Many fans are curious about Stacy Keach's financial success in April 2026. In this article, we dive deep into the assets and career highlights.
What Is Stacy Keach's Net Worth?
Stacy Keach is an American actor and voiceover artist who has a net worth of $8 million. Stacy Keach is best known for playing detective Mike Hammer in various television films and series throughout the '80s and '90s. On the big screen, he has been in such films as "Fat City," "The Ninth Configuration," "Up in Smoke," and "Nebraska." Among Keach's plethora of other credits are the films "American History X," "Truth," and "Gotti" and the television series "Titus," "Prison Break," and "Man with a Plan." As a narrator, he has voiced the CNBC show "American Greed" since 2008.
Keach was in fewer films in the '80s; his credits were "The Ninth Configuration," "The Long Riders," "Roadgames," "Nice Dreams," "Butterfly," and "That Championship Season." Following an eight-year hiatus, he returned to the big screen in 1990 to both direct and star in "False Identity." The same year, he appeared in "Class of 1999." Stacy was subsequently in "Milena," "Sunset Grill," "Raw Justice," "Escape from L.A.," "American History X," and "Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return." His credits in the early 2000s include "Icebreaker," "Militia," "Mercy Streets," "When Eagles Strike," and "The Hollow." Following these, Keach appeared in such films as "Man with the Screaming Brain," "Come Early Morning," "Honeydripper," "W.," and "Chicago Overcoat." In 2011, he was in "Cellmates" and "Jerusalem Countdown," and in 2012, he had a supporting role in "The Bourne Legacy." Further supporting roles came in "Nebraska," "Sin City: A Dame to Kill For," "If I Stay," "Truth," "Cell," "Gold," and "Gotti." Additionally, Keach lent his voice to the animated film "Planes," as well as its sequel "Planes: Fire & Rescue."
Stacy Keach was born Walter Stacy Keach Jr. on June 2, 1941, in Savannah, Georgia. Notably, he was born with a cleft lip and underwent a number of operations in his childhood. Keach's father, Stacy Sr., was a theater director, actor, and drama teacher, while his mother, Mary, was an actress. He has a younger brother named James who is also an actor. As a teen, Keach went to Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles. After graduating, he obtained two BA degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. Stacy went on to earn his MFA from the Yale School of Drama in 1966; he was also a Fulbright Scholar at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
In 1964, Keach made his television debut in an episode of "Channing." He had his first big acting role in 1966, when he played the titular role in the off-Broadway antiwar satire "MacBird!" The next year, Stacy appeared in another off-Broadway play called "The Niggerlovers" and also starred in the play "We Bombed in New Haven" at the Yale Repertory Theatre. Additionally, he was in the television film "The Winter's Tale." In 1968, Keach played Banquo in a television adaptation of "Macbeth," and also made his feature film debut in "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter." The following year, he made his Broadway debut playing Buffalo Bill in Arthur Kopit's "Indians."
By the early '70s, Keach was regularly landing roles in films. He had a supporting part inRobert Altman's"Brewster McCloud," and then starred in "End of the Road," "The Traveling Executioner," "Doc," "The New Centurions," and John Huston's "Fat City." After appearing in a supporting role in Huston's next film, "The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean," Keach starred as Martin Luther in the biographical drama "Luther." He had further starring roles in such films as "The Gravy Train," "Street People," "The Killer Inside Me," "The Squeeze," "The Greatest Battle," and "Gray Lady Down." Stacy closed out the '70s with roles in "Two Solitudes," "Mountain of the Cannibal God," and the Cheech & Chong comedy "Up in Smoke."
On television, Keach had his first main role on the short-lived crime drama series "Caribe" in 1975. Two years later, he portrayed Barabbas in the miniseries "Jesus of Nazareth." In the '80s, Stacy primarily acted in miniseries and television films. Early in the decade, he starred in the miniseries "A Rumor of War," "The Blue and the Gray," and "Princess Daisy." In 1983, Keach debuted what would become his most famous role: detective Mike Hammer, a character originally created by crime author Mickey Spillane. Stacy made his first appearance as Hammer in the television film "Murder Me, Murder You"; he went on to reprise the role in the television films "More Than Murder" and "Murder Takes All," as well as on the television series "Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer," "The New Mike Hammer," and "Mike Hammer, Private Eye."
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