New Delhi, Nov. 11 -- Stacy Keach, the actor whose roles in American History X and The Bourne Legacy were part of a career stretching from Shakespearean tragedy to television's Mike Hammer, died on November 10 at his home in Magdalenka, Poland. He was 85.

His wife, Malgosia Tomassi Keach, confirmed his death in a statement reported by The Associated Press. She said he had endured a prolonged illness involving a serious heart condition and heart failure.

"After a long and difficult battle with a serious heart condition and heart failure, Stacy peacefully departed this world," she said in the statement, also provided to Entertainment Weekly.

Keach's film credits made him familiar to successive generations of moviegoers. But the breadth o...