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Early in his career, he was credited as Stacy Keach, Jr. to distinguish himself from his father in 1975, to Jill Donahue in 1981, and to Malgosia Tomassi around 1986. He has two daughters from his second marriage and two children from his third marriage. He was also romantically linked to singer Judy Collins in the early 1970s . EDUCATION Keach graduated from Van Nuys High School in June 1959 and went on to study at the University Of California, Berkeley , earning 2 BA degrees in 1963, one in English, the other in Dramatic Art. He continued at Yale University 's School of Drama and was a Fulbright Scholar student at the London Academy Of Music And Dramatic Art . CAREER Keach first appeared on Broadway in 1969 as Buffalo Bill in '' Indians '' by Arthur Kopit . He has won numerous awards including Obie s, Drama Desk Award s, and Vernon Rice Award s. He portrayed Film Noir -style Private Detective Mike Hammer in the CBS Television Series '' Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer '' from 1984 to 1987. Stacy Keach played Cheech And Chong 's Police Department arch-nemesis Sgt. Stedenko in ''Up In Smoke'' and ''Nice Dreams''. One of Keach's most controversial roles was Cameron Alexander, the militant white supremacist in " American History X " with Edward Norton and Edward Furlong . He is most familiar to younger ''. SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY TRIVIA In 1984 he was convicted of Smuggling Cocaine into the United Kingdom and spent six months in Reading Prison . He is the honorary chairman of the Cleft Palate Foundation. REFERENCES
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