Stacy Keach has died. The prolific actor was famous for his role as private investigator Mike Hammer.
He played the tough-guy detective for nearly 15 years across multiple TV series and films.
He was also nominated for a Tony, and took on a diverse range of roles from Hamlet to Hemingway across six decades on stage and on screen.
But his career almost came off the rails in 1984 when he spent six months in a U.K. prison for smuggling cocaine.
His wife says Keach died peacefully after a “long and difficult battle” with a heart condition. Keach was 85.
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