STACY KEACH BIOGRAPHY & FILMOGRAPHY:
Stacy Keach was born on June 2nd, 1941 in Savannah, Georgia with the birth name Walter Stacy Keach Jr. His mother was Mary Kain Keach and his father, Walter first worked as a community college drama teacher and later went on to work as the director of the Pasadena Playhouse. After Stacy graduated from Van Nuys High School in 1959, he went on to study drama at the University of California earning two degrees, English and Dramatic Art. He then earned an M.F.A. at the Yale School of Drama as well as the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Coming from a family already involved in show business and then with all of his education, Keach became involved in stage performing. His career began with the New York Shakespeare festival in 1964. He worked on a number of productions such as, "MacBird", "Indians" and "The Nude Paper Sermon". Throughout his career he has won a number of awards such as Obie, Drama Desk and Vernon Rice Awards. He had an amazing run with the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. in the role of, King Lear and will always be acknowledged for his magnificent portrayal.
He began his film career in the later half of the 1960's working on the film, "The Heart is A Lonely Hunter" (1968) followed by a role in, "The New Centurions" (1972). Throughout his career he worked on a number of other films such as, "Doc" (1971), "The Longriders" (1980), "The Ninth Configuration" (1980), "Up in Smoke" (1978) and "Nice Dreams" (1981) amongst many others.
He has also lead a highly successful career as a television actor appearing on such series as, "How to Marry a Millionaire" (1958), "The Blue and the Gray" (1982) and "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer" which aired on CBS from 1984-1987.
Well into the year 2000, Keach continued to make appearances in films, on television and even still on the stage. Some of his later work includes a role on Fox's sitcom, "Titus" (2000) and he did the voice over work on the series, "The Simpson's" portraying, President Howard K. Duff VIII.
Keach has always enjoyed portraying historical roles on films ranging from Martin Luther, Frank James, Napoleon, Sam Houston and Ernest Hemingway. Keach has also worked as a producer and director on a number of projects such as the Arthur Miller "Incident at Vichy" which aired on PBS.
He has won a number of awards and honors for his stage performances such as receiving a Tony Award nomination for his role on Broadways, "Indians" and a Helen Hayes Award as Best Actor for, "The Rupert Holmes one-man thriller".
It is known by all in the industry that he has so many talents and has made an effort to use them in various areas of entertainment. Keach has been involved in a number of narrating projects such as in a variety of documentaries, books on tape, narrating the Submarine ride at Disneyland and he even recorded a CD of Shakespeare's sonnets.
Stacy Keach married a total of four times and remains happily married today to his current wife, Malgosia Tomassi whom he married in 1986 and has had two children with. Prior to his fourth wife, he married his first wife, Kathryn Baker in 1964 and had no children before ending that marriage and remarrying in 1975 to his second wife, Marilyn Aiken whom he divorced in 1979. His third wife was Jill Donahue in 1981 and they were together until 1986, also never having any children.
In 2009 he suffered a mild stroke but has made a full recovery and now serves as honorary chairman of the Cleft Palate Foundation and advocates to various insurance companies for surgeries. He also serves as the national spokesperson for the World Craniofacial organization and was honored by Hollywood with a Celebrity Outreach Award for his work with a variety of charitable organizations.
Stacy Keach continues to work in the industry and has a number of projects in pre and post production. He continues to share his talents with the public and is highly admired by those in the entertainment world.
Filmography
2012 KTD 2020
2011 Sam
2012 Connemara Days
2011 Weather Wars
2011 Jerusalem Countdown
2011 White Knight
2011 Lights Out
2011 Hindenburg
2010 Machete
2010 The Aristofrogs
2010 Sammy's Adventures: The Secret Passage
2010 Two and a Half Men om
2010 The Portal
2009 Chicago Overcoat
2009 Imbued
2009 Meteor
2009 The Boxer
2009 The Assistants
2008 The Nanny Express
2008 W.
2008 Ring of Death
2008 Live from Lincoln Center
2008 Lone Rider
2007 Honeydripper
2007 ER
2005-2007 Prison Break
2006 Death Row
2006 Scoundrels, Scallywags, and Scurvy Knaves
2006 Blackbeard
2006 Washington the Warrior
2001-2006 The Simpsons
2006 Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America
2006 Jesus, Mary and Joey
2006 Desolation Canyon
2006 Come Early Morning
2005 Keep Your Distance
2005 George Lopez
2005 Will & Grace
2005 Man with the Screaming Brain
2002-2005 What's New, Scooby-Doo?
2005 Caught in the Headlights
2005 Untitled Susie Essman Project
2004 The Hollow
2004 El padrino
2004 Galaxy Hunter
2003 Boomtown
2003 Miracle Dogs
2003 Operation Balikatan
2003 Totally Outrageous Behavior
2003 Wie tauscht man seine Eltern um?
2003 Frozen Impact
2003 Mike Hammer: Song Bird
1995-2003 Touched by an Angel
2003 When Eagles Strike
2003 Freedom: A History of Us
2002 The Santa Trap
2002 Girls Club
2000-2002 Titus
2002 Rods!
2001 Lightning: Fire from the Sky
2001 Birds of Passage
2001 The Zeta Project
2001 Majestic White Horses
1998-2001 Rugrats
2001 Sunstorm
2000 Mercy Streets
2000 Militia
2000 Icebreaker
2000 Fear Runs Silent
2000 The Outer Limits
2000 The Courage to Love
2000 Unshackled
1999 Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return
1999 Chicken Soup for the Soul
1999 Batman Beyond
1999 Young Ivanhoe
1999 World's Most Amazing Videos
1998 American History X
1997-1998 Mike Hammer, Private Eye
1998 Sea Devils
1997 Future Fear
1997 Die Gang
1997 Promised Land
1997 Murder in My Mind
1997 The Sea Wolf
1997 Legend of the Lost Tomb
1996 Prey of the Jaguar
1996 Escape from L.A.
1996 The Pathfinder
1995 The American Experience
1995 Amanda & the Alien
1995 The World's Most Dangerous Animals III
1994 Texas
1994 Against Their Will: Women in Prison
1994 Raw Justice
1994 Trust in Me
1994 New Crime City
1993 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
1993 In the Heat of the Night on
1993 Case Closed
1993 Body Bags
1993 Irresistible Force
1993 Sunset Grill
1993 Rio Diablo
1993 New Year
1992 Lincoln
1992 Revenge on the Highway
1992 Lincoln & Seward
1991 Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis
1991 I misteri della giungla nera
1990 False Identity
1990 Class of 1999
1989 Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All
1989 The Forgotten
1988 Hemingway
1984-1987 The New Mike Hammer
1986 The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer
1986 Hardcastle and McCormick
1986 Intimate Strangers
1984 Six Centuries of Verse
1984 Mistral's Daughter
1984 More Than Murder
1983 Princess Daisy
1983 Murder Me, Murder You
1982 That Championship Season
1982 The Blue and the Gray
1982 Butterfly
1982 Wait Until Dark
1981 Flamingo Road
1981 Road Games
1981 Nice Dreams
1980 A Rumor of War
1980 The Long Riders
1980 Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger
1980 Skag
1978 Two Solitudes
1978 Up in Smoke
1978 The Mountain of the Cannibal God
1978 Project U.F.O.
1978 Saturday Night Live
1978 Gray Lady Down
1978 The Biggest Battle
1978 The Fitzpatricks
1977 The Squeeze
1977 The Duellists
1977 Jesus of Nazareth
1977 Diary of a Young Comic
1976 Family
1976 The Killer Inside Me
1976 Street People
1976 Dynasty
1975 Conduct Unbecoming
1975 Caribe
1975 Hamburger Hamlet
1974 All the Kind Strangers
1974 Watched!
1974 The Gravy Train
1974 Great Performances
1974 Hawkins
1974 Luther
1973 The Man of Destiny
1973 Oklahoma Crude
1973 Wilbur and Orville: The First to Fly
1972 The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean
1972 The New Centurions
1972 Fat City
1972 Particular Men
1971 'Doc'
1971 NET Playhouse
1970 The Traveling Executioner
1970 End of the Road
1968 Macbeth
1968 The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
1963 Island of Love
1961 Assignment: Underwater
1959 Wagon Train
1959 The FBI Story
1958 Joy Ride
1958 How to Marry a Millionaire
1957 Tales of Wells Fargo
