Hollywood Express@hollywoodexpressActor Stacy Keach, known for playing private eye Mike Hammer on television, has passed away at 85. His wife, Malgosia Tomassi Keach, said he died at their home in Magdalenka, Poland, on Tuesday after a long struggle with a heart condition and heart failure.
Keach moved between TV, film, and stage work, including many Shakespearean roles. He won a Golden Globe in 1988 for playing writer Ernest Hemingway in a TV movie, and he narrated CNBC's crime documentary series American Greed for a long run.
His Mike Hammer show, also called The New Mike Hammer, ran for three seasons starting in 1984.
