Stacy Keach, Mike Hammer actor whose career spanned stage and screen, dies aged 85
Stacy Keach, the prolific actor who starred on TV’s Mike Hammer and Titus and recurred on Blue Bloods after establishing himself as a stage and film actor, died Monday.
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Keach died at home in Magdalenka, Poland on Tuesday, “after a long and difficult battle with a serious heart condition and heart failure,” his wife, Malgosia Tomassi Keach, said in a statement.
Keach had previously suffered a heart attack onstage in Chicago in 2017.
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