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Stacy Keach, the veteran stage and screen actor known for playing the hardboiled detective Mike Hammer on TV in the 1980s and ’90s, died Tuesday at his home in Magdalenka, Poland. He was 85.

His wife, Malgosia Keach, announced the news in a statement provided to Entertainment Weekly.

“After a long and difficult battle with a serious heart condition and heart failure, Stacy peacefully departed this world,” the statement said.