loman" in Death of a Salesman and "John Proctor" in The Crucible.

He had been supposed to return to Broadway in December 2014 as part of Diana Rigg's revival of Love Letters at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, but the show was cancelled before Keach and Rigg returned to Broadway.

In Jim McGrath's one-man play Pamplona, Keach was supposed to appear Ernest Hemingway at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago from May 30 to June 25, 2017. Keach appeared in previews of Pamplona, May 19 to May 28, and audiences applauded him. He suffered a mild heart attack on stage on opening night, and the next day, Keach bypassed surgery. After Keach's doctors advised a period of repose and recuperation, the Goodman Theatre announced on June 2 that the entire program would be cancelled.

From July 10 to August 18, 2018, Keach returned to his role at The Goodman a year later. According to Keach, it would fulfill an obligation "to the play, to the city, and to myself."

Keach is a natural pianist and composer. On Judy Collins' hit song "Amazing Grace," he appeared backing vocals. He is also known for co-writing a song called "Easy Times" on the Judy Collins live album Living, which is also listed as co-writing one. He composed the soundtrack for Rob Nilssen's film Imbued. He has also completed writing the music for Mike Hammer's audio radio series "Encore For Murder," written by Max Collins, directed by Carl Amari, and released by Blackstone Audio.

In The New Centurions (1972), Keach appeared as a rookie policeman, opposite George C. Scott. He appeared in Fat City, a boxing film directed by John Huston, that year. He was the first pick for Damien Karras' role in the 1973 film The Exorcist, but he did not accept the role. In the 1980 film Exorcist author William Peter Blatty's scripted and directed Kane, he continued to play Kane; this role was also destined for Nicol Williamson.

Keach was the narrator of the 1973 Formula One racing documentary Champions Forever, The Quick and the Dead by Claude du Boc. He played Cheech & Chong's police department nemesis Sgt. Stedenko of Up in Smoke and Nice Dreams. In Jesus of Nazareth, he also appeared as Barabbas. In 1978, he appeared as an explorer and scientist in The Mountain of the Cannibal God, co-starring former Bond girl Ursula Andress. The film became a "video bacteria" favorite. In The Long Riders (1980), Frank James (elder brother of Jesse) was another one of his film appearances. Jesse James was his brother James. Keach appeared in the 1981 Australian thriller Roadgames alongside Jamie Lee Curtis. Keach appeared in Butterfly with Pia Zadora and Orson Welles in 1982. He played a man who is obsessed with hair in the 1993 film Body Bags.

In American History X, he portrayed a white supremacist alongside Edward Norton and Edward Furlong. Keach's 2008 biographical film W. portrays a Texas preacher whose spiritual guidance begins with George W. Bush's AA experience but continues long after.

Keach also appeared in Ring of Death, portraying a sadistic prison warden who runs an underground combat club where prisoners compete for their lives. Skipper Riley, the main character Dusty Crophopper's flight instructor, had also appeared in Planes. Planes: Fire & Rescue was a role played by the actor.

In 2012, Keach appeared in The Bourne Legacy and in the 2013 Alexander Payne film Nebraska. Keach appeared in the 2017 film Gotti as Neil Dellacroce, the Gambino criminal family's underboss.

Lieutenant Ben Logan was the first person to be cast on a television show in 1975, and Keach's first appearance as a series regular on a television program was in Caribe. In the 1982 CBS miniseries, The Blue and the Gray, he appeared in Jesus of Nazareth, 1977, and portrayed Jonas Steele, a psychic and Scout of the United States Army. Mike Hammer, who portrayed and is best known as Mike Hammer in CBS's Mike Hammer and The New Mike Hammer from 1984 to 1987, was portrayed and is best known as Mike Hammer. In Mike Hammer, Private Eye, a new syndicated television series that aired from 1997 to 1998, he returned to the role of Hammer. Ernest Hemingway appeared in the made-for-TV film Hemingway in 1988. In the late 1990s and 2000s, he also hosted segments for the Encore Mystery premium cable network.

Ken Titus, the sarcastic, chain-smoking, five-time divorced functional alcohol father of the title character in Fox's sitcom Titus, appeared in 2000. Cast members of Titus have expressed delight in knowing that Keach would find a way to make even the driest line come to life.

Keach lent his voice to The Simpsons' "Hungry Homer", "Old Yeller-Belly," "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play," and "Waiting for Duffman," portraying Duff Brewery President Howard K. Duff VIII" as an artificial intelligence. In a 2005 episode of Will & Grace, he appeared as Warden Henry Pope in the Fox drama Prison Break.

He appeared in the mini-series Blackbeard, produced for the Hallmark Channel in 2006. It was directed by Kevin Connor and starred Angus Macfadyen, Richard Chamberlain, David Winters, and Jessica Chastain. Keach co-starred as "Pops," the father of the main character in the short-lived boxing drama series Lights Out.

In the episode "Old School," Keach appeared on Fox comedy show Brooklyn Nine-Nine in November 2013. In February 2015, Keach began to appear in NCIS: New Orleans as Cassius Pride, the father of NCIS Agent Dwayne Pride. On the 2016 sitcom Crowded, he portrayed elderly father Bob. Starting in 2016, Keach appears on CBS's drama Blue Bloods as Archbishop Kevin Kearns. In 2017, Keach began appearing in Man with a Plan as Joe Burns, father of Adam Burns (played by co-star Matt LeBlanc), and was then promoted to series regular status for season three.

Many episodes of Nova, National Geographic, and other informational series were narrated by Stacy Keach. He appeared on syndicated informational reenactment shows Missing Reward, which had a similar appearance to the popular Unsolved Mysteries at the time. He appeared on Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories from 1992 to 1995.

He appeared on Spike TV as the narrator for the home video clip show World's Most Amazing Videos, beginning in 1999. He currently hosts The Twilight Zone radio show. The Keach can also be seen narrating the CNBC show American Greed. He narrated The Kennedys, among other things for the PBS series American Experience.

In 2008, Keach recalled his well-known role as Mike Hammer in a series of full-cast radio dramatizations for Blackstone Audio. (He also arranged and performed the songs for the audio dramas. (Maya Ricci, a yoga instructor, also appeared in the dramas playing Malgosia Tomassi.) As Audiobooks, Keach has also read several of Mickey Spillane's original Mike Hammer books.

In The Truth & Life Dramatized Audio Bible, a 22-hour audio book of the RSV-CE translation of the New Testament, Keach portrayed John. In The Word of Promise, a 2007 dramatic audio book based on the New King James Version, he also spoke about Job and Paul the Apostle.

On January 6, 2014, Keach became the official voice of The Opie and Anthony Channel on SiriusXM Satellite Radio (Sirius Channel 206, XM Channel 103). Keach is the voice of CNBC's American Greed, now in their thirteenth season.

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