Jun 2, 1941 - Savannah, Georgia, USA
Walter Stacy Keach, Jr. (born June 2, 1941) is an American actor and narrator. He is most famous for his dramatic roles; however, he has done narration work in educational programming on PBS and the Discovery Channel, as well as some comedy (particularly his role in the FOX sitcom Titus as Ken, the hard-drinking, chain-smoking, womanizing father of comedian Christopher Titus) and musical roles.
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| Movie | 1998 | American History X | Cameron | |
| Movie | 2014 | Sin City: A Dame to Kill For | Wallenquist | |
| Movie | 2005 | Man with the Screaming Brain | Dr. Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov | |
| Movie | 2008 | W. | Rev. Earle Hudd | |
| Movie | 1996 | Escape from L.A. | Malloy | |
| Movie | 1981 | Nice Dreams | Sergeant Stedenko | |
| Movie | 1968 | The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter | Blount | |
| Movie | 1997 | Future Fear | General Wallace | |
| Movie | 1993 | Body Bags | Richard | |
| Movie | 2006 | Jesus, Mary and Joey | Jack O`Callahan | |
| Movie | 1990 | Class of 1999 | Dr. Bob Forrest | |
| Movie | 2000 | Militia | George Armstrong Montgomery | |
| Movie | 2010 | Machete | Doc Franklin | |
| Movie | 1989 | The Forgotten | Adam Roth | |
| Movie | 1978 | Gray Lady Down | Captain Bennett | |
| Movie | 2010 | The Portal | Professor Haffler | |
| Movie | 1999 | Children of the Corn 666: Isaac's Return | Dr. Michaels | |
| Movie | 2000 | Mercy Streets | Tom | |
| Movie | 1970 | Brewster McCloud | Abraham Wright | |
| Movie | 1972 | The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean | Bad Bob | |
| Movie | 2006 | Death Row | John Elias | |
| Movie | 1982 | Butterfly | Jess Tyler | |
| Movie | 1994 | Raw Justice | Deputy Mayor Bob Jenkins | |
| Movie | 1979 | Diary of a Young Comic | Mr. Porzinski | |
| Movie | 2009 | The Boxer | Joe | |
| Movie | 1994 | Reflections on Elephants | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2004 | The Hollow | Claus Van Ripper | |
| Movie | 1980 | The Long Riders | Frank James | |
| Movie | 2000 | Icebreaker | Bill Foster | |
| Movie | 1993 | Batman: Mask of the Phantasm | Phantasm / Carl Beaumont (voice) | |
| Movie | 2000 | Fear Runs Silent | Mr. Hill | |
| Movie | 1981 | Roadgames | Patrick 'Pat' Quid | |
| Movie | 1976 | The Killer Inside Me | Lou Ford | |
| Movie | 2009 | Chicago Overcoat | Ray Berkowski | |
| Movie | 2007 | The Pixar Story | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1974 | All the Kind Strangers | James "Jimmy" Wheeler | |
| Movie | 1998 | Mike Hammer's Mickey Spillane | Self | |
| Movie | 1972 | The New Centurions | Roy Fehle | |
| Movie | 2003 | Frozen Impact | Pete Crane | |
| Movie | 1972 | Fat City | Tully | |
| Movie | 1976 | Street People | Charlie Hanson | |
| Movie | 2012 | The Bourne Legacy | Turso | |
| Movie | 1978 | Slave of the Cannibal God | Professor Edward Foster | |
| Movie | 2004 | John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies | Self | |
| Movie | 1980 | The Ninth Configuration | Col. Vincent Kane | |
| Movie | 2011 | Storm War | Marcus | |
| Movie | 1978 | The Biggest Battle | Maggiore Mannfred Roland | |
| Movie | 1996 | Prey of the Jaguar | The Commander | |
| Movie | 2023 | Buckle Up | Ronnie Straight | |
| Movie | 2020 | Titus Family | Homecoming | Ken Titus | |
| Movie | 2013 | Meir's Festival | Self | |
| Movie | 1971 | Doc | Doc Holliday | |
| Movie | 1975 | One By One | Narrator | |
| Movie | 1970 | The Traveling Executioner | Jonas Candide | |
| Movie | 2000 | Tesla: Master of Lightning | Nikola Tesla (Voice) | |
| Movie | 1996 | The Pathfinder | Compte du Leon | |
| Movie | 1974 | The Dion Brothers | Calvin | |
| Movie | 1977 | The Squeeze | Jim Naboth | |
| Movie | 1975 | Conduct Unbecoming | Capitano Archer | |
| Movie | 1995 | Trust in Me | The Reverend | |
| Movie | 1974 | Watched! | Mike Mandell / Sonny | |
| Movie | 2000 | Unshackled | Warden Kelso | |
| Movie | 2012 | Cellmates | Warden Merville | |
| Movie | 2001 | Lightning: Fire from the Sky | Bart Pointdexter | |
| Movie | 2011 | Miller's Tale | Self | |
| Movie | 1995 | Texas | Sam Houston | |
| Movie | 1992 | Lincoln and the War Within | ||
| Movie | 2004 | Galaxy Hunter | 3V3 | |
| Movie | 1970 | End of the Road | Jacob Horner | |
| Movie | 2013 | Nebraska | Ed Pegram | |
| Movie | 2013 | Planes | Skipper (voice) | |
| Movie | 1991 | Mission of the Shark: The Saga of the U.S.S. Indianapolis | Capt. Charles Butler McVay | |
| Movie | 1986 | The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer | Mike Hammer | |
| Movie | 1984 | More Than Murder | Mike Hammer | |
| Movie | 1983 | Murder Me, Murder You | Mike Hammer | |
| Movie | 2011 | Air Mater | Skipper (voice) | |
| Movie | 2000 | Savage Planet: Deadly Skies | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1982 | That Championship Season | James Daley | |
| Movie | 1989 | Mike Hammer: Murder Takes All | Mike Hammer | |
| Movie | 1993 | Rio Diablo | Kansas | |
| Movie | 1974 | Antigone | Chorus | |
| Movie | 1995 | Young Ivanhoe | Pembrooke | |
| Movie | 2013 | Ooga Booga | Judge | |
| Movie | 1974 | Luther | Martin Luther | |
| Movie | 1997 | The Sea Wolf | Wolf Larsen | |
| Movie | N/A | Sea Monsters: Search for the Giant Squid | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1993 | Sunset Grill | Harrison Shelgrove | |
| Movie | 1992 | Revenge on the Highway | Claude Sams | |
| Movie | 2009 | Imbued | Donatello | |
| Movie | 2001 | The Face: Jesus in Art | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2001 | Sunstorm | Gen. John Parker | |
| Movie | 1993 | Irresistible Force | Harris Stone | |
| Movie | 2006 | Desolation Canyon | Samuel Kendrick | |
| Movie | 2013 | The Great Chameleon | Max | |
| Movie | 1994 | New Crime City: Los Angeles 2020 | Wynorski | |
| Movie | 1998 | Amanda & the Alien | Emmitt Mallory | |
| Movie | 2008 | Lone Rider | Robert Hattaway | |
| Movie | 1997 | Legend of the Lost Tomb | Dr. William Bent | |
| Movie | 2003 | Operation Balikatan | General Thurmond | |
| Movie | 1994 | Against Their Will | Jack Devlin | |
| Movie | 1978 | Up in Smoke | Sergeant Stedenko | |
| Movie | 2014 | If I Stay | Gramps | |
| Movie | 1999 | Dolphins: The Wild Side | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1993 | National Geographic: The Lost Fleet of Guadalcanal | Self - Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2014 | Planes: Fire & Rescue | Skipper (voice) | |
| Movie | 2024 | Lost & Found in Cleveland | Will Sokolowski | |
| Movie | 2014 | Vitaminamulch: Air Spectacular | Skipper | |
| Movie | 1990 | Night of 100 Stars III | Self | |
| Movie | 1997 | Murder in My Mind | Cargill | |
| Movie | 2003 | How Do You Change Your Parents? | Richard Hendersen | |
| Movie | 2009 | The Nanny Express | Reverend MacGregor | |
| Movie | 1992 | Lincoln | George McClellan (voice) | |
| Movie | 2006 | The Switch | ||
| Movie | 2005 | Keep Your Distance | Brooks Voight | |
| Movie | 2003 | Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 1990 | Lindbergh | Self - Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2025 | Jay Kelly | ||
| Movie | 2017 | Sucker Punch Blues: A Look Back on John Huston's 'Fat City' | Self | |
| Movie | 2016 | Gold | Clive Coleman | |
| Movie | 1976 | Dynasty | Matt Blackwood | |
| Movie | 2001 | Majestic White Horses | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2015 | Truth | Lt. Colonel Bill Burkett | |
| Movie | 2016 | Must See TV: An All Star Tribute to James Burrows | Self | |
| Movie | 2001 | Birds of Passage | Captain Savienko | |
| Movie | 1998 | Sea Devils | Captain Savienko | |
| Movie | 2006 | Come Early Morning | Owen Allen | |
| Movie | 2016 | Cell | Charles Ardai | |
| Movie | 2002 | The Real Death Star | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2015 | Sam | The Shopkeeper | |
| Movie | 2011 | Jerusalem Countdown | Jackson | |
| Movie | 1991 | Milena | Jesenski | |
| Movie | 2002 | The Santa Trap | Max the Biker | |
| Movie | 1972 | Particular Men | ||
| Movie | 1977 | The Duellists | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2017 | Habit & Armour | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2017 | Girlfriend's Day | Gundy | |
| Movie | 1996 | Titanic's Lost Sister | Narrator (voice) - US Version | |
| Movie | 2018 | Gotti | Neil Dellacroce | |
| Movie | 1995 | Andrew Wyeth: Self Portrait - Snow Hill | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2007 | Honeydripper | Sheriff Pugh | |
| Movie | 1982 | Wait Until Dark | Roat / Roat Sr. / Roat Jr. | |
| Movie | 1975 | James Dean: The First American Teenager | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2010 | Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales | Skipper | |
| Movie | 2015 | Father Rupert Mayer | Colonel von Bayern | |
| Movie | 1999 | Olympic Glory | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2008 | Camelot: Live from Lincoln Center | Merlyn | |
| Movie | 2000 | Alien Technology | Host | |
| Movie | 1980 | Portrait of a Rebel: The Remarkable Mrs. Sanger | Judge Murdock | |
| Movie | 2010 | The Aristofrogs | ||
| Movie | 2008 | The Last Full Measure | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2015 | Fifty Shades of Erotica | ||
| Movie | 1993 | Working with Orson Welles | Himself | |
| Movie | 2008 | Ring of Death | Warden Carl Golan | |
| Movie | 1990 | False Identity | Ben Driscoll / Harlan Errickson | |
| Movie | 1992 | The Secret World Of Bats | Host | |
| Movie | 2000 | The Courage to Love | Jean-Baptiste Delille | |
| Movie | 2008 | Not Quite Hollywood | Self | |
| Movie | 2016 | Cop Stories: The Making of Richard Fleischer’s ‘The New Centurions’ | Self | |
| Movie | 1978 | Two Solitudes | Huntley McQueen | |
| Movie | 2020 | Survival Skills | The Narrator | |
| Movie | 2018 | Periphery | Noah Cross | |
| Movie | 1994 | The Secret of the Wild Child | Self | |
| Movie | 2019 | Valerie | Self | |
| Movie | 2012 | An Amazing Time: A Conversation About End of the Road | Self | |
| Movie | 2006 | Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America | Collin Reed | |
| Movie | 2004 | El padrino: The Latin Godfather | Gov. Lancaster | |
| Movie | 1986 | Intimate Strangers | Dr. Jeff Bierston | |
| Movie | 1993 | Warren Oates: Across the Border | Self | |
| Movie | 1997 | Volcano: Nature's Inferno | Narrator (voice) | |
| Movie | 2003 | Kangaroo Hitchcock: The Making of 'Road Games' | Self | |
| Movie | 2005 | Caught in the Headlights | Mr. Jones | |
| Movie | 2009 | The Assistants | Jasper / The Garbage Man | |
| Movie | 2009 | The Assistants | Harlin W. Keyes | |
| Movie | 1974 | The Formula One Drivers (aka The Quick and the Dead) | Narrator | |
| Movie | 2003 | Miracle Dogs | C.W. Aldrich | |
| Movie | 1975 | Hamburger Hamlet | ||
| Movie | 2022 | American Greed: James McGill | Narrator(voice) | |
| TV Show | 2000 | Titus | Ken Titus | 54 |
| TV Show | 1999 | Batman Beyond | Vance (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1989 | The Simpsons | Howard K. Duff VIII (voice) / Don Bookner (voice) | 4 |
| TV Show | 2002 | Boomtown | Jack 'Mac' McNorris | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Touched by an Angel | Ty Duncan | 1 |
| TV Show | 2003 | Two and a Half Men | Tom | 4 |
| TV Show | 1996 | E! True Hollywood Story | 1 | |
| TV Show | 2002 | George Lopez | 1 | |
| TV Show | 2001 | Warship: Innovations that Changed the World | Host | 4 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Mike Hammer, Private Eye | Mike Hammer | 26 |
| TV Show | 1974 | NOVA | 1 | |
| TV Show | 2001 | The Zeta Project | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1954 | Lassie | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1998 | Will & Grace | Wendell Schacter | 1 |
| TV Show | 1994 | ER | Mike Gates | 2 |
| TV Show | 2002 | Girls Club | 1 | |
| TV Show | 1999 | World's Most Amazing Videos | Self - Narrator (voice) | 52 |
| TV Show | 1977 | Jesus of Nazareth | Barabbas | 4 |
| TV Show | 1982 | The Blue and the Gray | Jonas Steele | 3 |
| TV Show | 2004 | Totally Outrageous Behavior | Self - Narrator (voice) | 23 |
| TV Show | 1998 | Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book | 13 | |
| TV Show | 1975 | Caribe | Lt. Ben Logan | 13 |
| TV Show | 1999 | The Late Late Show with Craig Kilborn | Self - Guest | 1 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Mike Hammer | Mike Hammer | 46 |
| TV Show | 2011 | Lights Out | Pops | 13 |
| TV Show | 2009 | Meteor | Sheriff Crowe | 2 |
| TV Show | 1975 | Saturday Night Live | Self - Cameo (uncredited) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2013 | Brooklyn Nine-Nine | Jimmy Brogan | 1 |
| TV Show | 1989 | The Simpsons | Howard Duff (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Mistral's Daughter | Julien Mistral | 8 |
| TV Show | 1974 | NOVA | Narrator | 8 |
| TV Show | 2013 | Full Circle | Bud O'Rourke | 24 |
| TV Show | 2006 | Galapagos | Bishop of Panama (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Blue Bloods | Kevin Kearns | 4 |
| TV Show | 2005 | Prison Break | Warden Henry Pope | 23 |
| TV Show | 2016 | Crowded | Bob Moore | 13 |
| TV Show | 1984 | Six Centuries of Verse | Self - Reader | 3 |
| TV Show | 1988 | Hemingway | Ernest Hemingway | 4 |
| TV Show | 1994 | Touched by an Angel | Maury Hoover | 1 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Blue Bloods | Archbishop Kevin Kearns | 1 |
| TV Show | 2006 | Warplane | Self - Narrator (voice) | 4 |
| TV Show | 1983 | Princess Daisy | Count Alexander "Stash" Valensky | 2 |
| TV Show | 1995 | The Outer Limits | Cord van Owen | 1 |
| TV Show | 2014 | Enlisted | Patrick | 1 |
| TV Show | 1991 | I Misteri Della Giungla Nera | Colonel Edward Corishant | 5 |
| TV Show | 2007 | American Greed | Self - Narrator (voice) | 222 |
| TV Show | 1991 | Rugrats | Marvin Finster (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2006 | Blackbeard | Cpt. Benjamin Hornigold | 2 |
| TV Show | 2001 | Gary & Mike | (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1988 | American Experience | Narrator (voice) | 4 |
| TV Show | 1991 | Haunted Lives: True Ghost Stories | Narrator | 3 |
| TV Show | 2006 | 30 Rock | Stacy Keach | 1 |
| TV Show | 1999 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Orion Bauer | 1 |
| TV Show | 2016 | Tokyo Trial | Narrator (voice) | 4 |
| TV Show | 1997 | Die Gang | Jean-Marie Bosco | 13 |
| TV Show | 1974 | NOVA | Narrator (voice) | 2 |
| TV Show | 2002 | What's New, Scooby-Doo? | The Mayor (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2002 | What's New, Scooby-Doo? | Harold Ling (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1980 | A Rumor of War | Maj. Ball | 2 |
| TV Show | 1988 | LIVE with Kelly and Mark | (archive footage) | 1 |
| TV Show | 2013 | The Blacklist | Robert Vesco | 6 |
| TV Show | 2014 | NCIS: New Orleans | Cassius Pride | 6 |
| TV Show | 2013 | Sean Saves the World | Lee Thompson | 3 |
| TV Show | 2010 | Hot in Cleveland | Alex Chase | 2 |
| TV Show | 2012 | 1600 Penn | Frohm Thoroughgood | 2 |
| TV Show | 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Performer | 1 |
| TV Show | 1980 | The Search for Solutions | Narrator | 9 |
| TV Show | 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self - Presenter | 2 |
| TV Show | 2011 | The Exes | Bill Drake | 1 |
| TV Show | 1989 | The Simpsons | Howard K. Duff VIII / Don Bookner (voice) | 1 |
| TV Show | 1971 | Great Performances | 1 | |
| TV Show | 2016 | Man with a Plan | Joe Burns | 50 |
| TV Show | 2011 | Hindenburg: The Last Flight | Edward van Zandt | 2 |
| TV Show | 2012 | Anger Management | Ray | 1 |
| TV Show | 1944 | Golden Globe Awards | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1961 | The Mike Douglas Show | Self | 1 |
| TV Show | 1956 | Tony Awards | Self - Nominee | 1 |
| TV Show | N/A | Mysterious Places | Series Host | 1 |
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| Movie | 1945 | Sudan | Dialogue | Writing |
| Movie | 1980 | The Long Riders | Writer | Writing |
| Movie | 1980 | The Long Riders | Executive Producer | Production |
| Movie | 1973 | Incident at Vichy | Director | Directing |
| Movie | 1976 | Six Characters in Search of An Author | Director | Directing |
