Stacy Keach, Mike Hammer actor whose career spanned stage and screen, dies aged 85

November 11, 2026 · 2:23 am 1 sources

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• Stacy Keach, Mike Hammer actor whose career spanned stage and screen, dies aged 85
  The Guardian · November 11, 2026 02:23
  The US actor died in Poland on Tuesday, ‘after a long and difficult battle with a serious heart condition and heart failure’, his wife said Stacy Keach, one of America’s finest stage actors who became best known for playing scruffy private eye Mike Hammer on TV and whose career was nearly derailed…