Tribute to Stacy Keach, star of Mike Hammer, dead at 85

Not just a TV detective, Stacy Keach will have haunted the cinema with her telluric presence. Tribute.

American actor Stacy Keach, known in particular for having played Detective Mike Hammer on television in a cult detective series from the 1980s, died Tuesday in Poland, at the age of 85.

The American actor, too little known, disappeared without fanfare. It’s very sad.

We can post here and there a photo of the guy as Mike Hammer, with the ad hoc mustache and hat, which he played for TV in the golden eighties. Relaxed, with exaggerated virility, the New York private had something of Chandler’s Philip Marlowe. More Elliott Gould than Humphrey Bogart, Keach conveyed immediate authority. His frame and his penetrating blue gaze spoke for him.

Stacy Keach was above all a star of……