Stacy Keach, the US actor whose career spanned stage and screen, died in Poland on Tuesday, aged 85. His wife, Malgosia Tomassi Keach, said in a statement that he died at home in Magdalenka “after a long and difficult battle with a serious heart condition and heart failure.”
Keach was described as one of America’s finest stage actors. He became best known for playing the scruffy private eye Mike Hammer on television.
His career was nearly derailed in 1984, when he was imprisoned for trying to smuggle cocaine into Britain.
Keach had earlier suffered a heart attack onstage in Chicago in 2017.
