Overview
Stacy Keach was an actor best known on television as Mickey Spillane’s private eye in the CBS series Mike Hammer, and a classically trained stage actor who returned to Hamlet again and again.
On film he starred in John Huston’s Fat City and The New Centurions, played Frank James in The Long Riders and Sgt. Stedenko in Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke, and voiced Carl Beaumont in Batman: Mask of the Phantasm. He won a Golden Globe for playing Ernest Hemingway in the 1988 TV movie Hemingway, and later audiences knew him as Warden Henry Pope on Prison Break. Keach was born on June 2, 1941, in Savannah, Georgia, and died on November 10, 2026, at 85.
Quick Facts
- Occupation
- Actor
- Born
- June 2, 1941, Savannah, Georgia
- Died
- November 10, 2026
- Golden Globe
- Hemingway (1988)
Selected Credits
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Stacy Keach, TV’s Mike Hammer and a Stage Legend, Dies at 85
Stacy Keach, the actor behind TV’s Mike Hammer and roles in Fat City, Up in Smoke and Prison Break, died Nov. 10…