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Mike Hammer Star Stacy Keach Dies Aged 85

Mike Hammer Star Stacy Keach Dies Aged 85

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Stacy Keach, the gravel-voiced actor best known as tough private eye Mike Hammer on American television, has died aged 85. His wife said he passed away at their home in Poland after a long fight with heart failure. Keach also starred in Fat City and Prison Break, earned acclaim for Shakespeare on stage, and once served time in Britain over a 1984 cocaine smuggling case.

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