American theater, film and television actor Stacy Keach
died from heart disease and heart failure at his home in Magdalenka, Poland on
November 10th, he was 85. Born Walter Keach, Jr. in Savannah,
Georgia on June 2, 1941, the son of producer, director, actor Stacy Krach Sr. [1914-2003],
and brother of producer, director, writer, actor James Keach [1947- ] and uncle
of producer actor Kalen Keach [1977.During his six-decade career, Keach earned
recognition for his standout character roles, portraying a wide range of gruff,
hard-nosed authority figures, troubled antiheroes, and morally complex men.
Among his most famous roles are aging boxer Billy Tully in 1972’s “Fat City”,
rookie cop Roy Fehler in 1972’s “The New Centurions”, bumbling narcotics
officer Sergeant. Stedenko in 1978’s “Up in Smoke”, white supremacist leader
Cameron Alexander in 1998’s “American History X”, and small-town bully Ed
Pegram in 2013’s “Nebraska”. Keach appeared in one Spaghetti western ‘Doc’ as Doctor
John Henry ‘Doc’ Holliday in 1970.
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