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. June 2 is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... Coordinates: County Chatham Government  - Mayor Otis S. Johnson Area  - City 202. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... June 2 is the 153rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (154th in leap years), with 212 days remaining. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film). ... Coordinates: County Chatham Government  - Mayor Otis S. Johnson Area  - City 202. ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... The Narrator is the entity within a story that tells the story to the reader. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... The Narrator is the entity within a story that tells the story to the reader. ... The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is a non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States, with some member stations available by cable in Canada. ... Discovery Channel is a cable and satellite TV channel distributed by Discovery Communications that provides non-fiction variety programming focused primarily on the themes of popular science, history, and knowledge about the world. ... Comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humour with an intent to provoke[[ laughter in general). ...

Early in his career, he was credited as Stacy Keach, Jr. to distinguish himself from his father Stacy Keach, Sr. His brother, James Keach is known most notably for being the director of the 1993 TV series and 1999 movie Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman. Stacy has been married three times: to Marilyn Aiken in 1975, to Jill Donahue in 1981, and to Malgosia Tomassi around 1986. He has two children from his third marriage. He was also romantically linked to singer Judy Collins in the early 1970s. Stacy Keach, Sr. ... James Keach born (December 7, 1947 in Savannah, Georgia) is an American actor, producer, and director. ... A television director is usually responsible for directing the actors and other taped aspects of a television production. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... Malgosia Tomassi was born in Warsaw Poland. ... Judy Collins Judith Marjorie Collins (born May 1, 1939 in Seattle, Washington) is an American folk and standards singer. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, In the Western world, the focus shifted from the social activism of the sixties to social activities for ones own pleasure, save for environmentalism, which continued in a very visible way. ...

Education

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. Van Nuys High School (VNHS) established in 1914, is a high school in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles, California, belonging to the Los Angeles Unified School District. ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... A B.A. issused as a certificate Bachelor of Arts (B.A., BA or A.B.), from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus is an undergraduate bachelors degree awarded for either a course or a program in the liberal arts or the sciences, or both. ... Yale School of Drama traces its roots to the Yale Dramatic Association, the second oldest college theatre association in the country, founded in 1900. ... The Fulbright Program aka Fulbright-Hays Program [1] is a program of educational grants (Fulbright Fellowships and Fulbright Scholarships), founded by United States Senator J. William Fulbright, and sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State, governments in other countries, and the... Main LAMDA building on Talgarth Road The MacOwan Theatre The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA), founded 1861, is a leading British drama school in west London. ...

Career

Keach first appeared on Broadway in 1969 as Buffalo Bill in Indians by Arthur Kopit. He played the actor in 'The Nude Paper Sermon' 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 from 1984 to 1987. He returned to the role of Hammer in a new syndicated series from 1997 to 1998. Broadway theatre[1] is the most prestigious form of professional theatre in the U.S., as well as the most well known to the general public and most lucrative for the performers, technicians and others involved in putting on the shows. ... Buffalo Bill Cody William Frederick Buffalo Bill Cody (February 26, 1846 – January 10, 1917) was an American soldier, bison hunter and showman. ... Arthur Lee Kopit (born 1937) was an US playwright. ... Eric Salzman (September 8, 1933) is an American composer, author, impresario, record producer, birder, and amateur naturalist. ... The Obie Awards, short for Off-Broadway Theater Awards, are annual awards bestowed by the newspaper The Village Voice on theater artists performing in New York City. ... Created in 1955, the Drama Desk Award was created to recognize Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway shows in addition to Broadway shows. ... This still from The Big Combo (1955) demonstrates the visual style of film noir at its most extreme. ... A private investigator, or PI, is a person who undertakes investigations. ... Mike Hammer is a fictional American detective created by the American author Mickey Spillane in the 1947 book I, the Jury (made into a movie in 1953 and 1982). ... CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... Mickey Spillanes Mike Hammer was the title used for two television series about the fictional private detective Mike Hammer, the creation of American crime author Mickey Spillane. ...

In the early 1980s, he starred in the title role of the national touring company of the musical Barnum composed by Cy Coleman.

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. Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong were a comedy duo who found a wide audience in the 1970s and 1980s for their stand-up routines, which were based upon the eras hippie, free love and especially drug culture movements. ... Up in Smoke, directed by Lou Adler, was Cheech and Chongs first feature-length film, released in 1978 by Paramount. ... Nice Dreams was Cheech and Chongs third feature-length film, released in 1981 by Paramount. ... Psychic, from the Greek psychikos meaning mental, of the soul (in turn derived from psyche meaning soul, mind), is a term used to describe phenomena or abilities that are said to originate from the brain but which transcend its confines. ... John Brown John Brown (May 9, 1800 – December 2, 1859) was the first white American abolitionist to advocate and practice insurrection as a means to the abolition of slavery. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... CBS is one of the largest radio and television networks in the United States. ... A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Edward H. Norton[1] (born August 18, 1969) is a critically acclaimed two-time Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American film actor and director. ... Edward Furlong (born Edward Walter Torres on August 2, 1977 in Glendale, California) is an American actor best known for playing young John Connor in Terminator 2: Judgment Day and playing Danny Vinyard in American History X. The son of Eleanor Torres, Furlong was born in Glendale, California, near Burbank. ...

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. The Narrator is the entity within a story that tells the story to the reader. ... Nova is a popular science television series produced by the Public Broadcasting Service. ... The National Geographic Society was founded in the USA on January 27, 1888, by 33 men interested in organizing a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical knowledge. ... For the animal, see Fox. ... Titus was an Emmy-nominated American dark-comedy sitcom that debuted on FOX in 2000. ... Give us Barabbas!, from The Bible and its Story Taught by One Thousand Picture Lessons, 1910 In the Christian narrative of the Passion of Jesus, Barabbas, according to some texts Jesus bar-Abbas, (Aramaic Bar-abbâ, son of the father), was the insurrectionary whom Pontius Pilate freed at the Passover... Picture of Robert Powell playing Jesus of Nazareth. ... Worlds Most Amazing Videos is a reality television show similar to Real TV and Maximum Exposure. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... In 2002, The Twilight Zone was revived as a nationally syndicated radio drama. ... Prison Break is an American television series that premiered on the Fox Network on August 29, 2005. ... King Lear and the Fool in the Storm by William Dyce (1806-1864) King Lear is generally regarded as one of William Shakespeares greatest tragedies. ... The Goodman Theatre The Goodman Theatre is a theater in Chicagos Loop, and part of Chicago theatre. ...

Selected filmography

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Trivia

• Keach was born with a cleft lip and a partial cleft of the hard palate and underwent numerous operations as a child. He is the honorary chairman of the Cleft Palate Foundation, and advocates for insurance coverage for such surgeries. ^[1]
• In 1984, he was convicted of smuggling cocaine into the United Kingdom and spent six months in Reading prison. The governor of that prison would serve as the basis for his character, Warden Pope, on Prison Break.^[2]
• He was the first choice for the role of father Damien Karras in the 1973 movie The Exorcist, written by William Peter Blatty. He went on to play Kane in the 1980 movie The Ninth Configuration, written and directed by Blatty; this role was itself intended for Nicol Williamson.
• All of the cast members of Titus have commented they enjoyed working with Keach, because, even with the dryest line the writers could invent, Keach would find a way to make the line funny.
• He has played the title role in three separate productions of Hamlet.

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References

1. ^ [1] stacykeach.com. Retrieved on April 19,2007.
2. ^ Stacy Keach Battles Flu, Prison Fugitives TV Guide. May 8, 2006. Retrieved on May 13, 2006.

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External links

• Stacy Keach - official website
• Stacy Keach at the Internet Movie Database
• Stacy Keach at TV.com
• Interview with Stacy Keach at TVDads.com
• Cleft Palate Foundation