CDA: Stacy Keach

Actor Stacy Keach died the other day at the age of 85. Did anyone else's career run the gamut from Shakespeare to Cheech and Chong...? That's what I call RANGE.

He played Hamlet at Shakespeare in the Park in 1972. Take a look at this amazing cast:

Hamlet: Keach

Gertrude: Colleen Dewhurst

Claudius: James Earl Jones

Ophelia: Kitty Winn

Laertes: Sam Waterston

Polonius: Barnard Hughes

Player Queen: Linda Hunt

Orsino: Raul Julia

First Gravedigger: Charles Durning

Second Gravedigger: Tom Aldredge

Out of this world!

I was disappointed that the Times obit didn't mention his small role in American History X. He was so powerful and disturbing in that movie. Here's a clip (trigger warning for all kinds of ugliness):