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Stacy Keach
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Stacy Keach was born with a cleft palate. He had it repaired, and the scar sits above his lip beneath his right nostril. He hides the scar with his signature mustache.
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In 1984 he was sentenced to nine months in prison in England for cocaine smuggling. He would later base his performance as the fair-minded Warden Henry Pope in Prison Break (2005) on that prison's warden.
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Christopher Titus was cast as Ken Titus on the series Titus (2000) after admitting in his audition that Keach intimidated him.
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He is a former Fulbright scholar.
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On July 31, 2019, he was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Television at 1628 Vine Street in Hollywood, California.
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He served his prison sentence at Reading Gaol in England.
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Stacy's father began his career as a college drama teacher. He later became the director of the Pasadena Playhouse. His mother was Mary Kain Keach.
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Thanks are owed to the sitcom Titus (2000), which revived his career somewhat and made him better known to younger audiences.
- #009
He provided the narration for the Submarine Voyage at Disneyland in Anaheim, California — though the ride no longer exists.
- #010
While playing Ken Titus on the sitcom Titus (2000), he sometimes received tips from the real Ken Titus (before his death) on how to portray him better.
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On March 17, 2009, he was hospitalized in Los Angeles after suffering a mild stroke.
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He is the son of Stacy Keach Sr. and the older brother of James Keach.
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He studied drama at the University of California, Berkeley, Yale University and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
- #014
He won an Obie Award for his leading performance in "MacBird!" (1967).
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He was nominated for the 2018 Joseph Jefferson Equity Award for Solo Performance for "Pamplona" at the Goodman Theatre in Chicago, Illinois.
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He appeared in numerous plays at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C.
- #017
Under the rules in place at the time, Keach should have been awarded Best Actor by the New York Film Critics Circle for his role as Tully in Fat City (1972), since the award required only a plurality of votes and Keach received the most votes in the category. At the time the NYFCC ranked second in prestige after the Oscars (and some actors and producers regarded it as the superior honor) and it had a major influence on subsequent Oscar nominations. (In the 1976 presidential election year, director Robert Altman described the NYFCC Awards as the 'New York primary' leading to the Oscar 'elections,' with the Golden Globe Awards as the 'California primary.') A faction of the NYFCC, horrified by the rather low percentage of votes that would have given Keach the award, successfully demanded a rule change requiring the winner to secure a majority. In the next vote Keach failed to win a majority and lost ground to his main rival, Marlon Brando, for The Godfather (1972). Brando, however, also failed to secure a majority, and compromise candidate Laurence Olivier was ultimately awarded Best Actor for Sleuth (1972). Both Brando, who eventually won the Oscar for his role as Don Corleone in the classic gangster film, and Olivier were nominated for the Oscar, but Keach was not.
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Along with Louis Gossett Jr., he was one of two actors considered for the role of General Hank Landry, the new commander of the SGC on Stargate SG-1 (1997). The role went to Beau Bridges instead.
- #019
He graduated from Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles, California (1959).
- #020
Ironically, Stacy Keach, who was fired by Mike Nichols and replaced by Martin Balsam in the role of Colonel Cathcart in Catch-22 (1970), was replaced by another Joseph Heller work, the play "We Bombed in New Haven," which began as a dramatization of "Catch-22." Keach originated the role of Captain Starkey in the play at the Yale Repertory Theatre, and when it moved to Broadway he was replaced by Jason Robards.
- #021
Stacy Keach was nominated for the 1970 Tony Award for Best Actor (Dramatic) for his role as Buffalo Bill Cody, also known as Buffalo Bill, in Arthur Kopit's "Indians."
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Stacy Keach lives in a house on 3 acres on Winding Ways, a private road half a mile from Paradise Cove in Malibu, California.
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Stacy Keach has a Doberman-Husky mix dog.
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Stacy Keach has an office at Burbank Studios in Hollywood.
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Stacy Keach is a client of Dick Guttman.
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