Stacy Keach

Stacy Keach is an American actress and narrator who was born on June 2, 1941, in Savannah, Georgia. He is known for his interpretations of Shakespeare in classical theater, his role as detective Mike Hammer on television, and the documentary series American Greed, which he voiced for many years.

His mother is actress Mary Cain Peckham, his father is theater director Stacy Keach Sr.; actor and director James Keach is his younger brother. He earned two bachelor's degrees in English and drama from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1963, followed by a master's degree at the Yale School of Drama. He also studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) on a Fulbright scholarship.

Stage and screen

He rose to prominence on New York stages in the 1960s; He earned a Tony nomination for his play Indians in 1969, and his 1972 rendition of Hamlet received high praise from critics. He received four Drama Desk and two Helen Hayes awards throughout his career. In cinema, he played an aging boxer in John Huston's Fat City (1972); He was also remembered for his role as Sergeant Stedenko in Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke (1978).

He later appeared in films such as American History X (1998), The Bourne Legacy (2012) and Nebraska (2013).

On television, he played detective Mike Hammer, created by Mickey Spillane, between 1984-1987 and 1997-1998. He won a Golden Globe for playing the writer in the 1988 miniseries Hemingway. He played the protagonist's father in Titus and Henry Pope, the warden of the Fox River prison in Prison Break. Starting in 2007, he was the narrator of CNBC's economic crime documentary American Greed.

He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2015, and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019.