Overview
- His wife, Małgosia Tomassi Keach, confirmed that Stacy Keach died on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2026, at the family home in Magdalenka, Poland after a prolonged heart condition that led to heart failure.
- Keach was best known to TV audiences as Mickey Spillane’s private eye Mike Hammer and earned wide notice on film for John Huston’s Fat City, while continuing to work into his eighties with a final credited role in Jay Kelly (2025).
- A classically trained actor, he studied at UC Berkeley, Yale School of Drama and LAMDA, won Obies and Drama Desk awards, received a Tony nomination for Indians in 1969, and helped found L.A. Theatre Works.
- A highly publicized personal episode in 1984 — an arrest at London’s Heathrow for cocaine possession and a subsequent six-month term in Reading Prison — is a recurring part of his life story that he later reflected on publicly.
- He is survived by his wife Małgosia Tomassi Keach, their children Shannon and Karolina, and his brother James Keach, and his death is already drawing tributes and renewed attention to his decades of stage and screen work.