Stacy Keach, widely regarded as one of America's finest stage actors, has died at 85. He was best known to television audiences for his role as scruffy private eye Mike Hammer.<\/p>\n
Keach built a distinguished career across both stage and screen throughout his decades in the industry.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong> CBS News \u2014 Stacy Keach, star of "Mike Hammer" TV series and stage, dies at 85<\/a>. Also reported by NPR<\/a>, Breitbart News Network<\/a>, latimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source's. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n Stacy Keach, Mike Hammer, obituary, television, stage acting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stacy Keach, widely regarded as one of America’s finest stage actors, has died at 85.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[608,584,583,609,433],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","category-latest-news","tag-mike-hammer","tag-obituary","tag-stacy-keach","tag-stage-acting","tag-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}