page_title: Stacy Keach
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Stacy Keach / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: Walk of fame at the Orpheum Theater in Memphis, Tennessee. Stacy Keach
context_page_description: Walter Stacy Keach Jr. is an American actor and voice actor. He has played mainly dramatic roles throughout his career, often in law enforcement or as a private detective. His most prominent role was as Mickey Spillane's fictional detective Mike Hammer, which he played in numerous stand-alone television films and at least three television series throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The role earned him a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1984.
  He has appeared as the lead in films such as Fat City and The Ninth Configuration. He has also performed as a narrator for programs including CNBC'S American Greed and various educational television programs. Comedic roles include Ken, the father of comedian Christopher Titus in the FOX sitcom Titus, and as Sergeant Stedenko in Cheech & Chong's films Up in Smoke and Nice Dreams. Keach won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for the television miniseries Hemingway. He is an inductee of the Theatre Hall of Fame and was honored with a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019.
context_section_description: Keach was born with a cleft lip and a partial cleft of the hard palate, and he underwent numerous operations as a child. Throughout his life he has worn a mustache to hide the scars. He is now the honorary chairman of the Cleft Palate Foundation, and advocates for insurance coverage for surgeries.
  In 1984, London police arrested Keach at Heathrow Airport for possession of cocaine. Keach pleaded guilty, and served six months at Reading Prison.
  Keach stated that his time in prison (which he said was the lowest point of his life) and the friendship he formed with a priest during that time led to his conversion to Roman Catholicism. Subsequently, he and his wife met with Pope John Paul II. His wife, Małgosia Tomassi, had gone to the same school that the Pope had attended in Warsaw.
  Keach has been married four times: to Kathryn Baker in 1964, to Marilyn Aiken in 1975, to Jill Donahue in 1981, and to Małgosia Tomassi around 1986. He has two children with Małgosia: son, Shannon Keach and daughter, Karolina Keach. In 2015, Keach became a Polish citizen.
caption: Keach's star at the Orpheum Theatre, 2010
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