Stacy Keach Biography (1941-)

Full name, Walter Stacy Keach, Jr.; born June 2, 1941, in Savannah, GA; son of Stacy (an actor, drama teacher, and theatre director) and Mary Cain (an actress; maiden name, Peckham) Keach; brother of James Keach (an actor, producer, and director); married Marilyn Aiken, 1975 (divorced); married Jill Donahue, 1981 (divorced); married Malgosia Tomassi, c. 1986; children: (second marriage) two daughters; (third marriage) Shannon, Karolina. Addresses: Agent: Joel Dean, Agency for the Performing Arts, 9200 Sunset Blvd., Suite 900,Los Angeles, CA 90069.; Publicist: Dick Guttman, Guttman Associates Public Relations, 118 South Beverly Dr., Suite 201, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.; Contact:c/o 27525 Winding Way, Malibu, CA 90265.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Actor, director, writer, producer
Birth Details: June 2, 1941; Savannah, Georgia, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Appearances
Island of Love (also known as Not on Your Life), 1963
(As Stacy Keach, Jr.) Blount, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, WarnerBros./Seven Arts, 1968
Jonas Candide, The Traveling Executioner, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1968
Jacob Horner, End of the Road, Allied Artists, 1970
Abraham Wright, Brewster McCloud, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1970
Doc Holiday, Doc, United Artists, 1971
Bad Bob, The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, National General, 1971
Roy Fehler, The New Centurions (also known as Precinct 45: LosAngeles Police), Columbia, 1972
Tully, Fat City, Columbia, 1972
Mike Mandell and Sonny, Watched!, Palmyra Films, 1973
Oklahoma Crude, Columbia, 1973
Wilbur Wright, Wilbur and Orville: The First to Fly, 1973
Calvin, The Gravy Train (also known as The Dion Brothers),Columbia, 1974
Martin Luther, Luther, American Film Theatre, 1974
Narrator, One by One, 1974
Narrator, James Dean, the First American Teenager, 1975
Captain Harper, Conduct Unbecoming, Allied Artists, 1975
Hamburger Hamlet, 1975
Charlie Hanson and Phil, Street People (also known as The Executioner, The Executors, The Sicilian Cross, Gli esecutori, and Uomo del'organizzazione), American International Pictures, 1976
Lou Ford, The Killer inside Me, Warner Bros., 1976
Jim Naboth, The Squeeze, Warner Bros., 1976
Jerry Seever, The November Plan, 1976
Manfred Roland, The Greatest Battle (also known as Battle Force, The Battle of the Mareth Line, The Biggest Battle, TheGreat Battle, and Il grande attacco), 1977
Narrator, The Duellists, Paramount Home Video, 1977
Huntley McQueen, Two Solitudes, Compass, 1977
Dr. Edward Foster, La montagna del dio cannibale (also known as The Mountain of Cannibal Gods, Prisoner of the Cannibal God, andSlave of the Cannibal God), Vestron, 1978
Captain Bennett, Gray Lady Down, Universal, 1978
Sergeant Stedenko, Up in Smoke (also known as Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke), Paramount, 1978
Colonel Hudson Kane and Colonel Vincent Kane, The Ninth Configuration (also known as Twinkle, Twinkle, Killer Kane), New World, 1979
Narrator, The Search for Solutions, 1979
Frank James, The Long Riders, United Artists, 1980
Patrick "Pat" Quid, Road Games, Avco Embassy, 1981
Sergeant Stedenko, Cheech & Chong's Nice Dreams (also known asNice Dreams), Columbia, 1981
Reverend Maier, The Witch, 1981
Jess Tyler, Butterfly, Live, 1982
James Daley, That Championship Season, Cannon Films, 1982
Voice, Pet Sematary, Paramount, 1989
Ben Driscoll/Harlan Errickson, False Identity, Pavillion Pictures,1990
Dr. Bob Forrest, Class of 1999, Taurus Entertainment, 1990
Jesenski, Milena (also known as The Lover and Geliebte Milena), 1990
Harrison Shelgrove, Sunset Grill, New Line Cinema, 1993
Voice of Phantasm/Carl Beaumont, Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (animated; also known as Batman: The Animated Movie and Mask of the Phantasm: Batman the Animated Movie), Warner Bros., 1993
Warren Oates: Across the Border, 1993
Bob Jenkins, Raw Justice (also known as Good Cop, Bad Cop and Skip-Tracer), Republic Pictures Home Video, 1994
Wynorski, New Crime City (also known as Angeles 2020), Concorde-New Horizons, 1994
The reverend, Trust in Me, 1994
Pembrooke, Young Ivanhoe, Cabin Fever Entertainment, 1995
The commander, Prey of the Jaguar, JFW Productions, 1996
Malloy, John Carpenter's Escape from L.A. (also known as Escapefrom L.A.), Paramount, 1996
Wolf Larsen, Jack London's The Sea Wolf (also known as The SeaWolf), Concorde, 1997
General Wallace, Future Fear, Cinequanon Pictures, 1997
Captain John Savienko, Birds of Passage, First Preferred Communications, 1998
Cameron Alexander, American History X, New Line Cinema, 1998
Dr. Michaels, Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return (also knownas Children of the Corn 666), Buena Vista Home Video, 1999
Mr. Hill, Fear Runs Silent, MTI Home Video, 1999
Narrator, Olympic Glory, MegaSystems, 1999
Father Tom, Mercy Streets, Providence Entertainment, 2000
Warden Kelso, Unshackled, Nantucket Limited, 2000
General John Parker, Sunstorm, 2001
Mike Hammer, Mike Hammer: Song Bird, MTI Home Video, 2003
Governor Lancaster, El padrino, El Padrino LLC/Heartless Films, 2003
Jack O'Callahan, Jesus, Mary, and Joey, Federal Hill Pictures, 2003
Film Work
Co-executive producer, The Long Riders, United Artists, 1980
Television Appearances
Series
Professor Carlson, Get Smart, NBC, 1966-1967
Lieutenant Ben Logan, Caribe, ABC, 1975
Mike Hammer, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (also known as The New Mike Hammer), CBS, 1984-1987
Host, Missing/Reward, syndicated, 1989
Host, Case Closed, USA Network, 1993
Bosco, Gang, Die, 1997
Title role, Mike Hammer, Private Eye, syndicated, 1997-1998
Narrator, World's Most Amazing Videos, NBC, 1999
Ken Titus, Titus, Fox, 2000
Rods!, 2002
Movies
Dr. Grey, Johnny Belinda, ABC, 1967
Orville and Wilbur, PBS, 1971
Classics for Today, PBS, 1972
Jimmy Wheeler, All the Kind Strangers (also known as Evil in the Swamp), ABC, 1974
Matt Blackwood, James A. Michener's "Dynasty" (also known as The Americans and Dynasty), NBC, 1976
Diary of a Young Comic, NBC, 1977
Judge Murdock, Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger (also known as Portrait of a Rebel: Margaret Sanger), CBS, 1980
Bar drinker, The $5.20 an Hour Dream, 1980
Harry Roat, Wait until Dark, HBO, 1982
Mike Hammer, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer: Murder Me, Murder You(also known as Murder Me, Murder You), CBS, 1983
Mike Hammer, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer: More Than Murder (alsoknown as More Than Murder), CBS, 1984
Dr. Jeffrey Bierston, Intimate Strangers, CBS, 1986
Mike Hammer, The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, CBS, 1986
Mike Hammer, Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All (alsoknown as Mike Hammer in Las Vegas and Murder Takes All), CBS,1989
Adam Roth, The Forgotten, USA Network, 1989
Captain Charles McVay, Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis (also known as Mission of the Shark), CBS, 1991
Claude Sams, Revenge on the Highway (also known as Overdrive and Silent Thunder), NBC, 1992
Harris Stone, Irresistible Force, 1993
Richard, "Hair," Body Bags (also known as John Carpenter Presents Body Bags), Showtime, 1993
Kansas, Rio Diablo (also known as Devil's River), CBS, 1993
Jack Devlin, Against Their Will: Women in Prison (also known as Against Their Will and Caged Seduction: The Shocking True Story),ABC, 1994
Emmitt Mallory, Amanda and the Alien (also known as Alien Love), Showtime, 1995
Compte de Leon, The Pathfinder, Showtime, 1996
Narrator, Plague Fighters (also known as Ebola: Inside an Outbreak), 1996
Agent Cargill, Murder in My Mind, CBS, 1997
Dr. Bent, Legend of the Lost Tomb, Showtime, 1997
Bill Foster, Icebreaker, HBO, 1999
Jean-Baptiste Delille, The Courage to Love, Lifetime, 2000
Montgomery, Militia, HBO, 2000
Lightning: Fire from the Sky, PAX, 2001
Max Hurst, The Santa Trap, PAX, 2002
Pete Crane, Frozen Impact, PAX, 2002
Miniseries
Barabbas, Jesus of Nazareth (also known as Gesu di Nazareth), NBC, 1977
Major Ball, A Rumor of War, CBS, 1980
Jonas Steele, The Blue and the Gray, CBS, 1982
Prince Stash Valensky, Princess Daisy, NBC, 1983
Julien Mistral, Mistral's Daughter, CBS, 1985
Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway, syndicated, 1988
I misteri della giungla nera (also known as The Mysteries of the Dark Jungle and Das Geheimnis des schwarzen Dschungels), 1990
Voice of Captain Albert Barnitz, The Wild West, syndicated, 1993
Sam Houston, James A. Michener's Texas (also known as Texas), 1994
Narrator, Savage Earth, PBS, 1998
Narrator, Savage Seas, PBS, 1999
Specials
Hamlet, CBS, 1964
Voice of Merchant, Beauty and the Beast, CBS, 1983
The American Film Institute Salute to John Huston, CBS, 1983
Host, CBS All-American Thanksgiving Day Parade, CBS, 1986
Sex Symbols: Past, Present, and Future, syndicated, 1987

Ringmaster, 14th Annual Circus of the Stars, CBS, 1989
Host, La Boheme, Arts and Entertainment, 1989
Night of 100 Stars III, NBC, 1990
Narrator, Lindbergh, PBS, 1990
Voice of General George McClellan, Lincoln, ABC, 1992
Narrator, Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories, CBS, 1992
Narrator, The Secret World of Bats, CBS, 1992
Lincoln and Seward, 1992
Narrator, "Reflections on Elephants," National Geographic Special,PBS, 1994
Host, A Capitol Fourth, PBS, 1995
Flight over the Equator, The Discovery Channel, 1995
Narrator, Real Ghosts, UPN, 1995
Narrator, The Orphan Trains, PBS, 1995
Narrator, In Search of the Oregon Trail, PBS, 1996
Narrator, Mary Lincoln's Insanity File, The Discovery Channel, 1996
Narrator, Real Ghosts III, UPN, 1996
Narrator, The World's Most Dangerous..., CBS, 1996
Narrator, The World's Most Dangerous Animals, CBS, 1996
Narrator, The World's Most Dangerous Animals II, CBS, 1996
Narrator, Avalanche!, PBS, 1997
Narrator, Volcano!, NBC, 1997
Narrator, Faster Than Sound, PBS, 1997
Narrator, Mysteries of Deep Space, PBS, 1997
Narrator, Secrets of Lost Empires, PBS, 1997
Narrator, The Proof, PBS, 1997
Narrator, Titanic's Lost Sister, 1997
Narrator, The World's Most Dangerous Animals III, CBS, 1997
Narrator, Ice Mummies, PBS, 1998
Narrator, Mysterious Mummies of China, PBS, 1998
Narrator, Planet of Life, The Discovery Channel, 1998
Narrator, Sea Monsters: Search for the Giant Squid, NBC, 1998
Narrator, Search for the Lost Cave People, PBS, 1998
Narrator, The Brain Eater, PBS, 1998
Narrator, Battle Alert in the Gulf, PBS, 1999
Narrator, Great Quakes, The Learning Channel, 1999
Narrator, Intimate Portrait: Margot Kidder, Lifetime, 1999
Narrator, Run for Cover, ABC, 1999
Narrator, Dolphins: The Wild Side, NBC, 1999
Narrator, Terror on the Job, Fox, 1999
Narrator, Voyage to the Milky Way, PBS, 1999
Voice of Nikola Tesla, Tesla: Master of Lightning, PBS, 2000
David Carradine: The E! True Hollywood Story, E! Entertainment Television, 2000
Narrator, Devil's Island, The Discovery Channel, 2000
Narrator, Savage Planet, PBS, 2000
Narrator, Secrets of Lost Empires, PBS, 2000
Narrator, The Face: Jesus in Art, PBS, 2001
Host, Stupid Behavior: Caught on Tape, Fox, 2001
Narrator, Warship, PBS, 2001
Pia Zadora: The E! True Hollywood Story, E! Entertainment Television, 2002
Narrator, Death Star, PBS, 2002
Narrator, Fireworks!, PBS, 2002
Narrator, Great Projects: The Building of America, 2002
Interviewee, Intimate Portrait: Joan Collins, Lifetime, 2003
Narrator, Psychic Secrets Revealed, NBC, 2003
Also appeared as Autolycus, The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare Repertory Theatre, PBS.
Episodic
Lieutenant Gibson, "The Case of the Frightened Fisherman," Perry Mason, CBS, 1964
Judge, "The Case of the Cheating Chancellor," Perry Mason, CBS, 1965
He and She, CBS, 1968
Feste, "Twelfth Night," Actors Company, Shakespeare Repertory Theatre, PBS, 1968
Banquo, "Macbeth," Actors Company, Shakespeare Repertory Theatre,PBS, 1968
Farmer, "The Weary Willies," Bonanza, NBC, 1970
"The Repeater," The Great American Dream Machine, PBS, 1971
"Biography," N.E.T. Playhouse, PBS, 1971
"Particular Men," Playhouse New York, PBS, 1972
Member of chorus, "Antigone," Playhouse New York, PBS, 1972
"The 26th Grave," Bonanza, NBC, 1972
"Murder in the Slave Trade," Hawkins, 1974
"The Man of Destiny," Hollywood Television Theatre, PBS, 1975
"Good Cop," Delvecchio, CBS, 1976
"Sighting 4007: The Forest City Incident," Project U.F.O., NBC, 1978
"Edwin Drake," An American Portrait, CBS, 1984
George Teller, "Heartbreak Hotel," Freddy's Nightmares, syndicated, 1989
Narrator, "Russian Right Stuff," Nova, PBS, 1990
Narrator, "Making a Dishonest Buck," Nova, PBS, 1992
Narrator, "The Kennedys," American Experience, PBS, 1992
Narrator, "In the White Man's Image," American Experience, PBS, 1992
Narrator, "The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal," National Geographic Explorer, TBS, 1993
Wade Hatton, "Hatton's Turn: Parts 1 & 2," In the Heat of the Night, 1993
Narrator, "Secret of the Wild Child," Nova, PBS, 1994
Narrator, "Killer Quake!," Nova, PBS, 1994
Narrator, "The Universe Within," Nova, PBS, 1994
Ty Duncan, "Sympathy for the Devil," Touched by an Angel, CBS, 1995
Narrator, "Aircraft Carrier," True Stories, 1995
Narrator, "Terror in the Mine Fields," Nova, PBS, 1995
Ned Bernhart, "Downsized," Promised Land, CBS, 1996
Voice of Marvin Finster, "The Family Tree: Parts I & II," The Rugrats (animated), 1998
Voice of Richard Vance, "Lost Soul," Batman Beyond (animated), TheWB, 1999
Cord van Owen, "The Gun," The Outer Limits, Showtime and syndicated, 2000
Voice of Roland deFlores, "The Next Gen," The Zeta Project, Kids WB, 2001
Guest, The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn, CBS, 2001
Voice of H. K. Duff, "Hungry, Hungry Homer," The Simpsons (animated), Fox, 2001
Maury Hoover, "Private Eyes," Touched by an Angel, CBS, 2003
Voice of H. K. Duff, "Old Yeller Belly," The Simpsons (animated),Fox, 2003
Voice for The Adventures of Don Coyote and Sancho Panda (animated); appeared as Senator Porter, Flamingo Road; voice of Pops, Gary & Mike, UPN; appeared as Harold Falcon, Girls Club, Fox; as Carl, Malcolm in the Middle, Fox; in Nitecap, ABC; in The Sheriff of Cochise, syndicated; as a guest, The Test, FX; and voice forYogi's Treasure Hunt (animated).
Awards Presentations
38th Annual Emmy Awards, NBC, 1986
44th Annual Golden Globe Awards, syndicated, 1987
Presenter, The 20th International Emmy Awards, PBS, 1992
Pilots
Dr. Eberly, Kingston: The Power Play, NBC, 1976
Host, Missing/Reward, NBC and syndicated, 1988
New Year (also known as New Year's and New Year's 1999), ABC, 1993
Other
C. W. Aldrich, Miracle Dogs, 2003
Television Work
Series
Co-executive producer, Mike Hammer: Private Eye, syndicated, 1997-1998
Episodic
Producer and director, "The Repeater," The Great American Dream Machine, PBS, 1971
Director, "A Blinding Fear," Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (also known as The New Mike Hammer), CBS, 1987
Television Director
Other
Incident at Vichy, 1973
Six Characters in Search of an Author (special), PBS, 1976
Stage Appearances
Armand, Camille, Tufts Arena, CA, 1961
Antiopholus, The Comedy of Errors, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, 1962
Westmoreland, Henry IV, Part II, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 1962
Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 1963
Berowne, Love's Labour's Lost, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 1963
Title role, Henry V, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 1963
Marcellus and first player, Hamlet, New York Shakespeare Festival,Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, 1964
Cutler and Turnkey, Danton's Death, Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, New York City, 1965
Mr. Horner, The Country Wife, Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center,Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, 1965
The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, 1966
Annie Get Your Gun, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Williamstown, MA, 1966
You Can't Take It with You, Williamstown Theatre Festival, 1966
The Lion in Winter, Williamstown Theatre Festival, 1966
Marat/Sade (also known as The Persecution and Assassination ofJean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton underthe Direction of the Marquis de Sade), Williamstown Theatre Festival, 1966
Baron Tusenbach, The Three Sisters, Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven,CT, 1966
Master of ceremonies, Oh, What a Lovely War, Long Wharf Theatre, 1966
Title role, MacBird!, Village Gate Theatre, New York City, 1967
Captain Starkey, We Bombed in New Haven, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven, CT, 1967
August, "The Demonstration," and the man, "Man and Dog," The Niggerlovers, Orpheum Theatre, New York City, 1967
Henry IV, Yale Repertory Theatre, 1968
Coriolanus, Yale Repertory Theatre, 1968
The Three Sisters, Yale Repertory Theatre, 1968
Sir John Falstaff, Henry IV, Parts I and II, New York ShakespeareFestival, Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, 1968
Edmund, King Lear, Vivian Beaumont Theatre, Lincoln Center, 1968
Buffalo Bill, Indians, Arena Stage, Washington, DC, then Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New York City, 1969
Title role, Peer Gynt, New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, 1969
Benedict, Beatrice and Benedict, Los Angeles Music Center, Los Angeles, 1970
James Tyrone, Jr., Long Day's Journey into Night, Promenade Theatre, New York City, 1971
Title role, Hamlet, Long Wharf Theatre, 1971, then New York Shakespeare Festival, Delacorte Theatre, Public Theatre, 1972, later Center TheatreGroup, Mark Taper Forum, Los Angeles, 1974
Title role, Cyrano de Bergerac, Long Beach Theatre Festival, LongBeach, CA, 1978
Sydney Bruhl, Deathtrap, Music Box Theatre, New York City, 1979
Eric Smith, Hughie, National Theatre Company, Cottesloe Theatre, London, 1980
Harry Van, Idiot's Delight, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, 1986
The King and I, 1989
Night of 100 Stars III, Radio City Music Hall, New York City, 1990
Title role, Richard III, Folger Shakespeare Festival, Washington,DC, 1990-1991
Solitary Confinement, Broadway production, 1992
The Kentucky Cycle, Broadway production, 1993
Stieglitz Loves O'Keefe, off-Broadway production, 1995
Title role, Macbeth, Folger Shakespeare Festival, 1995
An Inspector Calls, Center Theatre Group, Ahmanson Theatre, Los Angeles, 1995-1996
Art, London, 1998
Another Time, Los Angeles, 2000
Also appeared as Harry Van, Idiot's Delight, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and as Andrew Makepeace Ladd III, Love Letters.
Major Tours
Playing with Fire, British cities, 1965
Phineas Taylor Barnum, Barnum, U.S. cities, 1981
Sleuth, U.S. cities, 1988
The king of Siam, The King and I (musical), 1989
Stage Work
Directed plays as a drama student.
RECORDINGS
Audio Books; Narrator
The Killing Man by Mickey Spillane, 1989
Mickey Spillane's Works by Mickey Spillane, 1990
Impulse by Michael Weaver, Time Warner Audio Books, 1993
There Was a Little Girl by Ed McBain, Time Warner Audio Books, 1994
Hardboiled, 1994
Black Alley by Mickey Spillane, Penguin Audio Books, 1996
High Stakes by John Lutz, 1997
Skeleton Rattle Your Mouldy Leg by Bill Pronzini, Durkin Hayes, 1997
Another Time by Ronald Harwood, Los Angeles Theatre Works, 2001
Videos
Earth Day, Caedmon, 1974
Host, High on the Job, Time Life Video, 1986
Ten Lost Tribes of Israel (on CD-ROM), 1994
The Making of "Mercy Streets," Signal Hill Pictures, 2001
Albums
Long Day's Journey into Night, c. 1971
WRITINGS
Screenplays
(With Bill Bryden and Steven Phillip Smith) The Long Riders, United Artists, 1980
Television Episodes
"The Repeater," The Great American Dream Machine, PBS, 1971
Other
Composer, Incident at Vichy (for television), 1973
Contributor to periodicals, including New York Times Magazine.

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Periodicals

Empire, January, 1999, p. 64
TV Guide, April 1, 2000, pp. 31-32

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