Stacy Keach, Actor Who Embodied Hamlet and Mike Hammer, Dies at 85

He missed out on several major film roles, but found steady work in the theater, on TV and in movies.Stacy Keach as Mike Hammer in 1984. “If a script interests me,” he wrote in his memoir, “or a character intrigues me, or the cast features someone I’ve always wanted to work with, or the location is somewhere exotic, then sign me up.”