Stacy Keach
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
- 2025 · Jay Kelly as Jay's Dad
- 2025 · Lost & Found in Cleveland as Will Sokolowski
- 2023 · Buckle Up as Ronnie Straight
- 2020 · Titus Family | Homecoming as Ken Titus
- 2019 · Valerie as Self
- 2018 · Periphery as Noah Cross
- 2014 · Vitaminamulch: Air Spectacular as Skipper
- 2011 · Storm War as Marcus
- 2011 · Jerusalem Countdown as Jackson
- 2011 · Miller's Tale as Self
- 2010 · The Aristofrogs as
- 2010 · The Portal as Professor Haffler
- 2009 · Chicago Overcoat as Ray Berkowski
- 2009 · The Boxer as Joe
- 2009 · The Nanny Express as Reverend MacGregor
- 2008 · Ring of Death as Warden Carl Golan
- 2008 · Lone Rider as Robert Hattaway
- 2006 · Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America as Collin Reed
- 2006 · Come Early Morning as Owen Allen
- 2006 · Desolation Canyon as Samuel Kendrick
- 2006 · Jesus, Mary and Joey as Jack O`Callahan
- 2005 · Keep Your Distance as Brooks Voight
- 2005 · Man with the Screaming Brain as Dr. Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov
- 2004 · The Hollow as Claus Van Ripper
- 2004 · John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies as Self
- 2003 · Miracle Dogs as C.W. Aldrich
- 2003 · Kangaroo Hitchcock: The Making of 'Road Games' as Self
- 2003 · Frozen Impact as Pete Crane
- 2003 · Operation Balikatan as General Thurmond
- 2002 · The Santa Trap as Max the Biker
- 2001 · The Face: Jesus in Art as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Warship: Innovations that Changed the World as Host
- 2000 · Tesla: Master of Lightning as Nikola Tesla (Voice)
- 2000 · Mercy Streets as Tom
- 2000 · Icebreaker as Bill Foster
- 2000 · Fear Runs Silent as Mr. Hill
- 2000 · The Courage to Love as Jean-Baptiste Delille
- 2000 · Unshackled as Warden Kelso
- 1999 · Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return as Dr. Michaels
- 1999 · Olympic Glory as Narrator (voice)
- 1998 · Amanda & the Alien as Emmitt Mallory
- 1997 · Murder in My Mind as Cargill
- 1997 · Legend of the Lost Tomb as Dr. William Bent
- 1996 · Prey of the Jaguar as The Commander
- 1996 · The Pathfinder as Compte du Leon
- 1995 · Young Ivanhoe as Pembrooke
- 1994 · Raw Justice as Deputy Mayor Bob Jenkins
- 1993 · Warren Oates: Across the Border as Self
- 1993 · Sunset Grill as Harrison Shelgrove
- 1993 · Irresistible Force as Harris Stone
- 1993 · Rio Diablo as Kansas
- 1992 · Revenge on the Highway as Claude Sams
- 1989 · Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All as Mike Hammer
- 1989 · The Forgotten as Adam Roth
- 1982 · That Championship Season as James Daley
- 1980 · The Search for Solutions as Narrator
- 1978 · Two Solitudes as Huntley McQueen
- 1977 · The Squeeze as Jim Naboth
- 1976 · The Killer Inside Me as Lou Ford
- 1976 · Dynasty as Matt Blackwood
- 1975 · Conduct Unbecoming as Capitano Archer
- 1974 · All the Kind Strangers as James "Jimmy" Wheeler
- 1974 · The Dion Brothers as Calvin
- 1974 · Luther as Martin Luther
- 1970 · The Traveling Executioner as Jonas Candide
- 1970 · End of the Road as Jacob Horner
- Future · Mysterious Places as Series Host
- 2026 · The Way Things Seem to Be as Self
- 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
- 2018 · Kidding as Stacy Keach
- 2018 · Gotti as Neil Dellacroce
- 2017 · Habit & Armour as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 · Sucker Punch Blues: A Look Back on John Huston's 'Fat City' as Self
- 2017 · Girlfriend's Day as Gundy
- 2016 · Tokyo Trial as Narrator (voice)
- 2016 · Cop Stories: The Making of Richard Fleischer’s ‘The New Centurions’ as Self
- 2016 · Man with a Plan as Joe Burns
- 2016 · Cell as Charles Ardai
- 2016 · Crowded as Bob Moore
- 2016 · Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows as Self
- 2016 · Gold as Clive Coleman
- 2015 · Truth as Lt. Colonel Bill Burkett
- 2015 · Father Rupert Mayer as Colonel von Bayern
- 2015 · Sam as The Shopkeeper
- 2015 · Fifty Shades of Erotica as (archive footage)
- 2014 · NCIS: New Orleans as Cassius Pride
- 2014 · If I Stay as Gramps
- 2014 · Sin City: A Dame to Kill For as Wallenquist
- 2014 · Planes: Fire & Rescue as Skipper (voice)
- 2014 · Enlisted as Patrick
- 2013 · Full Circle as Bud O'Rourke
- 2013 · Sean Saves the World as Lee Thompson
- 2013 · Meir's Festival as Self
- 2013 · The Blacklist as Robert Vesco
- 2013 · Nebraska as Ed Pegram
- 2013 · Brooklyn Nine-Nine as Jimmy Brogan
- 2013 · Planes as Skipper (voice)
- 2013 · The Great Chameleon as Max
- 2013 · Ooga Booga as Judge
- 2012 · 1600 Penn as Frohm Thoroughgood
- 2012 · Malibu Country as Brad
- 2012 · An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road as Self
- 2012 · The Bourne Legacy as Turso
- 2012 · Anger Management as Ray
- 2012 · Cellmates as Warden Merville
- 2011 · The Exes as Bill Drake
- 2011 · Air Mater as Skipper (voice)
- 2011 · Hindenburg: The Last Flight as Edward van Zandt
- 2011 · Lights Out as Pops
- 2010 · Blue Bloods as Kevin Kearns
- 2010 · Blue Bloods as Archbishop Kevin Kearns
- 2010 · Blue Bloods as Archbishop Kearns
- 2010 · Machete as Doc Franklin
- 2010 · Hot in Cleveland as Alex Chase
- 2009 · Imbued as Donatello
- 2009 · Meteor as Sheriff Crowe
- 2009 · The Assistants as Harlin W. Keyes
- 2009 · The Assistants as Jasper / The Garbage Man
- 2008 · Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales as Skipper (voice)
- 2008 · W. as Rev. Earle Hudd
- 2008 · Not Quite Hollywood as Self
- 2008 · Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center as Merlyn
- 2008 · The Last Full Measure as Narrator (voice)
- 2007 · Honeydripper as Sheriff Pugh
- 2007 · The Pixar Story as Narrator (voice)
- 2007 · American Greed as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · Warplane as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2006 · Death Row as John Elias
- 2006 · 30 Rock as Stacy Keach
- 2006 · Galapagos as Bishop of Panama (voice)
- 2006 · Blackbeard as Cpt. Benjamin Hornigold
- 2006 · Washington the Warrior as
- 2006 · The Switch as
- 2005 · Prison Break as Warden Henry Pope
- 2005 · Caught in the Headlights as Mr. Jones
- 2004 · El padrino: The Latin Godfather as Gov. Lancaster
- 2004 · Galaxy Hunter as 3V3
- 2004 · Totally Outrageous Behavior as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 2003 · Two and a Half Men as Tom
- 2003 · How Do You Change Your Parents? as Richard Hendersen
- 2003 · Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science as Narrator (voice)
- 2002 · Girls Club as
- 2002 · Boomtown as Jack 'Mac' McNorris
- 2002 · What's New, Scooby-Doo? as The Mayor (voice)
- 2002 · What's New, Scooby-Doo? as Harold Ling (voice)
- 2002 · George Lopez as Blaine McNamara
- 2002 · The Real Death Star as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Lightning: Fire from the Sky as Bart Pointdexter
- 2001 · Birds of Passage as Captain Savienko
- 2001 · Sunstorm as Gen. John Parker
- 2001 · The Zeta Project as
- 2001 · Majestic White Horses as Narrator (voice)
- 2001 · Gary & Mike as (voice)
- 2000 · Militia as George Armstrong Montgomery
- 2000 · Savage Planet: Deadly Skies as Narrator (voice)
- 2000 · Alien Technology as Host
- 2000 · Titus as Ken Titus
- 1999 · Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Orion Bauer
- 1999 · Dolphins: The Wild Side as Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn as Self - Guest
- 1999 · World's Most Amazing Videos as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1999 · Batman Beyond as Vance (voice)
- 1998 · Will & Grace as Wendell Schacter
- 1998 · Sea Devils as Captain Savienko
- 1998 · American History X as Cameron
- 1998 · Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book as
- 1998 · Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane as Self
- 1997 · Future Fear as General Wallace
- 1997 · Mike Hammer, Private Eye as Mike Hammer
- 1997 · Die Gang as Jean-Marie Bosco
- 1997 · The Sea Wolf as Wolf Larsen
- 1997 · Volcano: Nature's Inferno as Narrator (voice)
- 1996 · E! True Hollywood Story as
- 1996 · Escape from L.A. as Malloy
- 1996 · Titanic's Lost Sister as Narrator (voice) - US Version
- 1995 · Texas as Sam Houston
- 1995 · The Outer Limits as Cord van Owen
- 1995 · Trust in Me as The Reverend
- 1995 · Andrew Wyeth: Self Portrait - Snow Hill as Narrator
- 1994 · Against Their Will as Jack Devlin
- 1994 · The Secret of the Wild Child as Self
- 1994 · New Crime City: Los Angeles 2020 as Wynorski
- 1994 · Touched by an Angel as Ty Duncan
- 1994 · Touched by an Angel as Maury Hoover
- 1994 · ER as Mike Gates
- 1994 · Reflections on Elephants as Narrator
- 1993 · Batman: Mask of the Phantasm as Phantasm / Carl Beaumont (voice)
- 1993 · Body Bags as Richard
- 1993 · National Geographic: The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1993 · Working with Orson Welles as Himself
- 1992 · Lincoln as George McClellan (voice)
- 1992 · Lincoln and the War Within as
- 1992 · The Secret World Of Bats as Host
- 1991 · Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis as Capt. Charles Butler McVay
- 1991 · Rugrats as Marvin Finster (voice)
- 1991 · Milena as Jesenski
- 1991 · Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories as Narrator
- 1991 · I Misteri Della Giungla Nera as Colonel Edward Corishant
- 1990 · Lindbergh as Self - Narrator (voice)
- 1990 · False Identity as Ben Driscoll / Harlan Errickson
- 1990 · Night of 100 Stars III as Self
- 1990 · Class of 1999 as Dr. Bob Forrest
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Howard K. Duff VIII (voice) / Don Bookner (voice)
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Howard Duff (voice)
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Howard K. Duff VIII / Don Bookner (voice)
- 1988 · American Experience as Narrator (voice)
- 1988 · LIVE with Kelly and Mark as (archive footage)
- 1988 · Hemingway as Ernest Hemingway
- 1986 · The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer as Mike Hammer
- 1986 · Intimate Strangers as Dr. Jeff Bierston
- 1984 · Mistral's Daughter as Julien Mistral
- 1984 · Six Centuries of Verse as Self - Reader
- 1984 · Mike Hammer as Mike Hammer
- 1984 · More Than Murder as Mike Hammer
- 1983 · Princess Daisy as Count Alexander "Stash" Valensky
- 1983 · Murder Me, Murder You as Mike Hammer
- 1982 · The Blue and the Gray as Jonas Steele
- 1982 · Wait Until Dark as Roat / Roat Sr. / Roat Jr.
- 1982 · Butterfly as Jess Tyler
- 1981 · Nice Dreams as Sergeant Stedenko
- 1981 · Roadgames as Patrick 'Pat' Quid
- 1980 · A Rumor of War as Maj. Ball
- 1980 · The Long Riders as Frank James
- 1980 · Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger as Judge Murdock
- 1980 · The Ninth Configuration as Col. Hudson Kane
- 1979 · Diary of a Young Comic as Mr. Porzinski
- 1978 · Slave of the Cannibal God as Professor Edward Foster
- 1978 · Up in Smoke as Sergeant Stedenko
- 1978 · Gray Lady Down as Captain Bennett
- 1978 · The Biggest Battle as Maggiore Mannfred Roland
- 1977 · The Duellists as Narrator (voice)
- 1977 · Jesus of Nazareth as Barabbas
- 1976 · Street People as Charlie Hanson
- 1975 · Saturday Night Live as Man in 'Cold As Ice' (uncredited)
- 1975 · James Dean: The First American Teenager as Narrator (voice)
- 1975 · Caribe as Lt. Ben Logan
- 1975 · Hamburger Hamlet as
- 1975 · One By One as Narrator
- 1974 · The Formula One Drivers (aka The Quick and the Dead) as Narrator
- 1974 · Watched! as Mike Mandell / Sonny
- 1974 · NOVA as
- 1974 · NOVA as Narrator
- 1974 · NOVA as Narrator (voice)
- 1974 · Antigone as Chorus
- 1972 · The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean as Bad Bob
- 1972 · The New Centurions as Roy Fehle
- 1972 · Fat City as Tully
- 1972 · Particular Men as
- 1971 · Brewster McCloud as Abraham Wright
- 1971 · Doc as Doc Holliday
- 1971 · Great Performances as
- 1968 · The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter as Blount
- 1961 · The Mike Douglas Show as Self
- 1954 · Lassie as
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self - Presenter
- 1944 · Golden Globe Awards as Self
- Future · suppose as Death