Stacy Keach

STACY KEACH has managed the difficult task of maintaining a vibrant series of performances in top motion picture and television projects while continuing to add to his remarkable achievement on the stage, both classical and Broadway. His recent motion pictures are “Truth,” teamed with Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford which was filmed in Australia, and the recently released film adaptation of the Stephen King novel, “Cell,” with John Cusask and Samuel L. Jackson. He was an important part of Alexander Payne’s Academy Award big screen drama, “Nebraska,” and other performances in Frank Miller’s and Robert Rodriguez’ “Sin City: A Dame To Kill For.” He recently completed filming Netflix’s “Girlfriend’s Day,” starring and produced by Bob Odenkirk, and director Stephen Gaghan’s “Gold,” starring Matthew McConaughy, Edgar Ramirez, and Bryce Dallas Howard. “Gold” will premiere on Christmas Day 2016. Stacy’s most recently filmed motion picture is “Gotti,” teamed with John Travolta. Keach’s spectacular role filmography involves such significant works as “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,” “End of the Road,” “ The New Centurions, Doc,” “Fat City, Luther,” “The Long Riders” (co-wrote and co-produced with brother James Keach), “The Ninth Configuration,” “Up In Smoke,” “Nice Dreams,” “Judge Roy Bean,” “Escape From L.A.,” “American History X,” “W.,” “Imbued” (also composed the score),”If I Stay,” and “The Bourne Legacy.” Perhaps best known around the world for his portrayal of hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer, Keach is also known for his performance as Ken Titus in the Fox sitcom “Titus,” Warden Henry Pope in the hit series “Prison Break,” and Robert “Pops” Leary in the FX series “Lights Out.” He was one of the stars of NBC’s sitcom, “Crowded,” created by Suzanne Martin and directed by James Burrows. He recently guest-starred on Showtime’s “Ray Donovan,” starring Live Schreiber and Jon Voight. Stacy is guest-starring on Starz’s second season of “Blunt Talk,” starring Sir Patrick Stewart, set to premiere in October 2016. He is currently filming alongside Tom Selleck in CBS’s, “Blue Bloods.” His frequent television guest appearance numbers among the many include “Mistral’s Daughter,” “The Blue and the Gray,” “Jennifer Falls,” “The Exes,” “Two And A Half Men,” “Hot In Cleveland,” “Anger Management,” “Brooklyn 99,” “Enlisted,” “Law And Order, Special Victims Unit,” “NCIS: New Orleans,” and guest voice on “The Simpsons” as Don Bookner and HK Duff. He enjoys prominence as one of the chief voice actors in animated features, his starring character, Skipper, in Disney’s “Planes” and its sequel, “Planes, Fire And Rescue,” both noted box office hits. Keach also narrates countless documentaries and numerous books on tape, including the recently released audio book, “Mike Hammer: Kill Me, Darling” and “Murder Never Knocks.” He recently completed narrating the Polish modern historical documentary, “Habit and Armour,” which shows us the history of Teutonic Order, and he continues to be the voice of CNBC’s “American Greed,” now in its twelfth season. His original song “Anything for Money” is featured on the show. Keach has played to grand success in classic and contemporary theater’s greatest roles, and he is considered a pre-eminent American interpreter of Shakespeare. His SRO run as King Lear at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., received the rave reviews, as did performances there as Falstaff in both Henry IV parts 1 and 2. Keach began his professional career with the New York Shakespeare Festival in 1964, doubling as Marcellus and the Player King in “Hamlet,” directed by Joseph Papp with Julie Harris as Ophelia. Keach rose to prominence in 1967 in the off-Broadway political satire “MacBird,” for which he received the first of his three Obie awards. He played the title roles in “Henry 5,” “Hamlet” (three times), “Coriolanus,” “Richard 3,” “Macbeth” and “King Lear” in Robert Falls’ modern adaptation at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre. Other theatre credits include The Niggerlovers, Steiglitz Loves O’Keefe, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Frost/Nixon, Sleuth, Barnum, Camelot, The King and I, Art (West End), Hughie (West End), Cyrano de Bergerac, and Finishing the Picture. For LA Theatre Works, he has played Proctor in “The Crucible”, Bottom in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, Brutus in “Julius Caesar”, Willy Loman in “Death of A Salesman”, the title roles in “Galileo” and “Uncle Vanya.” On Broadway, he and Stockard Channing took their critically acclaimed roles in the Jon Robin Baitz play, “Other Desert Cities” to the Booth Theater. Broadway credits include Indians, Deathtrap, Solitary Confinement and The Kentucky Cycle. His performance honors include Best Actor Golden Globe Award, 3 Obie’s, 3 Vernon Rice Awards, 2 Drama Desk Awards, 3 Helen Hayes Awards, and the Prestigious Millineum Recognition Award, the Will Award, and has been nominated for Emmy and Tony Awards.  His portrayal of Ernest Hemingway in the mini-series, “Hemingway” not only earned the Best Actor Golden Globe, but resulted in his award-winning CD readings of the author’s short storiesHe has been the recipient of Lifetime Achievement Awards from Pacific Pioneer's Broadcasters, the San Diego Film Festival, the Pacific Palisades Film Festival, and The 2007 Oldenburg Film Festival in Germany. He has also been awarded the 2010 Lifetime Award from the St. Louis Film Festival. In 2008 and he received the Mary Pickford Award for versatility in acting. He also won the 2011 Audie Award for best original work for the Mike Hammer radio novel “The Little Death,” in which he reprises his role as Mike Hammer and also composed the musical score. In 2015, he was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Among the hundreds of soaring reviews for the acting of STACY KEACH, perhaps the most telling was the comment by director John Huston following one of his several films with the actor.  “Stacy Keach,” Huston noted, “is not merely a star. He is a constellation.”  This life of acclaimed accomplishment in theatre, film, television and spoken-word recordings and the artist’s dramatic personal story are the compelling subject of “All in All: An Actor's Life On and Off the Stage,” Keach’s memoir published by Lyons Press a division of Globe Pequot in late 2013. His memoir was the initial recipient of the Prism Literary Award for work addressing overcoming addictive behavior. It became a best- seller among devotees of great acting and the continuity of Shakespearean theatrical performance. Stacy Keach also believes strongly in 'giving back' and has been the Honorary Chair for the Cleft Palate Foundation for the past thirty years. He is also the national spokesman for the World Craniofacial organization. He has served on the Artist's Committee for the Kennedy Center Honors for over two decades, is on the board of directors for Genesis at the Crossroads, a Chicago-based organization dedicated to bringing peoples of combatant cultures together through the shared artistic expressions of the visual and culinary arts, music, dance, and theater. He also serves on the artistic board for Washington DC's Shakespeare Theatre National Council, where he was also honored in 2000 with their prestigious Millennium Award for his contribution to classical theatre. Some years ago Hollywood honored him with a Celebrity Outreach Award for his work with charitable organizations. Keach was a Fulbright scholar to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, attended the University of California at Berkeley and the Yale Drama School. He was appointed Heritage Professor by George Mason University, where he taught acting via Skype. Of his many accomplishments, Mr. Keach claims that his greatest accomplishment is his family. He has been married to his beautiful wife Malgosia for thirty years, and they have two wonderful children, Shannon Keach (28 years), and daughter Karolina Keach (26 years).