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Stacy Keach is an actress and narrator from the United States. Additionally, Stacy Keach is best known for her role as Mickey Spillane’s fictional detective Mike Hammer, which she played in numerous independent television films and at least three television series throughout the 1980s and 1990s.
Early life
Walter Stacy Keach Jr, better known as Stacy Keach, was born in June 2, 1941, in Savannah, Georgia, United States of America. According to his date of birth, he is 81 years and has an American nationality. Furthermore, she has the star sign of Gemini and belongs to the mixed ethnicity of British-American descent.
He is the son of Walter Stacy Keach Sr (father) and Marr Peckham (mother). Professionally, his father was a theater teacher, actor, and theater director, and his mother, Mary, was an actress. As for his siblings, he has a brother named James, who is a well-known television actor and director.
Talking about his academic career, he studied at Van Nuys High School. And then he graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with two bachelor’s degrees. She graduated from the Yale School of Drama with an MFA in 1966 and then went on to study at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.
Professional life
Stacy Keach’s first television role was in the syndicated romantic comedy ‘How to Marry a Millionaire’ in 1958. In 1966, she played the lead role in the Off-Broadway anti-war satire ‘MacBird.’ Three years later, she made her Broadway debut in Arthur Kopit’s ‘Indians.’ She also appeared at the Yale Repertory Theater in the 1960s in Joseph Heller’s drama “We Bombed in New Haven.”
In 1972, the actor played a rookie cop in the crime thriller ‘The New Centurions’, alongside George C. Scott. That same year he appeared in the boxing film ‘Fat City’, directed by John Huston. His storytelling ability as a narrator earned him worldwide fame in the Formula One racing documentary ‘Champions Forever’ in 1973.
His first experience as a regular character came when he played Lieutenant Ben Logan in the 1975 drama ‘Caribbean’. In 1977, he played Barabbas in ‘Jesus of Nazareth’, a British-Italian television drama. After that, he appeared in the horror film ‘Cannibal God Mountain’ and the comedy film ‘Up in Smoke’.
He played Kane in ‘The Ninth Configuration’, a physiological drama film written and directed by William Peter Blatty in 1980. That same year, he gave one of his most impressive performances as Frank James in ‘The Long Riders’. In 1982, he appeared in the CBS miniseries ‘The Blue and the Grey’ as Jonas Steele, a psychic and US Army scout.
He hosted the syndicated recreation show ‘Missing Reward’ from 1989 to 1992. He then worked as the narrator of ‘Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories’. In the Fox comedy ‘Titus’, he played the father of the main character, Ken Titus. After that, he played Henry Pope in the television series ‘Prison Break’. In 2017, he was cast as Joe Burns in ‘The Man with a Plan’. In the 2017 film Gotti, he played Neil Dellacroce, the underboss of the Gambino crime family.
Awards and net worth
As an actor and working for more than 5 decades in the entertainment industry, he has won several awards. He won the Obie Award for Acting three times in 1967, 1970 and 1973. Likewise, he won three Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Performance in the years 1967, 1970 and 1973.
Additionally, he won the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actor, Visiting Production in 1994 and 2009. In 1989, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance. Additionally, he won the Satellite Mary Pickford Award in 2020.
Caption: Stacy Keach posing with her Prism Award (Source: Hollywood Memorabilia)
As an actor, Stacy has collected a huge sum of money throughout his career. Talking about his net worth, his net worth is estimated to be around $8 million and he has not yet revealed his income or salary.
civil status
Stacy has been married four times in her life. His first three wives were Kathryn Baker, Marilyn Aiken and Jill Donahue, in that order. He married Malgosia Tomassi, a Polish model and actress, in 1986.
In addition, he has two children from this marriage, Karolina and Shannon. He became a Polish citizen in 2015. As of now, this actor is not part of any controversies or rumors and focuses on his career.
Caption: Stacy Keach with his wife Malgosia Tomassi (Source: Pinterest)
Stacy Keach – Body Measurements
This actor is 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs around 80 kg. Furthermore, this man has light brown eyes with salt-pepper hair and there is no other information about the other body measurements of him.
Stacy Keach – Social Media
On his Instagram he has more than 7.2 thousand followers. Likewise, there are more than 7.3k followers on Twitter and more than 7k followers on Facebook.
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