Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Stacy Keach, Legendary Actor
About Harvey's guest:
Today’s special guest, Stacy Keach, is a legendary actor who’s given us dozens of unforgettable performances in a career that spans over 6 decades.
He’s widely considered to be America’s finest classical actor, having tackled the most challenging Shakespearean roles including Hamlet, Richard the 3rd, MacBeth, King Lear and Henry the 4th. He has starred in many other highly acclaimed theatrical productions including “Incident at Vichy”, “The Country Wife”, “MacBird”, “Indians”, “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”, “Deathtrap”, “The Kentucky Cycle”, “Other Desert Cities”, “Death of a Salesman”, “Art” and “Love Letters”.
On the big screen, he’s appeared in dozens of great movies including “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”, “Doc”, “Fat City”, “The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean”, “The New Centurions”, “Up in Smoke” and the sequel, “Nice Dreams”, “That Championship Season”, “Escape from L.A.”, “American History X”, “W”, “The Bourne Legacy”, “Nebraska”, “Gold”, and many more.
And on television, aside from his groundbreaking role as everybody’s favourite private detective, “Mike Hammer”, we also remember him in “Die Gang”, “Titus”, “Prison Break”, “Lights Out”, “Crowded”, “Man with a Plan”, and “Blue Bloods”. He’s also starred in many renowned miniseries including “Jesus of Nazareth”, “The Blue and the Gray”, “Princess Daisy”, “Mistral’s Daughter”, “Hemingway”, “Blackbeard”, “Meteor”, and “Tokyo Trial”. And who can forget his wonderful audio podcast series, “The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas”.
In 2013 he wrote a highly compelling, fascinating and insightful memoir entitled, “All in All: An Actor’s Life On and Off the Stage”.
The list of awards and accolades this man has received is jaw-dropping. He’s won 4 Drama Desk Awards, 3 Vernon Rice Awards, 2 Helen Hayes Awards, a Hollywood Film Award, a Kansas City Film Critics Circle Award, a Mary Pickford Award, the German Independence Honorary Award and a Star of Excellence at the Oldenburg Film Festival. He has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the San Diego Film Festival and the St. Lewis International Film Festival.
In the year 2000, he received the prestigious Millennium Recognition Award from Shakespeare Theatre Company for his outstanding contribution to classical theatre. In 2012 he became George Mason University’s first Heritage Professor of Stage and Screen.
In 2015, our guest was inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame. And in 2019, he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
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