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.
Known For
Complete Filmography

Taking Care
2024
Director, Producer
A film about Seth Rogen and his close relationship with Alzheimers, along with his “Hilarity for Charity” cause.

Linda and the Mockingbirds
2020
Director, Producer
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
2019
Executive Producer
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
2018
as narrator
A deep dive into the process of developing and testing one potential drug treatment for Alzheimer's disease.

Turning Point
2018
Director
A deep dive into the process of developing and testing one potential drug treatment for Alzheimer's disease.

Augie
2017
Director
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
2014
Director, Producer
A documentary film detailing Glen Campbell's final tour and his struggle with Alzheimer's disease.

Perfectly Prudence
2011
as Mister
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
2010
Director, Producer
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
2006
Director, Producer
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
2006
as Self
A documentary about the life of Johnny Cash and the making of Walk the Line (2005).

Walk the Line
2005
as Warden
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
2005
Producer
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
2002
Director
She was an overworked mom trying to get her family's attention. She didn't know she would become a national sensation.

Submerged
2001
Director
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
2001
Director, Executive Producer
A mother and her two children are stuck in a mall during a power outage while police hunt for a killer.

Camouflage
2001
Director
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
2000
as Dr. Huston
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
2000
Director, Executive Producer
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
2000
Director, Executive Producer
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
1999
Director
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
1999
Executive Producer
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
1998
Director, Executive Producer
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
1998
as Jack Robinson
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
1997
Executive Producer, Director
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
1995
Director
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
1994
Director, Executive Producer
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
1993
Director, Executive Producer
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
1992
Director
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
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
1991
as Ronald Levering
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
1990
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
1990
Associate Producer, Director
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
1989
as Ed Sloan
An MBA goes to Africa to make a deal, but comes out with a Princess.

The Forgotten
1989
Director, Producer, Writer
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
1989
as Yuri
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
1989
Producer
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
1987
as Father Vincent Godfrey Burns
The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.

Evil Town
1987
as Christopher Fuller
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
1986
Producer
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
1986
Producer
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
1986
as Frank Needham
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
1985
as Detective Isgrow
A World War II vet is pushed to the limit when gang members and drug dealers take over his neighborhood.

Moving Violations
1985
as Deputy Halik
A group of careless and unlucky drivers are sentenced to attend traffic school to keep their records clean.

The Razor's Edge
1984
as Gray Maturin
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
1983
as Motorcycle Cop
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
1983
as Galen Reed
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
1983
as Oliver Andrews
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
1982
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
1982
as Jeff Tompkins
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
1980
as Jesse James
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
1980
Writer, Executive Producer
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
1980
as Bondo
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
1979
as Joshua
Some CB Outlaws attempt to rob an armored car.
Like Normal People
1979
as Robert Meyers, Jr.
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
1979
as Sgt. Strang
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
1978
as Emil Kroegh
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
1978
as Parker
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
1978
as Lt. Reach
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
1978
as McEnerney
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
1977
as Officer #1
The story of Caryl Chessman, a convicted California rapist who spent 12 years on death row before finally being executed.

The Blue Hotel
1977
as Johnnie
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
1976
as The Son
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
Low-budget mystery centers on a murder committed during the premier of a Broadway show.

Cannonball
1976
as Wolfe Messer
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
1975
as Levon
A couple on vacation in the woods is stalked by a pair of rapists.

Slashed Dreams
1975
Writer
A couple on vacation in the woods is stalked by a pair of rapists.

The Hatfields and the McCoys
1975
as Jim McCoy
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
1975
as Man In Bar
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
1975
as Christopher Fuller
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
1973
as Virgil
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
Based on the life of multi Grammy-winning Latin-American singer Linda Ronstadt.
Sierra Madre
N/A
Producer
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...