Stacy Keach: Star of Mike Hammer and Golden Globe-Winning Hemingway Dies

Stacy Keach was an American actor. Born Walter Stacy Keach Jr. on June 2, 1941, in Savannah, Georgia, he was the son of theater director Stacy Keach Sr. and an actress mother. He began his career off-Broadway in the 1960s and won a Drama Desk Award for MacBird! in 1967, followed by stage work in Shakespeare and on Broadway.

He became best known as private eye Mike Hammer in the CBS series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer from 1984 to 1987. He won a Golden Globe in 1989 for playing Ernest Hemingway in the miniseries Hemingway and earned four Drama Desk Awards. His films included Fat City, The Long Riders, which he co-wrote and produced, Escape from L.A., American History X and Nebraska, and he later appeared in Prison Break, The Blacklist and Blue Bloods. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019.

His wife, Malgosia Tomassi Keach, announced that he died at the family home in Magdalenka, Poland, on November 10, 2026, at age 85, after a long battle with a serious heart condition and heart failure.

Achievements: Golden Globe Award (1989), four Drama Desk Awards, star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame (2019).

Birth: June 2, 1941 - Savannah, Georgia.

Profession: Actor.

Interesting Facts: He was born with a cleft lip and partial cleft palate and had many surgeries as a child.