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STACY KEACH

Stacy Keach is a renowned actor on stage and screen. He has won a Golden Globe Award, multiple Obie and Drama Desk Awards, three Vernon Rice Awards, and the Helen Hayes Award. Additionally, in 2000, he received the prestigious Millennium Recognition Award from Shakespeare Theatre Company for his outstanding contribution to classical theater, and in 2015 he was accepted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.

BIOGRAPHY

Stacy Keach (Jr.) was born in Savannah, Georgia on June 2, 1941. His parents tell the story that the night he was born there was a fire at their small house due to the fact that lightning hit the chimney and it caught on fire. Stacy’s parents (who celebrate their 63rd wedding anniversary this year) have often referred to that moment as “a sign of someone special coming into the world”. The question is, was this a good sign or a bad sign. Ask Stacy’s folks and they’ll tell you it was good, except for the fact that Dad had to rush back to the house to let the firemen in while Mom was having the baby, and Dad later discovered that his fire insurance didn’t quite cover the damages.

 

Keach Sr. was teaching Drama at the time at Armstrong Junior College, and was making a modest salary, but he really wanted to try his luck in Hollywood.

 

Soon afterwards, dad was called out to the Pasadena Playhouse to join the company as both an actor and a director. So, in the early days of 1942, Mary and Stacy Sr. put their young son, Stacy, in the back of their Nash rambler and headed for Pasadena, California.

 

Stacy Keach, Sr., has been a successful actor, producer, writer and director for over fifty years. He created, produced and directed the legendary “Tales of the Texas Rangers” for NBC Radio in the early 1950’s. The show still airs on KNX 1070 on Thursday nights. The Ranger Show was also included in the Smithsonian Archive Presentation of the most famous Radio Detective shows of the 20th Century. In the world of commercials, Stacy Sr. recently played the crotchety old chairman of the board for Psi.net after his success as the grouchy Mercury patriarch, and was seen as Clarence Birdseye for over five years. Active as a Rotarian and a member of the Pacific Pioneer Broadcasters, Stacy Sr. gives back to the community, is a loving husband, father and grandfather, and serves as a great role model for both Stacy Jr. and his brother, James.

 

In addition to his motion picture and television accomplishments, Stacy is one of America’s most acknowledged Shakespearean actors, also celebrated in England where the Bard is in the blood. A New York Time’s review dubbed him “The Finest American classical actor since John Barrymore.” He’s received a Best Actor Golden Globe, been nominated for Emmy and Tony awards, won three Obie’s, three Vernon Rice awards, the Helen Hayes Award, and the Prestigious Millineum Recognition Award for his outstanding contribution to the classical theatre.  Understandably, his Shakespearean readings (sold on his popular website (www.StacyKeach.com) are among the nation’s best-selling classical CD’s.

 

In fact, sales skyrocketed after Stacy took his current co-starring role on Fox’s raucous series, Titus, just finishing it’s third season. The actor’s gleeful take on the role of Ken Titus in the hit Titus sitcom, an imposing father from hell, was recently celebrated by Tom Carson in Esquire Magazine.

 

He started acting in theatre at an early age. He came to prominence on stage in the 1960’s, and entered films in 1968, landing a solid supporting role in The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. He appeared in many counterculture-driven films of the early 1970’s, including End of the Road, Brewster McCloud, Doc and John Huston’s Fat City, among them. He contributed a funny cameo to Huston’s The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean.  Keach also notably portrayed an LA cop inThe New Centurions.  Another of his acclaimed film characterizations was the title role in John Osborne’s Luther. He was chilling as an easy-going homicidal sheriff in The Killer Inside Me, a stunning adaptation of Jim Thompson’s novel that went virtually unnoticed until its later release on video.  He became a youth audience icon with his comedic portrayal in both Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke and Nice Dreams.  Other top portrayals occurred in The Traveling Executioner, That Championship Season, The Ninth Configuration, Escape From LA, and American History X.

FILM AND TV CREDITS

FILM (incl. TV movies, shorts and videos)

  • Sam (pre-production) (2013)

  • The Bourn Legacy (post-production) (2012)

  • The Great Chameleon (2012)

  • Storm War (Weather Wars) (2011)

  • Jerusalem Countdown (2011)

  • Cellmates (2011)

  • Hindenburg (TV movie) (2011)

  • Machete (2010)

  • The Aristofrogs (short) (2010)

  • A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventures (voice) (2010)

  • The Portal (2010)

  • Chicago Overcoat (2009)

  • Imbued (2009)

  • The Boxer (2009)

  • The Assistants (2009)

  • The Nanny Express (TV movie)

  • W. (2008)

  • Ring of Death (TV movie) (2008)

  • Lone Rider (TV movie) (2008)

  • Honeydripper (2007)

  • Death Row (TV movie) (2006)

  • *Scoundrels, Scallywags, and Scurvy Knaves (video short) (2006)

  • Blackbeard (TV movie) (2006)

  • Full Contact: Bird Flu in America (TV movie) (2006)

  • Jesus, Mary and Joey (2006)

  • Desolation Canyon (TV movie) (2006)

  • Come Early Morning (2006)

  • Keep Your Distance (2005)

  • Man with Screaming Brain (2005)

  • Caught in the Headlights (2005)

  • Untitled Susie Essman Project (TV movie) (2005)

  • *The Hollow (video) (2004)

  • El padrino (2004)

  • Galaxy Hunter (2004)

  • Miracle Dogs (TV movie) (2003)

  • Operation Balikatan (2003)

  • Wie tauscht man seine Eltern um? (TV movie) (2003)

  • Frozen Impact (TV movie) (2003)

  • *Mike Hammer: Song Bird (video) (2003)

  • When Eagles Strike (2003)

  • The Santa Trap (TV movie) (2002)

  • Lightning: Fire from the Sky (TV movie) (2001)

  • Birds of Passage (2001)

  • Majestic White Horses (short) (2001)

  • Sunstorm (2001)

  • Mercy Streets (2000)

  • Militia (2000)

  • Icebreaker (2000)

  • *Fear Runs Silent (video) (2000)

  • The Courage to Love (TV movies) (2000)

  • Unshackled (2000)

  • *Children of the Corn 666: Isaac’s Return (video) (1999)

  • Young Ivanhoe (TV movie)  (1999)

  • American History X (1998)

  • *Sea Devils (video) (1998)

  • Future Fear (1997)

  • Murder in My Mind (TV movie) (1997)

  • The Sea Wolf (1997)

  • Legend of the Lost Tomb (TV movie) (1997)

  • *Prey of the Jaguar (video) (1996)

  • Escape from LA (1996)

  • The Pathfinder (TV movie) (1996)

  • Amanda & the Alien (TV movie) (1995)

  • The World’s Most Dangerous Animals III (TV movie) (1995)

  • Texas (TV movie) (1994)

  • Against Their Will: Women in Prison (TV movie) (1994)

  • Raw Justice (1994)

  • Trust in Me (1994)

  • New Crime City (1994)

  • Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993)

  • Body Bags (TV movie) (1993)

  • Irresistible Force (TV movie) (1993)

  • Sunset Gril  (1993)

  • Rio Diablo (TV movie) (1993)

  • New Year (TV movie) (1993)

  • Lincoln (TV movie) (1992)

  • Revenge on the Highway (TV movie) (1992)

  • Lincoln & Seward (TV movie) (1992)

  • Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the USS Indianapolis (TV movie) (1991)

  • Milena (1991)

  • False Identity (1990)

  • Class of 1999 (1990)

  • Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All (TV movie) (1989)

  • The Forgotten (TV movie) (1989)

  • The Return of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer (TV movie) (1986)

  • Intimate Strangers (TV movie) (1986)

  • More Than Murder (TV movie) (1984)

  • Princess Daisy (TV movie) (1983)

  • Murder Me, Murder You (TV movie) (1983)

  • The Championship Season (1982)

  • Butterfly (1982)

  • Wait Until Dark (TV movie) (1982)

  • Road Games (1981)

  • Nice Dreams (1981)

  • A Rumor of War (TV movie) (1980)

  • The Long Riders (1980)

  • Portrait of a Rebel: the Remarkable Mrs. Sanger (TV movie) (1980)

  • The Ninth Configuration (1980)

  • Two Solitudes (1978)

  • Up in Smoke (1978)

  • The Mountain of Cannibal God (1978)

  • Gray Lady Down (1978)

  • The Biggest Battle (1978)

  • The Squeeze (1977)

  • The Duellists (1977)

  • Diary of a Young Comic (TV movie) (1977)

  • The Killer Inside Me (1976)

  • Street People (1976)

  • James Michener’s Dynasty (TV movie) (1976)

  • Conduct Unbecoming (1975)

  • Hamburger Hamlet (short) (1975)

  • All the Kind Strangers (TV movie) (1974)

  • Antigone (TV movie) (1974)

  • Watched! (1974)

  • The Gravy Train (1974)

  • Luther (1974)

  • The Man of Destiny (TV movie) (1973)

  • Oklahoma Crude (1973)

  • Wilbur and Orville: The First to Fly (1973)

  • The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1972)

  • The New Centurions (1972)

  • Fat City (1972)

  • Particular Men (TV movie) (1972)

  • ‘Doc’ (1971)

  • Brewster McCloud  (1970)

  • The Traveling Executioner (1970)

  • End of the Road (1970)

  • Macbeth (TV movie) (1968)

  • The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (1968)

  • The Winter’s Tale (TV movie) (1967)

TV & Television Series

  • 30 Rock (2012)

  • Bored to Death (TV series) (2011)

  • American Greed (TV series) (2009-2012)

  • Lights Out (TV Series) (2011)

  • Two and a Half Men (TV series)  (2010)

  • Meteor (TV mini-series) (2009)

  • Live From Lincoln Center (TV series) (2007)

  • ER (TV series) (2007)

  • Prison Break (TV series) (2005-2007)

  • Washington Warrior (2006)

  • The Simpsons (TV series)  (2001-2006)

  • George Lopez (TV series) (2005)

  • Will & Grace  (TV series) (2005)

  • What’s New, Scooby-Doo (TV series) (2002-2005)

  • Boomtown (TV series) (2003)

  • Totally Outrageous Behavior (TV series) (2003)

  • Touched by an Angel (TV series) (1995-2003)

  • Freedom: A History of US (TV series documentary) (2003)

  • Girls Club (TV series) (2002)

  • Titus (TV series) (2000-2002)

  • Rods! (TV series) (2002)

  • The Zeta Project (TV series) (2001)

  • Rugrats (TV series) (1998-2001)

  • The Outer Limits (TV series) (2000)

  • Chicken Soup for the Soul (TV series) (1999)

  • Batman Beyond (TV series) (1999)

  • World’s Most Amazing Videos (TV series) (1999)

  • Mike Hammer, Private Eye (TV series) (1997-1998)

  • Die Gang (TV series) (1997)

  • Promised Land (TV series) (1997)

  • The American Experience (TV series documentary) (1995)

  • In the Heat of the Night (TV series) (1993)

  • Case Closed (TV series) (1993)

  • I misteri della giungla nera (TV mini-series) (1991)

  • “Missing Reward” (TV series) (1989)

  • Hemingway (TV mini-series) (1988)

  • The New Mike Hammer (TV series) (1984-1987)

  • Hardcastle and McCormick (TV series) (1986)

  • Six Centuries of Verse (TV series) (1984)

  • Mistral’s Daughter (TV mini-series) (1984)

  • The Blue and the Grey (TV mini-series) (1982)

  • Flamingo Road (TV series) (1981)

  • Skag (1980)

  • Project U.F.O (TV series) (1978)

  • Saturday Night Live (TV series) (1978)

  • The Fitzpatricks (TV series) (1978)

  • Jesus of Nazareth (TV mini-series) (1977)

  • Family (TV series) (1976)

  • Caribe (TV series) (1975)

  • Lincoln (1974)

  • Great Performances (TV series) (1971)

  • NET Playhouse (TV series) (1971)

THEATRE CREDITS

STACY'S THEATRE CREDITS

Eunice King Saunders School – 5th and 6th Grades – 1951-1954

Rip Van Winkle – Rip Van Winkle

Chief Dawn Boy

 

Van Nuys Junior and Senior High School – 1955-1959

Stage Manager - Our Town

Tobias J. Everheel - Goodbye My Fancy

The King - The Ugly Duckling

Mr. Bird - Bird’s Christmas Carol

 

University of California at Berkeley – 1959-1963

Sandy - To Learn To Love

Con - Melody A Touch of the Poet

Cyril Poges - Purple Dust

Justice Overdo - Bartholomew Fair

Folial - Escurial

Sgnaralle - Don Juan

Sir John - The Antifarce of John and Leporello

Directed 1960 Axe Revue – Composed music and lyrics for opening number “Axciting 60’s”

Wrote and directed 1963 Mask and Dagger Revue

Composed music & Lyrics for “C’est la Vie”

 

Tufts Arena Theatre – Summer, 1961

Agammemnon - The Prodigal

Centuri - Right You Are if You Think You Are

Baron deVarville - Camille

 

Live Shakespeare Performances 1962-2009

Antipholus of Syracuse, Comedy of Errors, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 1962.

Westmoreland, Henry IV, Part 2, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 1962.

Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 1963.

Berowne, Love’s Labours Lost, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 1963.

Henry V, Henry V, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, 1963.

Marcellus and The Player King, Hamlet, New York Shakespeare Festival, 1964.

Brutus, Julius Ceasar, L.A.M.D.A., (London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art) 1965.

Kent, King Lear, L.A.M.D.A., 1965.

Banquo, MacBeth, Public Broadcasting (TV), 1966.

Feste, Twelfth Night, Public Broadcasting (TV), 1966.

Autolycus, Winter’s Tale, Public Broadcasting (TV), 1966.

Coriolanus, Coriolanus, Yale Repertory Theatre, 1967.

Falstaff, Henry IV, PARTS ONE AND TWO, New York Shakespeare Festival, 1968.

King Lear, King Lear, The Goodman Theatre, 2006

King Lear, King Lear, Shakespeare Theater Company, Washington DC, 2009

 

Yale Drama School – 1963-64

Richard Dudgeon - The Devil’s Desciple

Mr. Snow - The Voyage

 

London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art – 1964-65

Axel - Playing With Fire

Hughie Hughie

Jean Miss Julie

Miramont Way of the World

Sir Sampson Love for Love

Directed The Maids, Pullman Car Hiawatha, and The Stronger

 

Lincoln Center Repertory Company – 1965-66 (Vivian Beaumont Theatre)

Stonecutter - Danton’s Death

Horner - The Country Wife

The Corporal - Caucasian Chalk Circle

Understudied Lead - The Condemned of Altona

Directed Chekhov’s Marriage Proposal

 

Williamstown Summer Theatre – Summer, 1966

The Prince - Incident At Vichy

Marat - Marat/Sade

Kolenkhov - You Can’t Take it With You

Richard - Lion In Winter

Sitting Bull - Annie Get Your Gun

 

Long Wharf Theatre – Fall, 1966

Head Chorus Oh, What A Lovely War

Tusenbach The Three Sisters

Village Gate, Off-Broadway & Circle In Square – 1967

MacBird MacBird (Obie)

 

Orpheum Theatre – 1967

Old man/Young man - The Niggerlovers

 

Yale Repertory Theatre – 1967-68

Starkey - We Bombed in New Haven

Tusenbach - The Three Sisters

Belcredi - Enrico IV

Coriolanus - Coriolanus

 

Washington Arena Stage – 1969

Buffalo Bill - Indians

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Brooks Atkinson Theatre – Broadway Debut 1969

Buffalo Bill - Indians (Tony nomination)

 

Long Beach Theatre Terrace – 1977

Cyrano - Cyrano de Bergerac

 

Music Box Theatre – Broadway 1980

Sidney Bruhl - Deathtrap

 

National Theatre Great Britain – 1981

Hughie - Hughie

 

U.S. National Tour – 1982

Barnum - Barnum

 

Kennedy Center, Washington, DC-1986

Harry Van - Idiot’s Delight

 

U.S. National Tour – 1988

Andrew Wyke - Sleuth

 

LA Theatre Works Productions (Radio Theatre) 1988- 2011

Babbitt, 1987

The Crucible, 1988

McTegue, 1990

Top Secret (original production), 1991

The White Plague, 1991

Julius Caesar, 1994

Anna Christie, 1999

Another Time, 2000

The Country Girl, 2001

The Life of Galileo / 2007

Death of a Salesman, 2011

Hamlet,  2011

 

San Francisco – 1989

Andy - Love Letters

 

International Tour – 1989

King - The King and I

 

Stage Door Theatre, San Francisco – 1990

Love Letters

 

Pasadena Playhouse – 1991

Richard Jannings - Solitary Confinement

 

Kennedy Center/Nederlander Theatre Broadway – 1992

Richard Jannings Solitary Confinement

 

Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera – 1993

King Arthur - Camelot

 

Atlanta Civic Light Opera – 1993

King Arthur - Camelot

 

Memphis, Orpheum Theatre – 1993

Andy - Love Letters

 

Kennedy Center/Royal Theatre Broadway – 1994

Rowan - The Kentucky Cycle (Helen Hayes Award)

 

U.S. National Tour – 1995

Steiglitz - Steiglitz Loves O’Keefe

 

Ahmanson Theatre – Los Angeles, 1997 (also Seattle & Minneapolis)

Birling - An Inspector Calls

 

London – West End Wyndham’s Theatre – 1998

Marc - Art (1st American Cast in London)

 

US National Tour – 2000

Love Letters

 

The National Theatre of Great Britain – 

Hughie

 

Mark Taper Forum -2003

10 Unknowns

 

Majestic Theatre, Boston- 2004

A Christmas Carol

 

Memphis, Orpheum Theatre –

Michael Lerned

 

U.S. National Tour – 2008

Frost/Nixon Tour

 

Lincoln Center Theatre at the Mitzi E. Newhouse – 2010

Other Desert Cities

 

Booth Theatre – Broadway – 2011

Other Desert Cities

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