Stacy Keach

For his father, see Stacy Keach Sr.

Stacy Keach
Keach in 2007
Born	Walter Stacy Keach Jr. (1941-06-02) June 2, 1941 (age 83) Savannah, Georgia, U.S.
Citizenship	United States Poland (since 2015)
Education	University of California, Berkeley Yale University London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1964–present
Spouses	Kathryn Baker ​ ​ (m. 1964,divorced)​ Marilyn Aiken ​ ​ (m. 1975;div. 1979)​ Jill Donahue ​ ​ (m. 1981;div. 1986)​ Małgosia Tomassi ​ (m. 1986)​
Children	2
Parents	Stacy Keach Sr. (father) Mary Peckham (mother)
Relatives	James Keach (brother)
Website	gostacykeach.com

Walter Stacy Keach Jr. (born June 2, 1941) is an American-Polish 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. ^{[1] [2] [3]} 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. ^[3]

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), Luther (1973), Slave of the Cannibal God (1979), The Ninth Configuration (1980), The Long Riders (1980), 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 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 recurring roles on series such as Prison Break (2005–2007), Two and a Half Men (2010) and Blue Bloods (2016–). 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.

Early life and education

Keach was born in Savannah, Georgia, to Mary Cain ( née  Peckham), an actress, and Stacy Keach Sr., a theatre director, drama teacher, and actor with dozens of television and theatrical film credits billed as "Stacy Keach." ^[5] The younger Keach was born with a cleft lip and a partial cleft of the hard palate, and he underwent numerous operations as a child. Throughout his adult life he has usually worn a mustache to hide the scars. He is now the honorary chairman of the Cleft Palate Foundation and advocates for insurance coverage for surgeries. ^[6]

He graduated from Van Nuys High School in June 1959, where he was class president, ^[7] then earned two BA degrees at the University of California, Berkeley (1963): one in English, the other in Dramatic Art. He earned a Master of Fine Arts at the Yale School of Drama in 1966 and was a Fulbright Scholar at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. ^[8]

While studying in London, Keach met Laurence Olivier, his acting hero. ^[9]

Career

Theatre

Keach in 1969 (Central Park, New York City)

Keach played the title role in MacBird! , an Off-Broadway anti-war satire by Barbara Garson staged at the Village Gate in 1966. In 1967, he was cast, again Off-Broadway, in George Tabori's The Niggerlovers with Morgan Freeman in his acting debut. To this day, Freeman credits Keach with teaching him the most about acting. ^[10] In 1967, Keach also starred in We Bombed in New Haven, a play by Joseph Heller that premiered in New Haven at the Yale Repertory Theatre and later was produced on Broadway. Keach first appeared on Broadway in 1969 as Buffalo Bill in Indians by Arthur Kopit. ^[11] Early in his career, he was credited as Stacy Keach Jr. to distinguish himself from his father. He played the lead actor in The Nude Paper Sermon, an avant-garde musical theatre piece for media presentation, commissioned by Nonesuch Records by composer Eric Salzman.

Keach has won numerous awards, including Obie Awards, Drama Desk Awards and Vernon Rice Awards. In the early 1980s, he starred in the title role of the national touring company of the musical Barnum, composed by Cy Coleman. ^[12] In 1991 and 1996 he won Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Actor for his work in Richard III and Macbeth with the Shakespeare Theatre Company. In 1998, he was one of the three characters in a London West End production of 'Art' with David Dukes and George Wendt.

In 2006, Keach performed the lead role in Shakespeare's King Lear at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. In 2008, he played Merlin in Lerner and Loewe's Camelot , done with the New York Philharmonic. In the summer of 2009, Shakespeare Theatre Company remounted the production of King Lear at Sidney Harman Hall in Washington, D.C., for which Keach won another Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Actor. ^{[13] [14]}

He has played the title role in two separate productions of Hamlet . ^[15]

In 2008 and 2009, Keach portrayed Richard M. Nixon in the U.S. touring company of the play Frost/Nixon . ^[13]

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

Keach is a founding member of L.A. Theatre Works. He has performed leads in many productions with the company, including 'Willy Loman' in Death of a Salesman and 'John Proctor' in The Crucible . ^[16]

He was scheduled to return to Broadway in December 2014 in the revival of Love Letters at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre alongside Diana Rigg, but the production closed before Keach and Rigg began their runs. ^[17]

Keach was scheduled to play Ernest Hemingway in Jim McGrath's one-man play Pamplona at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago from May 30 to June 25, 2017. Keach appeared in previews of Pamplona, May 19 through May 28, and was well received by audiences. On opening night, he suffered a mild heart attack on stage and the next day, Keach had bypass surgery. ^[18] On June 2, the Goodman Theatre announced that the entire run would be canceled after Keach's doctors advised a period of rest and recuperation. ^[19]

Keach returned to the role at The Goodman one year later, July 10 through August 18, 2018. Keach said it would fulfill an obligation "to the play, to the city and to myself". ^{[20] [21]}

Film

Keach played a rookie policeman in The New Centurions (1972), opposite George C. Scott. That year he also starred in Fat City , a boxing film directed by John Huston. He was the first choice for the role of Damien Karras in the 1973 movie The Exorcist , but he did not accept the role. He went on to play Kane in the 1980 movie The Ninth Configuration , written and directed by Exorcist author William Peter Blatty; this role was itself intended for Nicol Williamson.

Keach was 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 in Up in Smoke and Nice Dreams . He also appeared as Barabbas in Jesus of Nazareth . In 1978, he played a role of explorer and scientist in Slave of the Cannibal God , co-starring former Bond girl Ursula Andress. ^[13] The film became a cult favorite as a "video nasty". Another one of his screen performances was as Frank James (elder brother of Jesse) in The Long Riders (1980). His brother James played Jesse James. Keach starred in the 1981 Australian thriller Roadgames alongside Jamie Lee Curtis. In 1982, Keach starred in Butterfly with Pia Zadora and Orson Welles. In the 1993 movie, Body Bags he played a man who is obsessed with hair.

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

Keach also starred in the TV film Ring of Death playing a sadistic prison warden who runs an underground fight club where prisoners compete for their lives. He had also starred in the movie Planes as Skipper Riley, main character Dusty Crophopper's flight instructor. He reprised the role in Planes: Fire & Rescue .

In 2012, Keach had a supporting role in The Bourne Legacy , and in the 2013 Alexander Payne film Nebraska . In the 2017 film Gotti , Keach played the part of Neil Dellacroce, the underboss of the Gambino crime family.

Television

Keach as Mike Hammer and Tanya Roberts as Velda in Murder Me, Murder You in 1983

Keach's first-ever experience as a series regular on a television program was playing the lead role of Lieutenant Ben Logan in Caribe in 1975. ^[22] He played Barabbas in 1977's Jesus of Nazareth , and portrayed Jonas Steele, a psychic and Scout of the United States Army in the 1982 CBS miniseries, The Blue and the Gray . He later portrayed and is best known as Mike Hammer in the CBS television series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and The New Mike Hammer from 1984 to 1987. He returned to the role of Hammer in Mike Hammer, Private Eye , a new syndicated series that aired from 1997 to 1998. In 1988, he starred as Ernest Hemingway in the made-for-TV movie Hemingway. ^[23] He also hosted segments for the Encore Mystery premium cable network in the late 1990s and 2000s.

In 2000, he played Ken Titus, the sarcastic, chain-smoking, five-times-divorced functional alcoholic father of the title character in Fox's sitcom Titus . Cast members of Titus have commented they enjoyed working with Keach because he would find a way to make even the driest line funny. ^[24]

Keach lent his voice to The Simpsons episodes "Hungry, Hungry Homer", "Old Yeller-Belly", "Marge and Homer Turn a Couple Play", and "Waiting for Duffman", portraying Duff Brewery President Howard K. Duff VIII, and the Batman Beyond episode "Lost Soul" as Robert Vance, a deceased businessman resurrected as an artificial intelligence. He also guest starred in a 2005 episode of the sitcom Will & Grace , and had a recurring role as Warden Henry Pope in the Fox drama Prison Break . Keach was in an episode of Perry Mason.

In 2006, he acted in the mini-series Blackbeard , made for the Hallmark Channel. It was directed by Kevin Connor, and starred Angus Macfadyen, with Richard Chamberlain, David Winters, and Jessica Chastain. ^[25] In 2011, Keach co-starred as "Pops", the father of the main character in the short lived boxing drama series Lights Out .

In November 2013, Keach appeared on the Fox comedy series Brooklyn Nine-Nine , in the episode "Old School". ^[26] In February 2015, Keach started guest appearing in NCIS: New Orleans as Cassius Pride, father of NCIS Agent Dwayne Pride. ^[27] He played the elderly father Bob on the 2016 sitcom Crowded . Beginning in 2016, Keach occasionally appears on CBS's drama Blue Bloods as Archbishop Kevin Kearns. In 2017, Keach started guest appearing in Man with a Plan as Joe Burns, father of Adam Burns (played by co-star Matt LeBlanc) and was later promoted to series regular status for season three. He played the role of Robert Vesco, Raymond Reddington's former mentor and criminal muse, on the TV series The Blacklist .

Narrator

Keach narrated several episodes of Nova , National Geographic , and various other informational series. From 1989 to 1992, he was host of the syndicated informational reenactment show, Missing Reward, which had a similar format to the popular Unsolved Mysteries at the time. From 1992 to 1995, he became the voice-over narrator for the paranormal series Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories .^{[ citation needed ]}

Beginning in 1999, he served as the narrator for the home video clip show World's Most Amazing Videos , which is now seen on Spike TV. He currently hosts The Twilight Zone radio series. Keach can also be heard narrating the CNBC series American Greed , from its 2007 inception to the 2022-23 season. For the PBS series American Experience , he narrated The Kennedys, among others.^{[ citation needed ]}

In 2008, Keach once again reprised his famous role as Mike Hammer in a series of full-cast radio dramatizations for Blackstone Audio. (He also arranged and performed the music for the audio dramas. His wife, Malgosia Tomassi, also starred in the dramas, playing Maya Ricci, a yoga instructor.) Keach has also read many of Mickey Spillane's original Mike Hammer novels as Audiobooks.

Keach played the role of John in The Truth & Life Dramatized Audio Bible, a 22-hour audio version of the RSV-CE translation of the New Testament. ^[28] He also voiced both Job and Paul the Apostle in The Word of Promise, a 2007 dramatic audio presentation based on the New King James Version. ^[29]

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).^{[ citation needed ]} Keach is the voice of CNBC's American Greed , now on their thirteenth season.

Music

Keach is an accomplished pianist and composer. He sang backing vocals on the Judy Collins hit song "Amazing Grace". He is also credited with co-writing a song, "Easy Times", on the Judy Collins live album Living . He provided music for the film Imbued, directed by Rob Nilssen. He has also completed composing the music for the Mike Hammer audio radio series, "Encore For Murder", written by Max Collins, directed by Carl Amari, and produced by Blackstone Audio.

Personal life

Keach's star at the Orpheum Theatre, 2010

Keach has been married four times: to Kathryn Baker in 1964, to Marilyn Aiken in 1975, to Jill Donahue in 1981, and to Małgorzata Tomassi in 1986. ^[30] He has two children by adoption with Małgorzata: son Shannon Keach and daughter Karolina Keach. In 2015, Keach became a Polish citizen. ^[31]

His brother James is an actor and television director.

Keach is a Roman Catholic.

Legal issues

In 1984, Customs & Excise officers arrested Keach at Heathrow Airport for importation of cocaine. Keach pleaded guilty, and served six months at Reading Prison. ^[32] Keach stated that his time in prison, which he described as the lowest point of his life, and the friendship he formed with a priest during that time led to his conversion to Catholicism. Subsequently, he and his wife met Pope John Paul II. His wife, Małgorzata Tomassi, had attended the same school in Warsaw as the pope. ^[33]

Honors

In 2015, Keach was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame. ^[34] In 2019, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. ^[35]

Partial stage credits

Title	Run	Role	Original venue	Notes	Ref.
The Comedy of Errors	07/21/1962-08/30/1962	Antipholus of Syracuse	Oregon Shakespeare Festival		[36]
Henry IV, Part 2	07/22/1962-08/31/1962	Earl of Westmorland			[36]
Coriolanus	07/24/1962-09/02/1962	Senator			[36]
Henry V	07/27/1963-09/05/1963	Henry V			[36]
Romeo and Juliet	07/25/1963-09/07/1963	Mercutio			[36]
Love's Labour's Lost	07/26/1963-09/08/1963	Lord Berowne			[36]
Hamlet	06/16/1964-07/04/1964	Marcellus / First Player	Delacorte Theater, Off-Broadway		[37]
Danton's Death	10/21/1965-11/27/1965	Performer	Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway		[38]
The Country Wife	12/09/1965-01/23/1966	Mr. Horner			[38]
The Caucasian Chalk Circle	03/24/1966-06/18/1966	Performer			[38]
Annie Get Your Gun	08/23/1966-08/27/1966	Sitting Bull	Williamstown Theatre Festival		[39]
You Can't Take It with You	07/01/1966-07/09/1966	Boris Kolenkhov			[39]
Incident at Vichy	07/12/1966-07/16/1966	Prinz von Berg			[39]
The Lion in Winter	07/19/1966-07/23/1966	Richard			[39]
Marat/Sade	07/26/1966-07/30/1966	Jean-Paul Marat			[39]
MacBird!	02/22/1967-01/21/1968	MacBird	Village Gate, Off-Broadway		[37]
The Niggerlovers	10/01/1967-10/22/1967	August / The Man	Orpheum Theatre, Off-Broadway		[37]
We Bombed in New Haven	12/04/1967-12/23/1967	Captain Starkey	Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven		[40]
Henry IV, Part 1	01/29/1968-02/10/1968	John Falstaff			[40]
Henry IV, Part 2					[40]
Three Sisters	03/04/1968-03/16/1968	Baron Tusenbach	Yale Repertory Theatre, New Haven	Also composer	[40]
Henry IV, Part 1	06/11/1968-08/03/1968	John Falstaff	Delacorte Theater, Off-Broadway		[37]
Henry IV, Part 2	06/18/1968-08/03/1968				[37]
King Lear	11/07/1968-02/12/1969	Edmund	Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway		[38]
Peer Gynt	07/08/1969-08/02/1969	Peer Gynt	Delacorte Theater, Off-Broadway		[37]
Indians	05/01/1969-06/08/1969	Buffalo Bill	Arena Stage, Washington D.C.		[40]
	10/13/1969-01/03/1970		Brooks Atkinson Theatre, Broadway		[38]
Long Day's Journey into Night	04/21/1971-08/22/1971	James Tyrone Jr.	Promenade Theatre, Off-Broadway		[37]
Hamlet	01/21/1972-02/12/1972	Prince Hamlet	Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven		[40]
	05/20/1972-07/16/1972		Delacorte Theater, Off-Broadway		[37]
Deathtrap	01/15/1979-09/02/1980	Sidney Bruhl	Music Box Theatre, Broadway	Replacement	[38]
Barnum	05/12/1981-08/22/1981	P. T. Barnum	U.S. tour		[38]
Sleuth	05/03/1988-08/08/1988	Milo Tindle			[38]
Richard III	09/11/1990-11/10/1990	Richard	Folger Theater, Washington D.C.		[40]
Solitary Confinement	11/08/1992-11/29/1992	Richard Jannings	Nederlander Theatre, Broadway		[38]
The Kentucky Cycle	09/11/1993-10/07/1993	Various	Kennedy Center, Washington D.C.		[40]
	11/14/1993-12/12/1993		Royale Theatre, Broadway		[38]
An Inspector Calls	05/07/1996-08/04/1996	Arthur Birling	U.S. tour		[38]
A Christmas Carol	12/09/2003-12/27/2003	Ebenezer Scrooge	Cutler Majestic Theatre, Boston		[40]
Finishing the Picture	09/21/2004-11/07/2004	Phillip Ochsner	Goodman Theatre, Chicago		[40]
King Lear	09/09/2006-10/22/2006	Lear			[40]
White Christmas	07/08/2007-07/15/2007	General Henry Waverly	Benedum Center, Pittsburgh		[40]
A Love Like No Other	10/02/2008-10/26/2008		Malibu Playhouse, Malibu	Also playwright	[40]
Frost/Nixon	09/30/2008-05/10/2009	President Richard Nixon	U.S. tour		[38]
King Lear	06/16/2009-07/19/2009	Lear	Sidney Harman Hall, Washington D.C.		[40]
Other Desert Cities	01/13/2011-02/27/2011	Lyman Wyeth	Vivian Beaumont Theater, Broadway		[37]
	11/03/2011-06/17/2012		Booth Theatre, Broadway		[38]
Death of a Salesman	03/16/2011-03/20/2011	Willy Loman	Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles		[40]
Uncle Vanya	10/17/2013-10/20/2013	Ivan Petrovich Voinitsky	James Bridges Theater, Los Angeles		[40]
Henry IV, Part 1	03/24/2014-06/07/2014	John Falstaff	Sidney Harman Hall, Washington D.C.		[40]
Henry IV, Part 2	04/01/2014-05/08/2014				[40]
Love Letters	09/13/2014-12/14/2014	Andrew Makepeace Ladd III	Brooks Atkinson Theater, Broadway		[41]
Pamplona	05/19/2017-05/30/2017	Ernest Hemingway	Goodman Theatre, Chicago		[40]
	07/10/2018-08/10/2018				[40]

Other stage credits

• The Devil's Disciple (1963, Yale Drama School) - Richard Dudgeon ^[42]
• Julius Caesar (1965, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) - Brutus ^[42]
• King Lear (1965, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) - Earl of Kent ^[42]
• Oh, What a Lovely War! (1969, Long Wharf Theatre) - Master of Ceremonies
• Cyrano de Bergerac (1978, Long Beach Theatre Festival) - Cyrano de Bergerac
• Hughie (1980, Royal National Theatre) - Erie Smith ^[43]
• Idiot's Delight (1986, American National Theater and Academy) - Harry Van ^[44]
• The Crucible (1988, L.A. Theatre Works) - John Proctor ^[45]
• The King and I (1989, Benedum Center) - Mongkut ^[40]
• Camelot (1991, Benedum Center) - King Arthur ^[40]
• Stieglitz Loves O'Keefe (1995, Morris A. Mechanic Theatre) - Alfred Stieglitz ^[46]
• Macbeth (1995, Folger Shakespeare Festival) - Macbeth
• Art (1998, London)

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1968	The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	Blount	Credited as 'Stacy Keach Jr.'
1970	End of the Road	Jacob Horner
	The Traveling Executioner	Jonas Candide
	Brewster McCloud	Abraham Wright
1971	Doc	Doc Holliday
1972	Fat City	Billy Tully
	The New Centurions	Roy Fehler
	The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean	Bad Bob
1973	Luther	Martin Luther
1974	The Gravy Train	Calvin
	Watched!	Mike Mandell / 'Sonny'
1975	Conduct Unbecoming	Cpt. Harper
1976	Street People	Charlie Hanson
	The Killer Inside Me	Lou Ford
1977	The Squeeze	Jim Naboth
	The Duellists	Narrator	Voice
1978	The Greatest Battle	Maj. Mannfred Roland
	Gray Lady Down	Cpt. Bennett
	Slave of the Cannibal God	Prof. Edward Foster
	Up in Smoke	Sgt. Stedenko
	Two Solitudes	Huntley McQueen
1980	The Ninth Configuration	Col. Vincent "Killer" Kane
	The Long Riders	Frank James	Also writer and executive producer
1981	Roadgames	Patrick Quid
	Nice Dreams	Sergeant Stedenko
1982	Butterfly	Jess Tyler
	That Championship Season	James Daley
1990	Class of 1999	Dr. Bob Forest
	Milena	Jesenski
	False Identity	Ben Driscoll / Harlan Errickson
1993	Sunset Grill	Harrison Shelgrove
	Batman: Mask of the Phantasm	Carl Beaumont, Phantasm	Voice [47]
1994	Raw Justice	Deputy Mayor Bob Jenkins
	New Crime City	Wynorski
1996	Escape From L.A.	Cdr. Mac Malloy
	Prey of the Jaguar	The Commander
1997	The Sea Wolf	Cpt. Wolf Larsen
	Future Fear	Gen. Wallace
1998	American History X	Cameron Alexander
	Sea Devils	Cpt. Savienko
1999	Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return	Dr. Michaels
	Fear Runs Silent	Mr. Hill
2000	Unshackled	Warden Kelso
	Icebreaker	Bill Foster
	Militia	George Armstrong Montgomery
	Mercy Streets	Tom
2001	Sunstorm	General John Parker
2003	When Eagles Strike	General Thurmond
2004	The Hollow	Claus Van Ripper
	Caught in the Headlights	Mr. Jones
	Galaxy Hunter	3V3
	El Padrino: The Latin Godfather	Governor Lancaster
2005	Man with the Screaming Brain	Dr. Ivanov
	Keep Your Distance	Brooks Voight
2006	Come Early Morning	Owen Allen
	Jesus, Mary and Joey	Jack O'Callahan
2007	Honeydripper	Sheriff
2008	W.	Earle Hudd
2009	Chicago Overcoat	Ray Berkowski
	The Boxer	Joe
2011	Weather Wars	Marcus Grange
	Cellmates	Warden Merville
	Jerusalem Countdown	Jackson
2012	The Great Chameleon	Max
	The Bourne Legacy	Adm. Mark Turso
2013	Ooga Booga
	Planes	Skipper Riley	Voice [47]
	Nebraska	Ed Pegram
2014	Planes: Fire & Rescue	Skipper Riley	Voice [47]
	Sin City: A Dame to Kill For	Alarich 'Kraut' Wallenquist
	If I Stay	Grandpa
2015	Truth	Lt. Col. Bill Burkett
2016	Cell	Charles Ardai
	Gold	Clive Coleman
2017	Girlfriend's Day	Gundy
2018	Gotti	Aniello Dellacroce
2020	Survival Skills	The Narrator
2025	Jay Kelly		Post-production [48]
TBA	Lost & Found in Cleveland		Completed

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1964	Channing	The Colleague	Episode: "The Face in the Sun"
1967	The Winter's Tale	Autolycus	Television film
1968	Macbeth	Banquo
1971	NET Playhouse	Wilbur Wright	Episode: "The Wright Brothers"
1973	Incident at Vichy	—	Television play, director
	The Man of Destiny	Napoleon Bonaparte	Television film
1974	All the Kind Strangers	Jimmy Wheeler
	Great Performances	Chorus	Episode: "Antigone"
1975	Caribe	Lieutenant Ben Logan	13 episodes
1976	Dynasty	Matt Blackwood	Television film
	Six Characters in Search of an Author	—	Television play, director
	Lincoln	Politician	Episode: "Crossing Fox River"
1977	Jesus of Nazareth	Barabbas	2 episodes
1978	The Fitzpatricks	Unnamed Character	Episode: "The New Fitzpatrick"
	Saturday Night Live	Man In Cold As Ice	Episode: "Christopher Lee/Meatloaf"
1980	A Rumor of War	Major Ball	2 episodes
1982	The Blue and the Gray	Jonas Steele	3 episodes
1983	Princess Daisy	Prince Alexander 'Stash' Valensky	2 episodes
	Murder Me, Murder You	Mike Hammer	Television film
1984	Mistral's Daughter	Julien Mistral	4 episodes
	More Than Murder	Mike Hammer	Television film
1984–1987	Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer		48 episodes
1986	The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer		Television film
	Intimate Strangers	Dr. Jeff Bierston
1988	Hemingway	Ernest Hemingway	4 episodes
1989	The Forgotten	Adam Roth	Television film
	Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All	Mike Hammer
1989–1992	Missing: Reward	Himself (host)	Documentary series
1991	The Mysteries of the Dark Jungle	Col. Edward Corishant	3 episodes
	Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis	CPT. Charles B. McVay III	Television film
1992	Lincoln	George McClellan	Voice, television film
	Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories	Narrator	Voice, documentary
	Revenge on the Highway	Claude Sams	Television film
1993	Rio Diablo	'Kansas'
	Body Bags	Richard Coberts
	In the Heat of the Night	Wade Hatton	2 episodes
1994	Against Their Will: Women in Prison	Jack Devlin	Television film
	Texas	Sam Houston
1995	Young Ivanhoe	Pembrooke
	Amanda & the Alien	Emmitt Mallory
1996	The Pathfinder	Compte Du Leon
1997	Promised Land	Ned Bernhart	Episode: "Downsized"
	Legend of the Lost Tomb	Dr. William Bent	Television film
	Murder in My Mind	Cargill
1997–1998	Mike Hammer, Private Eye	Mike Hammer	26 episodes; also executive producer
1997, 2003	Touched by an Angel	Ty Duncan / Maury Hoover	2 episodes
1998	Planet of Life	Narrator	Voice, 7 episodes
1998–2001	Rugrats	Marvin Finster	Voice, 3 episodes [47]
1999	Batman Beyond	Robert Vance	Voice, episode: "Lost Soul" [47]
2000	The Courage to Love	Jean Baptiste	Television film
	The Outer Limits	Cord Van Owen	Episode: "The Gun"
2000–2002	Titus	Ken Titus	54 episodes
2001	Lightning: Fire from the Sky	Bart Pointdexter	Television film
	The Zeta Project	Roland De Fleures	Voice, episode: "The Next Gen" [47]
2001–2016	The Simpsons	Various	Voice, 6 episodes
2002	The Santa Trap	Max Hurst	Television film
	Girls Club	Harold Falcon	Episode: "Book of Virtues"
2003	Miracle Dogs	C.W. Aldrich	Television film
	How Do You Change Your Parents?  [ de ]	Richard Henderson
	Frozen Impact	Pete Crane
2003–2005	What's New, Scooby-Doo?	Harold Lind / The Mayor	Voice, 2 episodes
2005	George Lopez	Blaine McNamara	Episode: "George Stare-oids Down Jason"
	Will & Grace	Wendell Schacter	Episode: "From Queer to Eternity"
2005–2007	Prison Break	Henry Pope	23 episodes
2006	Desolation Canyon	Samuel Kendrick	Television film
	Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America	Secretary Collin Reed
	Blackbeard	Captain Benjamin Hornigold
	Death Row	John Elias
2007	ER	Mike Gates	3 episodes
2007–present	American Greed	Narrator	Voice, 198 episodes
2008	Lone Rider	Robert Hattaway	Television film
	Ring of Death	Warden Golan
2009	Meteor	Sheriff Crowe
	The Nanny Express	Reverend McGuiness
2010	Two and a Half Men	Tom	4 episodes
2011	Lights Out	'Pops' Leary	13 episodes
	Bored to Death	Bergeron	2 episodes
	Mater's Tall Tales	Skipper	Voice, episode: "Air Mater"
	Hindenburg: The Last Flight	Edward Van Zandt	Television film
2012	30 Rock	Himself	Episode: "Murphy Brown Lied to Us"
2012–2013	The Neighbors	Dominick Weaver	3 episodes
2013	Sean Saves the World	Lee Thompson	3 episodes
	1600 Penn	Senator Frohm Thoroughgood	2 episodes
	Anger Management	Ray	Episode: "Charlie and Deception Therapy"
	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Jimmy Brogan	Episode: "Old School"
2014	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Orion Bauer	Episode: "American Disgrace" [49]
	Enlisted	Patrick	Episode: "Vets"
	Jennifer Falls	Mike	Episode: "Jennifer's Song"
	The Exes	Bill Drake	Episode: "An Officer and a Dental Man"
2015	Hot in Cleveland	Alex	2 episodes
	Full Circle	Bud O'Rourke	8 episodes
2015–2019	NCIS: New Orleans	Cassius Pride	6 episodes
2016	Crowded	Bob Moore	13 episodes
	Blunt Talk	Arthur Bronson	2 episodes
	Ray Donovan	Marty 'The Texan' Swanbeck	2 episodes
2016–2024	Blue Bloods	Archbishop Kevin Kearns	11 episodes
2017	Tokyo Trial	Narrator	Voice, 4 episodes
2017–2020	Man with a Plan	Joe Burns	48 episodes
2019–2023	The Blacklist	Robert Vesco	6 episodes
2020	Kidding	Himself	Episode: "The Death of Fil"

Awards and nominations

Award	Year	Category	Work	Outcome
CableACE Award	1994	Actor in a Dramatic Program	Body Bags	Nominated
Drama Desk Award	1967	Outstanding Performance	MacBird!	Won
	1970		Indians	Won
	1971		Long Day's Journey into Night	Won
	1973		Hamlet	Won
	1994	Outstanding Actor in a Play	The Kentucky Cycle	Nominated
Golden Globe Award	1985	Best Actor – Television Series Drama	Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer	Nominated
	1989	Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film	Hemingway	Won [a]
Helen Hayes Award	1996	Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play	Macbeth	Nominated
	2009	Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Play	Frost/Nixon	Won
	2010	Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Play	King Lear	Won
Hollywood Film Award	2016	Ensemble of the Year	Gold	Won
Jeff Award	2018	Outstanding Solo Performance	Pamplona	Nominated
Laurel Award	1971	Star of Tomorrow, Male	End of the Road	8th place
Obie Award	1967	Distinguished Performance by an Actor	MacBird!	Nominated
	1973		Hamlet	Nominated
Primetime Emmy Award	1988	Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie	Hemingway	Nominated
Satellite Award	2001	Best Actor – Television Series Musical or Comedy	Titus	Nominated
	2019	Mary Pickford Award	—	Won
Tony Award	1970	Best Actor in a Play	Indians	Nominated

Critics awards

Association	Year	Category	Work	Outcome
Kansas City Film Critics Circle	1972	Best Actor	Fat City	Won [b]
Outer Critics Circle	2011	Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play	Other Desert Cities	Nominated
Seattle Film Critics Society	2014	Best Ensemble Cast	Nebraska	Nominated

Film festivals

Festivals	Year	Category	Work	Outcome
Horrible Imaginings Film Festival	2020	Best Actor in a Feature Film	Survival Skills	Won
Oldenburg International Film Festival	2007	Star of Excellence	—	Won
		Honorary Award	—	Won
San Diego International Film Festival	2003	Lifetime Achievement Award	—	Won
St. Louis International Film Festival	2010	Lifetime Achievement Award	—	Won

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Notes

1. Tied with Michael Caine for Jack the Ripper.
2. Tied with Marlon Brando for The Godfather .

External links

• Official website
• Stacy Keach at IMDb  
• Stacy Keach at the Internet Broadway Database
• Stacy Keach at the Internet Off-Broadway Database
• BroadwayWorld.com interview with Stacy Keach, September 23, 2008