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Full Stacy Keach Biography
Stacy Keach (born Walter Stacy Keach, Jr. on June 2, 1941 in Savannah, Georgia) is an American actor and narrator. He is most famous for his dramatic roles; however, he has done narration work in educational programming on PBS and the Discovery Channel, as well as some comedy and musical roles.
Keach graduated from Van Nuys High School in June 1959 and went on to study at the University of California, Berkeley, earning two BA degrees in 1963, one in English, the other in Dramatic Art. He received his M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama and was a Fulbright Scholar at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Keach first appeared on Broadway in 1969 as Buffalo Bill in Indians by Arthur Kopit. He played the lead actor in The Nude Paper Sermon an avant-garde musical theatre piece commissioned by Nonesuch Records by composer Eric Salzman. He has won numerous awards including Obie awards, Drama Desk Awards, and Vernon Rice Awards. He portrayed film noir-style private detective Mike Hammer in the CBS television series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and The New Mike Hammer from 1984 to 1987. He returned to the role of Hammer in Mike Hammer, Private Eye, a new syndicated series that aired from 1997 to 1998.
Stacy Keach played Cheech and Chong's Police Department arch-nemesis Sgt. Stedenko in Up In Smoke and Nice Dreams. He portrayed Jonas Steele, a psychic and member of John Brown's Army in the 1982 CBS miniseries The Blue and the Gray. One of Keach's most controversial roles was Cameron Alexander, the militant white supremacist in American History X with Edward Norton and Edward Furlong.
He is most familiar to younger television viewers for narrating episodes of Nova, National Geographic, and various other informational series, and he performed in the role of Ken Titus, the father in the title family of Fox's Titus, and as Barabbas in Jesus of Nazareth. Beginning in 1999, he served as the narrator for the home video clip show World's Most Amazing Videos, which can now be seen on Spike TV. He narrated The Twilight Zone radio series. He also has a recurring role as Warden Henry Pope in the Fox drama Prison Break and performed the lead role in Shakespeare's King Lear at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago in 2006. |
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