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Stacy Keach, ‘Fat City’ and ‘Mike Hammer’ Star, Dead at 85

The tough guy actor had accrued more than 200 screen credits over a career that spanned seven decades.

Stacy Keach poses AFI Fest on November 4, 2007 in Hollywood, Calif.

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Stacy Keach, the highly prolific screen and stage actor known to audiences for his television role as the private detective Mike Hammer and other tough guy characters, died of heart failure on Tuesday at his family residence in Magdalenka, Poland.…