Stacy Keach died Tuesday, Nov. 10, at his family home in Magdalenka, Poland, at 85, after a long battle with a serious heart condition and heart failure, his wife Malgosia Tomassi Keach confirmed. The Golden Globe winner — for playing Ernest Hemingway in the 1988 miniseries — was best known as Mickey Spillane’s hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer on CBS from 1984 to 1987. Younger audiences know him from Titus, Prison Break, Blue Bloods and The Bourne Legacy; his final role was in 2025’s Jay Kelly with George Clooney and Adam Sandler. He was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2015.

Sources: USA Today and Reuters

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