Stacy Keach News Archive

JULY 18, 2000:
Stacy Keach will star in a radio presentation of The Devil's Disciple by GB Shaw, for England's BBC Radio 3. Keach joins Gregory Peck, Shirley Knight, Martin Jarvis and Norman Lloyd in this 50th Anniversary production. It will air in the UK later this year, schedule to be announced.

Titus On Fox Inspired by the real life of comedian Christopher Titus, TITUS is a half-hour comedy chronicling the heartbreakingly hilarious world of his dysfunctional family. And coming from a dysfunctional family means that nothing rattles him. Once you've driven your drunk father to your mom's parole hearing ... what else is there?

STACY KEACH as Ken Titus, father
Ken Titus is a noble, loving father, a caring human being who thinks only of others - when he's sober. Most of the time he's the "anti-dad" - the most negative human being on the planet. Wherever there is hope, he will kill it.

Tuesday Nights 8:30 PM ET on FOX

Stacy goes to Washington, DC
On Tuesday, March 28, Stacy Keach went to Washington, DC, to join the American Society of Plastic Surgeons and Senator John McCain to help children born with facial abnormalities, and their families, get insurance coverage.
There are HMO's and Insurance Companies who still consider surgery "cosmetic" and not "reconstructive", thereby not worthy of coverage. Stacy feels that every child born with a cleft lip or cleft palate has the right to a happy and productive life, and that we have an obligation to ensure that these children and their families have the benefits of proper medical insurance to cover their needs.

ACTORS TALK - Profiles and Stories from the Acting Trade by Dennis Brown

A collection of interviews conducted with eleven talented, experienced, gifted performers of stage and screen. Men and women who have influenced American popular culture through their roles and performances. They include Lillian Gish, Gregory Peck, Danny Kaye, Sterling Hayden, Barry Bostwick, Jose Ferrer, Stacy Keach, George Rose, Jessica Tandy, Paul Winfield, and Beulah Bondi (the beloved character actress who played Jimmy Stewart's mother seven times). These conversations are illuminating, candid, and reveal moments of vulnerability as well as occasions of theatrical triumph. Some of the conversations stand as testaments to players who are no longer with us, others are markers for actors whose careers continue to expand and transform. Actors Talk captures each of these artist's inimitable and varied experiences, from the audition to the performance and from the failure to the success -- things that hallmarked each of their careers. Actors Talk is highly recommended reading for aspiring actors, fans, and anyone with an interest in the history of American theater on stage or on screen.

Outrageous comedy and Stacy Keach. No one would have connected the two 15 years ago, when the actor's heat-packing Hammer defined the television gumshoe. But here he is, tossing off one-liners and getting big laughs as a beer-chugging Daddy Dearest in Fox's new comedy Titus. "I feel like at 58, I'm taking baby steps," says Keach of his first television comedy gig. "It's a rejuvenation, a whole new life for me."

Keach says he's trying something new; comedy. The trick, he's learning, is to play it straight, a lesson that would seem all too easy for the former Mike Hammer. "But, as I say this, I know in my heart I'm such a ham that I'll play for the laughs all the time. I guess it's true what they say: Dying is easy. Comedy is hard." TV Guide, April 1-7, 2000