James Keach

James Keach

1947-12-07 Savannah, Georgia, USA 73 Credits

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia James Keach (born December 7, 1947) is an American actor, producer, and director. He is the younger brother of actor Stacy Keach, Jr., and son of actor Stacy Keach, Sr. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Keach, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Taking Care

Taking Care

2024

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

A film about Seth Rogen and his close relationship with Alzheimers, along with his “Hilarity for Charity” cause.

Linda and the Mockingbirds

Linda and the Mockingbirds

2020

Director, Producer

Directing Producing

A road movie with music. A song-soaked, foot-stomping trip straight to the heart of what it means to be Mexican, and to be American, and the complex j...

David Crosby: Remember My Name

David Crosby: Remember My Name

2019

Executive Producer

7.0
Producing

You thought you knew him. Meet David Crosby now in this portrait of a man with everything but an easy retirement on his mind. With unflinching honesty...

Turning Point

Turning Point

2018

as narrator

10.0
Acting

A deep dive into the process of developing and testing one potential drug treatment for Alzheimer's disease.

Turning Point

Turning Point

2018

Director

10.0
Directing

A deep dive into the process of developing and testing one potential drug treatment for Alzheimer's disease.

Augie

Augie

2017

Director

6.0
Directing

From the director of Grammy winning and Oscar nominated Glen Campbell...I'll Be Me, comes AUGIE. Armed with irreverent humor and the love of his life ...

Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me

Glen Campbell: I'll Be Me

2014

Director, Producer

7.6
Directing Producing

A documentary film detailing Glen Campbell's final tour and his struggle with Alzheimer's disease.

Perfectly Prudence

Perfectly Prudence

2011

as Mister

4.6
Acting

Versatile technician Nigel and daughter Annie MacIntyre, officially her producer, are the only people classy Prudence McCoy lets intervene in the trad...

Waiting for Forever

Waiting for Forever

2010

Director, Producer

5.9
Directing Producing

A Hollywood-set romantic tale of a guy who is content to live his life without a job yet with the love of his life, a young actress.

Blind Dating

Blind Dating

2006

Director, Producer

6.0
Directing Producing

Danny is a blind man who does not let his impairment get in the way of living his life to the fullest, except when it comes to love. Danny's brother s...

Celebrating the Man in Black: The Making of Walk the Line

Celebrating the Man in Black: The Making of Walk the Line

2006

as Self

Acting

A documentary about the life of Johnny Cash and the making of Walk the Line (2005).

Walk the Line

Walk the Line

2005

as Warden

7.5
Acting

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis...

Walk the Line

Walk the Line

2005

Producer

7.5
Producing

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton farm to his rise to fame with Sun Records in Memphis...

Mom's on Strike

Mom's on Strike

2002

Director

8.0
Directing

She was an overworked mom trying to get her family's attention. She didn't know she would become a national sensation.

Submerged

Submerged

2001

Director

4.8
Directing

A moment by moment account of the sinking and rescue of the crew of the submarine USS Squalus which was the first rescue of living crew on a submarine...

Blackout

Blackout

2001

Director, Executive Producer

2.5
Directing Producing

A mother and her two children are stuck in a mall during a power outage while police hunt for a killer.

Camouflage

Camouflage

2001

Director

4.4
Directing

Marty Mackenzie is an unsuccessful stage actor who takes an interest in private investigating. He takes a job working with Jack Potter, a crusty priva...

Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble

Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble

2000

as Dr. Huston

6.6
Acting

Fanny Kemble is a famous star of the English stage, but while touring the United States, she gives up her career to marry wealthy American Pierce Butl...

Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble

Enslavement: The True Story of Fanny Kemble

2000

Director, Executive Producer

6.6
Directing Producing

Fanny Kemble is a famous star of the English stage, but while touring the United States, she gives up her career to marry wealthy American Pierce Butl...

Murder in the Mirror

Murder in the Mirror

2000

Director, Executive Producer

7.0
Directing Producing

Mary meets Paul, marries Paul and when Paul is murdered becomes the number one suspect. While the police are preparing their case against her she begi...

Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie

Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman: The Movie

1999

Director

8.2
Directing

As Colorado Springs' Commisioner, Sully opposes a deal to mine for copper to make electricity. In order to sway Sully's decision, Mr. Garrick threaten...

A Memory in My Heart

A Memory in My Heart

1999

Executive Producer

5.6
Producing

Jane Seymour stars in this made-for-TV drama as Rebecca Blake, a bookstore employee who lives contently in San Pedro, California with her construction...

A Marriage of Convenience

A Marriage of Convenience

1998

Director, Executive Producer

5.5
Directing Producing

Succesful businesswoman Chris Winslow gives up her career to raise her deceased sister's son, Kevin. Eight years later, she must contend with the boy'...

The New Swiss Family Robinson

The New Swiss Family Robinson

1998

as Jack Robinson

5.0
Acting

When Angelino Jack Robinson gets a new job in Australia, he decides to take his sissy wife Ann, brave sons Shane and Todd and wining daughter Elisabet...

The Absolute Truth

The Absolute Truth

1997

Executive Producer, Director

3.7
Producing Directing

A television newswoman (Seymour) must betray a friend in order to expose a presidential candidate (Devane) guilty of sexual harassment.

The Stars Fell on Henrietta

The Stars Fell on Henrietta

1995

Director

6.1
Directing

The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconv...

A Passion for Justice: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story

A Passion for Justice: The Hazel Brannon Smith Story

1994

Director, Executive Producer

Directing Producing

The story of Hazel Brannon Smith, a Southern newspaper publisher who risked the loss of everything she loved by defying the bigotry of her neighbors i...

Praying Mantis

Praying Mantis

1993

Director, Executive Producer

5.1
Directing Producing

A single man thinks he has finally found a woman who loves him. The woman is charming and intelligent but holds a very dark secret which will truly te...

Sunstroke

Sunstroke

1992

Director

3.0
Directing

After a bitter divorce, Teresa embarks on a noir journey to recover custody of her daughter. Murder, blackmail, and a mysterious stranger await her at...

The Dance Goes On

1992

as James Smith

Acting

Crazy Los Angeles. Work is an hour away, down a crammed six-lane freeway. It is always sunny, but the sun looks like a sickly blemish on the smog. Eve...

Murder in High Places

Murder in High Places

1991

as Ronald Levering

3.0
Acting

A small Colorado mountain town elects as its mayor a writer whom some residents consider "eccentric" and others don't care for because he's a former h...

The Cops Are Robbers

The Cops Are Robbers

1990

3.0
Acting

Made-for-TV drama about one of the largest crimes in history—the 1980 robbery of the Boston Depositors Trust by a group of policemen. Capt. Gerry Clem...

False Identity

False Identity

1990

Associate Producer, Director

5.0
Producing Directing

When Rachel, a radio personality, discovers a Purple Heart at a garage sale she decides to find out its history. She finds that the medal belonged to ...

Options

Options

1989

as Ed Sloan

2.0
Acting

An MBA goes to Africa to make a deal, but comes out with a Princess.

The Forgotten

The Forgotten

1989

Director, Producer, Writer

6.2
Directing Producing Writing

Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples, the film concerns six American Green Berets, held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp. They are fi...

The Experts

The Experts

1989

as Yuri

4.4
Acting

Travis and Wendell are two down-on-their-luck New Yorkers who think they're relocating to a small town in Nebraska to open a nightclub. What they don'...

The Experts

The Experts

1989

Producer

4.4
Producing

Travis and Wendell are two down-on-their-luck New Yorkers who think they're relocating to a small town in Nebraska to open a nightclub. What they don'...

The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains

The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains

1987

as Father Vincent Godfrey Burns

6.6
Acting

The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.

Evil Town

Evil Town

1987

as Christopher Fuller

3.8
Acting

A mad scientist seeks eternal youth by developing a drug derived from human pituitary glands, aided by the local townsfolk, who help abduct visitors t...

Armed and Dangerous

Armed and Dangerous

1986

Producer

5.6
Producing

After policeman Frank Dooley is framed for theft and loses his job on the force, he joins a security guard agency and teams up with inept former defen...

A Winner Never Quits

A Winner Never Quits

1986

Producer

6.0
Producing

Raised in a poor Pennsylvania mining town by his immigrant parents, Pete Grey lost his right arm while still a young boy. But through the encouragemen...

Wildcats

Wildcats

1986

as Frank Needham

6.2
Acting

High school track coach Molly McGrath knows just as much about football as anyone else on the planet. When a football coach's position becomes vacant,...

Stand Alone

Stand Alone

1985

as Detective Isgrow

5.2
Acting

A World War II vet is pushed to the limit when gang members and drug dealers take over his neighborhood.

Moving Violations

Moving Violations

1985

as Deputy Halik

5.4
Acting

A group of careless and unlucky drivers are sentenced to attend traffic school to keep their records clean.

The Razor's Edge

The Razor's Edge

1984

as Gray Maturin

6.4
Acting

An American WWI vet undertakes a spiritual quest that takes him from Paris to Nepal to the Himalayas and back to his hometown. Upon his return, he dis...

National Lampoon's Vacation

National Lampoon's Vacation

1983

as Motorcycle Cop

7.1
Acting

Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family to the Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.

Wishman

Wishman

1983

as Galen Reed

4.0
Acting

Wishman is a genetic experiment condemned to spend its life in the lab. Two employees decide it deserves freedom, so they escape with it.

Love Letters

Love Letters

1983

as Oliver Andrews

5.7
Acting

After discovering a box of old love letters sent to her mother by a mysterious stranger, Anna, a young radio deejay, begins a torrid affair with a mar...

Till Death Do Us Part

Till Death Do Us Part

1982

5.8
Acting

Three troubled couples attend a two day marital retreat in hopes of saving their marriages. Unbeknownst to them, their psychiatrist is not who they th...

Thou Shalt Not Kill

Thou Shalt Not Kill

1982

as Jeff Tompkins

6.5
Acting

A man is wrongly convicted for murder and sent to prison, where he is accused of murdering a brutal guard he killed in self-defense.

The Long Riders

The Long Riders

1980

as Jesse James

6.7
Acting

The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin the...

The Long Riders

The Long Riders

1980

Writer, Executive Producer

6.7
Writing Producing

The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin the...

The Great Cash Giveaway Getaway

The Great Cash Giveaway Getaway

1980

as Bondo

Acting

Two teenagers on the run with a quarter of a million dollars belonging to an illegal drug ring are pursued by a suave crime czar and, after they gain ...

Smokey and the Hotwire Gang

Smokey and the Hotwire Gang

1979

as Joshua

Acting

Some CB Outlaws attempt to rob an armored car.

Like Normal People

1979

as Robert Meyers, Jr.

6.0
Acting

An intellectually-challenged man and woman meet, fall in love, and are determined to get married, despite the initial objections of their families and...

Hurricane

Hurricane

1979

as Sgt. Strang

4.7
Acting

The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful gov...

Comes a Horseman

Comes a Horseman

1978

as Emil Kroegh

6.0
Acting

Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her ne...

Lacy and the Mississippi Queen

Lacy and the Mississippi Queen

1978

as Parker

1.5
Acting

This lighthearted Western was an unsuccessful series pilot in which two sisters -- a gun-toting tomboy and a beauty with an engaging smile -- team up ...

FM

FM

1978

as Lt. Reach

6.7
Acting

When a liberal music station's owners decide to introduce army recruitment ads, despite the protests of its manager, the rebellious DJs are determined...

Nowhere to Run

Nowhere to Run

1978

as McEnerney

7.0
Acting

Harry's married to Marian and things are not going all that well, so he wants out but somehow feels that a divorce is not the answer. After developing...

Kill Me If You Can

Kill Me If You Can

1977

as Officer #1

Acting

The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed.

The Blue Hotel

The Blue Hotel

1977

as Johnnie

5.0
Acting

Nebraska in the 1880's: bleak, lonely, and far from what you'd expect The Wild West to be. But for a naive Swedish immigrant, the frontier parlor of T...

Six Characters in Search of An Author

Six Characters in Search of An Author

1976

as The Son

6.0
Acting

A rehearsal is disrupted when six figures mysteriously appear on the stage, claiming to be fictional characters from an unfinished play searching for ...

Death Play

1976

Acting

Low-budget mystery centers on a murder committed during the premier of a Broadway show.

Cannonball

Cannonball

1976

as Wolfe Messer

5.5
Acting

Coy "Cannonball" Buckman and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which ther...

Slashed Dreams

Slashed Dreams

1975

as Levon

3.2
Acting

A couple on vacation in the woods is stalked by a pair of rapists.

Slashed Dreams

Slashed Dreams

1975

Writer

3.2
Writing

A couple on vacation in the woods is stalked by a pair of rapists.

The Hatfields and the McCoys

The Hatfields and the McCoys

1975

as Jim McCoy

10.0
Acting

A retelling of the famous feud between two mountain families, the Hatfields and the McCoys, in rural Kentucky and West Virginia in the late 1800s.

Miles To Go Before I Sleep

Miles To Go Before I Sleep

1975

as Man In Bar

6.0
Acting

A lonely old man (Martin Balsam) finds his life beginning to have some meaning when he helps a teenager living in a rehab center.

Dr. Shagetz

Dr. Shagetz

1975

as Christopher Fuller

Acting

Passing through a small town, two young hippie couples stumble upon a town where the old folks all act strange and even stranger things are happening ...

The Deadly Visitor

The Deadly Visitor

1973

as Virgil

5.7
Acting

A writer who takes a room in a boarding house finds himself haunted by a menacing invisible presence that may be the ghost of a previous tenant or tha...

Untitled Linda Ronstadt Biopic

N/A

Producer

Producing

Based on the life of multi Grammy-winning Latin-American singer Linda Ronstadt.

Sierra Madre

N/A

Producer

Producing

Captain Jordan Wright's squadron on leave for a wedding in Mexico encounters a murderous cartel. As Jordan tries to lead survivors to safety, war erup...