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Actor in theatre, film, and television and who is a noted for being a Shakespearean actor and for portraying private detective Mike Hammer
Stacy was born in 1941. His parents are Walter Keach Sr. and Mary Kain. He trained at the Yale School of Drama and the London Academy of Music. He has had many roles as an actor.
He portrayed Mike Hammer in the CBS television series Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer and The New Mike Hammer from 1984 to 1987. He returned to the role of Hammer in Mike Hammer, Private Eye, a new syndicated series that aired from 1997 to 1998.
In 1991 and 1996 he won Helen Hayes Awards for Outstanding Actor for his work in Richard III and Macbeth with the Shakespeare Theatre Company. In 2006, Keach performed the lead role in Shakespeare's King Lear at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. In the summer of 2009, Shakespeare Theatre Company remounted the production of King Lear at Sidney Harman Hall in Washington, D.C., for which Keach won another Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Actor. He played the title role in two separate productions of Hamlet.
He earned a Golden Globe Award, four Drama Desk Awards, two Helen Hayes Awards, plus many other awards. He was nominated for a Primetime Emmy and a Tony Award. He received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was entered into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
In the 1950 census Walter (age 8) was the son of Walter S Keach in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States.[1]
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