The Late Great Stacy Keach

Stacy Keach, best known for playing Mike Hammer multiple times and appearing in such movies as Fat City (1972) and Gold (2016), died on November 10, 2026 at the age of 85. The cause was heart failure. Walter Stacy Keach Jr. was born on June 2, 1941, in Savannah, Georgia. His father, character actor Stacy Keach Sr., was teaching drama at Armstrong Junior College. His younger brother, James Keach, also became an actor and appeared with him in The Long Riders (1980). The family moved to Pasadena and Stacy Keach graduated from Van Nuys High School in 1959. He studied Dramatic Art and English at the University of California, Berkeley. After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley, he earned a scholarship to the Yale School of Drama, where he earned a Master of Fine Arts degree. He won a Fulbright Scholarship, which took him to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Stacy Keach appeared in several off-Broadway productions and made his debut on Broadway in Danton's…

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