Stacy Keach Net Worth

Stacy Keach's Quotes

• The fundamental virtue of success is that it allows you to know the true significance of what it means to have the freedom to make your dreams come true.
• A facial birth defect doesn't get in the way of achievement. Parents need to instill a positive sense of self-esteem in their children so they can pursue their dreams.
• [on John Huston] John Huston, the director, is a genius and like a lot of geniuses he can be erratic. But his perception, charm, and warmth are so extraordinary that you want to give the best of you. He has an incredible curiosity about life. While cutting one movie he starts working on another. I think he enjoys the process of work more than the results.
• It's always frustrating when you're pigeonholed. But it's an occupational hazard and it happens to every actor. It's just the nature of the beast. It's not easy to accept it, but you sort of have to accept it.
• Historical and contemporary roles both have their virtues. What I like the most about historical roles is doing the research behind the character and the period in which they exist. I love imagining what it must have been like to be in the room with someone like a Buffalo Bill Cody or a P.T. Barnum when they were alive. The advantage of a fictional role is that it frees you of the responsibilities of being historically accurate. You can take more liberties.

Interesting Facts about Stacy Keach

1. In 1984, he was jailed in England for nine months for smuggling cocaine. He would later base his performance of the fair-minded Warden Henry Pope in Prison Break (2005) on the warden of that prison.
2. Son of Stacy Keach Sr., older brother of James Keach.
3. Stacy's father started as a community college drama teacher. He then became the director of the Pasadena Playhouse. His mother was Mary Kain Keach.
4. Studied drama at the University of California - Berkeley, Yale, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
5. Acted in a number of plays at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C.
6. He won an Obie Award for his performance in the title role of "MacBird!" (1967).
7. Performed the role of the King of Siam in a touring rendition of "The King and I".
8. Attended and graduated from Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles, California (1959).
9. Has two children: son - Shannon Keach, daughter - Karolina Keach.
10. Provided the narration for the Submarine ride at Disneyland (in Anaheim, California) - but the ride no longer exists.
11. Former Fulbright scholar.
12. Along with Louis Gossett Jr., he was one of two actors considered for the role of the SGC's new commanding officer, General Hank Landry, on Stargate SG-1 (1997). The role instead went to Beau Bridges.
13. Was nominated for Broadway's 1970 Tony Award as Best Actor (Dramatic) for playing Buffalo Bill Cody, aka Buffalo Bill, in Arthur Kopit's "Indians".
14. Was born with a cleft palate. He had this repaired and the scar is on his lip under the right nostril. He hides the scar with his trademark mustache.
15. Under the then-extant rules, Keach should have been awarded Best Actor honors from the New York Film Critics Circle for his portrayal of Tully in Fat City (1972), as this required only a plurality of the vote and Keach was the top vote-getter in the category. At the time, the NYCC was second in prestige only to the Academy Awards (and some actors and filmmakers considered this a superior honor) and was a major influence on subsequent Oscar nominations. (In the 1976 presidential election year, director Robert Altman characterized the NYFCC Awards as the 'New York primary' leading up to the Oscar 'election', where the Golden Globe Awards was the 'California primary'.) A vocal faction of the NYFCC, dismayed by the rather low percentage of votes that would have given Keach the award, successfully demanded a rule change so that the winner would have to obtain a majority. In subsequent balloting, Keach failed to win a majority of the vote, and he lost ground to his main rival, Marlon Brando in The Godfather (1972). However, Brando could not gain a majority either, and a compromise candidate, Laurence Olivier in Sleuth (1972), eventually was awarded Best Actor honors. Both Brando, who eventually won the Oscar for his comeback triumph as Don Corleone in the classic gangster picture, and Olivier were nominated for the Academy Award, but Keach was not.
16. Credits the sitcom Titus (2000) for somewhat rejuvenating his career and making him more recognizable to younger audiences.
17. When he played Ken Titus on the sitcom Titus (2000), he would sometimes receive tips from the actual Ken Titus (before he passed away), on how to portray him better.
18. Hospitalized in a Los Angeles hospital after suffering a minor stroke on March 17, 2009.
19. Client of Dick Guttman.
20. Served his prison sentence at England's Reading Gaol.