Stacy Keach, stage actor and Mike Hammer star, dead at 85

CBC - Nov 11, 2026

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 after he was imprisoned in 1984 for trying to smuggle cocaine into Britain, died Tuesday. He was 85.

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