Stacy Keach
Born: 1941-06-02 in Savannah, Georgia, USA
Known For: Acting
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.
Filmography
2026
- The Way Things Seem to Be as Self
2025
- Jay Kelly as Jay's Dad
- Lost & Found in Cleveland as Will Sokolowski
2023
- Buckle Up as Ronnie Straight
2022
- American Greed: James McGill as Narrator(voice)
2021
- Sea Monsters: Search for the Giant Squid as Narrator (voice)
2020
- Survival Skills as The Narrator
- Titus Family | Homecoming as Ken Titus
2019
- Valerie as Self
2017
- Girlfriend's Day as Gundy
- Sucker Punch Blues: A Look Back on John Huston's 'Fat City' as Self
- Habit & Armour as Narrator (voice)
2016
- Man with a Plan as Joe Burns
- Gold as Clive Coleman
- Cell as Charles Ardai
- Tokyo Trial as Narrator (voice)
- Crowded as Bob Moore
- Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows as Self
- Cop Stories: The Making of Richard Fleischer’s ‘The New Centurions’ as Self
2015
- Fifty Shades of Erotica as (archive footage)
- Truth as Lt. Colonel Bill Burkett
- Sam as The Shopkeeper
- Father Rupert Mayer as Colonel von Bayern
2014
- NCIS: New Orleans as Cassius Pride
- Sin City: A Dame to Kill For as Wallenquist
- Planes: Fire & Rescue as Skipper (voice)
- Enlisted as Patrick
- If I Stay as Gramps
- Vitaminamulch: Air Spectacular as Skipper
2013
- The Blacklist as Robert Vesco
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine as Jimmy Brogan
- Planes as Skipper (voice)
- Nebraska as Ed Pegram
- Sean Saves the World as Lee Thompson
- Full Circle as Bud O'Rourke
- Ooga Booga as Judge
- The Great Chameleon as Max
- Meir's Festival as Self
2012
- Anger Management as Ray
- The Bourne Legacy as Turso
- 1600 Penn as Frohm Thoroughgood
- Malibu Country as Brad
- An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road as Self
- Cellmates as Warden Merville
2011
- The Exes as Bill Drake
- Lights Out as Pops
- Hindenburg: The Last Flight as Edward van Zandt
- Air Mater as Skipper (voice)
- Storm War as Marcus
- Jerusalem Countdown as Jackson
- Miller's Tale as Self
2010
- Blue Bloods as Archbishop Kevin Kearns
- Hot in Cleveland as Alex Chase
- Machete as Doc Franklin
- The Portal as Professor Haffler
- The Aristofrogs
2009
- Meteor as Sheriff Crowe
- Chicago Overcoat as Ray Berkowski
- The Nanny Express as Reverend MacGregor
- The Boxer as Joe
- The Assistants as Harlin W. Keyes
- Imbued as Donatello
2008
- W. as Rev. Earle Hudd
- Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales as Skipper (voice)
- Not Quite Hollywood as Self
- Ring of Death as Warden Carl Golan
- Lone Rider as Robert Hattaway
- Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center as Merlyn
- The Last Full Measure as Narrator (voice)
2007
- American Greed as Self - Narrator (voice)
- The Pixar Story as Narrator (voice)
- Honeydripper as Sheriff Pugh
2006
- 30 Rock as Stacy Keach
- Blackbeard as Cpt. Benjamin Hornigold
- Galapagos as Bishop of Panama (voice)
- Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America as Collin Reed
- Come Early Morning as Owen Allen
- Desolation Canyon as Samuel Kendrick
- Death Row as John Elias
- Warplane as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Jesus, Mary and Joey as Jack O`Callahan
- Washington the Warrior
- The Switch
2005
- Prison Break as Warden Henry Pope
- Caught in the Headlights as Mr. Jones
- Keep Your Distance as Brooks Voight
- Man with the Screaming Brain as Dr. Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov
2004
- El padrino: The Latin Godfather as Gov. Lancaster
- Totally Outrageous Behavior as Self - Narrator (voice)
- John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies as Self
- The Hollow as Claus Van Ripper
- Galaxy Hunter as 3V3
2003
- Two and a Half Men as Tom
- Frozen Impact as Pete Crane
- Operation Balikatan as General Thurmond
- Miracle Dogs as C.W. Aldrich
- Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science as Narrator (voice)
- Kangaroo Hitchcock: The Making of 'Road Games' as Self
- How Do You Change Your Parents? as Richard Hendersen
2002
- What's New, Scooby-Doo? as The Mayor (voice)
- Boomtown as Jack 'Mac' McNorris
- George Lopez as Blaine McNamara
- Girls Club
- The Santa Trap as Max the Biker
- The Real Death Star as Narrator (voice)
2001
- The Zeta Project
- Gary & Mike as (voice)
- Sunstorm as Gen. John Parker
- Lightning: Fire from the Sky as Bart Pointdexter
- Warship: Innovations that Changed the World as Host
- Birds of Passage as Captain Savienko
- The Face: Jesus in Art as Narrator (voice)
- Majestic White Horses as Narrator (voice)
2000
- Titus as Ken Titus
- Militia as George Armstrong Montgomery
- Icebreaker as Bill Foster
- Mercy Streets as Tom
- The Courage to Love as Jean-Baptiste Delille
- Tesla: Master of Lightning as Nikola Tesla (Voice)
- Alien Technology as Host
- Unshackled as Warden Kelso
- Fear Runs Silent as Mr. Hill
- Savage Planet: Deadly Skies as Narrator (voice)
1999
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Orion Bauer
- Batman Beyond as Vance (voice)
- The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn as Self - Guest
- World's Most Amazing Videos as Self - Narrator (voice)
- Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return as Dr. Michaels
- Olympic Glory as Narrator (voice)
- Dolphins: The Wild Side as Narrator (voice)
1998
- Will & Grace as Wendell Schacter
- American History X as Cameron
- Amanda & the Alien as Emmitt Mallory
- Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book
- Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane as Self
- Sea Devils as Captain Savienko
1997
- Mike Hammer, Private Eye as Mike Hammer
- Die Gang as Jean-Marie Bosco
- Legend of the Lost Tomb as Dr. William Bent
- Future Fear as General Wallace
- Murder in My Mind as Cargill
- The Sea Wolf as Wolf Larsen
- Volcano: Nature's Inferno as Narrator (voice)
1996
- Escape from L.A. as Malloy
- E! True Hollywood Story
- The Pathfinder as Compte du Leon
- Prey of the Jaguar as The Commander
- Titanic's Lost Sister as Narrator (voice) - US Version
1995
- The Outer Limits as Cord van Owen
- Texas as Sam Houston
- Trust in Me as The Reverend
- Young Ivanhoe as Pembrooke
- Andrew Wyeth: Self Portrait - Snow Hill as Narrator
1994
- ER as Mike Gates
- Touched by an Angel as Ty Duncan
- Raw Justice as Deputy Mayor Bob Jenkins
- New Crime City: Los Angeles 2020 as Wynorski
- Against Their Will as Jack Devlin
- Reflections on Elephants as Narrator
- The Secret of the Wild Child as Self
1993
- Batman: Mask of the Phantasm as Phantasm / Carl Beaumont (voice)
- Body Bags as Richard
- Rio Diablo as Kansas
- Sunset Grill as Harrison Shelgrove
- Warren Oates: Across the Border as Self
- Irresistible Force as Harris Stone
- Working with Orson Welles as Himself
- National Geographic: The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal as Self - Narrator (voice)
1992
- Lincoln as George McClellan (voice)
- Revenge on the Highway as Claude Sams
- Lincoln and the War Within
- The Secret World Of Bats as Host
1991
- Rugrats as Marvin Finster (voice)
- I Misteri Della Giungla Nera as Colonel Edward Corishant
- Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis as Capt. Charles Butler McVay
- Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories as Narrator
- Milena as Jesenski
1990
- Class of 1999 as Dr. Bob Forrest
- Night of 100 Stars III as Self
- False Identity as Ben Driscoll / Harlan Errickson
- Lindbergh as Self - Narrator (voice)
1989
- The Simpsons as Howard K. Duff VIII (voice) / Don Bookner (voice)
- Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All as Mike Hammer
- The Forgotten as Adam Roth
1988
- American Experience as Narrator (voice)
- LIVE with Kelly and Mark as (archive footage)
- Hemingway as Ernest Hemingway
1986
- Intimate Strangers as Dr. Jeff Bierston
- The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer as Mike Hammer
1984
- Mike Hammer as Mike Hammer
- Mistral's Daughter as Julien Mistral
- Six Centuries of Verse as Self - Reader
- More Than Murder as Mike Hammer
1983
- Princess Daisy as Count Alexander "Stash" Valensky
- Murder Me, Murder You as Mike Hammer
1982
- The Blue and the Gray as Jonas Steele
- Butterfly as Jess Tyler
- That Championship Season as James Daley
- Wait Until Dark as Roat / Roat Sr. / Roat Jr.
1981
- Roadgames as Patrick 'Pat' Quid
- Nice Dreams as Sergeant Stedenko
1980
- The Long Riders as Frank James
- A Rumor of War as Maj. Ball
- The Ninth Configuration as Col. Hudson Kane
- The Search for Solutions as Narrator
- Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger as Judge Murdock
1979
- Diary of a Young Comic as Mr. Porzinski
1978
- Up in Smoke as Sergeant Stedenko
- Slave of the Cannibal God as Professor Edward Foster
- Gray Lady Down as Captain Bennett
- The Biggest Battle as Maggiore Mannfred Roland
- Two Solitudes as Huntley McQueen
1977
- Jesus of Nazareth as Barabbas
- The Duellists as Narrator (voice)
- The Squeeze as Jim Naboth
1976
- Dynasty as Matt Blackwood
- Street People as Charlie Hanson
- The Killer Inside Me as Lou Ford
- Six Characters in Search of An Author ... (Director)
1975
- Saturday Night Live as Man in 'Cold As Ice' (uncredited)
- Caribe as Lt. Ben Logan
- James Dean: The First American Teenager as Narrator (voice)
- Conduct Unbecoming as Capitano Archer
- One By One as Narrator
- Hamburger Hamlet
1974
- NOVA
- The Dion Brothers as Calvin
- Luther as Martin Luther
- All the Kind Strangers as James "Jimmy" Wheeler
- Antigone as Chorus
- The Formula One Drivers (aka The Quick and the Dead) as Narrator
- Watched! as Mike Mandell / Sonny
1973
- Incident at Vichy ... (Director)
1972
- The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean as Bad Bob
- Fat City as Tully
- The New Centurions as Roy Fehle
- Particular Men
1971
- Great Performances
- Film '72 as Self
- Brewster McCloud as Abraham Wright
- Doc as Doc Holliday
1970
- End of the Road as Jacob Horner
- The Traveling Executioner as Jonas Candide
1968
- The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as Blount
1961
- The Mike Douglas Show as Self
1956
- Tony Awards as Self - Nominee
1954
1944
- Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter