Walter Stacy Keach Jr. (born June 2, 1941 in Savannah, Georgia) is an American actor and narrator, son of longtime television actor Stacy Keach Sr. and older brother of actor, director, and producer James Keach. Often cast as powerful, imposing authority figures due to his commanding voice and wide frame (in addition to occasionally sporting a moustache somewhere on the Powers Boothe scalenote ), Keach has won critical acclaim throughout his varied career. He's also led a rather interesting life which includes a struggle with cocaine addiction, a prison sentence in Reading Prison and a conversion to Roman Catholicism followed by his son being blessed by Pope John Paul II. Also, despite the fact that he often plays mean characters, he's considered to be one of the sweetest men in Hollywood and has the ability to turn the driest line into a gut-busting punchline with his delivery alone.
He's perhaps best-known for his roles as the titular character in Mike Hammer, a manipulative Neo-Nazi in American History X, Christopher Titus' real-life alcoholic, chain-smoking, wussy-hating, womanizing, five-times-divorced father Ken on the FOX sitcom Titus, a kindly prison warden in Prison Break and a small-town bully in Nebraska!.
Filmography on TV Tropes:
- 1970 Brewster McCloud as Abraham Wright
- 1972 The New Centurions as Roy Fehler
- 1972 The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean as Original Bad Bob the Albino
- 1975 Conduct Unbecoming as Capt. Harper (with a British accent!)
- 1976 The Killer Inside Me as Lou Ford
- 1978 Gray Lady Down as Capt. Bennett
- 1978 Up in Smoke as Sergeant Stedanko
- 1980 The Ninth Configuration as Col. Vincent Kane
- 1980 The Long Riders as Frank James (also writer and producer)
- 1981 Road Games as Patrick Quid
- 1981 Nice Dreams as Sergeant Stedanko
- 1982 That Championship Season as James Daley
- 1990 Class of 1999 as Dr. Robert "Bob" Forest
- 1993 Sunset Grill as Harrison Shelgrove
- 1993 Batman: Mask of the Phantasm as Carl Beaumont and the Phantasm
- 1996 Escape from L.A. as Commander Malloy
- 1997 The Sea Wolf as Captain Wolf
- 1998 American History X as Cameron Alexander
- 2000 Icebreaker as Bill Foster
- 2000 Militia as George Armstrong Montgomery
- 2002 The Santa Trap
- 2004 The Hollow as Claus Von Ripper
- 2005 Man with the Screaming Brain as Dr. Ivanov
- 2012 The Bourne Legacy as Turso
- 2013 Planes as Skipper
- 2013 Nebraska! as Ed Pegram
- 2014 Sin City: A Dame to Kill For as Wallenquist
- 1978 Saturday Night Live as Man in Cold As Ice
- 1984-1985 Mike Hammer as Mike Hammer
- 1997-2003 Touched by an Angel as Maury Hoover/Ty Duncan
- 1998-2001 Rugrats as Marvin Finster
- 1999 Batman Beyond as Vance
- 2000 The Outer Limits (1995) as Cord van Owen
- 2000-2002 Titus as Ken Titus
- 2001-2002 The Zeta Project as Roland de Flores
- 2001, 2003, 2006-2016 The Simpsons as Howard Duff
- 2003-2005 What's New, Scooby-Doo? as Harold Lind/The Mayor
- 2005 The George Lopez Show as Blaine McNamara
- 2005 Will & Grace as Wendell Schacter
- 2005-2007 Prison Break as Henry Pope
- 2007 ER as Mike Gates
- 2010 Two and a Half Men as Tom, Chelsea's father
- 2012 30 Rock as Himself
- 2012-2013 The Neighbors as Dominick Weaver
- 2013 1600 Penn as Senator from Thoroughgood
- 2013 Anger Management as Ray
- 2013 Brooklyn Nine-Nine as Jimmy Brogan
- 2014 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit as Orion Bauer
- 2015 Hot in Cleveland as Alex
- 2015-2019 NCIS: New Orleans as Cassius Pride
- 2016 Blunt Talk as Arthur Bronson
- 2016 Ray Donovan as Marty (The Texan)
- 2016 Tokyo Trial, narrator
- 2016-present Blue Bloods as Archbishop Kevin Kearns
- 2017-2020 Man with a Plan
- 2019 The Blacklist as Robert Vesco