RIP Stacy Keach Fat City (1972)

Actors then weren't afraid to play a character headed for complete disaster by their own terrible life choices. Maybe because they lived lives & saw things. Actors now can't fathom doing anything that makes their image look tarnished. Movies are less now.

It's harder to pull this off. It's more work. It's less pay. You're right that it's harder to be vulnerable.

continuity is out of this world, brilliant

I forgot that Conrad Hall was the DP. No wonder every frame looks like a sad but beautiful painting.

A few yrs later he teamed up with the same actress, Susan Tyrrell, in The Killer Inside Me, adaptation of Jim Thompson. Excellent perf by Keach but the movie never got much traction

I have Fat City on Blu-Ray

😭

Don't be sad because he died. Smile because he lived.

Rip 🙏🏼

Great actor, great face, great shoulders! Sad news.

rip

So strange I actually saw it last night and got the news of his passing when I got back from the theater