Stacy Keach, Mike Hammer actor, dies aged 85
US actor Stacy Keach died aged 85 at his family home in Magdalenka, Poland, according to his wife, Małgosia Tomassi. She said he died after a long and difficult battle with a serious heart condition and heart failure. Keach was best known for playing private investigator Mike Hammer on television and later appeared in Alexander Payne's Oscar-nominated drama Nebraska. Reports of his death came on Tuesday, 11 Nov.
Key facts
- Keach was born in Savannah, Georgia, and studied at the University of California, Berkeley.
- He won a Golden Globe for playing Ernest Hemingway in a 1988 TV film.
- He had suffered a heart attack onstage in Chicago in June 2017.
- He was imprisoned in 1984 for attempting to smuggle cocaine into Britain.
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The death of a long-running television lead whose career spanned stage, screen and film.
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