Stacy Keach

Walter Stacy Keach Jr. was born on June 2, 1941, in Savannah, Georgia. He is an American actor and narrator who has worked in theatre, film and television since the 1960s. He first drew attention in Off-Broadway productions and became a prominent figure in American theatre, particularly as a noted Shakespearean. He received four Drama Desk Awards and two Helen Hayes Awards, was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for Arthur Kopit's 1969 production of Indians, and was twice nominated for an Obie Award.

In film, he earned critical praise for playing a washed-up boxer in John Huston's Fat City (1972), and appeared in Cheech & Chong's Up in Smoke (1978) and Nice Dreams (1981). His other notable credits include American History X (1998), The Bourne Legacy (2012) and Nebraska (2013).

Television audiences know him as private detective Mike Hammer in television movies and the series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1984–1987), which brought him a Golden Globe nomination, as Ken Titus in the sitcom Titus, as the narrator of the documentary series American Greed (2007–2023), and as Warden Henry Pope in Prison Break. In 1988 he won a Golden Globe and received a Primetime Emmy nomination for playing Ernest Hemingway in the miniseries Hemingway. He is an inductee of the Theatre Hall of Fame and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019. He is the son of theatre director Stacy Keach Sr. and the older brother of actor James Keach.